Unit Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 119 117
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 7 21 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.86% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.98% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 35
10th Percentile £391 £411 £367
25th Percentile £411 £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.11% +17.86%
75th Percentile £469 £595 £540
90th Percentile £475 £600 £624
England median daily rate £538 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -9.66% +8.18% +7.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,609 2,150 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.80% 88.22% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,483 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% +16.36%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £575
90th Percentile £733 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 70
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.00 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -7.04%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +14 4 £450 -12.20% 9
Coventry - 3 £450 - 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Boomi
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) NUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
1 4 (57.14%) Entity Framework
2 3 (42.86%) ADO
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 3 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
2 3 (42.86%) NHibernate
2 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (42.86%) WCF
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Sass
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Development
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow