Unit Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 81 107
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.098% 1.12% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 1.30% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 16
10th Percentile - £362 £403
25th Percentile - £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £600
90th Percentile - £650 £644
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.67
Median hourly rate - - £40.58
75th Percentile - - £43.48
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Yorkshire +3 1 £600 +9.09% 17
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet