Unit Testing Contracts in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 122 130
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 45 37 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.69% 1.20% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.33% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 38
10th Percentile £343 £417 £375
25th Percentile £431 £443 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £638
90th Percentile £563 £662 £679
England median daily rate £548 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -5.60% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.59 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +25.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,294 2,778 3,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.95% 90.22% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,598
10th Percentile £311 £313 £244
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 139 170
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.03 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +52.12% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.08 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Manchester +34 39 £495 -20.80% 16
Cheshire -13 5 £311 -30.11% 5
Merseyside - 1 £550 - 3
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (8.89%) Mule
2 2 (4.44%) nginx
2 2 (4.44%) Traefik
3 1 (2.22%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.67%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (11.11%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.89%) OCI
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.22%) dbt
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
4 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Android Studio
2 10 (22.22%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) Mockito
4 6 (13.33%) JUnit
5 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.89%) Liquibase
6 4 (8.89%) Log4j
7 3 (6.67%) Mocha
8 2 (4.44%) GitLab
8 2 (4.44%) JIRA
8 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Law
3 3 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (84.44%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Android Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Systems Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Junior
6 2 (4.44%) Junior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.22%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) RESTful
2 10 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 10 (22.22%) React
2 10 (22.22%) REST
3 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.33%) JPA
4 6 (13.33%) Spring
5 5 (11.11%) Web Services
6 4 (8.89%) .NET
6 4 (8.89%) Kafka
7 3 (6.67%) Jest
7 3 (6.67%) Redux
8 2 (4.44%) cloud-init
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) Node.js
9 1 (2.22%) CSS
9 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (2.22%) Play Framework
9 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (4.44%) CentOS
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) Android Development
3 13 (28.89%) DevOps
4 12 (26.67%) Scrum
5 8 (17.78%) Microservices
6 7 (15.56%) Mobile Development
6 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 6 (13.33%) High Availability
7 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (8.89%) CRM
9 4 (8.89%) Open Source
9 4 (8.89%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) Java
2 14 (31.11%) Kotlin
3 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.89%) C#
4 4 (8.89%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Go
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
6 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) SLA
3 2 (4.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Consul
2 2 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (4.44%) Graphite
2 2 (4.44%) HAProxy
2 2 (4.44%) Istio
2 2 (4.44%) linkerd
2 2 (4.44%) Packer
2 2 (4.44%) Podman
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) Puppet
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 3 (6.67%) Siemens
4 2 (4.44%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.44%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) VMware