Unit Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 83 100
Rank change year-on-year +25 +17 -30
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 16 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.65% 1.22% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.34% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 12
10th Percentile - £413 £313
25th Percentile £450 £522 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £675
90th Percentile £600 £645 £686
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £438
% change year-on-year - +25.71% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 834 1,348 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.80% 91.33% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 929 1,223
10th Percentile £300 £348 £280
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 47
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.38
Median hourly rate £12.53 £19.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +1.60% -13.98%
75th Percentile £15.24 £32.81 £22.40
90th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £27.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.23 £10.63 £18.60
% change year-on-year +24.46% -42.85% -6.46%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Leeds +18 16 £550 - 5
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JUnit
2 5 (31.25%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 5 (31.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 5 (31.25%) SQL BI Developer
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Java Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Scala Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.25%) Akka
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Software Testing
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) System Testing
3 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 10 (62.50%) Test Scripting
4 9 (56.25%) Software Delivery
5 8 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (50.00%) Kanban
5 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 8 (50.00%) TDD
6 6 (37.50%) Analytics
6 6 (37.50%) API Testing
6 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (37.50%) Test Strategy
6 6 (37.50%) User Stories
7 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (12.50%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft