Unit Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Unit Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 131 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 27 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.84% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.96% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 63
10th Percentile - £300 £360
25th Percentile £425 £338 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +18.34%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £547
90th Percentile - £632 £600
England median daily rate £550 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +4 2 £450 -24.37% 26
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Boomi
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Angular Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
1 1 (33.33%) WSDL
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow