Unit Testing Contracts in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 92 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 43 21 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.54% 0.70% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.78% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 36
10th Percentile £337 £431 £413
25th Percentile £431 £458 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £638
90th Percentile £565 £668 £681
England median daily rate £550 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.59 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
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 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 12 June 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 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
Manchester +31 37 £495 -3.41% 23
Cheshire -2 5 £311 -54.26% 4
Merseyside - 1 £550 - 1
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 (9.30%) Mule
2 1 (2.33%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.98%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
1 10 (23.26%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (11.63%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.30%) OCI
4 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) dbt
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) Metadata
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Android Studio
2 9 (20.93%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) JUnit
3 6 (13.95%) Mockito
4 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) Liquibase
4 4 (9.30%) Log4j
5 3 (6.98%) Mocha
6 2 (4.65%) JIRA
6 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 11 (25.58%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Law
3 3 (6.98%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (86.05%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Android Developer
3 11 (25.58%) Java Developer
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Systems Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Junior
6 2 (4.65%) Junior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.33%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Digital Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) RESTful
2 10 (23.26%) Hibernate
2 10 (23.26%) React
2 10 (23.26%) REST
3 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.95%) JPA
4 6 (13.95%) Spring
5 5 (11.63%) Web Services
6 4 (9.30%) .NET
6 4 (9.30%) Kafka
7 3 (6.98%) Jest
7 3 (6.98%) Redux
8 2 (4.65%) HTML
8 2 (4.65%) Node.js
9 1 (2.33%) cloud-init
9 1 (2.33%) CSS
9 1 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (2.33%) Play Framework
9 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (13.95%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.33%) Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) CentOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Android Development
3 12 (27.91%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) Scrum
4 7 (16.28%) Microservices
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (13.95%) Front End Development
5 6 (13.95%) High Availability
5 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
5 6 (13.95%) Mobile Development
5 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.63%) Design Patterns
6 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.30%) CRM
7 4 (9.30%) Open Source
7 4 (9.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) Kotlin
3 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.30%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Consul
2 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.33%) Graphite
2 1 (2.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.33%) Istio
2 1 (2.33%) linkerd
2 1 (2.33%) Packer
2 1 (2.33%) Podman
2 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.33%) Puppet
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) Siemens
4 1 (2.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk
4 1 (2.33%) VMware