Unit Testing Contracts in the North East

Unit Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.22% - 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £504
25th Percentile £328 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £459 - £530
90th Percentile £529 - £536
England median daily rate £492 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -10.55% -5.94% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 249 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.94% 80.32% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 111 227
10th Percentile £218 £263 £260
25th Percentile £362 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -9.18% +4.60%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £708
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 47 10
10th Percentile - £11.48 £16.93
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -25.00% +57.58%
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.51 £58.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £335 - 1
Durham - 1 - - 2
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SDET
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) ABAP
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
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