Unit Testing Contracts in the City of London

Unit Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 116 127
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -14
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 26 63 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.18% 1.73% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.88% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 45
10th Percentile £393 £438 £421
25th Percentile £469 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% +8.11%
75th Percentile £628 £759 £700
90th Percentile £733 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (3.85%) Front Arena
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Retail
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) dbt
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) CircleCI
2 3 (11.54%) Mercurial
2 3 (11.54%) Selenium
3 2 (7.69%) HP UFT
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.69%) PHPUnit
3 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) Android Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.85%) git-flow
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Moq
4 1 (3.85%) MSTest
4 1 (3.85%) NUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Retail
5 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) C# Developer
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.54%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) HTML Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Programmer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
1 7 (26.92%) RESTful
2 6 (23.08%) Web Services
3 5 (19.23%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 4 (15.38%) jQuery
4 4 (15.38%) Kafka
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 3 (11.54%) Django
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) pytest
5 3 (11.54%) Spring
5 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.69%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) JSON
6 2 (7.69%) Symfony
6 2 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Life Science
1 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (23.08%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) TDD
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) OO
5 4 (15.38%) OOP
5 4 (15.38%) Open Source
6 3 (11.54%) ETL
6 3 (11.54%) MVC
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
6 3 (11.54%) SOLID
7 2 (7.69%) Validation
7 2 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Citrix
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.85%) Advent
3 1 (3.85%) Eze Castle Integration
3 1 (3.85%) JDA
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic
3 1 (3.85%) Sybase