Unit Testing Contracts in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 187 183
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 450 729 1,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.22% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.60% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 501 787
10th Percentile £364 £406 £380
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% +6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £656
90th Percentile £696 £765 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 37 13
10th Percentile - £48.64 £41.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £50.42 £44.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile £65.35 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +27.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -14 215 £550 -11.29% 73
North of England +27 64 £495 -10.00% 41
South East +29 62 £625 +19.05% 45
East of England +20 48 £575 +91.67% 30
North West +16 46 £495 -5.71% 27
South West -34 27 £650 +10.69% 28
Yorkshire +18 18 £450 -18.18% 10
Midlands -1 7 £450 -14.29% 36
West Midlands +11 4 £450 -18.18% 24
East Midlands +13 3 £500 +12.99% 12
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.89%) Apache
2 13 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.22%) Confluence
4 5 (1.11%) CMS
5 4 (0.89%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.89%) Mule
6 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.44%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.44%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) Traefik
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.89%) SAP EWM
3 4 (0.89%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.67%) SAP VC
5 2 (0.44%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.44%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.44%) SAP R/3
5 2 (0.44%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.44%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.44%) Shopify
6 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.22%) AWS
2 95 (21.11%) Azure
3 40 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.00%) GCP
4 27 (6.00%) Serverless
5 22 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (3.56%) Azure Functions
8 15 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.67%) dbt
10 12 (2.67%) GitHub
10 12 (2.67%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.00%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.00%) PaaS
14 8 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.56%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.00%) Modbus
1 36 (8.00%) RS-422
1 36 (8.00%) RS-485
2 13 (2.89%) BGP
2 13 (2.89%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (2.89%) MPLS
2 13 (2.89%) VPN
3 12 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.56%) HTTP
6 6 (1.33%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.89%) SSL
8 2 (0.44%) DNS
8 2 (0.44%) FTP
8 2 (0.44%) Tactical Data Link
9 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) NFC
9 1 (0.22%) PPP
9 1 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (12.22%) NoSQL
3 45 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 37 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 24 (5.33%) Oracle Database
6 23 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
8 17 (3.78%) MongoDB
9 16 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.44%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.44%) MySQL
11 9 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.78%) Big Data
13 7 (1.56%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.11%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.11%) HBase
15 5 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 112 (24.89%) Git
2 46 (10.22%) JIRA
3 25 (5.56%) JUnit
4 21 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.67%) TeamCity
5 19 (4.22%) GitLab
6 17 (3.78%) Android Studio
7 15 (3.33%) Selenium
7 15 (3.33%) Visual Studio
8 14 (3.11%) TestRail
9 13 (2.89%) Robot Framework
10 11 (2.44%) Mockito
10 11 (2.44%) NUnit
11 9 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.78%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.78%) Maven
12 8 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (1.56%) Eclipse
13 7 (1.56%) Liquibase
13 7 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 109 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 67 (14.89%) Finance
3 54 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.89%) Electronics
6 20 (4.44%) Banking
7 14 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.78%) Marketing
9 7 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.56%) Law
9 7 (1.56%) Retail
9 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.33%) Military
11 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.11%) Legal
12 3 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 265 (58.89%) Developer
2 67 (14.89%) Software Engineer
3 44 (9.78%) Full Stack Developer
4 42 (9.33%) Senior
5 35 (7.78%) Java Developer
6 34 (7.56%) C++ Software Engineer
7 33 (7.33%) C# Developer
8 29 (6.44%) .NET Developer
8 29 (6.44%) Lead
9 23 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.44%) Android Developer
11 18 (4.00%) Azure Developer
12 17 (3.78%) C# .NET Developer
13 16 (3.56%) Consultant
13 16 (3.56%) Test Engineer
14 15 (3.33%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 15 (3.33%) SQL Developer
15 14 (3.11%) Scala Developer
16 13 (2.89%) Angular Developer
16 13 (2.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.56%) REST
2 76 (16.89%) React
3 65 (14.44%) .NET
4 53 (11.78%) RESTful
4 53 (11.78%) Spring
5 51 (11.33%) AngularJS
6 38 (8.44%) Web Services
7 36 (8.00%) Spring Boot
8 34 (7.56%) Hibernate
8 34 (7.56%) HTML
8 34 (7.56%) Kafka
8 34 (7.56%) Node.js
9 30 (6.67%) JPA
9 30 (6.67%) SOAP
10 28 (6.22%) .NET Core
11 25 (5.56%) CSS
12 24 (5.33%) .NET Framework
13 18 (4.00%) Entity Framework
13 18 (4.00%) jQuery
14 17 (3.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.11%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (4.22%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.33%) iPad
6 6 (1.33%) iPhone
7 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.11%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.89%) Wiki
9 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.67%) IoT
10 2 (0.44%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.00%) Linux
2 25 (5.56%) Android
3 20 (4.44%) Unix
4 19 (4.22%) Windows
5 11 (2.44%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (47.56%) Agile
2 173 (38.44%) DevOps
3 122 (27.11%) Software Engineering
4 117 (26.00%) TDD
5 95 (21.11%) CI/CD
6 93 (20.67%) Continuous Integration
7 87 (19.33%) Scrum
8 82 (18.22%) Software Testing
9 79 (17.56%) Test Automation
10 70 (15.56%) Microservices
11 60 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (12.22%) OO
14 54 (12.00%) Full Stack Development
14 54 (12.00%) Integration Testing
15 47 (10.44%) Pair Programming
16 43 (9.56%) Customer Requirements
17 40 (8.89%) Front End Development
17 40 (8.89%) High Availability
17 40 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (29.33%) SQL
2 125 (27.78%) Java
3 118 (26.22%) C#
4 98 (21.78%) Python
5 73 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 65 (14.44%) C
7 62 (13.78%) C++
8 51 (11.33%) TypeScript
9 36 (8.00%) PL/SQL
10 25 (5.56%) Kotlin
11 22 (4.89%) Scala
12 13 (2.89%) PowerShell
13 12 (2.67%) PHP
14 11 (2.44%) Perl
15 9 (2.00%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.78%) Bicep
16 8 (1.78%) Swift
17 7 (1.56%) Bash
17 7 (1.56%) Go
17 7 (1.56%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.11%) DV Cleared
4 30 (6.67%) Degree
5 14 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.33%) QA
2 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.33%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) MiFID
6 3 (0.67%) WCAG
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (16.00%) Docker
2 11 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.11%) HDFS
5 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (13.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.11%) Terraform
3 10 (2.22%) Grafana
4 8 (1.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.89%) Istio
6 4 (0.89%) Puppet
7 3 (0.67%) Ansible
8 2 (0.44%) Consul
8 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.44%) Graphite
8 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.44%) linkerd
8 2 (0.44%) Packer
8 2 (0.44%) Podman
8 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.22%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (12.22%) Oracle
2 40 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.11%) SAP
4 14 (3.11%) Google
5 7 (1.56%) VMware
6 5 (1.11%) Adobe
6 5 (1.11%) Databricks
6 5 (1.11%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.11%) Typelevel
7 4 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.67%) Citrix
8 3 (0.67%) IBM
8 3 (0.67%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.67%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.67%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.44%) Advent
9 2 (0.44%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.44%) Splunk