Unit Testing Contracts in the North of England

Unit Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 147 165
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 64 65 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.26% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 50 63
10th Percentile £375 £415 £375
25th Percentile £431 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £647 £638
90th Percentile £619 £650 £685
England median daily rate £540 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £37.68 £37.45
25th Percentile - £37.70 £38.88
Median hourly rate - £40.58 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.51% -2.30%
75th Percentile - £43.45 £44.22
90th Percentile - £43.47 £44.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +18 45 £495 -5.71% 19
Yorkshire +18 19 £550 - 18
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (6.25%) Mule
2 2 (3.13%) nginx
2 2 (3.13%) Traefik
3 1 (1.56%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.69%) SAP EWM
3 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.56%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) OCI
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.56%) dbt
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (20.31%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) Metadata
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Git
2 16 (25.00%) JUnit
3 14 (21.88%) Android Studio
4 7 (10.94%) JIRA
4 7 (10.94%) Mockito
5 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.81%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (6.25%) Liquibase
6 4 (6.25%) Log4j
7 3 (4.69%) Mocha
8 2 (3.13%) GitLab
8 2 (3.13%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Law
4 3 (4.69%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (79.69%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.88%) Android Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Consultant
4 5 (7.81%) SQL BI Developer
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Developer
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Junior
5 4 (6.25%) Junior Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead
5 4 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Systems Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.56%) REST
2 16 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 16 (25.00%) React
2 16 (25.00%) RESTful
3 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
4 12 (18.75%) JPA
4 12 (18.75%) Spring
5 6 (9.38%) Web Services
6 5 (7.81%) Kafka
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
7 4 (6.25%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.69%) HTML
8 3 (4.69%) Jest
8 3 (4.69%) Redux
9 2 (3.13%) cloud-init
9 2 (3.13%) Node.js
10 1 (1.56%) Akka
10 1 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (1.56%) Laravel
10 1 (1.56%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (10.94%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Android
2 2 (3.13%) CentOS
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Agile
2 24 (37.50%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) Scrum
4 14 (21.88%) Android Development
4 14 (21.88%) Microservices
5 13 (20.31%) High Availability
6 12 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 12 (18.75%) Front End Development
6 12 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.63%) Software Testing
7 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
7 10 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.94%) Mobile Development
10 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.38%) Design Patterns
10 6 (9.38%) Kanban
10 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
11 5 (7.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.94%) Java
2 14 (21.88%) Kotlin
3 12 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.94%) SQL
5 4 (6.25%) C#
5 4 (6.25%) Python
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) Bash
7 2 (3.13%) Go
7 2 (3.13%) Ruby
7 2 (3.13%) Scala
8 1 (1.56%) ABAP
8 1 (1.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) SLA
3 2 (3.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Consul
3 2 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (3.13%) Graphite
3 2 (3.13%) HAProxy
3 2 (3.13%) Istio
3 2 (3.13%) linkerd
3 2 (3.13%) Packer
3 2 (3.13%) Podman
3 2 (3.13%) Puppet
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Oracle
2 5 (7.81%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) Siemens
4 2 (3.13%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.13%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) JDA