Unit Testing Contracts in the South East

Unit Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 161 173
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 -40
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 62 60 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.12% 1.03% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.16% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 40 62
10th Percentile £354 £412 £385
25th Percentile £525 £474 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.78% +12.21%
75th Percentile £688 £601 £625
90th Percentile - £748 £650
England median daily rate £540 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £61.63
90th Percentile - - £62.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +12 54 £640 +21.90% 20
Berkshire +17 50 £650 +13.04% 6
West Sussex +5 5 £550 -8.79% 5
Buckinghamshire +23 3 £388 -11.43% 3
Surrey +15 2 £500 - 4
Hampshire -2 1 - - 11
Oxfordshire -7 1 - - 11
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (17.74%) Apache
1 11 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) AWS
2 16 (25.81%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 13 (20.97%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (14.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (14.52%) Azure Functions
4 9 (14.52%) Serverless
5 8 (12.90%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) BGP
1 11 (17.74%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (17.74%) MPLS
1 11 (17.74%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (17.74%) VPN
2 1 (1.61%) NFC
2 1 (1.61%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (46.77%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (33.87%) Oracle Database
3 20 (32.26%) NoSQL
4 18 (29.03%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (17.74%) MongoDB
6 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.61%) Big Data
8 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (38.71%) Git
2 17 (27.42%) JIRA
3 12 (19.35%) GitLab
3 12 (19.35%) TestRail
4 11 (17.74%) Robot Framework
5 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.84%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.23%) Selenium
8 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.61%) GoogleTest
8 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.61%) Maven
8 1 (1.61%) MSTest
8 1 (1.61%) NUnit
8 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.61%) Subversion
8 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.61%) Valgrind
General
1 18 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.61%) Marketing
5 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (56.45%) Developer
2 15 (24.19%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Network Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Test Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Azure Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Python Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Designer
6 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 5 (8.06%) Lead Designer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior
8 3 (4.84%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) REST
2 12 (19.35%) SOAP
3 11 (17.74%) NETCONF
3 11 (17.74%) React
3 11 (17.74%) RESTCONF
3 11 (17.74%) YANG
4 10 (16.13%) HTML
5 9 (14.52%) CSS
6 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.06%) .NET
7 5 (8.06%) Node.js
8 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
9 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
9 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
9 2 (3.23%) jQuery
9 2 (3.23%) Web Services
9 2 (3.23%) XML
10 1 (1.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.61%) Life Science
2 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.61%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) Android
5 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) Agile
2 33 (53.23%) DevOps
3 28 (45.16%) CI/CD
4 25 (40.32%) Software Engineering
5 23 (37.10%) Clean Code
6 22 (35.48%) Software Testing
7 20 (32.26%) Test Automation
8 19 (30.65%) Scrum
9 18 (29.03%) Data Migration
9 18 (29.03%) Integration Testing
9 18 (29.03%) Migration
9 18 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (29.03%) Secure Coding
10 17 (27.42%) Architectural Design
11 16 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (25.81%) Security Testing
12 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
12 13 (20.97%) Regression Testing
13 11 (17.74%) Product Backlog
13 11 (17.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) SQL
2 26 (41.94%) Python
3 22 (35.48%) PL/SQL
4 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.90%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) Bash
6 5 (8.06%) Perl
6 5 (8.06%) PHP
7 3 (4.84%) C
7 3 (4.84%) C++
7 3 (4.84%) Java
8 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.61%) Scala
9 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Docker
2 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Ansible
1 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.61%) Puppet
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Oracle
2 2 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) Avaloq