JUnit Contracts in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JUnit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JUnit 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 324 338 373
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 -65
Contract jobs citing JUnit 72 109 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 3.30% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 73 85
10th Percentile £375 £412 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +16.48%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £606 £672 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 11
10th Percentile - £70.13 £45.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +14.50% +12.93%
75th Percentile - - £68.50
90th Percentile - £77.70 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +8.00% +14.43% +6.57%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JUnit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,211 3,304 4,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.79% 14.08% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 2,338 3,177
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 175 102
10th Percentile £40.94 £46.27 £38.29
25th Percentile £55.25 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.70 £78.00 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +54 26 £500 -7.41% 2
North of England +9 26 £550 +2.33% 7
North West -15 13 £520 -3.26% 6
Yorkshire +29 12 £550 -4.35% 1
South East +1 8 £500 +2.56% 6
East of England +10 7 - - 2
South West +13 3 £425 -36.33% 5
Midlands +34 2 £409 -9.17% 5
East Midlands +24 1 £398 - 1
West Midlands +21 1 £420 -6.67% 4
North East +13 1 £310 -22.50%
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 14 (19.44%) Confluence
2 5 (6.94%) Apache
3 4 (5.56%) JBoss
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.78%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.78%) WildFly
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) AWS
2 5 (6.94%) GitHub
3 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.56%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) Serverless
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Datadog
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (23.61%) Relational Database
2 10 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.78%) SQLite
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.39%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (58.33%) Git
2 25 (34.72%) Cucumber
3 22 (30.56%) Jenkins
4 17 (23.61%) Mockito
5 16 (22.22%) JIRA
6 12 (16.67%) Postman
7 8 (11.11%) Maven
7 8 (11.11%) Selenium
8 6 (8.33%) GitLab
8 6 (8.33%) Gradle
8 6 (8.33%) IntelliJ
9 4 (5.56%) REST Assured
9 4 (5.56%) Subversion
9 4 (5.56%) TestNG
10 3 (4.17%) JMeter
11 2 (2.78%) Appium
12 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.39%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Billing
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (68.06%) Developer
2 40 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 14 (19.44%) Senior
4 9 (12.50%) Lead
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Junior
9 4 (5.56%) Junior Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Junior Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Tester
10 3 (4.17%) Automation Tester
10 3 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Lead Java Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (65.28%) Spring Boot
2 45 (62.50%) Spring
3 36 (50.00%) REST
4 19 (26.39%) Kafka
5 15 (20.83%) Hibernate
6 14 (19.44%) Apache Camel
6 14 (19.44%) JPA
6 14 (19.44%) React
7 12 (16.67%) RESTful
8 11 (15.28%) J2EE
9 7 (9.72%) AngularJS
9 7 (9.72%) Drools
9 7 (9.72%) Quarkus
9 7 (9.72%) XML
10 5 (6.94%) Gherkin
10 5 (6.94%) Jetpack Compose
11 4 (5.56%) Dagger
11 4 (5.56%) Retrofit
11 4 (5.56%) Web Services
11 4 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (4.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (68.06%) Agile
2 33 (45.83%) Microservices
3 26 (36.11%) TDD
4 24 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 20 (27.78%) Scrum
6 18 (25.00%) DevOps
7 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 15 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 14 (19.44%) High Availability
9 14 (19.44%) Mentoring
10 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (18.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
11 12 (16.67%) Front End Development
11 12 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (15.28%) Coaching
13 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
13 10 (13.89%) End-to-End Testing
14 8 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (90.28%) Java
2 22 (30.56%) SQL
3 12 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.33%) Python
5 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.94%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.39%) C
7 1 (1.39%) C#
7 1 (1.39%) C++
7 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
5 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (47.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.33%) Kibana
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (2.78%) IBM
2 2 (2.78%) Splunk
3 1 (1.39%) Confluent
3 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.39%) Google
3 1 (1.39%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) New Relic
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.39%) VMware