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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 328 371
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 -74
Contract jobs citing JUnit 69 107 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.01% 3.56% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 84
10th Percentile £375 £430 £425
25th Percentile £413 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +4.42% +8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £578
90th Percentile £604 £685 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £589 £550
% change year-on-year -10.83% +7.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 20
10th Percentile - £65.13 £46.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £59.44
Median hourly rate £81.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +3.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.13
90th Percentile - £78.00 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £68.17
% change year-on-year +8.00% +10.03% +4.87%

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 2,294 3,008 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 13.24% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,099 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £657 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 164 112
10th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £41.48
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £50.20
% change year-on-year +5.26% +23.01% +2.45%

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 June 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 June 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 of England +10 31 £550 - 4
Yorkshire +28 18 £550 -4.35% 1
Scotland +41 14 £500 -10.71% 2
North West -14 12 £520 -5.45% 2
South West +14 8 £425 -36.33% 6
East of England +3 7 - - 1
South East -10 7 £500 +2.56% 15
Midlands +22 2 £409 -9.17% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £420 -6.67%
East Midlands +12 1 £398 - 1
North East +9 1 £310 -22.50% 1
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 4 (5.80%) JBoss
2 3 (4.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.90%) WildFly
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) AWS
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) GitHub
3 4 (5.80%) Serverless
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (23.19%) Relational Database
3 9 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.90%) SQLite
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.45%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (47.83%) Git
2 18 (26.09%) Cucumber
3 16 (23.19%) Mockito
4 15 (21.74%) Jenkins
5 12 (17.39%) Maven
5 12 (17.39%) Selenium
6 6 (8.70%) GitLab
6 6 (8.70%) Gradle
7 5 (7.25%) JIRA
8 4 (5.80%) REST Assured
8 4 (5.80%) Subversion
8 4 (5.80%) TestNG
9 3 (4.35%) JMeter
10 2 (2.90%) Appium
10 2 (2.90%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.45%) Postman
11 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.45%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
2 32 (46.38%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Lead
3 9 (13.04%) Senior
3 9 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Tester
6 4 (5.80%) Automation Tester
6 4 (5.80%) Junior
6 4 (5.80%) Junior Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Junior Java Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (56.52%) Spring
2 37 (53.62%) Spring Boot
3 26 (37.68%) REST
4 15 (21.74%) Hibernate
5 14 (20.29%) JPA
5 14 (20.29%) React
6 11 (15.94%) Gherkin
6 11 (15.94%) RESTful
7 10 (14.49%) AngularJS
8 7 (10.14%) Drools
8 7 (10.14%) Quarkus
8 7 (10.14%) XML
9 6 (8.70%) Kafka
10 5 (7.25%) Jetpack Compose
11 4 (5.80%) Android Jetpack
11 4 (5.80%) Dagger
11 4 (5.80%) Retrofit
11 4 (5.80%) Web Services
11 4 (5.80%) WireMock
12 3 (4.35%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Android
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) AIX
3 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (71.01%) Agile
2 31 (44.93%) Microservices
3 30 (43.48%) Unit Testing
4 24 (34.78%) Scrum
5 21 (30.43%) TDD
5 21 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
6 16 (23.19%) DevOps
7 14 (20.29%) High Availability
7 14 (20.29%) Mentoring
7 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
8 13 (18.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 13 (18.84%) Software Testing
9 12 (17.39%) Front End Development
9 12 (17.39%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (17.39%) Test Scripting
10 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.49%) Kanban
10 10 (14.49%) System Testing
11 9 (13.04%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 62 (89.86%) Java
2 12 (17.39%) TypeScript
3 10 (14.49%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) Python
5 5 (7.25%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) C
7 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.45%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) Rust
8 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.29%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.14%) Degree
5 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.45%) NCSC
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (37.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (2.90%) IBM
2 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.90%) Splunk
3 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.45%) Google
3 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.45%) VMware