Unit Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 171 157 196
Rank change year-on-year -14 +39 -30
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 263 373 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.59% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.78% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 254 264
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year - +2.79% +14.78%
75th Percentile £647 £603 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 27 16
10th Percentile - £48.19 £38.88
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.38 £50.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £60.81
90th Percentile - £73.90 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +27.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing 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
North of England +27 64 £495 -10.00% 42
South East +15 60 £625 +19.05% 36
East of England +13 53 £575 +91.67% 24
North West +18 45 £495 -5.71% 20
Scotland +16 45 £483 +0.84% 22
South West -36 29 £650 +10.69% 15
Yorkshire +18 19 £550 - 16
Wales +22 7 £538 -1.78% 4
Midlands +7 5 £450 -14.29% 39
West Midlands +1 3 £450 -21.40% 22
East Midlands +16 1 £300 -16.67% 17
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
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 12 (4.56%) Apache
2 10 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.66%) Confluence
4 4 (1.52%) Mule
5 3 (1.14%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.76%) Traefik
6 2 (0.76%) WildFly
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.14%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.76%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.53%) AWS
2 47 (17.87%) Azure
3 21 (7.98%) Serverless
4 15 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (5.32%) Azure Functions
6 13 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.18%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.66%) GCP
11 7 (2.66%) GitHub
11 7 (2.66%) OCI
12 6 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.31%) Modbus
1 35 (13.31%) RS-422
1 35 (13.31%) RS-485
2 13 (4.94%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.18%) Ethernet
4 10 (3.80%) BGP
4 10 (3.80%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (3.80%) MPLS
4 10 (3.80%) Radio Access Network
4 10 (3.80%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) 5G
5 2 (0.76%) DNS
5 2 (0.76%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.38%) FTP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) NFC
6 1 (0.38%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (20.53%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.51%) Oracle Database
4 19 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.84%) Oracle Database 11g
5 18 (6.84%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.56%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.52%) Power BI
10 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.76%) GIS
11 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (22.43%) Git
2 50 (19.01%) JIRA
3 24 (9.13%) JUnit
4 21 (7.98%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.08%) Visual Studio
6 15 (5.70%) GitLab
7 14 (5.32%) Android Studio
8 13 (4.94%) Mockito
9 12 (4.56%) Eclipse
10 11 (4.18%) TestRail
11 10 (3.80%) Robot Framework
12 7 (2.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (2.28%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.28%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.28%) IntelliJ
13 6 (2.28%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (1.90%) Postman
14 5 (1.90%) Storybook
15 4 (1.52%) Log4j
15 4 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 71 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.07%) Electronics
3 31 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.89%) Finance
5 16 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.18%) Military
7 5 (1.90%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.90%) Banking
8 4 (1.52%) Law
8 4 (1.52%) Legal
8 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.14%) Local Government
9 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.14%) Marketing
9 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (55.13%) Developer
2 53 (20.15%) Software Engineer
3 38 (14.45%) C++ Software Engineer
4 30 (11.41%) Full Stack Developer
5 28 (10.65%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.70%) Azure Developer
7 14 (5.32%) Android Developer
7 14 (5.32%) Lead
7 14 (5.32%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 14 (5.32%) Test Engineer
8 13 (4.94%) C# Software Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Consultant
10 10 (3.80%) Senior
11 9 (3.42%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.66%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.66%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Python Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Software Developer
12 7 (2.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.91%) React
2 35 (13.31%) REST
3 33 (12.55%) Spring
4 27 (10.27%) Node.js
5 22 (8.37%) HTML
5 22 (8.37%) Web Services
6 21 (7.98%) Spring Boot
7 20 (7.60%) AngularJS
7 20 (7.60%) CSS
8 19 (7.22%) RESTful
9 18 (6.84%) Hibernate
10 16 (6.08%) .NET
11 14 (5.32%) JPA
12 12 (4.56%) SOAP
13 10 (3.80%) Kafka
13 10 (3.80%) NETCONF
13 10 (3.80%) Playwright
13 10 (3.80%) RESTCONF
13 10 (3.80%) YANG
14 9 (3.42%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.03%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.14%) Clustering
6 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.76%) PKI
8 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.37%) Linux
2 19 (7.22%) Windows
3 16 (6.08%) Android
4 5 (1.90%) Unix
5 4 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.76%) CentOS
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) AIX
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (64.64%) Agile
2 115 (43.73%) DevOps
3 92 (34.98%) Software Engineering
4 66 (25.10%) CI/CD
4 66 (25.10%) Software Testing
5 64 (24.33%) TDD
6 62 (23.57%) Continuous Integration
7 60 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (21.29%) Scrum
9 54 (20.53%) Test Automation
10 42 (15.97%) Pair Programming
11 40 (15.21%) Customer Requirements
12 38 (14.45%) Microservices
13 36 (13.69%) Full Stack Development
14 31 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (11.03%) Secure Coding
16 26 (9.89%) Clean Code
16 26 (9.89%) SDLC
17 24 (9.13%) Front End Development
17 24 (9.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (29.66%) Java
2 67 (25.48%) C#
3 62 (23.57%) SQL
4 54 (20.53%) C
4 54 (20.53%) C++
5 50 (19.01%) Python
6 46 (17.49%) JavaScript
7 30 (11.41%) PL/SQL
8 25 (9.51%) TypeScript
9 15 (5.70%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.18%) Bash
11 5 (1.90%) Perl
12 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.52%) Scala
12 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.14%) PHP
13 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.76%) Go
14 2 (0.76%) Ruby
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 65 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.56%) Degree
5 7 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.69%) QA
2 8 (3.04%) GDPR
3 7 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.14%) NCSC
5 3 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
System Software
1 42 (15.97%) Docker
2 13 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.56%) Grafana
3 7 (2.66%) Kibana
4 5 (1.90%) Terraform
5 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Ansible
6 3 (1.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Consul
7 2 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.76%) Graphite
7 2 (0.76%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.76%) Istio
7 2 (0.76%) linkerd
7 2 (0.76%) Packer
7 2 (0.76%) Podman
7 2 (0.76%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 36 (13.69%) Oracle
2 31 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.32%) Avaloq
4 11 (4.18%) SAP
5 7 (2.66%) VMware
6 6 (2.28%) Splunk
7 3 (1.14%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.14%) Liquidlogic
7 3 (1.14%) Siemens
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) Google
8 2 (0.76%) JDA
8 2 (0.76%) OpenText
8 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.38%) IFS
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.38%) RedGate
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow