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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 175 176
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 260 313 466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.37% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.54% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 207 297
10th Percentile £393 £400 £363
25th Percentile £443 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £638 £601 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 23 19
10th Percentile - £49.00 £43.05
25th Percentile £61.25 £54.31 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £64.38
90th Percentile - £78.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +30.43%

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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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 +46 66 £498 -9.55% 54
East of England +18 57 £550 +69.23% 14
South East -7 53 £625 +13.64% 37
North West +44 44 £495 -15.74% 34
Scotland +24 43 £483 -0.92% 16
South West -35 31 £650 +13.04% 12
Yorkshire +20 22 £550 - 13
Wales +21 7 £526 -4.02% 1
Midlands -1 3 £450 -18.18% 34
West Midlands 0 2 £450 -24.37% 24
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 9 (3.46%) Apache
2 7 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.54%) Mule
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) JBoss
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.77%) Traefik
5 2 (0.77%) WildFly
6 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.54%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.54%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.15%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.77%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (19.23%) AWS
2 45 (17.31%) Azure
3 23 (8.85%) Serverless
4 16 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 14 (5.38%) Azure Functions
5 14 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.46%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.46%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.08%) GitHub
10 7 (2.69%) GCP
10 7 (2.69%) OCI
11 6 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.46%) RS-485
2 34 (13.08%) Modbus
2 34 (13.08%) RS-422
3 13 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.23%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.69%) BGP
5 7 (2.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 7 (2.69%) MPLS
5 7 (2.69%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (2.69%) VPN
6 2 (0.77%) DNS
6 2 (0.77%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.85%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 21 (8.08%) Oracle Database
4 18 (6.92%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.38%) Oracle Database 11g
7 9 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.54%) Power BI
9 3 (1.15%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.77%) GIS
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (21.15%) Git
2 42 (16.15%) JIRA
3 29 (11.15%) JUnit
4 19 (7.31%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.15%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.00%) Android Studio
7 12 (4.62%) GitLab
7 12 (4.62%) Mockito
8 11 (4.23%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.08%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.69%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.69%) Robot Framework
10 7 (2.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (2.69%) TestRail
11 6 (2.31%) Selenium
11 6 (2.31%) Storybook
12 5 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.54%) Log4j
14 3 (1.15%) PVCS
General
1 72 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.46%) Electronics
3 32 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.77%) Finance
5 27 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.23%) Military
8 9 (3.46%) Banking
9 6 (2.31%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.54%) Law
10 4 (1.54%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Automotive
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (53.08%) Developer
2 53 (20.38%) Software Engineer
3 36 (13.85%) C++ Software Engineer
4 31 (11.92%) Full Stack Developer
5 28 (10.77%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Azure Developer
6 15 (5.77%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.00%) Android Developer
7 13 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 13 (5.00%) Consultant
7 13 (5.00%) Lead
8 12 (4.62%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 8 (3.08%) Senior
10 7 (2.69%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 7 (2.69%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.31%) C Software Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Lead Developer
11 6 (2.31%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Software Developer
11 6 (2.31%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (20.00%) React
2 33 (12.69%) Spring
3 32 (12.31%) REST
4 23 (8.85%) Node.js
5 22 (8.46%) Spring Boot
6 21 (8.08%) Web Services
7 18 (6.92%) Hibernate
7 18 (6.92%) HTML
7 18 (6.92%) RESTful
8 17 (6.54%) AngularJS
8 17 (6.54%) CSS
9 15 (5.77%) .NET
10 14 (5.38%) JPA
11 11 (4.23%) AWS CDK
12 10 (3.85%) Kafka
13 9 (3.46%) Gherkin
13 9 (3.46%) SOAP
13 9 (3.46%) XML
14 7 (2.69%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.15%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (9.62%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.46%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.77%) Clustering
7 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.77%) PKI
8 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.08%) Linux
2 18 (6.92%) Windows
3 14 (5.38%) Android
4 5 (1.92%) Unix
5 3 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.77%) CentOS
6 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (65.38%) Agile
2 112 (43.08%) DevOps
3 89 (34.23%) Software Engineering
4 68 (26.15%) Software Testing
5 66 (25.38%) CI/CD
5 66 (25.38%) TDD
6 61 (23.46%) Continuous Integration
6 61 (23.46%) Test Automation
7 59 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (20.77%) Scrum
9 43 (16.54%) Pair Programming
10 40 (15.38%) Microservices
11 38 (14.62%) Customer Requirements
12 37 (14.23%) Full Stack Development
13 30 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.62%) SDLC
14 25 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (9.23%) Change Management
15 24 (9.23%) Secure Coding
16 23 (8.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.69%) Java
2 63 (24.23%) C#
3 54 (20.77%) C++
3 54 (20.77%) SQL
4 52 (20.00%) C
5 45 (17.31%) Python
6 40 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 28 (10.77%) TypeScript
8 26 (10.00%) PL/SQL
9 14 (5.38%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.23%) Bash
11 5 (1.92%) Perl
12 4 (1.54%) Scala
13 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.77%) Go
14 2 (0.77%) PHP
14 2 (0.77%) Ruby
15 1 (0.38%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 61 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.23%) Degree
5 7 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.23%) QA
2 9 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.08%) GDPR
4 6 (2.31%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (14.23%) Docker
2 14 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.38%) Grafana
3 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.54%) Terraform
4 3 (1.15%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Kibana
4 3 (1.15%) Puppet
5 2 (0.77%) Consul
5 2 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.77%) Graphite
5 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.77%) Istio
5 2 (0.77%) linkerd
5 2 (0.77%) Packer
5 2 (0.77%) Podman
5 2 (0.77%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 32 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.54%) Oracle
3 14 (5.38%) Avaloq
3 14 (5.38%) SAP
4 7 (2.69%) VMware
5 6 (2.31%) Splunk
6 4 (1.54%) FIS
7 3 (1.15%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.15%) Liquidlogic
7 3 (1.15%) Siemens
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) Google
8 2 (0.77%) JDA
8 2 (0.77%) OpenText
8 2 (0.77%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.77%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.38%) Ariba
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow