JUnit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 474 402
Rank change year-on-year +57 -72 -78
Contract jobs citing JUnit 176 254 554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.41% 2.85% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 172 344
10th Percentile £325 £427 £420
25th Percentile £408 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +2.05% +13.70%
75th Percentile £628 £682 £653
90th Percentile £848 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 16
10th Percentile - £70.38 £45.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £51.88
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - - £70.72
90th Percentile - £78.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +14.50% +12.93%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,157 8,909 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 15.06% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,468 6,263 11,255
10th Percentile £355 £387 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 246 212
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.82 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £80.90 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +38 138 £525 -11.02% 45
London +69 93 £525 -16.67% 15
UK excluding London +31 73 £500 - 33
Work from Home +85 52 £500 - 23
Scotland +53 26 £500 -7.41% 3
North of England +6 25 £550 - 6
North West -10 13 £520 -5.45% 5
Yorkshire +30 11 £550 -4.35% 1
South East 0 10 £500 +2.56% 9
East of England +12 7 - - 1
South West +21 3 £425 -36.33% 7
Midlands +28 2 £409 -9.17% 5
West Midlands +24 1 £420 -6.67% 4
East Midlands +23 1 £398 - 1
North East +19 1 £310 -22.50%

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (11.93%) Confluence
2 9 (5.11%) Apache
3 7 (3.98%) JBoss
4 5 (2.84%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.27%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.70%) nginx
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.14%) WildFly
8 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.02%) AWS
2 19 (10.80%) GitHub
3 14 (7.95%) Amazon S3
4 13 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (6.25%) Azure
6 10 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (4.55%) Serverless
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.14%) Datadog
12 2 (1.14%) GCP
12 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) SSH
2 3 (1.70%) 5G
3 2 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.59%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.41%) MySQL
5 4 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.27%) Redis
6 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.70%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.70%) SQLite
7 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.57%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (44.32%) Cucumber
1 78 (44.32%) Git
2 62 (35.23%) Jenkins
3 47 (26.70%) Selenium
4 44 (25.00%) Mockito
5 39 (22.16%) TestNG
6 35 (19.89%) JIRA
7 31 (17.61%) Postman
8 26 (14.77%) Maven
9 25 (14.20%) GitLab
9 25 (14.20%) REST Assured
10 18 (10.23%) WebDriver
11 16 (9.09%) Gradle
12 15 (8.52%) SoapUI
13 14 (7.95%) Appium
14 11 (6.25%) JMeter
15 10 (5.68%) eggPlant
15 10 (5.68%) SOAtest
16 6 (3.41%) IntelliJ
16 6 (3.41%) Subversion
General
1 37 (21.02%) Finance
2 36 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.52%) Front Office
5 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.68%) Banking
7 2 (1.14%) Electronics
7 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 112 (63.64%) Developer
2 89 (50.57%) Java Developer
3 35 (19.89%) Senior
4 26 (14.77%) Senior Developer
5 25 (14.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (9.09%) Lead
7 11 (6.25%) Tester
8 10 (5.68%) Java Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Lead Developer
9 9 (5.11%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Automation Tester
10 8 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Android Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Junior
12 6 (3.41%) Junior Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Junior Java Developer
13 5 (2.84%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 88 (50.00%) Spring
3 84 (47.73%) REST
4 31 (17.61%) Hibernate
4 31 (17.61%) JPA
5 27 (15.34%) Kafka
6 24 (13.64%) React
7 21 (11.93%) J2EE
8 16 (9.09%) Web Services
9 15 (8.52%) RESTful
9 15 (8.52%) SOAP
10 14 (7.95%) Apache Camel
10 14 (7.95%) WireMock
10 14 (7.95%) XML
11 12 (6.82%) .NET
11 12 (6.82%) Android Jetpack
12 11 (6.25%) AngularJS
12 11 (6.25%) Gherkin
12 11 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
12 11 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.09%) Credit Derivative
2 7 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.98%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.41%) Derivative
3 6 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Android
2 12 (6.82%) Linux
3 9 (5.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.84%) Agile
2 68 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 67 (38.07%) Microservices
4 55 (31.25%) TDD
5 50 (28.41%) Test Automation
6 48 (27.27%) DevOps
7 46 (26.14%) Scrum
8 38 (21.59%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (20.45%) Unit Testing
10 35 (19.89%) BDD
11 26 (14.77%) SDLC
11 26 (14.77%) Software Testing
12 25 (14.20%) High Availability
12 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
13 24 (13.64%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.50%) Front End Development
14 22 (12.50%) Test Strategy
15 20 (11.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 20 (11.36%) End-to-End Testing
15 20 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 150 (85.23%) Java
2 40 (22.73%) SQL
3 23 (13.07%) Python
3 23 (13.07%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.80%) C#
5 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.39%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.98%) Perl
6 7 (3.98%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.84%) Scala
8 4 (2.27%) C
8 4 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 57 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.80%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.39%) Degree
5 11 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.98%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.05%) QA
2 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.14%) HL7
3 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.57%) NCSC
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (36.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (28.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.68%) Ansible
3 8 (4.55%) Terraform
4 6 (3.41%) Kibana
5 4 (2.27%) Grafana
6 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.70%) Packer
7 2 (1.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (11.36%) Oracle
2 8 (4.55%) IBM
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.14%) New Relic
5 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.14%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) Splunk
6 1 (0.57%) Confluent
6 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.57%) Google
6 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.57%) HP
6 1 (0.57%) Murex
6 1 (0.57%) VMware