Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Unit Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -34 +14 +51
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 8 57 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.68% 3.33% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 3.82% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 47 32
10th Percentile £513 £520 £563
25th Percentile £531 £576 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +31.58%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £701
90th Percentile - £663 £750
South East median daily rate £415 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -33.60% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,075 1,494 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.26% 87.16% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 770 1,002
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 74 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £46.84 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +45.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £71.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.04 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Wokingham - 4 £575 -
Reading -23 1 - - 1
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) NUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) React Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) ATL
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Foundry
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Palantir
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Snow