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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 49 73
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 +31
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 9 54 53
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.61% 3.77% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 4.14% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 43 37
10th Percentile £523 £582 £575
25th Percentile £556 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £640 £640
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% - +21.90%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £688
90th Percentile £615 - £703
South East median daily rate £509 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -20.16% +2.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year +15.00% -43.50% +18.00%

All Process & 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 1,290 1,305 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.81% 91.19% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 726 945
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.54% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.15 £29.00
25th Percentile £19.29 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £51.24 £61.50 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -0.24% +12.08%
75th Percentile £81.25 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £97.75 £70.15 £76.84
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend 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 2 January 2026. 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
Slough +1 3 £591 +97.00% 3
Reading -36 1 - - 2
Wokingham - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) NetWeaver
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP MDG
1 3 (33.33%) SAP MDG-F
1 3 (33.33%) SAP MDG-M
1 3 (33.33%) SAP MDG-S
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Financial Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) ATL
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) Plotly
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Data Design
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) OOP
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) ABAP
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Fortran
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) ProC
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) X++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Palantir