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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 83 79
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 7 7 41
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.39% 0.61% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.66% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 33
10th Percentile £228 £400 £335
25th Percentile £250 £516 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £651
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.61% +8.42%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £688
90th Percentile £565 £631 -
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +13.64%

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 1,499 1,061 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.09% 92.99% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 660 856
10th Percentile £306 £325 £235
25th Percentile £400 £418 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 25 104
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £75.50 £32.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +1.14% -3.49%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £26.53 £47.50
% change year-on-year +97.89% -44.15% -9.52%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Berkshire

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 1 June 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
Wokingham -20 3 £525 -8.70%
Reading -24 3 £388 -36.73%
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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) Sass
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (14.29%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
5 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks