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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 55 81
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 +36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 9 55 39
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.70% 3.41% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 3.85% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 44 29
10th Percentile £513 £516 £575
25th Percentile £531 £579 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £631 £640
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -1.37% +16.36%
75th Percentile £588 £661 £699
90th Percentile - £663 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -0.25%
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 £55.00 £50.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -43.50% +22.07%

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 1,159 1,430 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.84% 88.65% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 767 994
10th Percentile £322 £325 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 55 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.48 £41.25 £44.74
Median hourly rate £28.50 £58.49 £60.63
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% -3.52% +18.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.08
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.19 £76.37
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.05 £51.76
% change year-on-year -64.32% +12.14% +39.40%

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 29 October 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 -28 1 - - 2
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 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) NUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) React Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) React
3 2 (22.22%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) ATL
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) NumPy
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (11.11%) Pandas
4 1 (11.11%) Plotly
4 1 (11.11%) PySpark
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Design Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) 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 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Foundry
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Palantir
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat