Unit Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 51 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.42% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.76% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £354 £378
25th Percentile - £359 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £388 £438
Median % change year-on-year - -11.43% -32.69%
75th Percentile - £425 £469
90th Percentile - £436 £481
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £525
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Milton Keynes +11 1 - - 11
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA