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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.94% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £216 - £408
25th Percentile £238 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £276 - £431
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.65%
75th Percentile £313 - £461
90th Percentile £335 - £469
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
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 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 308 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.16% 83.02% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 214 575
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £361 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £463 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% -9.31% +2.00%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £600
90th Percentile £635 £638 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £518
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 9
10th Percentile - £21.38 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.50 £13.17
Median hourly rate £15.71 £27.50 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -42.89% +67.68% +26.15%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.50 £18.75
90th Percentile - £36.67 £23.15
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Unit Testing
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 3 £276 - 2
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) MSTest
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Support
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Compaq
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Terracotta
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods