Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Unit Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.10% 1.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 144 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.95% 91.14% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 86 93
10th Percentile £304 £300 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £487 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +2.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £573 £550
90th Percentile £684 £644 £610
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £18.75 £16.84
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.16 £23.21 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -62.87% +204.88%
75th Percentile £41.56 £32.59 £77.50
90th Percentile £45.86 £47.53 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IFS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Research Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Research Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Repair
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IFS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase