Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Unit Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 39 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.55% 0.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £469 £365 £470
% change year-on-year +28.42% -22.34% -18.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 274 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.61% 86.98% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 125 137
10th Percentile £211 £313 £223
25th Percentile £335 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £597 £560 £575
90th Percentile £675 £645 £680
East of England median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.61% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 58 178
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.82
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.06
90th Percentile £34.50 £28.93 £33.76
East of England median hourly rate £20.33 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -49.19% +45.45% +23.60%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Cambridge -10 2 £488 - 4
Unit Testing
East of England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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