Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Unit Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 105 113
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -33
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 26 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.31% 1.15% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.25% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 17
10th Percentile £359 £423 £455
25th Percentile £439 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £670
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +0.75% +9.39%
75th Percentile £788 £688 £788
90th Percentile - £803 £835
London median daily rate £525 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -6.75% -9.92% -1.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,810 2,153 2,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.86% 91.93% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,344 1,756
10th Percentile £340 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -38.92%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £52.50 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
City of London +3 22 £583 -13.70% 4
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP MDG
1 1 (3.85%) SAP PLM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.85%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) Firebase
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) Figma
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) npm
6 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.54%) Power Query
3 3 (11.54%) Redis
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQLite
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.85%) KDB
5 1 (3.85%) Kdb+
5 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 5 (19.23%) Xcode
4 4 (15.38%) JUnit
4 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 4 (15.38%) Mockito
5 3 (11.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (11.54%) Postman
5 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
5 3 (11.54%) SoapUI
5 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
5 3 (11.54%) Subversion
5 3 (11.54%) XCTest
6 2 (7.69%) CocoaPods
6 2 (7.69%) Crashlytics
6 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 2 (7.69%) fastlane
7 1 (3.85%) gulp
7 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Front Office
5 4 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Backend Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (7.69%) iOS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior iOS Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) CSS
1 5 (19.23%) Hibernate
1 5 (19.23%) HTML
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
1 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 4 (15.38%) HTML5
2 4 (15.38%) JPA
2 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) Bootstrap
3 3 (11.54%) CSS3
3 3 (11.54%) J2EE
3 3 (11.54%) Material-UI
3 3 (11.54%) Node.js
3 3 (11.54%) SOAP
3 3 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Spring MVC
3 3 (11.54%) Swagger
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.54%) Life Science
3 2 (7.69%) Animation
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Analytics
3 10 (38.46%) Code Quality
4 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) TDD
5 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
5 7 (26.92%) Microservices
5 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Multithreading
6 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Architectural Design
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
8 4 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (11.54%) Groovy
5 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 2 (7.69%) Objective-C
6 2 (7.69%) Swift
7 1 (3.85%) ABAP
7 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (11.54%) Databricks
4 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
4 3 (11.54%) Splunk
5 2 (7.69%) Apple
5 2 (7.69%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) IBM
6 1 (3.85%) OpenText
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media