Unit Testing Contracts in Central London

Unit Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 112 133
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 25 63 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.02% 1.63% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.78% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 48 53
10th Percentile £385 £438 £420
25th Percentile £472 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% +8.11%
75th Percentile £633 £759 £688
90th Percentile £746 £775 £738
London median daily rate £550 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,220 3,539 4,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.39% 91.64% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,391 3,215
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.42 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +9.09% +10.96%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Central London

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 24 April 2024. 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 +12 24 £575 -9.80% 11
West End of London - 1 - -
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (8.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (4.00%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (12.00%) dbt
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (12.00%) Mercurial
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (8.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Gradle
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) Moq
4 1 (4.00%) MSTest
4 1 (4.00%) NUnit
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Android Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Android Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) Web Services
3 5 (20.00%) REST
4 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.00%) jQuery
4 4 (16.00%) Kafka
5 3 (12.00%) Django
5 3 (12.00%) HTML
5 3 (12.00%) pytest
5 3 (12.00%) Spring
5 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (12.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.00%) CSS
6 2 (8.00%) JSON
6 2 (8.00%) Symfony
6 2 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Life Science
1 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Microservices
3 5 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (16.00%) OO
4 4 (16.00%) OOP
4 4 (16.00%) Open Source
5 3 (12.00%) ETL
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) MVC
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.00%) SOLID
6 2 (8.00%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) Python
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Citrix
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) Micro Focus
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Advent
3 1 (4.00%) Eze Castle Integration
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (4.00%) Sybase