Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Unit Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 100 119
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -46
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 22 30 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.29% 1.43% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.56% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 25
10th Percentile £399 £431 £463
25th Percentile £404 £491 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £614 £651
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -5.72% +18.36%
75th Percentile £719 £694 £775
90th Percentile £788 £781 £830
Central London median daily rate £436 £600 £651
% change year-on-year -27.39% -7.87% +18.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,603 1,918 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.85% 91.55% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,177 1,756
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (9.09%) SAP MDG
1 2 (9.09%) SAP PLM
1 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (9.09%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Firebase
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
3 1 (4.55%) dbt
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) npm
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) SQLite
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) KDB
4 1 (4.55%) Kdb+
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) CocoaPods
4 2 (9.09%) Crashlytics
4 2 (9.09%) fastlane
4 2 (9.09%) Xcode
5 1 (4.55%) Android Studio
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.55%) gulp
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) Mockito
5 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Front Office
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 2 (9.09%) BPM Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) iOS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) SAP PLM Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) AVFoundation
3 2 (9.09%) Core Animation
3 2 (9.09%) Core Data
3 2 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) RxSwift
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) UIKit
3 2 (9.09%) WPF
4 1 (4.55%) Altair
4 1 (4.55%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.09%) Animation
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (27.27%) Scrum
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Kanban
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) TDD
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
6 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
6 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (13.64%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) ABAP
4 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.09%) Objective-C
4 2 (9.09%) Swift
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) OpenText
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Apple
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) IBM