Unit Testing Contracts in the City of London

Unit Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 101 115
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 27 26 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 1.18% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.31% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 48
10th Percentile £412 £393 £438
25th Percentile £513 £469 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -9.80% +15.91%
75th Percentile £688 £628 £759
90th Percentile £756 £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £638
% change year-on-year - -9.80% +15.91%

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the City of London

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Unit Testing
Central London

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.70%) Alfresco
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.70%) Camunda
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Amazon S3
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (22.22%) CloudFront
3 6 (22.22%) Route 53
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.41%) Boomi
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.93%) Redis
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (22.22%) DocumentDB
3 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (3.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JUnit
2 6 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (14.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (14.81%) Git
3 4 (14.81%) Gradle
3 4 (14.81%) IntelliJ
3 4 (14.81%) Maven
3 4 (14.81%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.11%) NUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) PHPUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Banking
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (22.22%) Retail Banking
6 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.41%) Front Office
7 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.70%) Marketing
8 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) C# Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) C# GUI Developer
6 2 (7.41%) C# WPF Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) GUI Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (7.41%) WPF Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) GraphQL
2 6 (22.22%) RESTful
3 5 (18.52%) Spring
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Framework
4 4 (14.81%) Entity Framework
4 4 (14.81%) JMS
4 4 (14.81%) JPA
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) jQuery
5 3 (11.11%) WPF
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (7.41%) Bootstrap
6 2 (7.41%) JSON
6 2 (7.41%) LINQ
6 2 (7.41%) LINQ to SQL
6 2 (7.41%) REST
6 2 (7.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Derivative
2 6 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) TDD
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 6 (22.22%) Secure Coding
3 6 (22.22%) SOLID
4 5 (18.52%) Low Latency
4 5 (18.52%) Microservices
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.81%) Line Management
6 3 (11.11%) MVC
6 3 (11.11%) SDLC
6 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Mathematics
7 2 (7.41%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) C#
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) TOWER Software