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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 107 88
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +38
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 23 20 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.99% 1.11% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.18% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 22
10th Percentile £283 £401 £370
25th Percentile £399 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £408 £587
Median % change year-on-year +53.37% -30.61% -2.13%
75th Percentile £668 £613 £684
90th Percentile - £695 £816
Central London median daily rate £538 £408 £575
% change year-on-year +31.90% -29.13% -4.17%

All Process & 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 2,035 1,697 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.75% 94.28% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,116 1,250
10th Percentile £381 £323 £375
25th Percentile £460 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 27 August 2026.

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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
1 2 (8.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) SQL Server
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle Database
3 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.70%) SQLPlus
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) JUnit
4 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.70%) Xcode
5 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.35%) CocoaPods
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.35%) XCTest
5 1 (4.35%) XCUITest
General
1 15 (65.22%) Banking
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) C# Developer
3 4 (17.39%) iOS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Database Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Junior
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Developer
6 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
3 4 (17.39%) SwiftUI
3 4 (17.39%) UIKit
4 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) Spring
4 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.70%) ADO.NET
5 2 (8.70%) Ajax
5 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) SOAP
5 2 (8.70%) Web Services
5 2 (8.70%) XML
5 2 (8.70%) XSL
5 2 (8.70%) XSLT
6 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
6 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
2 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) SDLC
4 7 (30.43%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (21.74%) High Availability
5 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
5 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Functional Testing
6 4 (17.39%) iOS Development
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (17.39%) Refactoring
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
6 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) C#
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
4 6 (26.09%) Python
5 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
6 4 (17.39%) Java
6 4 (17.39%) Swift
7 2 (8.70%) C
7 2 (8.70%) ProC
8 1 (4.35%) Bash
8 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (4.35%) Korn
8 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) Citrix
4 4 (17.39%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.35%) Apple
5 1 (4.35%) Workday