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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 89 93
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 13 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 1.61% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.72% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 18
10th Percentile £88 £404 £415
25th Percentile £461 £420 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £626
90th Percentile £698 £750 £676
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -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 1,983 1,566 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.03% 93.49% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 987 1,374
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.70 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.49 £39.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £57.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.67% +1.22% -20.54%

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 29 May 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 2 (15.38%) Ethereum
1 2 (15.38%) Hyperledger
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Backend Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Blockchain Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) iOS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) gRPC
3 2 (15.38%) J2EE
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Batch
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) boto
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (7.69%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (7.69%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) ERP
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Operations Management
5 1 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) Swift
4 1 (7.69%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow