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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 97 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -21
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 20 22 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.06% 1.19% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.30% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 12
10th Percentile £302 £464 £506
25th Percentile £469 £550 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +5.88% +2.00%
75th Percentile £788 £688 £759
90th Percentile - - £829
Central London median daily rate £525 £663 £638
% change year-on-year -20.75% +3.92% +2.00%

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 1,671 1,697 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.84% 91.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,014 1,533
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -4.10%

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 7 February 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 (10.00%) CMS
1 2 (10.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (10.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Mendix
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Firebase
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) Figma
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) Power BI
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Power Query
3 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) SQLite
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (5.00%) KDB
5 1 (5.00%) Kdb+
5 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) CocoaPods
3 2 (10.00%) Crashlytics
3 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.00%) fastlane
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Xcode
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) gulp
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.00%) Vite
4 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Front Office
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 8 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Backend Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior iOS Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) AVFoundation
3 2 (10.00%) Core Animation
3 2 (10.00%) Core Data
3 2 (10.00%) gRPC
3 2 (10.00%) J2EE
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) RxSwift
3 2 (10.00%) Sass
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (15.00%) Life Science
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Animation
3 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Analytics
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Kanban
7 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.00%) Objective-C
5 2 (10.00%) Swift
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow