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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 88 121
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 -46
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 19 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 1.88% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.05% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 29
10th Percentile - £363 £462
25th Percentile £404 £472 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.06% -0.04% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £753
90th Percentile £760 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £408 £587 £600
% change year-on-year -30.61% -2.13% +9.09%

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 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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

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 16 September 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 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (10.53%) SAP MDG
2 2 (10.53%) SAP PLM
2 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (10.53%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Boomi
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) Mockito
5 1 (5.26%) NUnit
5 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
2 3 (15.79%) BPM Developer
2 3 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) SAP PLM Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) WPF
3 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.26%) JPA
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) LINQ
4 1 (5.26%) Mongoose
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) Swing
4 1 (5.26%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
1 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Document Management
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) PLM
5 2 (10.53%) Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) ABAP
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) OpenText
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) IBM