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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 88 113
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 29 38 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.60% 1.78% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.95% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 40
10th Percentile - £370 £438
25th Percentile £404 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £529 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -11.92% +10.09%
75th Percentile £688 £623 £713
90th Percentile £773 £729 £775
Central London median daily rate £475 £529 £600
% change year-on-year -10.12% -11.92% +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 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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

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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 6 July 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
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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (6.90%) SAP MDG
2 2 (6.90%) SAP PLM
2 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.90%) SAP VC
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (10.34%) CloudFront
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) Route 53
4 2 (6.90%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) Boomi
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Redis
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (10.34%) DocumentDB
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JUnit
2 6 (20.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (13.79%) Gradle
3 4 (13.79%) IntelliJ
3 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.90%) NUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Android Studio
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (68.97%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
6 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
7 2 (6.90%) Front Office
7 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (86.21%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) C# Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) BPM Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) C# GUI Developer
6 2 (6.90%) C# WPF Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) GUI Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) SAP PLM Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) WPF Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) Spring
2 5 (17.24%) WPF
3 4 (13.79%) JMS
3 4 (13.79%) JPA
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
4 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
4 3 (10.34%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
5 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (6.90%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.90%) jQuery
5 2 (6.90%) LINQ
5 2 (6.90%) LINQ to SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Middleware
6 1 (3.45%) SOAP
6 1 (3.45%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Derivative
2 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Agile
1 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps
1 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
2 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) TDD
3 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.24%) Low Latency
3 5 (17.24%) Microservices
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
3 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (13.79%) Change Management
4 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (13.79%) Line Management
4 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.34%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.34%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) C#
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) Python
6 2 (6.90%) ABAP
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) OpenText
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) TOWER Software