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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 93 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -48
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 19 35 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.12% 1.65% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.80% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 27
10th Percentile - £389 £448
25th Percentile £404 £466 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% -7.73% +18.18%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £756
90th Percentile £784 £764 £829
Central London median daily rate £408 £578 £650
% change year-on-year -29.50% -11.08% +18.18%

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 1,601 1,946 2,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.51% 91.88% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,200 1,800
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.79%

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 19 October 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 & 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 (10.53%) CMS
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
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 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Firebase
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) npm
3 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQLite
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) CocoaPods
4 2 (10.53%) Crashlytics
4 2 (10.53%) fastlane
4 2 (10.53%) Xcode
5 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.26%) gulp
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) Mockito
5 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) BPM Developer
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) SAP PLM Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) AVFoundation
3 2 (10.53%) Core Animation
3 2 (10.53%) Core Data
3 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 2 (10.53%) RxSwift
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) UIKit
3 2 (10.53%) WPF
4 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) Jest
4 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.26%) Mongoose
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Animation
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Data Analysis
2 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
4 3 (15.79%) Document Management
4 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C#
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) ABAP
2 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
2 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Swift
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) OpenText
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) Apple
4 2 (10.53%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Databricks
5 1 (5.26%) IBM