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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 89 117
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 28 33 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.65% 1.53% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.69% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 41
10th Percentile £404 £415 £438
25th Percentile £408 £481 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £626 £713
90th Percentile £744 £676 £775
Central London median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% +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 1,584 1,957 3,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.62% 90.77% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,368 2,127
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%

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

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 30 May 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

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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 1 (3.57%) Alfresco
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Camunda
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP MDG
2 1 (3.57%) SAP PLM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (17.86%) CloudFront
3 5 (17.86%) Route 53
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (7.14%) Boomi
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (21.43%) Redis
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (17.86%) DocumentDB
3 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JUnit
2 6 (21.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Gradle
3 4 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 4 (14.29%) Maven
3 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) NUnit
5 1 (3.57%) GitLab
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (67.86%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (17.86%) Retail Banking
6 4 (14.29%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.14%) Front Office
7 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) C# Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) BPM Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C# GUI Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C# WPF Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.14%) GUI Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (7.14%) WPF Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) iOS Developer
8 1 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) GraphQL
2 5 (17.86%) RESTful
2 5 (17.86%) Spring
2 5 (17.86%) WPF
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 4 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 4 (14.29%) JMS
3 4 (14.29%) JPA
4 3 (10.71%) HTML
4 3 (10.71%) jQuery
5 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
5 2 (7.14%) LINQ
5 2 (7.14%) LINQ to SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Derivative
2 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) DevOps
2 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (21.43%) Data Analysis
2 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (21.43%) TDD
3 5 (17.86%) Agile
3 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
3 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
3 5 (17.86%) Microservices
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Secure Coding
3 5 (17.86%) SOLID
4 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.29%) Line Management
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) MVC
5 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) C#
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) ABAP
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) OpenText
5 1 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) TOWER Software