Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Unit Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 68 46
Rank change year-on-year -34 -22 +24
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 19 27 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.79% 2.06% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.29% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £601 £451 £430
25th Percentile £602 £453 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -11.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £652 £519 -
90th Percentile £662 - £610
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 26
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.81 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,897 1,181 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.52% 90.08% 81.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 516 444
10th Percentile £190 £200 £207
25th Percentile £363 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £442
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +14.82% -11.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £551
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 318 335
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.15% -43.49% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -34 14 £638 - 11
Cambridgeshire -1 4 - - 8
Essex - 1 £600 - 4
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Ethernet
1 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Visual Studio
2 8 (42.11%) Eclipse
3 6 (31.58%) Git
4 4 (21.05%) CppUnit
4 4 (21.05%) PVCS
4 4 (21.05%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (42.11%) Military
2 5 (26.32%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) C# Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) .NET Developer
3 5 (26.32%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (26.32%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) C# WPF Developer
4 4 (21.05%) WPF Developer
5 3 (15.79%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded C Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded C Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Development Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) HR Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Web Services
2 8 (42.11%) Node.js
3 5 (26.32%) .NET
4 4 (21.05%) .NET Core
4 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (21.05%) Entity Framework
4 4 (21.05%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 4 (21.05%) RESTful
4 4 (21.05%) Silverlight
4 4 (21.05%) WCF
4 4 (21.05%) WPF
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) Blazor
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (42.11%) Digital Twin
3 8 (42.11%) Synthetic Environment
3 8 (42.11%) TDD
4 7 (36.84%) Validation
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (31.58%) Visualisation
6 5 (26.32%) Code Quality
6 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (21.05%) Inversion of Control
7 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
7 4 (21.05%) MVVM
7 4 (21.05%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (21.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) C#
2 12 (63.16%) C++
3 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) C
4 4 (21.05%) XAML
5 3 (15.79%) Embedded C
6 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
2 4 (21.05%) PhD
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) JDA
4 1 (5.26%) Workday