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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 32 19 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.01% 1.75% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.05% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £451 - £343
25th Percentile £452 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £365 £470
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% -22.34% -21.67%
75th Percentile £502 £368 £578
90th Percentile £512 - £621
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 43
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £84.36
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -

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 1,345 925 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.48% 85.02% 86.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 409 767
10th Percentile £195 £242 £236
25th Percentile £350 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 170 367
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.09 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +53.06% +1.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 16 January 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 -2 29 - - 6
Cambridgeshire -4 2 £488 - 5
Suffolk - 1 £450 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
1 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Batch
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Ethernet
1 12 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Redis
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Git
2 12 (37.50%) Eclipse
2 12 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 8 (25.00%) JIRA
3 8 (25.00%) PVCS
3 8 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Hudson
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Military
2 12 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Electronics
4 5 (15.63%) Aerospace
4 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 19 (59.38%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) C# Software Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Developer
5 7 (21.88%) C Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Developer
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) Node.js
1 13 (40.63%) Web Services
2 5 (15.63%) React
3 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Express.js
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) MERN Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) FPGA
1 5 (15.63%) PCIe
1 5 (15.63%) State Machine
2 1 (3.13%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Linux
1 17 (53.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 17 (53.13%) Validation
4 13 (40.63%) TDD
5 12 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 12 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (37.50%) Digital Twin
5 12 (37.50%) Synthetic Environment
5 12 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
5 12 (37.50%) Visualisation
6 8 (25.00%) Code Coverage
6 8 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (25.00%) Workflow
7 5 (15.63%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Memory Management
7 5 (15.63%) Multithreading
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) C++
2 17 (53.13%) C#
3 13 (40.63%) JavaScript
4 9 (28.13%) C
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C
5 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++
6 2 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.13%) Python
7 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) ANSYS
2 8 (25.00%) IBM
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) IFS
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Sybase