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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 30 46 46
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.16% 3.29% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 4.07% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £451 £430 £437
25th Percentile £453 £488 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £519 - £725
90th Percentile - £610 -
England median daily rate £478 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.18% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 35
10th Percentile - £60.00 -
25th Percentile - £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £74.68
90th Percentile - £65.50 £84.36
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 1,248 1,129 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.85% 80.76% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 445 891
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £364 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £613
90th Percentile £682 £648 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 257 371
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%
75th Percentile £59.25 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

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 20 October 2025. 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 -11 26 - - 5
Cambridgeshire +1 3 £488 - 4
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
1 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Batch
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) Ethernet
1 16 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) Eclipse
1 16 (53.33%) Visual Studio
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (53.33%) Military
2 16 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 6 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Software Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 16 (53.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) IFS Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) IFS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Research Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) Web Services
2 16 (53.33%) Node.js
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) React
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.67%) XML
5 2 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) FPGA
1 6 (20.00%) PCIe
1 6 (20.00%) State Machine
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Linux
2 22 (73.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (76.67%) Software Engineering
3 22 (73.33%) Validation
4 20 (66.67%) Agile
5 16 (53.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 16 (53.33%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (53.33%) Digital Twin
5 16 (53.33%) Synthetic Environment
5 16 (53.33%) TDD
5 16 (53.33%) Verification and Validation
5 16 (53.33%) Visualisation
6 6 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
6 6 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
6 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.00%) DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 6 (20.00%) Memory Management
6 6 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) C++
2 22 (73.33%) C#
3 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Bicep
6 2 (6.67%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) IFS
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Sybase
3 1 (3.33%) SAP