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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 25 4 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.19% 0.42% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.48% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £563 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £650
90th Percentile £626 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 40
10th Percentile £63.13 £62.00 £61.25
25th Percentile - £63.13 £64.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £67.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1,633 834 1,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.87% 88.16% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 438 757
10th Percentile £200 £239 £235
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 168 558
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.84 £20.01 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the East of England

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 10 April 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 24 £625 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £450 -
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 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Ethernet
2 10 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.00%) Modbus
3 3 (12.00%) RS-232
3 3 (12.00%) RS-422
3 3 (12.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Eclipse
1 11 (44.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (36.00%) Git
3 8 (32.00%) JIRA
3 8 (32.00%) PVCS
3 8 (32.00%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (44.00%) Electronics
2 10 (40.00%) Military
2 10 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) Node.js
2 10 (40.00%) Web Services
3 3 (12.00%) React
4 2 (8.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) Express.js
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 15 (60.00%) TDD
4 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (56.00%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (44.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (44.00%) Digital Twin
5 11 (44.00%) Synthetic Environment
6 10 (40.00%) Validation
6 10 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
6 10 (40.00%) Visualisation
7 8 (32.00%) Code Coverage
7 8 (32.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 8 (32.00%) Workflow
8 5 (20.00%) DevOps
9 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
9 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.00%) Design Patterns
11 1 (4.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) C++
2 14 (56.00%) C#
3 11 (44.00%) C
3 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (28.00%) Embedded C
4 7 (28.00%) Embedded C++
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) ANSYS
2 8 (32.00%) IBM
2 8 (32.00%) VMware