Unit Testing Contracts in the East of England

Unit Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 57 83
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 14 56 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.25% 2.92% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 3.45% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile £451 £488 £275
25th Percentile £452 £513 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £360
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +52.78% -26.15%
75th Percentile £502 - £681
90th Percentile £512 £625 £725
England median daily rate £488 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -11.36% -6.78% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 15
10th Percentile £61.25 - £62.00
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £69.38
90th Percentile £65.20 - £90.00
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 990 1,621 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.63% 84.38% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 649 1,015
10th Percentile £213 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 606 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.21 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.81 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the East of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the East of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the East of England

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 3 July 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 -1 12 - - 31
Cambridgeshire +15 1 £488 - 11
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 3
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (7.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Ethernet
1 11 (78.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Eclipse
1 11 (78.57%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Hudson
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (78.57%) Military
2 11 (78.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Software Engineer
2 10 (71.43%) C# Software Engineer
3 7 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) IFS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) Web Services
2 11 (78.57%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) FPGA
1 1 (7.14%) PCIe
1 1 (7.14%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Delivery
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (78.57%) Digital Twin
2 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) Synthetic Environment
2 11 (78.57%) TDD
2 11 (78.57%) Validation
3 10 (71.43%) Verification and Validation
3 10 (71.43%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) ERP
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Memory Management
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) C#
1 12 (85.71%) C++
2 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) IFS
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Sybase