JUnit Contracts in England

JUnit
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JUnit 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 303 409 456
Rank change year-on-year +106 +47 -64
Contract jobs citing JUnit 204 147 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.51% 3.23% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 115 120
10th Percentile £310 £375 £425
25th Percentile £375 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £713
90th Percentile £575 £825 £776
UK median daily rate £480 £529 £581
% change year-on-year -9.26% -8.99% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - £65.13
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +9.83% +5.36%
75th Percentile - - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £81.60
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
England

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,704 4,553 6,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.19% 12.18% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 3,056 4,733
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 231 202
10th Percentile £28.32 £33.00 £48.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in England

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in England.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in England

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in England

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in England.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in England

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the 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
London +72 109 £500 -7.41% 136
North of England +18 46 £402 -26.91% 46
Midlands +45 34 £475 +13.10% 41
North West +27 34 £391 -28.91% 33
West Midlands +31 25 £500 -13.61% 27
East Midlands +11 9 £298 -25.03% 14
Yorkshire -6 9 £520 -5.50% 11
South East +38 5 £290 -35.56% 54
South West +26 3 £550 +29.41% 28
North East +3 3 £390 +25.81% 2
East of England +18 1 £200 - 16
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (9.31%) Confluence
2 13 (6.37%) JBoss
3 12 (5.88%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.96%) Alfresco
4 4 (1.96%) Camunda
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.98%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.82%) AWS
2 23 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
3 21 (10.29%) Amazon S3
3 21 (10.29%) Azure
4 16 (7.84%) GitHub
5 15 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (5.39%) AWS KMS
6 11 (5.39%) Route 53
7 10 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (4.90%) Serverless
8 8 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
8 8 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.92%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.43%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.94%) GCP
11 3 (1.47%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (36.76%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (32.84%) Relational Database
3 38 (18.63%) MongoDB
4 20 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (9.80%) DynamoDB
5 16 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (7.84%) DB2
6 12 (5.88%) MySQL
7 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.43%) Oracle Database
9 7 (3.43%) Redis
10 6 (2.94%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.47%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.98%) Big Data
12 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database 10g
13 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.49%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 97 (47.55%) Jenkins
2 77 (37.75%) Mockito
3 75 (36.76%) Maven
4 63 (30.88%) Gradle
5 60 (29.41%) Git
6 44 (21.57%) JIRA
7 41 (20.10%) Selenium
8 40 (19.61%) Cucumber
9 38 (18.63%) GitLab
10 37 (18.14%) SonarQube
11 30 (14.71%) Liquibase
12 19 (9.31%) IntelliJ
13 17 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
14 16 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
15 14 (6.86%) Bitbucket
16 13 (6.37%) Postman
16 13 (6.37%) TestNG
17 9 (4.41%) HP UFT
17 9 (4.41%) REST Assured
17 9 (4.41%) Subversion
General
1 62 (30.39%) Finance
2 59 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 55 (26.96%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (20.59%) Public Sector
5 32 (15.69%) Banking
6 22 (10.78%) Manufacturing
7 21 (10.29%) Electronics
7 21 (10.29%) Marketing
7 21 (10.29%) Telecoms
8 16 (7.84%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.43%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.47%) Automotive
11 3 (1.47%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 149 (73.04%) Developer
2 128 (62.75%) Java Developer
3 47 (23.04%) Senior
4 43 (21.08%) Senior Developer
5 42 (20.59%) Senior Java Developer
6 32 (15.69%) Lead
7 27 (13.24%) Lead Developer
8 25 (12.25%) Lead Java Developer
9 24 (11.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 19 (9.31%) AWS Developer
11 15 (7.35%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.35%) SQL Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Linux Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Senior SQL Developer
13 11 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (5.39%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) React Developer
13 11 (5.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (68.63%) Spring
2 116 (56.86%) Spring Boot
3 81 (39.71%) Kafka
4 58 (28.43%) REST
5 50 (24.51%) Hibernate
6 49 (24.02%) React
7 41 (20.10%) JPA
7 41 (20.10%) Swagger
8 38 (18.63%) OpenAPI
9 35 (17.16%) SOAP
10 34 (16.67%) AngularJS
11 33 (16.18%) RESTful
12 30 (14.71%) Web Services
13 27 (13.24%) HTML
14 23 (11.27%) Spring Cloud
15 22 (10.78%) JMS
16 18 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (8.82%) Bootstrap
17 17 (8.33%) Spring Integration
18 16 (7.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.29%) Data Structures
2 16 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.84%) Equities
3 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.43%) PKI
6 5 (2.45%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.49%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.59%) Linux
2 20 (9.80%) Unix
3 9 (4.41%) Android
4 7 (3.43%) Windows
5 3 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.98%) AIX
6 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (66.67%) Agile
2 124 (60.78%) Microservices
3 102 (50.00%) TDD
4 94 (46.08%) CI/CD
5 71 (34.80%) DevOps
6 57 (27.94%) Test Automation
7 54 (26.47%) Containerisation
8 47 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (21.08%) SDLC
9 43 (21.08%) Software Engineering
10 40 (19.61%) Scrum
11 36 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (17.65%) Migration
12 29 (14.22%) BDD
12 29 (14.22%) Open Source
13 26 (12.75%) Unit Testing
14 23 (11.27%) Clean Code
15 21 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (10.29%) Digital Marketing
15 21 (10.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (95.10%) Java
2 98 (48.04%) SQL
3 45 (22.06%) TypeScript
4 40 (19.61%) Python
5 31 (15.20%) JavaScript
6 28 (13.73%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.43%) C#
9 6 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.45%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.96%) Groovy
12 3 (1.47%) Bash
12 3 (1.47%) Scala
13 2 (0.98%) Korn
13 2 (0.98%) Perl
14 1 (0.49%) Ada
14 1 (0.49%) COBOL
14 1 (0.49%) JCL
14 1 (0.49%) Swift
14 1 (0.49%) XPath
Qualifications
1 61 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 58 (28.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.86%) Degree
4 11 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.39%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.69%) QA
2 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.96%) WCAG
3 2 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (40.20%) Docker
2 9 (4.41%) Postfix
3 3 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.33%) Grafana
3 15 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.96%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.96%) Puppet
5 3 (1.47%) Kibana
6 2 (0.98%) Argo
7 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (10.29%) SAP
2 18 (8.82%) Oracle
3 17 (8.33%) Sybase
4 15 (7.35%) CA Agile Central
4 15 (7.35%) Splunk
5 12 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.90%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (4.41%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.92%) Veracode
9 6 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.45%) Google
11 3 (1.47%) Duck Creek
11 3 (1.47%) Guidewire
11 3 (1.47%) IBM
12 2 (0.98%) Perforce
12 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.49%) Teradata
13 1 (0.49%) WSO2