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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 395 444
Rank change year-on-year +81 +49 -48
Contract jobs citing JUnit 172 141 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.02% 3.28% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 112 125
10th Percentile £358 £375 £442
25th Percentile £391 £428 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £545 £650 £709
90th Percentile £575 £860 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 15
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £85.20
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% +10.57%

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 3,427 4,293 6,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.14% 11.68% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 2,916 4,841
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 207 200
10th Percentile £27.59 £31.53 £46.03
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £77.70 £82.55
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +59 100 £500 -6.19% 45
North of England +19 31 £420 -23.64% 23
Midlands +38 27 £450 +10.09% 33
West Midlands +33 21 £485 +15.48% 22
North West +15 17 £466 -10.38% 17
Yorkshire +7 10 £520 -5.50% 5
South East +45 7 £395 -21.00% 15
East Midlands +14 6 £326 -17.99% 11
North East +4 4 £390 +25.81% 1
South West +41 2 £550 +29.41% 11
East of England +18 1 £200 - 2
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 14 (8.14%) Confluence
2 6 (3.49%) JBoss
2 6 (3.49%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.33%) Alfresco
3 4 (2.33%) Camunda
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.98%) AWS
2 23 (13.37%) Azure
3 21 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon S3
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (6.98%) AWS KMS
6 12 (6.98%) Route 53
7 11 (6.40%) GitHub
8 8 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.49%) GCP
9 6 (3.49%) Serverless
10 4 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (41.28%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (37.21%) Relational Database
3 34 (19.77%) MongoDB
4 18 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (9.88%) DynamoDB
6 14 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (8.14%) DB2
6 14 (8.14%) MySQL
7 7 (4.07%) Redis
8 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.49%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.49%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.74%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.16%) Big Data
11 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
12 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.58%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 85 (49.42%) Jenkins
2 64 (37.21%) Mockito
3 57 (33.14%) Maven
4 55 (31.98%) Gradle
5 49 (28.49%) Git
6 39 (22.67%) Selenium
7 29 (16.86%) JIRA
7 29 (16.86%) SonarQube
8 28 (16.28%) Cucumber
8 28 (16.28%) Liquibase
9 25 (14.53%) GitLab
10 17 (9.88%) IntelliJ
11 16 (9.30%) Bitbucket Server
12 14 (8.14%) TestNG
13 13 (7.56%) Postman
14 12 (6.98%) REST Assured
15 10 (5.81%) Cypress.io
16 9 (5.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (5.23%) HP UFT
16 9 (5.23%) Subversion
General
1 60 (34.88%) Finance
2 54 (31.40%) Social Skills
3 44 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.37%) Banking
6 22 (12.79%) Manufacturing
7 21 (12.21%) Electronics
7 21 (12.21%) Marketing
7 21 (12.21%) Telecoms
8 16 (9.30%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (65.70%) Developer
2 95 (55.23%) Java Developer
3 42 (24.42%) Senior
4 38 (22.09%) Senior Developer
5 37 (21.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 27 (15.70%) Lead
7 23 (13.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 22 (12.79%) Lead Developer
9 20 (11.63%) Lead Java Developer
10 15 (8.72%) Java Engineer
10 15 (8.72%) SQL Developer
11 14 (8.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 14 (8.14%) Linux Developer
11 14 (8.14%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 14 (8.14%) Senior SQL Developer
12 11 (6.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (6.40%) React Developer
12 11 (6.40%) Software Engineer
12 11 (6.40%) Tester
13 10 (5.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (64.53%) Spring
2 87 (50.58%) Spring Boot
3 66 (38.37%) Kafka
4 43 (25.00%) REST
5 41 (23.84%) Hibernate
6 40 (23.26%) Swagger
7 37 (21.51%) OpenAPI
8 35 (20.35%) React
9 33 (19.19%) AngularJS
10 32 (18.60%) JPA
11 29 (16.86%) Web Services
12 27 (15.70%) SOAP
13 23 (13.37%) RESTful
14 21 (12.21%) HTML
14 21 (12.21%) JMS
15 17 (9.88%) Bootstrap
15 17 (9.88%) Spring Cloud
16 16 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
17 15 (8.72%) Spring Integration
18 13 (7.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.21%) Data Structures
2 16 (9.30%) Equities
3 14 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.07%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.07%) PKI
6 5 (2.91%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.51%) Linux
2 14 (8.14%) Unix
3 7 (4.07%) Android
4 6 (3.49%) Windows
5 3 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) AIX
6 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (63.95%) Agile
2 89 (51.74%) Microservices
3 84 (48.84%) TDD
4 83 (48.26%) CI/CD
5 61 (35.47%) DevOps
6 51 (29.65%) Test Automation
7 50 (29.07%) Containerisation
8 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 36 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (20.35%) SDLC
11 34 (19.77%) Scrum
12 33 (19.19%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (18.60%) BDD
14 29 (16.86%) Migration
15 27 (15.70%) Open Source
16 24 (13.95%) Unit Testing
17 21 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (12.21%) Digital Marketing
17 21 (12.21%) Programme Management
18 20 (11.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 159 (92.44%) Java
2 78 (45.35%) SQL
3 40 (23.26%) TypeScript
4 37 (21.51%) Python
5 25 (14.53%) JavaScript
6 23 (13.37%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.49%) C#
7 6 (3.49%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.91%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.33%) Bash
9 4 (2.33%) Groovy
10 2 (1.16%) Korn
10 2 (1.16%) Perl
10 2 (1.16%) Scala
11 1 (0.58%) Ada
11 1 (0.58%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) JCL
11 1 (0.58%) Swift
11 1 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 61 (35.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.14%) Degree
4 12 (6.98%) ISTQB
5 11 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.44%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.33%) WCAG
3 2 (1.16%) SEPA
4 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (45.35%) Docker
2 8 (4.65%) Postfix
3 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.30%) Grafana
3 14 (8.14%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.91%) Puppet
5 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.74%) Kibana
7 2 (1.16%) Argo
7 2 (1.16%) Terraform
8 1 (0.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (12.21%) SAP
2 15 (8.72%) Sybase
3 14 (8.14%) Splunk
4 12 (6.98%) CA Agile Central
4 12 (6.98%) Oracle
5 9 (5.23%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.65%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.07%) Microsoft
8 6 (3.49%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.33%) Google
10 3 (1.74%) IBM
10 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.16%) Duck Creek
11 2 (1.16%) Guidewire
11 2 (1.16%) Perforce
11 2 (1.16%) Veracode
12 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.58%) Teradata
12 1 (0.58%) WSO2