Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 247 175
Rank change year-on-year -40 -72 +15
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 367 265 519
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.06% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.16% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 181 346
10th Percentile £311 £331 £375
25th Percentile £406 £404 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £628
90th Percentile £669 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 15 55
10th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £66.20 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
London -50 185 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -11 67 £513 -4.65% 14
North of England -47 61 £460 +11.52% 17
North West -42 30 £450 +9.09% 8
North East -14 25 £511 +52.61% 6
South West -23 17 £500 -9.09% 8
East of England -23 17 £626 +33.44% 8
Midlands -55 16 £459 -0.33% 10
East Midlands -21 11 £447 +1.30% 6
Yorkshire -47 6 £522 -13.00% 3
West Midlands -54 5 £489 +6.22% 4
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 16 (4.36%) Confluence
2 7 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.91%) Mendix
2 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.63%) Apache
3 6 (1.63%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.63%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.36%) HCL Notes
5 4 (1.09%) IIS
5 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.54%) Camunda
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 2 (0.54%) JBoss
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.54%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (2.18%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.09%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.82%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.16%) Azure
2 51 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (13.08%) AWS
4 40 (10.90%) GitHub
5 38 (10.35%) OpenShift
6 30 (8.17%) Serverless
7 20 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (4.63%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.54%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.54%) PowerApps
11 12 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (3.27%) Power Automate
12 11 (3.00%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.72%) OCI
14 9 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.45%) GCP
15 8 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.36%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.45%) Internet
4 7 (1.91%) HTTP
5 3 (0.82%) DSL
5 3 (0.82%) Modbus
5 3 (0.82%) RS-232
5 3 (0.82%) RS-422
5 3 (0.82%) RS-485
6 1 (0.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.17%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.45%) Oracle Database
2 20 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.63%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.09%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.27%) Power BI
7 11 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.91%) Redis
10 5 (1.36%) Aerospike
10 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.09%) Metadata
11 4 (1.09%) MySQL
11 4 (1.09%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (20.71%) Git
2 44 (11.99%) SonarQube
3 43 (11.72%) JIRA
4 42 (11.44%) GitLab
5 35 (9.54%) Visual Studio
6 30 (8.17%) JUnit
7 25 (6.81%) Jenkins
8 17 (4.63%) Eclipse
9 14 (3.81%) Selenium
10 13 (3.54%) Gradle
11 11 (3.00%) Cucumber
11 11 (3.00%) MSTest
11 11 (3.00%) NUnit
12 10 (2.72%) Maven
12 10 (2.72%) Postman
13 8 (2.18%) Mockito
14 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.63%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.36%) JMeter
15 5 (1.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (20.98%) Finance
2 70 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.81%) Banking
4 44 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.90%) Military
7 10 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.63%) Front Office
8 6 (1.63%) Retail
9 5 (1.36%) Electronics
10 4 (1.09%) Marketing
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 179 (48.77%) Developer
2 55 (14.99%) Senior
3 48 (13.08%) Software Engineer
4 42 (11.44%) Java Developer
5 29 (7.90%) C# Developer
6 27 (7.36%) Java Engineer
7 24 (6.54%) Senior Developer
8 21 (5.72%) .NET Developer
9 19 (5.18%) Consultant
10 18 (4.90%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.36%) Lead
12 13 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (3.00%) Python Developer
15 10 (2.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Salesforce Developer
16 9 (2.45%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (2.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (21.53%) .NET
2 63 (17.17%) RESTful
3 58 (15.80%) AngularJS
4 54 (14.71%) REST
5 43 (11.72%) .NET Framework
6 36 (9.81%) Quarkus
6 36 (9.81%) Spring
7 34 (9.26%) React
8 32 (8.72%) Spring Boot
9 31 (8.45%) CSS
10 28 (7.63%) HTML
10 28 (7.63%) Kafka
11 27 (7.36%) Web Services
12 24 (6.54%) JSON
12 24 (6.54%) pytest
12 24 (6.54%) SOAP
13 21 (5.72%) Node.js
14 20 (5.45%) XML
15 18 (4.90%) Entity Framework
16 15 (4.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.72%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.91%) CMDB
9 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.82%) Equities
12 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.54%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.81%) Windows
2 22 (5.99%) Linux
3 15 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.63%) Android
6 5 (1.36%) Unix
7 2 (0.54%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (49.32%) Agile
2 155 (42.23%) CI/CD
3 116 (31.61%) DevOps
4 102 (27.79%) Software Engineering
5 97 (26.43%) Scrum
6 90 (24.52%) Test Automation
7 73 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (18.26%) SDLC
9 63 (17.17%) Microservices
10 59 (16.08%) TDD
11 53 (14.44%) User Acceptance Testing
12 51 (13.90%) Validation
13 49 (13.35%) Integration Testing
14 45 (12.26%) Sprint Planning
15 44 (11.99%) AI
15 44 (11.99%) Front End Development
16 43 (11.72%) Code Quality
17 39 (10.63%) Sprint Review
18 37 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (10.08%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 114 (31.06%) SQL
2 112 (30.52%) Java
3 109 (29.70%) C#
4 63 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 57 (15.53%) Python
6 30 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.63%) PL/SQL
8 27 (7.36%) T-SQL
9 26 (7.08%) C++
10 10 (2.72%) C
11 9 (2.45%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.45%) Scala
12 8 (2.18%) Apex Code
12 8 (2.18%) Swift
13 7 (1.91%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.36%) Bicep
14 5 (1.36%) Formula Language
14 5 (1.36%) LotusScript
15 4 (1.09%) ABAP
15 4 (1.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 101 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 82 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.45%) Degree
4 19 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.63%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) PhD
9 1 (0.27%) ACCA
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) CIMA
9 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (26.70%) QA
2 11 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.36%) WCAG
4 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.82%) SEPA
6 2 (0.54%) Basel III
6 2 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 73 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.81%) Argo
3 13 (3.54%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (16.89%) Oracle
2 60 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 34 (9.26%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.63%) Citrix
5 14 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.54%) Informatica
7 12 (3.27%) SAP
8 8 (2.18%) Databricks
8 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.91%) Pega
9 7 (1.91%) Veracode
10 6 (1.63%) Avaloq
11 5 (1.36%) Kofax
11 5 (1.36%) Lotus
12 4 (1.09%) IBM
12 4 (1.09%) Splunk
12 4 (1.09%) Workday
13 3 (0.82%) HP
13 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.82%) Sybase