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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 256 172
Rank change year-on-year -37 -84 +15
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 366 276 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.01% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.12% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 182 339
10th Percentile £286 £332 £383
25th Percentile £391 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -6.34%
75th Percentile £584 £597 £638
90th Percentile £669 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 17 48
10th Percentile £60.63 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -44 186 £481 -3.75% 44
South East -13 68 £513 +2.50% 17
North of England -46 67 £461 +15.31% 31
North West -40 32 £460 +10.84% 21
North East -12 28 £510 +52.24% 7
East of England -19 16 £625 +33.33% 8
South West -32 15 £500 -9.09% 16
Midlands -61 14 £494 +6.88% 19
East Midlands -21 8 £485 +4.86% 8
Yorkshire -51 7 £519 +29.75% 4
West Midlands -53 6 £519 +12.89% 11
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 10 (2.73%) Confluence
2 4 (1.09%) IIS
2 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (0.82%) Mendix
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 2 (0.55%) Camunda
4 2 (0.55%) CMS
4 2 (0.55%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.55%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.55%) JBoss
4 2 (0.55%) Mule
4 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.55%) Trello
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.91%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.64%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.55%) HFM
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 77 (21.04%) Azure
2 43 (11.75%) AWS
3 41 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (10.93%) GitHub
4 40 (10.93%) OpenShift
5 23 (6.28%) Serverless
6 18 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (3.83%) Power Platform
8 13 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.01%) GCP
11 9 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.46%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.46%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.19%) OCI
12 8 (2.19%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.64%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.37%) Ethernet
2 14 (3.83%) Internet
3 13 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.82%) Modbus
4 3 (0.82%) RS-232
4 3 (0.82%) RS-422
4 3 (0.82%) RS-485
5 2 (0.55%) DSL
5 2 (0.55%) HTTP
5 2 (0.55%) Intranet
6 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.66%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.37%) Oracle Database
4 15 (4.10%) Data Lake
4 15 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.01%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.46%) Power BI
7 9 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.19%) SAP HANA
9 6 (1.64%) Metadata
9 6 (1.64%) Redis
10 5 (1.37%) MySQL
10 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 71 (19.40%) Git
2 44 (12.02%) SonarQube
3 37 (10.11%) GitLab
4 36 (9.84%) Jenkins
5 32 (8.74%) JIRA
5 32 (8.74%) Visual Studio
6 25 (6.83%) JUnit
7 16 (4.37%) Eclipse
7 16 (4.37%) Selenium
8 12 (3.28%) Gradle
9 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.01%) MSTest
9 11 (3.01%) NUnit
10 9 (2.46%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.46%) Maven
11 7 (1.91%) Mockito
11 7 (1.91%) Postman
11 7 (1.91%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.37%) JSUnit
12 5 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 73 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.03%) Finance
3 48 (13.11%) Banking
4 39 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.10%) Military
7 8 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.91%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 6 (1.64%) Front Office
10 3 (0.82%) Electronics
10 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.82%) Legal
10 3 (0.82%) Marketing
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.55%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.55%) Publishing
11 2 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 172 (46.99%) Developer
2 66 (18.03%) Senior
3 51 (13.93%) Software Engineer
4 38 (10.38%) Java Developer
5 29 (7.92%) C# Developer
5 29 (7.92%) Java Engineer
6 25 (6.83%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.56%) Consultant
8 21 (5.74%) .NET Developer
9 19 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.92%) Lead
11 14 (3.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 13 (3.55%) C# Software Engineer
12 13 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (3.55%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.28%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 10 (2.73%) C++ Software Engineer
15 10 (2.73%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.22%) .NET
2 60 (16.39%) REST
3 56 (15.30%) AngularJS
4 55 (15.03%) RESTful
5 41 (11.20%) .NET Framework
6 38 (10.38%) Quarkus
7 35 (9.56%) React
7 35 (9.56%) Spring
8 30 (8.20%) Spring Boot
9 29 (7.92%) Web Services
10 27 (7.38%) Node.js
11 26 (7.10%) CSS
12 25 (6.83%) HTML
13 24 (6.56%) JSON
14 23 (6.28%) pytest
14 23 (6.28%) SOAP
15 21 (5.74%) Kafka
16 18 (4.92%) XML
17 17 (4.64%) Entity Framework
18 15 (4.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.37%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.91%) CMDB
8 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.66%) Windows
2 20 (5.46%) Linux
3 12 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.91%) Unix
6 6 (1.64%) Android
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (49.18%) Agile
2 147 (40.16%) CI/CD
3 112 (30.60%) Software Engineering
4 109 (29.78%) DevOps
5 100 (27.32%) Scrum
6 95 (25.96%) Test Automation
7 70 (19.13%) SDLC
8 64 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (17.21%) TDD
10 62 (16.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (15.85%) Microservices
12 56 (15.30%) Integration Testing
13 50 (13.66%) Validation
14 47 (12.84%) Front End Development
15 46 (12.57%) AI
15 46 (12.57%) Sprint Planning
16 42 (11.48%) Clean Code
16 42 (11.48%) Code Quality
17 41 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (11.20%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 107 (29.23%) SQL
2 102 (27.87%) C#
2 102 (27.87%) Java
3 54 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 53 (14.48%) Python
5 31 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.38%) PL/SQL
7 23 (6.28%) C++
7 23 (6.28%) T-SQL
8 13 (3.55%) Kotlin
9 11 (3.01%) ABAP
10 9 (2.46%) C
10 9 (2.46%) Swift
11 6 (1.64%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.37%) Bicep
12 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.37%) X++
13 3 (0.82%) Go
13 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.55%) ProC
Qualifications
1 105 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 83 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.65%) Degree
4 14 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.64%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.82%) ACCA
6 3 (0.82%) CIMA
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.55%) PhD
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (27.60%) QA
2 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.64%) WCAG
5 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.55%) Basel III
6 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) SEPA
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%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (15.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 80 (21.86%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.38%) Argo
3 15 (4.10%) Terraform
4 4 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.55%) Ansible
6 2 (0.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 53 (14.48%) Oracle
3 36 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 21 (5.74%) SAP
5 14 (3.83%) Citrix
6 11 (3.01%) Informatica
7 10 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.46%) Avaloq
9 8 (2.19%) Pega
9 8 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.37%) Databricks
10 5 (1.37%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.37%) Splunk
10 5 (1.37%) Veracode
11 4 (1.09%) Google
11 4 (1.09%) Workday
12 3 (0.82%) HP
12 3 (0.82%) Sybase
13 2 (0.55%) Adobe
13 2 (0.55%) IBM