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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 245 177
Rank change year-on-year -33 -68 +11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 366 252 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.06% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.16% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 170 309
10th Percentile £321 £339 £375
25th Percentile £415 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £766 £688
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 10 53
10th Percentile £59.85 £52.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £71.33 £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -39 193 £481 -12.50% 28
South East -15 62 £513 -10.87% 8
North of England -35 58 £455 +15.56% 18
North West -20 34 £450 +9.09% 14
North East -12 19 £513 +52.99% 2
East of England -17 19 £625 +33.33% 7
Midlands -59 18 £460 -0.54% 15
South West -18 16 £500 -16.67% 7
East Midlands -28 12 £449 -3.03% 10
Yorkshire -52 7 £500 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -56 6 £519 +12.59% 5
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 15 (4.10%) Confluence
2 12 (3.28%) Mendix
2 12 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.73%) HCL Notes
4 7 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.64%) Apache
5 6 (1.64%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.64%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.82%) IIS
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.55%) Camunda
8 2 (0.55%) CMS
8 2 (0.55%) JBoss
8 2 (0.55%) Mule
8 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (3.55%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.09%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.82%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
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
6 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (23.50%) Azure
2 55 (15.03%) AWS
3 53 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (11.20%) GitHub
5 35 (9.56%) Serverless
6 28 (7.65%) OpenShift
7 21 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (4.92%) Power Platform
9 17 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.64%) Azure Functions
9 17 (4.64%) OCI
10 16 (4.37%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.10%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (3.01%) GCP
13 11 (3.01%) PaaS
14 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.37%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (0.82%) DSL
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%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.56%) Oracle Database
3 19 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 14 (3.83%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.55%) Power BI
7 12 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.64%) Redis
11 5 (1.37%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.09%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.82%) Metadata
13 3 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (21.31%) Git
2 47 (12.84%) GitLab
3 45 (12.30%) JIRA
4 34 (9.29%) SonarQube
4 34 (9.29%) Visual Studio
5 29 (7.92%) JUnit
6 28 (7.65%) Jenkins
7 17 (4.64%) Eclipse
8 16 (4.37%) Postman
9 14 (3.83%) Gradle
9 14 (3.83%) Selenium
10 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.01%) MSTest
10 11 (3.01%) NUnit
11 10 (2.73%) Maven
12 8 (2.19%) Mockito
13 7 (1.91%) SoapUI
14 6 (1.64%) fastlane
14 6 (1.64%) XCTest
15 5 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 83 (22.68%) Finance
2 65 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.38%) Banking
5 24 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.19%) Military
7 11 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Electronics
10 7 (1.91%) Front Office
11 6 (1.64%) Retail
12 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.82%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Law
13 2 (0.55%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 180 (49.18%) Developer
2 51 (13.93%) Senior
2 51 (13.93%) Software Engineer
3 41 (11.20%) Java Developer
4 27 (7.38%) Senior Developer
5 26 (7.10%) C# Developer
6 22 (6.01%) Java Engineer
7 21 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.19%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (4.64%) Consultant
10 15 (4.10%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (3.83%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.55%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.28%) Lead
14 11 (3.01%) Integration Specialist
14 11 (3.01%) Oracle Specialist
14 11 (3.01%) Power Platform Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Salesforce Developer
15 10 (2.73%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (20.77%) .NET
2 64 (17.49%) REST
3 58 (15.85%) RESTful
4 46 (12.57%) AngularJS
5 41 (11.20%) React
6 38 (10.38%) .NET Framework
6 38 (10.38%) Spring
7 32 (8.74%) Spring Boot
8 30 (8.20%) CSS
8 30 (8.20%) JSON
8 30 (8.20%) Kafka
8 30 (8.20%) Web Services
9 29 (7.92%) SOAP
10 28 (7.65%) HTML
11 26 (7.10%) Quarkus
12 25 (6.83%) XML
13 24 (6.56%) Node.js
14 19 (5.19%) pytest
15 18 (4.92%) OAuth
16 16 (4.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.10%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.46%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.09%) CMDB
11 4 (1.09%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.09%) Derivative
11 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.82%) IoT
12 3 (0.82%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.02%) Windows
2 22 (6.01%) Linux
3 14 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.73%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.19%) Android
6 4 (1.09%) Unix
7 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (47.81%) Agile
2 154 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 117 (31.97%) DevOps
4 94 (25.68%) Software Engineering
5 86 (23.50%) Test Automation
6 84 (22.95%) Scrum
7 76 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (17.76%) Microservices
9 63 (17.21%) TDD
10 57 (15.57%) SDLC
11 48 (13.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 47 (12.84%) Validation
13 45 (12.30%) Integration Testing
14 43 (11.75%) AI
15 42 (11.48%) Code Quality
16 39 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (10.11%) Sprint Planning
18 36 (9.84%) ERP
19 35 (9.56%) Clean Code
20 34 (9.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 116 (31.69%) SQL
2 109 (29.78%) Java
3 108 (29.51%) C#
4 66 (18.03%) JavaScript
5 59 (16.12%) Python
6 31 (8.47%) C++
6 31 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.38%) PL/SQL
8 25 (6.83%) T-SQL
9 13 (3.55%) C
10 10 (2.73%) Formula Language
10 10 (2.73%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.73%) LotusScript
11 9 (2.46%) Apex Code
11 9 (2.46%) Scala
11 9 (2.46%) Swift
12 7 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.37%) Bicep
13 5 (1.37%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.37%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 94 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 79 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.47%) Degree
4 20 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.64%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.27%) ACCA
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) CIMA
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (24.32%) QA
2 11 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.09%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) SEPA
5 2 (0.55%) Basel III
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (14.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 61 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.10%) Argo
3 15 (4.10%) Terraform
4 4 (1.09%) Grafana
5 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 74 (20.22%) Oracle
2 62 (16.94%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.56%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.37%) Citrix
5 15 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.55%) Informatica
7 12 (3.28%) SAP
8 10 (2.73%) Databricks
8 10 (2.73%) Kofax
8 10 (2.73%) Lotus
9 7 (1.91%) IBM
9 7 (1.91%) Veracode
10 6 (1.64%) Avaloq
11 5 (1.37%) ANSYS
11 5 (1.37%) Pega
11 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.37%) VMware
12 4 (1.09%) Google
12 4 (1.09%) Splunk
13 3 (0.82%) HP