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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 257 169
Rank change year-on-year -47 -88 +11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 371 275 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.00% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.10% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 187 337
10th Percentile £286 £343 £398
25th Percentile £387 £385 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -7.56%
75th Percentile £578 £606 £638
90th Percentile £670 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 20 49
10th Percentile £59.50 £60.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £64.06 £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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -34 183 £489 -2.25% 39
South East -13 71 £513 +12.02% 20
North of England -43 70 £461 +11.14% 27
North East -13 32 £510 -7.27% 6
North West -55 27 £463 +0.65% 18
Midlands -61 17 £490 +6.52% 18
East of England -22 16 £625 +33.33% 12
South West -36 15 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -52 11 £424 +7.22% 4
West Midlands -57 9 £490 +6.23% 10
East Midlands -25 8 £485 +15.48% 8
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 5 (1.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.08%) IIS
2 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (0.81%) Mendix
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.81%) SAS
4 2 (0.54%) Camunda
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) JBoss
4 2 (0.54%) Mule
4 2 (0.54%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.81%) Trello
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.89%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.62%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.54%) HFM
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 82 (22.10%) Azure
2 45 (12.13%) AWS
2 45 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (11.59%) GitHub
3 43 (11.59%) OpenShift
4 26 (7.01%) Serverless
5 18 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.77%) GCP
7 12 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (2.96%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (2.70%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.70%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.89%) OCI
12 6 (1.62%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.31%) Ethernet
2 15 (4.04%) Internet
3 13 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.81%) Modbus
4 3 (0.81%) RS-232
4 3 (0.81%) RS-422
4 3 (0.81%) RS-485
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) Intranet
6 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) NFC
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.31%) Oracle Database
4 15 (4.04%) Data Lake
4 15 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.70%) Power BI
8 9 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.16%) Redis
9 8 (2.16%) SAP HANA
10 6 (1.62%) Metadata
10 6 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.35%) MySQL
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 75 (20.22%) Git
2 42 (11.32%) SonarQube
3 36 (9.70%) Jenkins
4 33 (8.89%) GitLab
5 31 (8.36%) Visual Studio
6 27 (7.28%) JIRA
7 22 (5.93%) JUnit
8 18 (4.85%) Selenium
9 16 (4.31%) Eclipse
10 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.96%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.96%) MSTest
11 11 (2.96%) NUnit
12 10 (2.70%) Gradle
13 7 (1.89%) Maven
13 7 (1.89%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.62%) Mockito
15 5 (1.35%) Mocha
15 5 (1.35%) SpecFlow
15 5 (1.35%) tSQLt
General
1 83 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.06%) Finance
3 46 (12.40%) Banking
4 42 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.77%) Military
7 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.89%) Retail
10 5 (1.35%) Front Office
11 3 (0.81%) Billing
11 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Electronics
11 3 (0.81%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.81%) Marketing
11 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.54%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (46.09%) Developer
2 67 (18.06%) Senior
3 53 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 38 (10.24%) Java Developer
5 30 (8.09%) Java Engineer
6 28 (7.55%) C# Developer
7 26 (7.01%) Consultant
8 24 (6.47%) Senior Developer
9 20 (5.39%) .NET Developer
9 20 (5.39%) Lead
10 19 (5.12%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (4.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 13 (3.50%) C# Software Engineer
12 13 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 12 (3.23%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.96%) Python Developer
14 11 (2.96%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.22%) .NET
2 58 (15.63%) REST
3 57 (15.36%) AngularJS
4 48 (12.94%) RESTful
5 41 (11.05%) Quarkus
6 38 (10.24%) .NET Framework
7 37 (9.97%) React
8 34 (9.16%) Spring
9 30 (8.09%) Node.js
9 30 (8.09%) Web Services
10 27 (7.28%) Spring Boot
11 25 (6.74%) CSS
11 25 (6.74%) HTML
11 25 (6.74%) pytest
12 24 (6.47%) JSON
13 21 (5.66%) SOAP
14 20 (5.39%) Kafka
15 18 (4.85%) Playwright
15 18 (4.85%) XML
16 16 (4.31%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 15 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.89%) CMDB
7 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.89%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.54%) Equities
11 2 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.24%) Windows
2 21 (5.66%) Linux
3 11 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.89%) Unix
6 6 (1.62%) Android
7 2 (0.54%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (50.67%) Agile
2 148 (39.89%) CI/CD
3 118 (31.81%) Software Engineering
4 117 (31.54%) DevOps
5 105 (28.30%) Scrum
6 101 (27.22%) Test Automation
7 72 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (19.41%) SDLC
8 66 (17.79%) User Acceptance Testing
9 65 (17.52%) Integration Testing
10 62 (16.71%) TDD
11 57 (15.36%) Microservices
12 51 (13.75%) AI
12 51 (13.75%) Front End Development
12 51 (13.75%) Validation
13 50 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (12.94%) Sprint Planning
15 46 (12.40%) Clean Code
16 44 (11.86%) Sprint Review
17 42 (11.32%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 110 (29.65%) SQL
2 103 (27.76%) C#
3 96 (25.88%) Java
4 59 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 56 (15.09%) Python
6 31 (8.36%) TypeScript
7 26 (7.01%) PL/SQL
8 23 (6.20%) C++
8 23 (6.20%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.77%) Kotlin
10 11 (2.96%) ABAP
11 9 (2.43%) C
11 9 (2.43%) Swift
12 7 (1.89%) X++
13 5 (1.35%) Bicep
13 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.35%) Scala
14 4 (1.08%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.81%) Bash
15 3 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 113 (30.46%) Security Cleared
2 88 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.82%) Degree
4 13 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.89%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.81%) ACCA
8 3 (0.81%) CIMA
9 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (28.03%) QA
2 14 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.89%) WCAG
5 2 (0.54%) Basel III
5 2 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 61 (16.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 88 (23.72%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.05%) Argo
3 19 (5.12%) Terraform
4 5 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 2 (0.54%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.75%) Oracle
3 39 (10.51%) Red Hat
4 22 (5.93%) SAP
5 12 (3.23%) Citrix
6 11 (2.96%) Informatica
7 9 (2.43%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.16%) Pega
8 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.35%) Databricks
9 5 (1.35%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.35%) Splunk
10 4 (1.08%) Google
10 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.08%) Workday
11 3 (0.81%) HP
11 3 (0.81%) Sybase
12 2 (0.54%) Adobe
12 2 (0.54%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.54%) IBM