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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 250 154
Rank change year-on-year -54 -96 +36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 352 287 541
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.03% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.14% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 193 340
10th Percentile £283 £358 £375
25th Percentile £400 £385 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £599 £613 £642
90th Percentile £679 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £550
% change year-on-year +4.71% -13.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 44
10th Percentile £38.25 £61.63 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 39,013 25,190 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.87% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,073 16,045 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,593 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -40 176 £500 - 77
North of England -62 70 £463 +3.93% 37
South East -17 64 £513 +12.02% 12
North East -6 35 £510 -7.27% 7
Midlands -53 26 £496 +7.27% 34
North West -80 22 £463 -3.75% 24
West Midlands -34 21 £500 +2.04% 20
Yorkshire -45 13 £447 +14.62% 7
South West -39 10 £500 -14.89% 23
East of England -36 9 £619 +32.00% 13
East Midlands -25 5 £430 -2.61% 13
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 (1.42%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) SAS
2 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (0.85%) IIS
4 2 (0.57%) Camunda
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.28%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.28%) Mendix
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Trello
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 17 (4.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.14%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.85%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.85%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.85%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.57%) HFM
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.57%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 86 (24.43%) Azure
2 50 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (12.50%) AWS
4 42 (11.93%) GitHub
5 41 (11.65%) OpenShift
6 27 (7.67%) Power Platform
7 20 (5.68%) Serverless
8 14 (3.98%) GCP
8 14 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.69%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 10 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.56%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (1.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.55%) Internet
2 6 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.42%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.57%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.57%) Intranet
4 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) DSL
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.98%) Data Lake
4 14 (3.98%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.69%) Oracle Database
6 12 (3.41%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.41%) Power BI
7 11 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.27%) Redis
10 7 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.70%) MySQL
12 5 (1.42%) Metadata
12 5 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (1.42%) SAP HANA
13 4 (1.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (23.86%) Git
2 42 (11.93%) SonarQube
3 36 (10.23%) Jenkins
4 33 (9.38%) GitLab
5 29 (8.24%) JIRA
6 22 (6.25%) JUnit
7 19 (5.40%) Selenium
7 19 (5.40%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.41%) Gradle
9 11 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.13%) Maven
10 9 (2.56%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.56%) NUnit
11 7 (1.99%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.70%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.70%) MSTest
12 6 (1.70%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.42%) JMeter
13 5 (1.42%) JSUnit
13 5 (1.42%) Mockito
General
1 98 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.89%) Finance
3 48 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (13.07%) Banking
5 34 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.27%) Front Office
7 8 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.27%) Retail
8 6 (1.70%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.70%) Military
9 4 (1.14%) Billing
10 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Marketing
10 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (46.88%) Developer
2 62 (17.61%) Senior
3 38 (10.80%) Software Engineer
4 35 (9.94%) Java Developer
5 31 (8.81%) Java Engineer
6 26 (7.39%) Consultant
7 23 (6.53%) C# Developer
7 23 (6.53%) Senior Developer
8 21 (5.97%) Lead
9 18 (5.11%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 15 (4.26%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.69%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (3.13%) Software Developer
15 10 (2.84%) Technical Consultant
16 9 (2.56%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (2.56%) Python Developer
17 8 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.32%) .NET
2 55 (15.63%) REST
3 53 (15.06%) AngularJS
4 44 (12.50%) RESTful
5 38 (10.80%) Quarkus
6 37 (10.51%) Spring
7 35 (9.94%) React
8 32 (9.09%) .NET Framework
9 29 (8.24%) Spring Boot
10 26 (7.39%) Web Services
11 25 (7.10%) pytest
12 24 (6.82%) Node.js
13 22 (6.25%) SOAP
14 21 (5.97%) CSS
14 21 (5.97%) HTML
14 21 (5.97%) JSON
15 20 (5.68%) Kafka
16 19 (5.40%) Playwright
17 17 (4.83%) Terraform
18 14 (3.98%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.97%) Data Structures
1 21 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.99%) CMDB
6 6 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.42%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) IoT
9 3 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.97%) Windows
2 14 (3.98%) Linux
3 10 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.14%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (49.72%) Agile
2 136 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 117 (33.24%) DevOps
4 100 (28.41%) Test Automation
5 98 (27.84%) Software Engineering
6 97 (27.56%) Scrum
7 85 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (22.44%) User Acceptance Testing
9 76 (21.59%) Integration Testing
10 73 (20.74%) SDLC
11 55 (15.63%) Microservices
12 54 (15.34%) TDD
13 53 (15.06%) AI
13 53 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (13.92%) Sprint Planning
15 47 (13.35%) Validation
16 46 (13.07%) Clean Code
16 46 (13.07%) Front End Development
17 44 (12.50%) Code Quality
18 39 (11.08%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 112 (31.82%) SQL
2 90 (25.57%) Java
3 87 (24.72%) C#
4 54 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 54 (15.34%) Python
5 29 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.68%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.11%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.84%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.56%) C++
10 8 (2.27%) ABAP
10 8 (2.27%) Scala
11 7 (1.99%) Bash
11 7 (1.99%) X++
12 5 (1.42%) C
12 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.42%) Swift
13 4 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.85%) Bicep
15 2 (0.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 112 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.81%) Degree
4 14 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.85%) ACCA
8 3 (0.85%) CIMA
8 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 1 (0.28%) CCNA
10 1 (0.28%) CISA
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (26.70%) QA
2 13 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.99%) WCAG
5 3 (0.85%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (17.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.80%) Argo
3 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 43 (12.22%) Oracle
3 36 (10.23%) Red Hat
4 25 (7.10%) SAP
5 12 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.13%) Citrix
6 11 (3.13%) Informatica
7 9 (2.56%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.27%) UiPath
9 6 (1.70%) Pega
9 6 (1.70%) Splunk
10 5 (1.42%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.14%) Databricks
11 4 (1.14%) Google
11 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.14%) Workday
12 3 (0.85%) HP
13 2 (0.57%) Adobe
13 2 (0.57%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.57%) VMware