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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 259 171
Rank change year-on-year -20 -88 +16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 385 273 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.01% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.11% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 182 347
10th Percentile £300 £331 £375
25th Percentile £406 £389 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -5.98%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £633
90th Percentile £669 £749 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +6.61% -10.67% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 53
10th Percentile £60.00 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.80 -
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 38,339 24,527 31,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.74% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,173 15,771 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,262 2,268
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -31 203 £500 -4.76% 43
South East -10 68 £513 +2.50% 15
North of England -39 68 £460 +15.51% 23
North West -27 36 £460 +15.51% 14
North East -16 25 £511 +52.61% 4
East of England -32 15 £626 +33.44% 11
South West -27 14 £500 -9.09% 28
Midlands -60 14 £494 +7.46% 20
East Midlands -21 8 £485 +9.92% 10
Yorkshire -42 7 £519 -13.50% 5
West Midlands -64 6 £519 +12.89% 10
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 12 (3.12%) Confluence
2 7 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) Apache
3 6 (1.56%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.56%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.30%) IIS
5 4 (1.04%) Mendix
5 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.78%) SAS
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.52%) JBoss
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.56%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (1.30%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.52%) HFM
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 84 (21.82%) Azure
2 50 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (11.43%) AWS
4 40 (10.39%) GitHub
5 38 (9.87%) OpenShift
6 25 (6.49%) Serverless
7 17 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.38%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (2.60%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.60%) GCP
11 10 (2.60%) OCI
12 9 (2.34%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.34%) PowerApps
13 8 (2.08%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.16%) Ethernet
2 13 (3.38%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.12%) Internet
4 7 (1.82%) HTTP
5 3 (0.78%) DSL
5 3 (0.78%) Modbus
5 3 (0.78%) RS-232
5 3 (0.78%) RS-422
5 3 (0.78%) RS-485
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
7 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.26%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.42%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.16%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 15 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.34%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.34%) Power BI
7 9 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.82%) SAP HANA
10 6 (1.56%) Metadata
11 5 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.04%) MySQL
12 4 (1.04%) Redis
13 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.78%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 80 (20.78%) Git
2 44 (11.43%) SonarQube
3 39 (10.13%) GitLab
4 36 (9.35%) JIRA
5 35 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 33 (8.57%) Visual Studio
7 32 (8.31%) JUnit
8 17 (4.42%) Eclipse
8 17 (4.42%) Gradle
9 14 (3.64%) Selenium
10 13 (3.38%) Maven
11 11 (2.86%) MSTest
11 11 (2.86%) NUnit
12 10 (2.60%) Postman
13 9 (2.34%) Cucumber
14 8 (2.08%) Mockito
15 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.82%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.30%) JSUnit
16 5 (1.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (20.00%) Finance
2 74 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.51%) Banking
4 49 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.16%) Military
7 8 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.82%) Front Office
8 7 (1.82%) Retail
9 4 (1.04%) Legal
9 4 (1.04%) Marketing
10 3 (0.78%) Electronics
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Billing
11 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 184 (47.79%) Developer
2 66 (17.14%) Senior
3 47 (12.21%) Software Engineer
4 46 (11.95%) Java Developer
5 30 (7.79%) C# Developer
6 29 (7.53%) Java Engineer
7 27 (7.01%) Senior Developer
8 25 (6.49%) Consultant
9 22 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 19 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.16%) Lead
12 13 (3.38%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 12 (3.12%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 10 (2.60%) C++ Software Engineer
14 10 (2.60%) Python Developer
14 10 (2.60%) Salesforce Developer
14 10 (2.60%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (20.26%) .NET
2 65 (16.88%) RESTful
3 62 (16.10%) REST
4 58 (15.06%) AngularJS
5 43 (11.17%) .NET Framework
6 40 (10.39%) Spring
7 38 (9.87%) React
8 36 (9.35%) Quarkus
9 35 (9.09%) Spring Boot
10 28 (7.27%) CSS
10 28 (7.27%) Web Services
11 27 (7.01%) JSON
11 27 (7.01%) SOAP
12 26 (6.75%) HTML
12 26 (6.75%) Node.js
13 25 (6.49%) Kafka
14 21 (5.45%) pytest
14 21 (5.45%) XML
15 18 (4.68%) Entity Framework
16 15 (3.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.16%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.12%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.12%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.08%) CMDB
6 8 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.78%) Equities
10 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.78%) IoT
10 3 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.39%) Windows
2 19 (4.94%) Linux
3 13 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.82%) Android
5 7 (1.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.52%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (48.57%) Agile
2 162 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 122 (31.69%) DevOps
4 105 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 98 (25.45%) Scrum
6 95 (24.68%) Test Automation
7 72 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (18.18%) SDLC
8 70 (18.18%) TDD
9 66 (17.14%) Microservices
10 64 (16.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 53 (13.77%) Integration Testing
12 49 (12.73%) Validation
13 47 (12.21%) AI
14 45 (11.69%) Front End Development
15 43 (11.17%) Code Quality
15 43 (11.17%) Sprint Planning
16 42 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (10.13%) Clean Code
17 39 (10.13%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 116 (30.13%) SQL
2 112 (29.09%) Java
3 105 (27.27%) C#
4 58 (15.06%) Python
5 57 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 36 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 29 (7.53%) PL/SQL
8 26 (6.75%) T-SQL
9 24 (6.23%) C++
10 12 (3.12%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.60%) ABAP
12 9 (2.34%) C
12 9 (2.34%) Scala
12 9 (2.34%) Swift
13 8 (2.08%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.30%) Bicep
14 5 (1.30%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.04%) X++
16 3 (0.78%) Go
16 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.04%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.53%) Degree
4 18 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.56%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.78%) ACCA
7 3 (0.78%) CIMA
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (26.49%) QA
2 12 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.30%) WCAG
5 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.78%) SEPA
7 2 (0.52%) Basel III
7 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 76 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.35%) Argo
3 13 (3.38%) Terraform
4 3 (0.78%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.52%) Ansible
5 2 (0.52%) Grafana
5 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 60 (15.58%) Oracle
3 34 (8.83%) Red Hat
4 20 (5.19%) SAP
5 15 (3.90%) Citrix
6 14 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.86%) Informatica
8 9 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.08%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.82%) Pega
10 7 (1.82%) Veracode
11 6 (1.56%) Splunk
12 5 (1.30%) Databricks
12 5 (1.30%) Sitecore
13 4 (1.04%) Google
13 4 (1.04%) Workday
14 3 (0.78%) HP
14 3 (0.78%) Sybase
15 2 (0.52%) IBM
15 2 (0.52%) Lotus