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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 221 195
Rank change year-on-year -30 -26 -13
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 382 288 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.18% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.29% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 189 283
10th Percentile £351 £363 £364
25th Percentile £415 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +2.33% -9.66%
75th Percentile £594 £656 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 51
10th Percentile £55.34 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 33,993 22,301 32,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.07% 91.14% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,750 14,633 21,159
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 919 2,234
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.99
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -47 201 £490 -10.91% 25
North of England -26 61 £450 -4.00% 25
South East -42 59 £515 -17.60% 20
North West -16 35 £447 -5.89% 14
East of England -13 25 £625 +28.21% 9
Midlands -51 21 £447 -3.35% 18
North East -1 19 £513 +52.99% 7
South West -21 17 £500 -16.67% 7
East Midlands -34 15 £430 -7.08% 8
Yorkshire -52 9 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -54 6 £489 +5.94% 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 23 (6.02%) Confluence
2 14 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.14%) Mendix
3 12 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.88%) HCL Notes
5 8 (2.09%) Apache
6 6 (1.57%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.57%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.05%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.79%) IIS
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.79%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.52%) Camunda
9 2 (0.52%) CMS
9 2 (0.52%) JBoss
9 2 (0.52%) Mule
9 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (3.93%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.05%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.05%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.79%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (20.94%) Azure
2 65 (17.02%) AWS
3 50 (13.09%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.52%) GitHub
5 41 (10.73%) Serverless
6 27 (7.07%) OpenShift
7 24 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.50%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.24%) Azure Functions
10 19 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.71%) OCI
12 17 (4.45%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.19%) GCP
13 16 (4.19%) Power Automate
13 16 (4.19%) PowerApps
14 13 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (3.40%) PaaS
15 12 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.76%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.45%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.79%) DSL
4 3 (0.79%) Modbus
4 3 (0.79%) RS-232
4 3 (0.79%) RS-422
4 3 (0.79%) RS-485
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.78%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.81%) Oracle Database
3 23 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.97%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.19%) Power BI
6 14 (3.66%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.09%) Aerospike
10 8 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.57%) Redis
11 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.05%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.79%) Big Data
14 3 (0.79%) MySQL
14 3 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 83 (21.73%) Git
2 58 (15.18%) JIRA
3 53 (13.87%) GitLab
4 37 (9.69%) Visual Studio
5 35 (9.16%) Jenkins
6 34 (8.90%) SonarQube
7 33 (8.64%) JUnit
8 20 (5.24%) Postman
9 17 (4.45%) Eclipse
10 14 (3.66%) Gradle
11 13 (3.40%) Selenium
12 12 (3.14%) Cucumber
13 11 (2.88%) Maven
14 10 (2.62%) MSTest
15 9 (2.36%) Mockito
16 8 (2.09%) NUnit
16 8 (2.09%) PVCS
16 8 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
17 7 (1.83%) Bitbucket
18 6 (1.57%) SoapUI
General
1 98 (25.65%) Finance
2 81 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.21%) Banking
4 37 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.50%) Military
7 14 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.88%) Electronics
8 11 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.62%) Front Office
10 5 (1.31%) Legal
11 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.05%) Law
11 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.05%) Retail
12 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 196 (51.31%) Developer
2 56 (14.66%) Software Engineer
3 49 (12.83%) Java Developer
4 44 (11.52%) Senior
5 28 (7.33%) C# Developer
6 24 (6.28%) Data Engineer
6 24 (6.28%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (5.76%) Java Engineer
8 15 (3.93%) .NET Developer
9 14 (3.66%) C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (3.40%) C# Software Engineer
10 13 (3.40%) Consultant
11 12 (3.14%) Power Platform Developer
11 12 (3.14%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.14%) Salesforce Developer
12 11 (2.88%) Cloud Specialist
12 11 (2.88%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (2.88%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.88%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.11%) .NET
2 61 (15.97%) REST
3 59 (15.45%) RESTful
4 48 (12.57%) React
5 47 (12.30%) Spring
6 46 (12.04%) AngularJS
7 39 (10.21%) Spring Boot
8 36 (9.42%) Web Services
9 34 (8.90%) .NET Framework
10 33 (8.64%) CSS
10 33 (8.64%) Kafka
11 31 (8.12%) HTML
12 30 (7.85%) Node.js
13 28 (7.33%) SOAP
14 26 (6.81%) JSON
15 25 (6.54%) Quarkus
16 24 (6.28%) XML
17 20 (5.24%) pytest
18 18 (4.71%) OAuth
19 17 (4.45%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.66%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.31%) NHS
11 4 (1.05%) Life Science
12 3 (0.79%) CMDB
12 3 (0.79%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.79%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.57%) Windows
2 27 (7.07%) Linux
3 15 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.40%) Android
5 9 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.36%) Unix
6 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (51.31%) Agile
2 159 (41.62%) CI/CD
3 120 (31.41%) DevOps
4 97 (25.39%) Software Engineering
5 95 (24.87%) Test Automation
6 91 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (21.99%) Scrum
8 71 (18.59%) Microservices
9 63 (16.49%) TDD
10 57 (14.92%) SDLC
11 51 (13.35%) Code Quality
12 47 (12.30%) Integration Testing
13 43 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (10.99%) Validation
15 41 (10.73%) AI
15 41 (10.73%) Containerisation
16 38 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
17 37 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (9.69%) Sprint Planning
18 36 (9.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.98%) Java
2 120 (31.41%) SQL
3 108 (28.27%) C#
4 63 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 58 (15.18%) Python
6 35 (9.16%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.90%) C++
8 31 (8.12%) PL/SQL
9 26 (6.81%) T-SQL
10 16 (4.19%) C
11 13 (3.40%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.88%) Formula Language
12 11 (2.88%) LotusScript
13 10 (2.62%) Apex Code
13 10 (2.62%) Scala
14 9 (2.36%) PowerShell
15 8 (2.09%) Swift
16 7 (1.83%) ABAP
16 7 (1.83%) Embedded C
16 7 (1.83%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 99 (25.92%) Security Cleared
2 85 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.42%) Degree
4 19 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.57%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.30%) QA
2 12 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.57%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.57%) SEPA
5 5 (1.31%) PSD2
6 4 (1.05%) HL7
6 4 (1.05%) WCAG
7 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (13.09%) Docker
2 8 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 2 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.52%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 58 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.54%) Argo
3 15 (3.93%) Terraform
4 5 (1.31%) Grafana
5 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.26%) Ansible
8 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (21.20%) Oracle
2 62 (16.23%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.02%) Red Hat
4 18 (4.71%) Citrix
4 18 (4.71%) Databricks
5 16 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.88%) Lotus
6 11 (2.88%) SAP
7 10 (2.62%) IBM
7 10 (2.62%) Informatica
7 10 (2.62%) Kofax
8 9 (2.36%) Google
9 8 (2.09%) ANSYS
9 8 (2.09%) VMware
10 7 (1.83%) Veracode
11 5 (1.31%) Pega
12 4 (1.05%) Brio
12 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.05%) Splunk
13 3 (0.79%) HP