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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 228 179
Rank change year-on-year -34 -49 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 365 261 476
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.09% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.19% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 176 299
10th Percentile £340 £356 £375
25th Percentile £415 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -6.40%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £644
90th Percentile £675 £744 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 9 53
10th Percentile £59.70 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £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 £72.65 - -
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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -38 193 £475 -12.44% 26
South East -19 63 £513 -10.87% 12
North of England -31 58 £450 +14.29% 18
North West -26 32 £450 +9.09% 12
North East -12 19 £513 +52.99% 3
East of England -16 18 £625 +33.33% 11
Midlands -67 17 £470 +1.62% 17
South West -20 16 £500 -18.37% 11
East Midlands -26 12 £449 -3.03% 11
Yorkshire -44 9 £500 -16.67% 3
West Midlands -53 5 £550 +19.24% 6
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 16 (4.38%) Confluence
2 12 (3.29%) Mendix
2 12 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.74%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.92%) Apache
6 6 (1.64%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.64%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.82%) IIS
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) Camunda
9 2 (0.55%) CMS
9 2 (0.55%) JBoss
9 2 (0.55%) Mule
9 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.55%) SAS
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
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 (3.56%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.10%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.82%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
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-F
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.29%) Azure
2 59 (16.16%) AWS
3 51 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (11.23%) GitHub
5 39 (10.68%) Serverless
6 28 (7.67%) OpenShift
7 21 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.93%) Azure Functions
10 17 (4.66%) OCI
10 17 (4.66%) Power Platform
11 16 (4.38%) PowerApps
12 15 (4.11%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.11%) Power Automate
13 12 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (3.01%) GCP
14 11 (3.01%) PaaS
15 10 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.93%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.11%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.92%) 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 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.15%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.85%) Oracle Database
3 21 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.93%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.38%) Data Lake
6 14 (3.84%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.29%) Power BI
8 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.64%) Redis
12 5 (1.37%) Aerospike
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.10%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.82%) Metadata
14 3 (0.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 77 (21.10%) Git
2 48 (13.15%) GitLab
3 47 (12.88%) JIRA
4 34 (9.32%) SonarQube
4 34 (9.32%) Visual Studio
5 29 (7.95%) Jenkins
5 29 (7.95%) JUnit
6 16 (4.38%) Eclipse
6 16 (4.38%) Postman
7 14 (3.84%) Gradle
7 14 (3.84%) Selenium
8 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.01%) MSTest
9 10 (2.74%) Maven
9 10 (2.74%) NUnit
10 8 (2.19%) Mockito
11 7 (1.92%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.64%) fastlane
12 6 (1.64%) XCTest
13 5 (1.37%) MLflow
General
1 83 (22.74%) Finance
2 67 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.41%) Banking
5 25 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.93%) Military
7 11 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Electronics
10 6 (1.64%) Front Office
10 6 (1.64%) Retail
11 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.82%) Legal
11 3 (0.82%) Marketing
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.55%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (49.04%) Developer
2 51 (13.97%) Software Engineer
3 48 (13.15%) Senior
4 42 (11.51%) Java Developer
5 26 (7.12%) C# Developer
6 25 (6.85%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.58%) Java Engineer
8 21 (5.75%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.66%) Consultant
11 16 (4.38%) .NET Developer
12 14 (3.84%) C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (3.84%) Python Developer
13 12 (3.29%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Integration Specialist
14 11 (3.01%) Lead
14 11 (3.01%) Oracle Specialist
14 11 (3.01%) Power Platform Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Salesforce Developer
15 10 (2.74%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.55%) .NET
2 64 (17.53%) REST
3 59 (16.16%) RESTful
4 46 (12.60%) AngularJS
5 43 (11.78%) React
6 42 (11.51%) Spring
7 38 (10.41%) .NET Framework
8 35 (9.59%) Spring Boot
9 30 (8.22%) CSS
9 30 (8.22%) Kafka
9 30 (8.22%) Web Services
10 29 (7.95%) SOAP
11 28 (7.67%) HTML
11 28 (7.67%) JSON
12 26 (7.12%) Quarkus
13 24 (6.58%) XML
14 23 (6.30%) Node.js
15 18 (4.93%) OAuth
16 17 (4.66%) pytest
17 15 (4.11%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.11%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.10%) CMDB
10 4 (1.10%) Derivative
11 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.33%) Windows
2 22 (6.03%) Linux
3 15 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.19%) Android
6 4 (1.10%) Unix
7 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (48.22%) Agile
2 152 (41.64%) CI/CD
3 117 (32.05%) DevOps
4 92 (25.21%) Software Engineering
5 87 (23.84%) Test Automation
6 84 (23.01%) Scrum
7 78 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.63%) Microservices
9 62 (16.99%) TDD
10 59 (16.16%) SDLC
11 46 (12.60%) User Acceptance Testing
12 45 (12.33%) Integration Testing
12 45 (12.33%) Validation
13 44 (12.05%) Code Quality
14 43 (11.78%) AI
15 40 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (10.14%) Sprint Planning
17 36 (9.86%) Clean Code
18 34 (9.32%) ERP
18 34 (9.32%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 118 (32.33%) SQL
2 113 (30.96%) Java
3 107 (29.32%) C#
4 65 (17.81%) JavaScript
5 59 (16.16%) Python
6 33 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 30 (8.22%) C++
8 29 (7.95%) PL/SQL
9 27 (7.40%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.56%) C
11 10 (2.74%) Formula Language
11 10 (2.74%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.74%) LotusScript
12 9 (2.47%) Apex Code
12 9 (2.47%) Scala
13 8 (2.19%) Swift
14 7 (1.92%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.37%) ABAP
15 5 (1.37%) Embedded C
15 5 (1.37%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 95 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.04%) Degree
4 20 (5.48%) 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 93 (25.48%) QA
2 12 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.10%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) WCAG
6 3 (0.82%) PSD2
7 2 (0.55%) GDPR
7 2 (0.55%) HL7
7 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 61 (16.71%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.12%) Argo
3 16 (4.38%) Terraform
4 4 (1.10%) 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 76 (20.82%) Oracle
2 61 (16.71%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.58%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.66%) Citrix
5 15 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.29%) Databricks
6 12 (3.29%) Informatica
6 12 (3.29%) SAP
7 10 (2.74%) Kofax
7 10 (2.74%) Lotus
8 7 (1.92%) IBM
8 7 (1.92%) Veracode
9 5 (1.37%) ANSYS
9 5 (1.37%) Avaloq
9 5 (1.37%) Pega
9 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.37%) VMware
10 4 (1.10%) Google
10 4 (1.10%) Splunk
11 3 (0.82%) HP