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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 215 204
Rank change year-on-year -50 -11 -23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 380 295 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.20% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.32% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 193 273
10th Percentile £358 £358 £364
25th Percentile £415 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -9.66%
75th Percentile £593 £656 £660
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £485 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -8.50% +0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 47
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 - - £65.70
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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -35 202 £490 -10.91% 30
North of England -28 61 £450 -2.70% 27
South East -32 57 £515 -17.60% 19
North West -24 35 £447 -4.64% 16
East of England -11 25 £625 +28.21% 9
Midlands -60 21 £447 -3.35% 17
North East -3 19 £513 +52.99% 7
South West -29 16 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -33 15 £430 -7.08% 10
Yorkshire -47 9 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -54 6 £489 +5.94% 7
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 (6.05%) Confluence
2 14 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.16%) Mendix
3 12 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.89%) HCL Notes
5 8 (2.11%) Apache
6 6 (1.58%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.58%) 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 (0.53%) Camunda
9 2 (0.53%) JBoss
9 2 (0.53%) Mule
9 2 (0.53%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.53%) SAS
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
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 (3.95%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.32%) 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 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.53%) 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 PS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.53%) Azure
2 65 (17.11%) AWS
3 47 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.58%) GitHub
5 40 (10.53%) Serverless
6 27 (7.11%) OpenShift
7 23 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.53%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.26%) Azure Functions
10 18 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.74%) GCP
10 18 (4.74%) OCI
11 16 (4.21%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.95%) Power Automate
12 15 (3.95%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (3.42%) PaaS
14 12 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.79%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.47%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.84%) 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 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.84%) Oracle Database
3 24 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.47%) Power BI
6 14 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.11%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.58%) Redis
11 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.05%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.79%) Big Data
13 3 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 82 (21.58%) Git
2 57 (15.00%) JIRA
3 51 (13.42%) GitLab
4 36 (9.47%) Visual Studio
5 34 (8.95%) SonarQube
6 33 (8.68%) Jenkins
6 33 (8.68%) JUnit
7 20 (5.26%) Postman
8 17 (4.47%) Eclipse
9 14 (3.68%) Gradle
10 12 (3.16%) Maven
11 11 (2.89%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.89%) Selenium
12 9 (2.37%) Mockito
13 8 (2.11%) MSTest
13 8 (2.11%) PVCS
13 8 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
14 7 (1.84%) NUnit
15 6 (1.58%) MLflow
15 6 (1.58%) SoapUI
General
1 98 (25.79%) Finance
2 79 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.26%) Banking
4 37 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.53%) Military
7 14 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.89%) Electronics
8 11 (2.89%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.63%) Front Office
10 5 (1.32%) Legal
10 5 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.05%) Law
11 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.05%) Retail
12 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 196 (51.58%) Developer
2 55 (14.47%) Software Engineer
3 50 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 45 (11.84%) Senior
5 28 (7.37%) C# Developer
6 26 (6.84%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 15 (3.95%) .NET Developer
11 14 (3.68%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (3.68%) Consultant
11 14 (3.68%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.42%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.16%) Power Platform Developer
13 12 (3.16%) Salesforce Developer
14 11 (2.89%) Cloud Specialist
14 11 (2.89%) Integration Engineer
14 11 (2.89%) Integration Specialist
14 11 (2.89%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.42%) .NET
2 62 (16.32%) REST
3 56 (14.74%) RESTful
4 47 (12.37%) React
4 47 (12.37%) Spring
5 45 (11.84%) AngularJS
6 39 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 36 (9.47%) Web Services
8 33 (8.68%) Kafka
9 31 (8.16%) .NET Framework
10 30 (7.89%) Node.js
11 29 (7.63%) CSS
12 27 (7.11%) HTML
13 26 (6.84%) JSON
13 26 (6.84%) SOAP
14 25 (6.58%) Quarkus
15 23 (6.05%) XML
16 21 (5.53%) pytest
17 17 (4.47%) OAuth
18 16 (4.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.68%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.42%) Low-Code
6 11 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.32%) Life Science
11 5 (1.32%) NHS
12 3 (0.79%) CMDB
12 3 (0.79%) Derivative
12 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.79%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.63%) Windows
2 27 (7.11%) Linux
3 15 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.42%) Android
5 9 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.37%) Unix
6 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (51.05%) Agile
2 157 (41.32%) CI/CD
3 116 (30.53%) DevOps
4 96 (25.26%) Software Engineering
5 93 (24.47%) Test Automation
6 90 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (21.58%) Scrum
8 70 (18.42%) Microservices
9 63 (16.58%) TDD
10 57 (15.00%) SDLC
11 51 (13.42%) Code Quality
12 44 (11.58%) Integration Testing
13 41 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (10.79%) Validation
14 40 (10.53%) Containerisation
15 39 (10.26%) AI
16 38 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (9.74%) Sprint Planning
17 37 (9.74%) User Acceptance Testing
18 35 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 124 (32.63%) Java
2 118 (31.05%) SQL
3 103 (27.11%) C#
4 60 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 58 (15.26%) Python
6 34 (8.95%) C++
6 34 (8.95%) TypeScript
7 31 (8.16%) PL/SQL
8 26 (6.84%) T-SQL
9 16 (4.21%) C
10 13 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.89%) Formula Language
11 11 (2.89%) LotusScript
12 10 (2.63%) Apex Code
12 10 (2.63%) Scala
13 9 (2.37%) PowerShell
14 8 (2.11%) Swift
15 7 (1.84%) ABAP
15 7 (1.84%) Embedded C
15 7 (1.84%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 98 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 85 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.21%) Degree
4 20 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.58%) 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 (23.42%) QA
2 12 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.84%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.58%) SEPA
6 5 (1.32%) PSD2
7 4 (1.05%) HL7
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) GDPR
9 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (12.89%) Docker
2 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) OpenAM
3 2 (0.53%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.53%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 58 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.58%) Argo
3 15 (3.95%) Terraform
4 5 (1.32%) Grafana
5 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.53%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.26%) Ansible
8 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (21.32%) Oracle
2 61 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.05%) Red Hat
4 18 (4.74%) Citrix
4 18 (4.74%) Databricks
5 16 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.42%) SAP
7 11 (2.89%) Lotus
8 10 (2.63%) Google
8 10 (2.63%) IBM
8 10 (2.63%) Informatica
8 10 (2.63%) Kofax
9 8 (2.11%) ANSYS
9 8 (2.11%) VMware
10 7 (1.84%) Veracode
11 5 (1.32%) Pega
12 4 (1.05%) Brio
12 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.05%) Splunk
12 4 (1.05%) Workday