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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 222 191
Rank change year-on-year -40 -31 -12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 377 273 472
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.11% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.22% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 182 293
10th Percentile £348 £363 £375
25th Percentile £415 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £548 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +0.46% -6.76%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £650
90th Percentile £675 £749 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -9.52% -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 9 53
10th Percentile £59.10 £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 - - -
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 34,470 22,336 31,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,971 14,617 20,828
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 942 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -37 192 £475 -13.64% 25
South East -27 64 £515 -14.17% 15
North of England -25 60 £450 +2.86% 17
North West -22 34 £447 -3.35% 7
East of England -10 25 £625 +28.21% 13
Midlands -60 21 £447 -3.35% 16
North East +1 20 £513 +52.99% 7
South West -26 17 £500 -18.37% 12
East Midlands -31 15 £430 -7.08% 9
Yorkshire -45 8 £500 -16.67% 3
West Midlands -57 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 19 (5.04%) Confluence
2 12 (3.18%) Mendix
3 11 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.65%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.86%) Apache
6 6 (1.59%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.59%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.06%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.80%) IIS
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.80%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.53%) Camunda
9 2 (0.53%) CMS
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 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (3.71%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.06%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.80%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.80%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.80%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.80%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (20.95%) Azure
2 61 (16.18%) AWS
3 50 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (11.41%) GitHub
5 39 (10.34%) Serverless
6 29 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 23 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.77%) Azure Functions
10 18 (4.77%) OCI
11 16 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.98%) Power Automate
12 15 (3.98%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.45%) PaaS
14 12 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (3.18%) GCP
15 11 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.10%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.04%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.86%) HTTP
4 3 (0.80%) DSL
4 3 (0.80%) Modbus
4 3 (0.80%) RS-232
4 3 (0.80%) RS-422
4 3 (0.80%) RS-485
5 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.63%) Oracle Database
3 22 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.24%) Data Lake
6 14 (3.71%) Power BI
7 13 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.92%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.65%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.12%) Aerospike
11 7 (1.86%) Redis
12 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (1.06%) SAP HANA
15 3 (0.80%) Big Data
15 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.80%) MySQL
15 3 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 80 (21.22%) Git
2 55 (14.59%) JIRA
3 52 (13.79%) GitLab
4 38 (10.08%) Visual Studio
5 36 (9.55%) SonarQube
6 34 (9.02%) Jenkins
7 32 (8.49%) JUnit
8 19 (5.04%) Eclipse
8 19 (5.04%) Postman
9 14 (3.71%) Gradle
10 13 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.45%) Selenium
11 11 (2.92%) MSTest
12 10 (2.65%) Maven
13 9 (2.39%) Mockito
13 9 (2.39%) NUnit
14 8 (2.12%) PVCS
14 8 (2.12%) Rational DOORS
15 6 (1.59%) MLflow
15 6 (1.59%) SoapUI
General
1 91 (24.14%) Finance
2 76 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.08%) Banking
5 33 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.10%) Military
7 14 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.92%) Electronics
8 11 (2.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.33%) Front Office
10 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.06%) Law
10 4 (1.06%) Retail
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Marketing
11 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 183 (48.54%) Developer
2 59 (15.65%) Software Engineer
3 46 (12.20%) Senior
4 44 (11.67%) Java Developer
5 26 (6.90%) C# Developer
6 25 (6.63%) Java Engineer
6 25 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.24%) C++ Software Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) .NET Developer
10 15 (3.98%) C# Software Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) Consultant
11 12 (3.18%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.92%) Cloud Specialist
12 11 (2.92%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (2.92%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.92%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (2.92%) Power Platform Developer
12 11 (2.92%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.57%) .NET
2 62 (16.45%) REST
3 61 (16.18%) RESTful
4 46 (12.20%) Spring
5 44 (11.67%) AngularJS
6 42 (11.14%) React
7 39 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 38 (10.08%) Web Services
9 35 (9.28%) .NET Framework
10 33 (8.75%) Kafka
11 31 (8.22%) Node.js
12 30 (7.96%) CSS
13 28 (7.43%) HTML
13 28 (7.43%) SOAP
14 27 (7.16%) JSON
14 27 (7.16%) Quarkus
15 25 (6.63%) XML
16 19 (5.04%) OAuth
17 18 (4.77%) pytest
18 16 (4.24%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.71%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.86%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.80%) CMDB
10 3 (0.80%) Derivative
10 3 (0.80%) Equities
10 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.80%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.73%) Windows
2 28 (7.43%) Linux
3 14 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.39%) Android
4 9 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (48.28%) Agile
2 154 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 118 (31.30%) DevOps
4 98 (25.99%) Software Engineering
5 94 (24.93%) Test Automation
6 87 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (20.95%) Scrum
8 68 (18.04%) Microservices
9 64 (16.98%) TDD
10 60 (15.92%) SDLC
11 50 (13.26%) Integration Testing
12 49 (13.00%) Code Quality
13 47 (12.47%) Validation
14 41 (10.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 40 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (10.34%) AI
17 37 (9.81%) Clean Code
18 36 (9.55%) Containerisation
18 36 (9.55%) Front End Development
18 36 (9.55%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.10%) Java
2 120 (31.83%) SQL
3 106 (28.12%) C#
4 66 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 56 (14.85%) Python
6 36 (9.55%) C++
7 32 (8.49%) TypeScript
8 29 (7.69%) PL/SQL
9 27 (7.16%) T-SQL
10 16 (4.24%) C
11 10 (2.65%) Formula Language
11 10 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.65%) LotusScript
12 9 (2.39%) Apex Code
12 9 (2.39%) Scala
13 8 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.12%) Swift
14 7 (1.86%) ABAP
14 7 (1.86%) Embedded C
14 7 (1.86%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 102 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.22%) Degree
4 18 (4.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.27%) ACCA
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) CIMA
6 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (24.67%) QA
2 14 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.86%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.59%) SEPA
6 5 (1.33%) PSD2
7 4 (1.06%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) GDPR
8 2 (0.53%) HL7
8 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 47 (12.47%) Docker
2 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) OpenAM
3 2 (0.53%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.53%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 60 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.16%) Argo
3 14 (3.71%) Terraform
4 4 (1.06%) Grafana
4 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (20.16%) Oracle
2 64 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.63%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.51%) Citrix
5 16 (4.24%) Databricks
6 15 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.71%) SAP
8 13 (3.45%) Informatica
9 10 (2.65%) IBM
9 10 (2.65%) Kofax
9 10 (2.65%) Lotus
10 8 (2.12%) ANSYS
10 8 (2.12%) VMware
11 7 (1.86%) Veracode
12 6 (1.59%) Google
13 5 (1.33%) Pega
14 4 (1.06%) Avaloq
14 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.06%) Splunk
15 3 (0.80%) Sybase