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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 221 201
Rank change year-on-year -31 -20 -21
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 387 302 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.24% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.36% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 193 269
10th Percentile £357 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £591 £663 £663
90th Percentile £688 £738 £708
UK median daily rate £489 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -10.22% +3.81% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 10 46
10th Percentile £55.00 £45.38 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.56 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £71.33 £65.00 £65.88
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 33,547 22,212 32,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 91.02% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,492 14,606 21,309
10th Percentile £314 £311 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 881 2,207
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -29 213 £495 -10.00% 31
North of England -34 58 £450 -2.70% 28
South East -34 55 £515 -17.60% 21
North West -18 34 £447 -4.64% 16
East of England -14 25 £613 - 6
Midlands -62 21 £447 -3.35% 17
North East -3 17 £513 +52.99% 7
South West -19 16 £500 -16.67% 6
East Midlands -31 15 £430 -7.08% 10
Yorkshire -47 9 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands -55 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 24 (6.20%) Confluence
2 14 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.10%) Mendix
3 12 (3.10%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.84%) HCL Notes
5 8 (2.07%) Apache
6 6 (1.55%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.55%) Hyperledger
7 5 (1.29%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.78%) IIS
9 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.78%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.52%) CMS
10 2 (0.52%) JBoss
10 2 (0.52%) Mule
10 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (4.13%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.03%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.03%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.78%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.78%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.78%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.78%) 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 PS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 83 (21.45%) Azure
2 69 (17.83%) AWS
3 49 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (11.89%) GitHub
5 40 (10.34%) Serverless
6 26 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 24 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (6.20%) OpenShift
8 20 (5.17%) Azure Functions
8 20 (5.17%) OCI
9 18 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.65%) GCP
10 16 (4.13%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.88%) PaaS
11 15 (3.88%) Power Automate
11 15 (3.88%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.39%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.81%) HTTP
4 3 (0.78%) DSL
4 3 (0.78%) Modbus
4 3 (0.78%) RS-232
4 3 (0.78%) RS-422
4 3 (0.78%) RS-485
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.72%) Oracle Database
3 24 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.43%) Power BI
5 20 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.62%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.36%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.58%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.07%) Aerospike
10 8 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.55%) Redis
12 5 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.03%) MySQL
13 4 (1.03%) SAP HANA
13 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 87 (22.48%) Git
2 58 (14.99%) JIRA
3 49 (12.66%) GitLab
4 37 (9.56%) Visual Studio
5 34 (8.79%) Jenkins
6 33 (8.53%) JUnit
7 32 (8.27%) SonarQube
8 22 (5.68%) Postman
9 17 (4.39%) Eclipse
10 15 (3.88%) Gradle
11 12 (3.10%) Maven
11 12 (3.10%) Selenium
12 11 (2.84%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.33%) Mockito
13 9 (2.33%) MSTest
14 8 (2.07%) PVCS
14 8 (2.07%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (1.81%) fastlane
15 7 (1.81%) NUnit
16 6 (1.55%) MLflow
General
1 99 (25.58%) Finance
2 81 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.34%) Banking
5 38 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.43%) Military
7 14 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.84%) Electronics
8 11 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.58%) Front Office
10 5 (1.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.03%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.03%) Law
11 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 202 (52.20%) Developer
2 55 (14.21%) Software Engineer
3 49 (12.66%) Java Developer
3 49 (12.66%) Senior
4 29 (7.49%) Senior Developer
5 28 (7.24%) C# Developer
6 23 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 20 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (4.91%) Java Engineer
8 19 (4.91%) Python Developer
9 16 (4.13%) .NET Developer
10 15 (3.88%) Consultant
11 14 (3.62%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (3.36%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.10%) Cloud Specialist
13 12 (3.10%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.10%) Integration Specialist
13 12 (3.10%) Oracle Specialist
13 12 (3.10%) Power Platform Developer
13 12 (3.10%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (18.60%) .NET
2 69 (17.83%) REST
3 56 (14.47%) RESTful
4 50 (12.92%) React
5 47 (12.14%) Spring
6 44 (11.37%) AngularJS
7 42 (10.85%) Web Services
8 39 (10.08%) Spring Boot
9 33 (8.53%) Kafka
10 32 (8.27%) .NET Framework
11 31 (8.01%) CSS
11 31 (8.01%) Node.js
12 29 (7.49%) HTML
12 29 (7.49%) SOAP
13 28 (7.24%) JSON
14 26 (6.72%) XML
15 23 (5.94%) Quarkus
16 21 (5.43%) pytest
17 18 (4.65%) OAuth
17 18 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.39%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.36%) Low-Code
6 12 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.29%) Life Science
12 5 (1.29%) NHS
13 4 (1.03%) CMDB
14 3 (0.78%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.40%) Windows
2 27 (6.98%) Linux
3 15 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.62%) Android
5 10 (2.58%) Apple iOS
6 9 (2.33%) Unix
7 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (51.16%) Agile
2 161 (41.60%) CI/CD
3 120 (31.01%) DevOps
4 96 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (24.29%) Software Engineering
5 94 (24.29%) Test Automation
6 80 (20.67%) Scrum
7 71 (18.35%) Microservices
8 63 (16.28%) TDD
9 56 (14.47%) SDLC
10 52 (13.44%) Code Quality
11 42 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (10.85%) Integration Testing
12 41 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.34%) AI
13 40 (10.34%) Validation
14 39 (10.08%) Containerisation
15 37 (9.56%) User Acceptance Testing
16 36 (9.30%) Analytics
16 36 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.78%) Java
2 122 (31.52%) SQL
3 103 (26.61%) C#
4 64 (16.54%) Python
5 63 (16.28%) JavaScript
6 35 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.79%) C++
8 31 (8.01%) PL/SQL
9 26 (6.72%) T-SQL
10 17 (4.39%) C
11 14 (3.62%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.84%) Formula Language
12 11 (2.84%) LotusScript
13 10 (2.58%) Apex Code
13 10 (2.58%) Scala
14 9 (2.33%) PowerShell
14 9 (2.33%) Swift
15 7 (1.81%) ABAP
15 7 (1.81%) Embedded C
15 7 (1.81%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 98 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 84 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.30%) Degree
4 20 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.81%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (22.48%) QA
2 12 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.81%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.55%) SEPA
6 5 (1.29%) PSD2
7 4 (1.03%) HL7
8 3 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.78%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (12.66%) Docker
2 9 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.52%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.52%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.52%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 55 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.94%) Argo
3 15 (3.88%) Terraform
4 5 (1.29%) Grafana
4 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.78%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.26%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 83 (21.45%) Oracle
2 61 (15.76%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.43%) Red Hat
4 18 (4.65%) Citrix
4 18 (4.65%) Databricks
5 16 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.36%) SAP
7 12 (3.10%) Google
8 11 (2.84%) Lotus
9 10 (2.58%) IBM
9 10 (2.58%) Informatica
9 10 (2.58%) Kofax
10 9 (2.33%) VMware
11 8 (2.07%) ANSYS
12 7 (1.81%) Veracode
13 5 (1.29%) Pega
13 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.03%) Brio
14 4 (1.03%) Dataiku
14 4 (1.03%) Splunk