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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 253 151
Rank change year-on-year -72 -102 +23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 356 295 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.06% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.17% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 191 338
10th Percentile £283 £356 £382
25th Percentile £395 £385 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £593 £630 £650
90th Percentile £683 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 38
10th Percentile £46.05 - £59.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -43 178 £500 -4.76% 132
North of England -79 65 £461 +9.50% 55
South East -30 49 £528 +27.11% 43
Midlands -38 31 £500 +8.11% 36
North East -12 29 £425 -22.73% 9
West Midlands -30 28 £500 -2.91% 18
North West -72 25 £463 +0.65% 37
East of England -34 19 £619 +26.92% 26
South West -33 12 £500 -9.09% 29
Yorkshire -45 11 £447 +14.62% 10
East Midlands -32 3 £568 +28.61% 18
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 6 (1.69%) Confluence
1 6 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.12%) SAS
3 3 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.56%) Traefik
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.28%) Mendix
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.84%) Trello
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 19 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.12%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.84%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.84%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.56%) HFM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 87 (24.44%) Azure
2 57 (16.01%) AWS
3 41 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (10.39%) GitHub
5 33 (9.27%) Power Platform
6 29 (8.15%) OpenShift
7 20 (5.62%) GCP
8 18 (5.06%) PowerApps
8 18 (5.06%) Serverless
9 15 (4.21%) Power Automate
10 14 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.53%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.49%) Internet
2 13 (3.65%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.37%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.56%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) DSL
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.80%) SQL Server
2 26 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.90%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.78%) MySQL
6 15 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.37%) Power BI
8 10 (2.81%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.97%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.97%) Redis
11 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.40%) Metadata
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.12%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 94 (26.40%) Git
2 36 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.99%) SonarQube
4 29 (8.15%) GitLab
5 27 (7.58%) JIRA
5 27 (7.58%) JUnit
5 27 (7.58%) Visual Studio
6 18 (5.06%) Gradle
6 18 (5.06%) Maven
7 15 (4.21%) Selenium
8 14 (3.93%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.93%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.81%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.53%) NUnit
11 8 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.97%) Mockito
12 7 (1.97%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.69%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.69%) Gatling
13 6 (1.69%) MSTest
General
1 114 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.51%) Finance
3 59 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.33%) Banking
5 37 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.65%) Military
7 10 (2.81%) Front Office
8 9 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.25%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.97%) Retail
11 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.12%) Billing
12 4 (1.12%) Legal
13 3 (0.84%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.84%) Law
13 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 165 (46.35%) Developer
2 67 (18.82%) Senior
3 37 (10.39%) Software Engineer
4 32 (8.99%) Java Developer
5 28 (7.87%) Java Engineer
6 27 (7.58%) Consultant
7 25 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.46%) C# Developer
9 22 (6.18%) Lead
10 16 (4.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 15 (4.21%) SAP Consultant
12 14 (3.93%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.65%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (3.09%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.09%) Software Developer
15 10 (2.81%) Architect
15 10 (2.81%) C# Software Engineer
15 10 (2.81%) Data Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 9 (2.53%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (19.66%) .NET
2 63 (17.70%) REST
3 53 (14.89%) RESTful
4 44 (12.36%) Spring
5 43 (12.08%) AngularJS
5 43 (12.08%) Web Services
6 37 (10.39%) React
7 35 (9.83%) Spring Boot
8 32 (8.99%) Node.js
9 31 (8.71%) pytest
9 31 (8.71%) SOAP
10 28 (7.87%) .NET Framework
11 27 (7.58%) HTML
12 26 (7.30%) Quarkus
13 24 (6.74%) CSS
14 23 (6.46%) JSON
15 21 (5.90%) Terraform
16 20 (5.62%) XML
17 18 (5.06%) Kafka
17 18 (5.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.62%) Data Structures
4 18 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.40%) CMDB
8 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.84%) IoT
10 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.83%) Linux
2 28 (7.87%) Windows
3 11 (3.09%) Unix
4 9 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (50.28%) Agile
2 155 (43.54%) CI/CD
3 113 (31.74%) DevOps
4 100 (28.09%) Software Engineering
5 99 (27.81%) Test Automation
6 92 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (25.56%) Integration Testing
8 90 (25.28%) Scrum
9 78 (21.91%) User Acceptance Testing
10 72 (20.22%) SDLC
10 72 (20.22%) TDD
11 61 (17.13%) Microservices
12 60 (16.85%) AI
13 59 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (14.61%) Validation
15 51 (14.33%) Clean Code
16 47 (13.20%) Code Quality
17 41 (11.52%) Front End Development
17 41 (11.52%) Sprint Planning
18 40 (11.24%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.34%) SQL
2 92 (25.84%) C#
2 92 (25.84%) Java
3 72 (20.22%) JavaScript
4 61 (17.13%) Python
5 29 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 18 (5.06%) C++
7 17 (4.78%) T-SQL
8 14 (3.93%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.37%) Bash
10 8 (2.25%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.97%) ABAP
11 7 (1.97%) C
11 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.69%) Scala
12 6 (1.69%) X++
13 5 (1.40%) Go
13 5 (1.40%) XAML
14 4 (1.12%) Swift
15 3 (0.84%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 109 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 84 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.39%) Degree
4 17 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.12%) PhD
9 3 (0.84%) ACCA
9 3 (0.84%) CIMA
9 3 (0.84%) CISSP
9 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CISA
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (23.03%) QA
2 13 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.53%) WCAG
5 3 (0.84%) Basel III
5 3 (0.84%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (19.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 83 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.30%) Argo
3 4 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.84%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 61 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.52%) Oracle
3 27 (7.58%) SAP
4 26 (7.30%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.81%) Google
7 9 (2.53%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.25%) Citrix
8 8 (2.25%) Pega
8 8 (2.25%) UiPath
9 6 (1.69%) Splunk
10 5 (1.40%) Databricks
10 5 (1.40%) Informatica
10 5 (1.40%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.12%) VMware
11 4 (1.12%) Workday
12 3 (0.84%) webMethods
13 2 (0.56%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.56%) JDA