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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 256 169
Rank change year-on-year -29 -87 +26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 365 249 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.02% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.11% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 169 332
10th Percentile £313 £338 £375
25th Percentile £415 £404 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year - -8.68% -5.19%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £638
90th Percentile £668 £753 £688
UK median daily rate £496 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.42% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 51
10th Percentile £60.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -42 188 £490 -7.55% 18
South East -23 65 £514 +2.75% 16
North of England -35 60 £460 +19.79% 19
North West -20 30 £450 +17.19% 9
North East -14 24 £511 +52.61% 5
East of England -15 16 £626 +33.44% 8
South West -18 16 £500 -13.04% 7
Midlands -62 16 £459 -0.86% 12
East Midlands -23 11 £447 -3.35% 6
Yorkshire -47 6 £510 -15.08% 5
West Midlands -56 5 £489 +6.22% 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 8 (2.19%) Mendix
2 8 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.64%) Apache
4 6 (1.64%) Ethereum
4 6 (1.64%) HCL Notes
4 6 (1.64%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.10%) IIS
5 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) Camunda
7 2 (0.55%) CMS
7 2 (0.55%) JBoss
7 2 (0.55%) Mule
7 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
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 10 (2.74%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.10%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.82%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
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
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 83 (22.74%) Azure
2 51 (13.97%) AWS
3 50 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (11.23%) GitHub
5 37 (10.14%) OpenShift
6 31 (8.49%) Serverless
7 21 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (4.66%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.84%) Azure Functions
10 14 (3.84%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.56%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.29%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (3.29%) OCI
13 9 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (2.47%) GCP
14 8 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.93%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.38%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.92%) HTTP
3 7 (1.92%) Internet
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%) Intranet
5 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.97%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.48%) Oracle Database
2 20 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.66%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.84%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.56%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.56%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.01%) Power BI
8 8 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.92%) Redis
10 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.37%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.10%) MySQL
12 4 (1.10%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.82%) Metadata
13 3 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (20.55%) Git
2 44 (12.05%) JIRA
3 43 (11.78%) GitLab
3 43 (11.78%) SonarQube
4 35 (9.59%) Visual Studio
5 29 (7.95%) JUnit
6 26 (7.12%) Jenkins
7 17 (4.66%) Eclipse
8 14 (3.84%) Selenium
9 13 (3.56%) Gradle
10 12 (3.29%) Postman
11 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
11 11 (3.01%) MSTest
11 11 (3.01%) NUnit
12 10 (2.74%) Maven
13 8 (2.19%) Mockito
14 6 (1.64%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.64%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.37%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (21.10%) Finance
2 68 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 45 (12.33%) Banking
4 43 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.93%) Military
7 10 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.64%) Electronics
9 6 (1.64%) Front Office
9 6 (1.64%) Retail
10 3 (0.82%) Marketing
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.55%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (49.04%) Developer
2 52 (14.25%) Software Engineer
3 51 (13.97%) Senior
4 43 (11.78%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.40%) C# Developer
6 25 (6.85%) Java Engineer
7 23 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.21%) .NET Developer
9 18 (4.93%) Data Engineer
9 18 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.66%) Consultant
11 14 (3.84%) Lead
12 13 (3.56%) C# Software Engineer
12 13 (3.56%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Python Developer
15 10 (2.74%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (2.74%) Salesforce Developer
16 9 (2.47%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (2.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (21.37%) .NET
2 60 (16.44%) RESTful
3 58 (15.89%) REST
4 56 (15.34%) AngularJS
5 40 (10.96%) .NET Framework
6 35 (9.59%) Quarkus
6 35 (9.59%) React
6 35 (9.59%) Spring
7 31 (8.49%) Spring Boot
8 29 (7.95%) CSS
9 28 (7.67%) Kafka
10 27 (7.40%) Web Services
11 26 (7.12%) HTML
11 26 (7.12%) JSON
11 26 (7.12%) SOAP
12 22 (6.03%) pytest
13 21 (5.75%) Node.js
13 21 (5.75%) XML
14 16 (4.38%) Entity Framework
15 15 (4.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.01%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.37%) CMDB
9 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.82%) Equities
11 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.33%) Windows
2 24 (6.58%) Linux
3 15 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.92%) Android
6 5 (1.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (49.86%) Agile
2 154 (42.19%) CI/CD
3 113 (30.96%) DevOps
4 100 (27.40%) Software Engineering
5 94 (25.75%) Scrum
6 90 (24.66%) Test Automation
7 73 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (18.08%) SDLC
9 63 (17.26%) Microservices
10 60 (16.44%) TDD
11 50 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
12 49 (13.42%) Validation
13 45 (12.33%) Sprint Planning
14 44 (12.05%) Integration Testing
15 43 (11.78%) AI
15 43 (11.78%) Front End Development
16 41 (11.23%) Code Quality
17 39 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (10.41%) Sprint Review
19 36 (9.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 114 (31.23%) SQL
2 112 (30.68%) Java
3 109 (29.86%) C#
4 63 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 57 (15.62%) Python
6 30 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.67%) C++
7 28 (7.67%) PL/SQL
8 26 (7.12%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.29%) C
10 9 (2.47%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.47%) Scala
10 9 (2.47%) Swift
11 8 (2.19%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.92%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.64%) Formula Language
13 6 (1.64%) LotusScript
14 5 (1.37%) Bicep
14 5 (1.37%) X++
15 4 (1.10%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 100 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 82 (22.47%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.77%) Degree
4 19 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.64%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ACCA
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CIMA
8 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (26.85%) QA
2 11 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.10%) WCAG
5 3 (0.82%) SEPA
6 2 (0.55%) Basel III
6 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 72 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.59%) Argo
3 14 (3.84%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
4 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (17.81%) Oracle
2 60 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 33 (9.04%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.66%) Citrix
5 14 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.56%) Informatica
7 12 (3.29%) SAP
8 8 (2.19%) Databricks
9 7 (1.92%) Pega
9 7 (1.92%) Veracode
10 6 (1.64%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.64%) Kofax
10 6 (1.64%) Lotus
10 6 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.37%) IBM
12 4 (1.10%) Splunk
13 3 (0.82%) ANSYS
13 3 (0.82%) HP
13 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.82%) Sybase