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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 253 178
Rank change year-on-year -28 -75 +15
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 378 266 514
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.14% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 177 341
10th Percentile £300 £331 £375
25th Percentile £414 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £638
90th Percentile £668 £756 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 16 54
10th Percentile £60.00 £56.88 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £66.00 -
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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -49 197 £500 -5.21% 31
South East -17 67 £513 -4.65% 16
North of England -39 63 £460 +15.51% 27
North West -35 32 £450 +12.99% 17
North East -14 24 £511 +52.61% 7
South West -23 16 £500 -9.09% 18
East of England -24 16 £626 +33.44% 6
Midlands -64 15 £489 +6.22% 10
East Midlands -22 9 £470 +6.52% 4
Yorkshire -46 7 £519 -13.50% 3
West Midlands -53 6 £519 +12.89% 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 15 (3.97%) Confluence
2 7 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.59%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.59%) Hyperledger
3 6 (1.59%) Mendix
3 6 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.32%) IIS
5 4 (1.06%) HCL Notes
5 4 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.53%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.32%) SAP Payroll
4 4 (1.06%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 85 (22.49%) Azure
2 50 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (11.90%) AWS
4 39 (10.32%) GitHub
5 37 (9.79%) OpenShift
6 28 (7.41%) Serverless
7 17 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.23%) Power Platform
9 15 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.17%) Azure Functions
10 12 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.65%) OCI
13 9 (2.38%) GCP
14 8 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.23%) Ethernet
1 16 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.65%) Internet
3 7 (1.85%) 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 2 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (14.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.03%) Oracle Database
3 18 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.97%) Data Lake
5 15 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.91%) Power BI
8 10 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.32%) Redis
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.06%) Metadata
12 4 (1.06%) MySQL
12 4 (1.06%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.79%) Aerospike
13 3 (0.79%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 79 (20.90%) Git
2 43 (11.38%) SonarQube
3 40 (10.58%) GitLab
3 40 (10.58%) JIRA
4 36 (9.52%) Visual Studio
5 32 (8.47%) Jenkins
6 31 (8.20%) JUnit
7 17 (4.50%) Eclipse
8 15 (3.97%) Gradle
9 14 (3.70%) Selenium
10 12 (3.17%) Maven
11 11 (2.91%) MSTest
11 11 (2.91%) NUnit
12 10 (2.65%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.65%) Postman
13 8 (2.12%) Mockito
14 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.85%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.32%) JSUnit
15 5 (1.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 78 (20.63%) Finance
2 73 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 49 (12.96%) Banking
4 46 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.50%) Military
7 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.59%) Front Office
9 5 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.32%) Retail
10 4 (1.06%) Electronics
10 4 (1.06%) Marketing
11 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 185 (48.94%) Developer
2 59 (15.61%) Senior
3 48 (12.70%) Software Engineer
4 43 (11.38%) Java Developer
5 31 (8.20%) C# Developer
6 29 (7.67%) Java Engineer
7 24 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 22 (5.82%) .NET Developer
9 20 (5.29%) Consultant
10 18 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.23%) Lead
12 13 (3.44%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (2.91%) C++ Software Engineer
14 11 (2.91%) Python Developer
15 10 (2.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.65%) Salesforce Developer
16 9 (2.38%) C# .NET Developer
16 9 (2.38%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (21.43%) .NET
2 65 (17.20%) RESTful
3 57 (15.08%) AngularJS
3 57 (15.08%) REST
4 44 (11.64%) .NET Framework
5 41 (10.85%) React
6 40 (10.58%) Spring
7 35 (9.26%) Quarkus
7 35 (9.26%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.94%) CSS
9 28 (7.41%) Web Services
10 27 (7.14%) HTML
10 27 (7.14%) Node.js
11 26 (6.88%) Kafka
12 25 (6.61%) JSON
12 25 (6.61%) SOAP
13 21 (5.56%) pytest
13 21 (5.56%) XML
14 18 (4.76%) Entity Framework
15 15 (3.97%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.12%) CMDB
7 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.79%) Equities
12 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.90%) Windows
2 22 (5.82%) Linux
3 15 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.85%) Unix
6 6 (1.59%) Android
7 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (49.74%) Agile
2 160 (42.33%) CI/CD
3 119 (31.48%) DevOps
4 102 (26.98%) Software Engineering
5 97 (25.66%) Scrum
6 93 (24.60%) Test Automation
7 71 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (18.25%) SDLC
8 69 (18.25%) TDD
9 65 (17.20%) Microservices
10 56 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
11 49 (12.96%) Validation
12 48 (12.70%) Integration Testing
13 45 (11.90%) AI
14 44 (11.64%) Sprint Planning
15 43 (11.38%) Code Quality
15 43 (11.38%) Front End Development
16 40 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (10.05%) Sprint Review
18 36 (9.52%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 117 (30.95%) SQL
2 112 (29.63%) Java
3 110 (29.10%) C#
4 61 (16.14%) JavaScript
5 58 (15.34%) Python
6 38 (10.05%) TypeScript
7 31 (8.20%) PL/SQL
8 27 (7.14%) T-SQL
9 25 (6.61%) C++
10 10 (2.65%) C
10 10 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.38%) Scala
11 9 (2.38%) Swift
12 8 (2.12%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.59%) ABAP
13 6 (1.59%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.32%) Bicep
15 4 (1.06%) Formula Language
15 4 (1.06%) LotusScript
15 4 (1.06%) X++
Qualifications
1 102 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.47%) Degree
4 19 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.53%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (26.46%) QA
2 12 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.32%) WCAG
5 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.79%) SEPA
7 2 (0.53%) Basel III
7 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (19.31%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.26%) Argo
3 13 (3.44%) Terraform
4 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.53%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 62 (16.40%) Oracle
3 33 (8.73%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.50%) Citrix
5 14 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.44%) SAP
7 12 (3.17%) Informatica
8 9 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.85%) Veracode
10 6 (1.59%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.59%) Databricks
10 6 (1.59%) Pega
10 6 (1.59%) Splunk
11 5 (1.32%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.06%) Kofax
12 4 (1.06%) Lotus
12 4 (1.06%) Workday
13 3 (0.79%) Google
13 3 (0.79%) HP
13 3 (0.79%) IBM