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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 150 183
Rank change year-on-year -101 +33 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 291 547 592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.66% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.93% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 343 391
10th Percentile £357 £387 £425
25th Percentile £384 £484 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £766 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 40 57
10th Percentile £63.13 £60.63 £48.09
25th Percentile - £62.19 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £87.94
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -100 126 £525 -4.55% 80
North of England +2 64 £421 -23.41% 37
North West +14 49 £460 -5.74% 22
Midlands -7 30 £463 -24.43% 36
East of England -19 27 £488 -11.36% 17
South East -30 21 £415 -33.60% 49
East Midlands +9 18 £441 -11.75% 13
Yorkshire -29 13 £390 -29.09% 9
West Midlands -11 12 £500 -18.30% 19
South West +5 6 £550 +10.00% 24
North East 0 2 £550 - 6
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.50%) Confluence
2 6 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) Camunda
3 4 (1.37%) JBoss
3 4 (1.37%) Mule
4 2 (0.69%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.69%) CICS
4 2 (0.69%) CMS
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.34%) Drupal
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) InVision
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.72%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.72%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.69%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.69%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.69%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.69%) SAP VC
6 1 (0.34%) Endur
6 1 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.56%) Azure
2 39 (13.40%) AWS
3 29 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.25%) GitHub
5 10 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (3.44%) Serverless
6 8 (2.75%) npm
7 7 (2.41%) GCP
7 7 (2.41%) Google Play
7 7 (2.41%) PaaS
8 6 (2.06%) Azure AKS
8 6 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.06%) OCI
8 6 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.72%) Firebase
9 5 (1.72%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.37%) IaaS
10 4 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.19%) Ethernet
1 18 (6.19%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.03%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.69%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.69%) X.509
4 1 (0.34%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 17 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.12%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.09%) Redis
7 7 (2.41%) Big Data
8 6 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.72%) DB2
9 5 (1.72%) MySQL
10 4 (1.37%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.03%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.03%) HBase
11 3 (1.03%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (35.05%) Git
2 44 (15.12%) JIRA
3 37 (12.71%) Jenkins
4 30 (10.31%) JUnit
5 27 (9.28%) Postman
6 22 (7.56%) SonarQube
7 20 (6.87%) Eclipse
8 19 (6.53%) Visual Studio
9 16 (5.50%) Xcode
10 14 (4.81%) Cypress.io
10 14 (4.81%) SpecFlow
11 13 (4.47%) Maven
12 11 (3.78%) Bitbucket
12 11 (3.78%) Gradle
12 11 (3.78%) Mockito
13 8 (2.75%) Selenium
13 8 (2.75%) Subversion
14 7 (2.41%) SoapUI
15 6 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
General
1 100 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.31%) Finance
3 46 (15.81%) Banking
4 35 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (6.53%) Military
8 13 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.06%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.72%) Front Office
12 5 (1.72%) Marketing
13 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.69%) Law
15 2 (0.69%) Legal
16 1 (0.34%) Back Office
16 1 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 142 (48.80%) Developer
2 51 (17.53%) Software Engineer
3 35 (12.03%) Senior
4 32 (11.00%) Java Developer
5 23 (7.90%) Senior Developer
6 21 (7.22%) C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (6.19%) C# Software Engineer
8 16 (5.50%) Android Developer
8 16 (5.50%) Angular Developer
9 14 (4.81%) Analyst
9 14 (4.81%) Consultant
9 14 (4.81%) Lead
10 13 (4.47%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.78%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.44%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.09%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.09%) iOS Developer
15 8 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
15 8 (2.75%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.18%) RESTful
2 47 (16.15%) HTML
3 46 (15.81%) .NET
4 45 (15.46%) Node.js
4 45 (15.46%) Web Services
5 44 (15.12%) CSS
6 42 (14.43%) React
6 42 (14.43%) REST
7 38 (13.06%) Spring
8 37 (12.71%) AngularJS
9 34 (11.68%) Spring Boot
10 25 (8.59%) Kafka
11 21 (7.22%) .NET Framework
12 20 (6.87%) HTML5
13 19 (6.53%) CSS3
14 18 (6.19%) Entity Framework
14 18 (6.19%) Jest
14 18 (6.19%) JSON
14 18 (6.19%) Playwright
15 16 (5.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Mobile App
2 16 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.47%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.75%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.75%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (2.06%) FPGA
5 6 (2.06%) PCIe
5 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.06%) State Machine
6 5 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
6 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
7 4 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.37%) PKI
7 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.56%) Linux
2 37 (12.71%) Windows
3 33 (11.34%) Android
4 24 (8.25%) Apple iOS
5 18 (6.19%) Unix
6 6 (2.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.03%) VMS
8 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.34%) tvOS
9 1 (0.34%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.11%) Agile
2 115 (39.52%) CI/CD
3 83 (28.52%) TDD
4 77 (26.46%) DevOps
5 74 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (23.02%) Software Engineering
7 66 (22.68%) Test Automation
8 60 (20.62%) Microservices
8 60 (20.62%) Scrum
9 40 (13.75%) Mentoring
10 39 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
11 37 (12.71%) Integration Testing
12 35 (12.03%) Clean Code
13 34 (11.68%) Front End Development
14 32 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
15 31 (10.65%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (10.31%) Validation
17 29 (9.97%) User Experience
18 26 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 87 (29.90%) Java
2 73 (25.09%) JavaScript
3 69 (23.71%) C#
4 67 (23.02%) SQL
5 51 (17.53%) Python
6 48 (16.49%) C++
7 27 (9.28%) Kotlin
8 19 (6.53%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.47%) Swift
10 11 (3.78%) Scala
11 9 (3.09%) C
11 9 (3.09%) Objective-C
11 9 (3.09%) PL/SQL
11 9 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.41%) Ruby
12 7 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.06%) Groovy
13 6 (2.06%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.37%) Bash
14 4 (1.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 44 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.43%) Degree
3 36 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.03%) MCPD
7 3 (1.03%) MCSD
7 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.37%) QA
2 22 (7.56%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.06%) SLA
5 5 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.72%) PSD2
5 5 (1.72%) SEPA
5 5 (1.72%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.34%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 42 (14.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) HDFS
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.47%) Terraform
3 7 (2.41%) Ansible
4 3 (1.03%) Control-M
4 3 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (1.03%) Oozie
4 3 (1.03%) Podman
4 3 (1.03%) SELinux
4 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) Cilium
5 2 (0.69%) Rsyslog
5 2 (0.69%) SCOM
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) OPNET
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (13.06%) Oracle
2 34 (11.68%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.15%) SAP
4 12 (4.12%) Google
5 10 (3.44%) Splunk
6 8 (2.75%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (2.75%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.41%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.06%) Perforce
9 5 (1.72%) OpenText
10 4 (1.37%) Databricks
10 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.03%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.03%) IBM
11 3 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.69%) Sybase
12 2 (0.69%) Thunderhead