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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 257 175
Rank change year-on-year -17 -82 +13
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 357 245 503
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.01% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.11% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 165 324
10th Percentile £313 £346 £375
25th Percentile £415 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £670 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £532
% change year-on-year +3.16% -10.63% -7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 11 52
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 £72.65 - -
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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -48 188 £490 -8.07% 43
South East -16 60 £514 +12.30% 21
North of England -38 56 £450 +14.29% 31
North West -24 33 £450 +14.29% 18
North East -12 18 £481 +43.66% 9
East of England -16 18 £625 +33.33% 12
Midlands -52 17 £450 -2.70% 19
South West -19 16 £500 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -24 12 £449 -3.03% 10
Yorkshire -57 7 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -54 5 £489 +5.94% 9
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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 10 (2.80%) Mendix
2 10 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.24%) HCL Notes
4 7 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.68%) Apache
5 6 (1.68%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.68%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.12%) IIS
6 4 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.56%) Camunda
8 2 (0.56%) CMS
8 2 (0.56%) JBoss
8 2 (0.56%) Mule
8 2 (0.56%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.56%) SAS
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.12%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.84%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (22.97%) Azure
2 53 (14.85%) AWS
3 51 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (11.48%) GitHub
5 31 (8.68%) Serverless
6 28 (7.84%) OpenShift
7 21 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.48%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.20%) OCI
10 14 (3.92%) Azure Functions
10 14 (3.92%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.64%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.36%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.80%) GCP
14 9 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (2.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.48%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.96%) HTTP
4 5 (1.40%) Internet
5 3 (0.84%) DSL
5 3 (0.84%) Modbus
5 3 (0.84%) RS-232
5 3 (0.84%) RS-422
5 3 (0.84%) RS-485
6 1 (0.28%) Intranet
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.16%) Oracle Database
3 19 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.64%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.08%) Power BI
9 8 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.68%) Redis
11 5 (1.40%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.12%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.84%) Metadata
13 3 (0.84%) MySQL
13 3 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (21.01%) Git
2 46 (12.89%) GitLab
3 45 (12.61%) JIRA
4 34 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 33 (9.24%) Visual Studio
6 29 (8.12%) JUnit
7 27 (7.56%) Jenkins
8 17 (4.76%) Eclipse
9 14 (3.92%) Gradle
9 14 (3.92%) Postman
9 14 (3.92%) Selenium
10 11 (3.08%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.08%) MSTest
10 11 (3.08%) NUnit
11 10 (2.80%) Maven
12 8 (2.24%) Mockito
13 7 (1.96%) SoapUI
14 6 (1.68%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.68%) fastlane
14 6 (1.68%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (22.13%) Finance
2 67 (18.77%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.76%) Banking
4 22 (6.16%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.32%) Military
6 10 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.96%) Electronics
8 7 (1.96%) Front Office
9 6 (1.68%) Retail
10 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.84%) Legal
10 3 (0.84%) Marketing
10 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Law
11 2 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 178 (49.86%) Developer
2 50 (14.01%) Senior
3 49 (13.73%) Software Engineer
4 41 (11.48%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.56%) C# Developer
6 25 (7.00%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 19 (5.32%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.76%) Consultant
11 14 (3.92%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (3.64%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.36%) Lead
13 12 (3.36%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.08%) Salesforce Developer
15 10 (2.80%) Integration Specialist
15 10 (2.80%) Oracle Specialist
16 9 (2.52%) Cloud Specialist
16 9 (2.52%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.01%) .NET
2 62 (17.37%) REST
3 58 (16.25%) RESTful
4 47 (13.17%) AngularJS
5 39 (10.92%) .NET Framework
6 38 (10.64%) React
7 37 (10.36%) Spring
8 32 (8.96%) Spring Boot
9 29 (8.12%) CSS
9 29 (8.12%) Kafka
9 29 (8.12%) Web Services
10 28 (7.84%) JSON
10 28 (7.84%) SOAP
11 26 (7.28%) HTML
11 26 (7.28%) Quarkus
12 23 (6.44%) XML
13 22 (6.16%) Node.js
14 20 (5.60%) pytest
15 17 (4.76%) OAuth
16 16 (4.48%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.64%) Low-Code
4 10 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.52%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.40%) CMDB
9 5 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.84%) Equities
11 3 (0.84%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.32%) Windows
2 24 (6.72%) Linux
3 14 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.08%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.24%) Android
6 6 (1.68%) Unix
7 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (48.18%) Agile
2 152 (42.58%) CI/CD
3 114 (31.93%) DevOps
4 92 (25.77%) Software Engineering
5 86 (24.09%) Scrum
6 82 (22.97%) Test Automation
7 72 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (17.65%) Microservices
8 63 (17.65%) TDD
9 56 (15.69%) SDLC
10 47 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 47 (13.17%) Validation
11 42 (11.76%) AI
11 42 (11.76%) Integration Testing
12 40 (11.20%) Code Quality
13 39 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (10.36%) Sprint Planning
15 36 (10.08%) Clean Code
16 34 (9.52%) Front End Development
17 33 (9.24%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 113 (31.65%) SQL
2 107 (29.97%) C#
3 106 (29.69%) Java
4 64 (17.93%) JavaScript
5 57 (15.97%) Python
6 30 (8.40%) TypeScript
7 29 (8.12%) C++
8 28 (7.84%) PL/SQL
9 25 (7.00%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.64%) C
11 10 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.80%) Swift
12 9 (2.52%) Apex Code
12 9 (2.52%) Scala
13 8 (2.24%) Formula Language
13 8 (2.24%) LotusScript
14 7 (1.96%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.40%) Bicep
16 4 (1.12%) ABAP
16 4 (1.12%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 92 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 76 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.68%) Degree
4 19 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) ACCA
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) CIMA
7 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (24.93%) QA
2 12 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.12%) WCAG
5 3 (0.84%) SEPA
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (14.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 62 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.28%) Argo
3 14 (3.92%) Terraform
4 4 (1.12%) Grafana
5 3 (0.84%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 69 (19.33%) Oracle
2 60 (16.81%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.72%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.48%) Citrix
5 15 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.64%) Informatica
7 12 (3.36%) SAP
8 9 (2.52%) Databricks
9 8 (2.24%) Kofax
9 8 (2.24%) Lotus
10 7 (1.96%) Veracode
11 6 (1.68%) Avaloq
11 6 (1.68%) IBM
11 6 (1.68%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.40%) Pega
13 4 (1.12%) ANSYS
13 4 (1.12%) Splunk
13 4 (1.12%) VMware
14 3 (0.84%) Google
14 3 (0.84%) Sybase