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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 249 154
Rank change year-on-year -57 -95 +34
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 378 284 523
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.02% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.12% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 192 338
10th Percentile £293 £346 £393
25th Percentile £404 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -14.86% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £668 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £526
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.61% -8.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 21 50
10th Percentile £55.50 £61.25 £55.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
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 39,011 25,247 28,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.77% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,277 16,138 18,662
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,657
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -59 182 £500 - 71
South East -14 74 £513 +12.02% 21
North of England -42 73 £463 +0.65% 34
North East -12 33 £510 -7.27% 8
North West -55 27 £463 -6.00% 22
Midlands -57 20 £489 +11.21% 19
East of England -21 18 £625 +33.33% 11
South West -37 15 £500 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire -36 13 £447 +14.62% 5
West Midlands -42 13 £490 +6.23% 8
East Midlands -23 7 £470 +11.90% 11
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 4 (1.06%) Confluence
1 4 (1.06%) IIS
1 4 (1.06%) SAS
1 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) Camunda
3 2 (0.53%) CMS
3 2 (0.53%) JBoss
3 2 (0.53%) Mule
3 2 (0.53%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.26%) Mendix
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.79%) Trello
4 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.59%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.32%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.53%) HFM
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 86 (22.75%) Azure
2 47 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (12.17%) AWS
4 43 (11.38%) GitHub
4 43 (11.38%) OpenShift
5 26 (6.88%) Serverless
6 21 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.23%) GCP
9 13 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.91%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.85%) OCI
16 6 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.23%) Ethernet
1 16 (4.23%) Internet
2 14 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.79%) Modbus
3 3 (0.79%) RS-232
3 3 (0.79%) RS-422
3 3 (0.79%) RS-485
4 2 (0.53%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.53%) Intranet
5 1 (0.26%) DSL
5 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.26%) NFC
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.97%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 14 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 12 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.91%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.91%) Power BI
6 11 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.12%) Redis
8 7 (1.85%) SAP HANA
8 7 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.59%) Metadata
10 5 (1.32%) MySQL
10 5 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (21.16%) Git
2 42 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 35 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.99%) GitLab
5 31 (8.20%) Visual Studio
6 27 (7.14%) JIRA
7 23 (6.08%) JUnit
8 19 (5.03%) Selenium
9 16 (4.23%) Eclipse
10 11 (2.91%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.91%) NUnit
11 10 (2.65%) Bitbucket
12 9 (2.38%) Gradle
12 9 (2.38%) MSTest
13 7 (1.85%) Maven
14 6 (1.59%) Mockito
14 6 (1.59%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.32%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.32%) JSUnit
15 5 (1.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 88 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.72%) Finance
3 45 (11.90%) Banking
4 41 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.70%) Military
7 9 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.12%) Retail
9 5 (1.32%) Front Office
10 4 (1.06%) Billing
10 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Electronics
11 3 (0.79%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 172 (45.50%) Developer
2 66 (17.46%) Senior
3 53 (14.02%) Software Engineer
4 38 (10.05%) Java Developer
5 29 (7.67%) Java Engineer
6 28 (7.41%) C# Developer
7 26 (6.88%) Consultant
8 23 (6.08%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.82%) Lead
10 20 (5.29%) .NET Developer
11 19 (5.03%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 14 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) SAP Consultant
15 12 (3.17%) C# Software Engineer
15 12 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 12 (3.17%) Software Developer
16 11 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (2.91%) Python Developer
17 10 (2.65%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.37%) .NET
2 57 (15.08%) REST
3 56 (14.81%) AngularJS
4 47 (12.43%) RESTful
5 41 (10.85%) Quarkus
6 38 (10.05%) React
7 37 (9.79%) .NET Framework
8 35 (9.26%) Spring
9 31 (8.20%) Web Services
10 30 (7.94%) Node.js
11 27 (7.14%) pytest
12 26 (6.88%) Spring Boot
13 24 (6.35%) JSON
14 23 (6.08%) CSS
14 23 (6.08%) HTML
15 21 (5.56%) SOAP
16 20 (5.29%) Kafka
16 20 (5.29%) Playwright
17 16 (4.23%) Entity Framework
17 16 (4.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (5.82%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.29%) Data Structures
3 17 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.85%) CMDB
6 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.79%) IoT
10 3 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.79%) Windows
2 23 (6.08%) Linux
3 11 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.85%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Android
7 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (50.79%) Agile
2 153 (40.48%) CI/CD
3 125 (33.07%) DevOps
4 120 (31.75%) Software Engineering
5 106 (28.04%) Scrum
6 104 (27.51%) Test Automation
7 75 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (19.58%) SDLC
9 69 (18.25%) Integration Testing
10 67 (17.72%) TDD
10 67 (17.72%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (15.34%) Microservices
12 55 (14.55%) Validation
13 53 (14.02%) AI
13 53 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (12.96%) Front End Development
15 47 (12.43%) Clean Code
15 47 (12.43%) Sprint Planning
16 44 (11.64%) Code Quality
16 44 (11.64%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 112 (29.63%) SQL
2 104 (27.51%) C#
3 94 (24.87%) Java
4 59 (15.61%) JavaScript
4 59 (15.61%) Python
5 32 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.88%) C++
7 24 (6.35%) PL/SQL
8 22 (5.82%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.17%) C
9 12 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.65%) ABAP
11 8 (2.12%) Scala
11 8 (2.12%) Swift
12 7 (1.85%) X++
13 5 (1.32%) Bicep
14 4 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.06%) Bash
14 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 117 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 92 (24.34%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.94%) Degree
4 16 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.79%) ACCA
8 3 (0.79%) CIMA
9 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) PhD
10 1 (0.26%) CISA
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (26.98%) QA
2 15 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.53%) Basel III
5 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 61 (16.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 41 (10.85%) Argo
3 20 (5.29%) Terraform
4 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.53%) Ansible
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.96%) Oracle
3 39 (10.32%) Red Hat
4 23 (6.08%) SAP
5 12 (3.17%) Citrix
6 11 (2.91%) Informatica
7 9 (2.38%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.12%) Pega
8 8 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.32%) Databricks
9 5 (1.32%) Google
9 5 (1.32%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.32%) Splunk
10 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.06%) UiPath
10 4 (1.06%) Workday
11 3 (0.79%) HP
12 2 (0.53%) Adobe
12 2 (0.53%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.53%) VMware