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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 157 187
Rank change year-on-year -75 +30 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 356 495 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.63% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.86% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 307 338
10th Percentile £359 £391 £430
25th Percentile £404 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £661 £688
90th Percentile £763 £731 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 57
10th Percentile £56.03 £47.50 £48.32
25th Percentile - £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile £69.35 £65.25 £87.44
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 27,450 26,620 34,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.50% 87.73% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,481 16,323 23,332
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,780 955 1,444
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.24 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -63 169 £525 -6.75% 46
North of England -9 70 £447 -10.60% 50
North West +5 48 £453 -7.03% 35
Midlands -18 39 £463 -11.48% 13
East of England -3 37 £488 +33.56% 21
South East -61 25 £591 -6.38% 52
West Midlands -17 24 £519 -15.20% 7
Yorkshire -23 17 £395 -34.17% 7
East Midlands -14 15 £415 -4.60% 6
South West -9 6 - - 14
North East -5 5 £550 - 8
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 23 (6.46%) Confluence
2 15 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.69%) Apache
4 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.12%) CMS
6 3 (0.84%) JBoss
6 3 (0.84%) Mule
6 3 (0.84%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.56%) Camunda
7 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Appian
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) InVision
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.12%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.84%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.84%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.84%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.54%) Azure
2 59 (16.57%) AWS
3 37 (10.39%) GitHub
4 32 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.74%) GCP
6 18 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.78%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.78%) Serverless
8 12 (3.37%) PaaS
9 10 (2.81%) Cloud Run
9 10 (2.81%) OCI
10 9 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.53%) npm
11 8 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.25%) Firebase
11 8 (2.25%) Google Play
11 8 (2.25%) IaaS
12 7 (1.97%) Azure AKS
12 7 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.74%) TCP/IP
2 21 (5.90%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.84%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.56%) X.509
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.78%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.21%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.93%) Power BI
7 12 (3.37%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.09%) Redis
9 8 (2.25%) Big Data
10 7 (1.97%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.40%) MySQL
12 4 (1.12%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.12%) DB2
13 3 (0.84%) Aerospike
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.84%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.84%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 119 (33.43%) Git
2 57 (16.01%) JIRA
3 39 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 30 (8.43%) Visual Studio
5 29 (8.15%) Postman
6 27 (7.58%) JUnit
7 25 (7.02%) SonarQube
8 23 (6.46%) Eclipse
9 14 (3.93%) SpecFlow
9 14 (3.93%) Xcode
10 13 (3.65%) Bitbucket
10 13 (3.65%) Cypress.io
10 13 (3.65%) Maven
11 10 (2.81%) GitLab
11 10 (2.81%) Mockito
12 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
12 8 (2.25%) Selenium
13 7 (1.97%) Android Studio
13 7 (1.97%) Gradle
13 7 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
General
1 113 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.16%) Finance
3 48 (13.48%) Banking
4 45 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.46%) Military
7 22 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.65%) Front Office
10 11 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.69%) Marketing
13 5 (1.40%) Electronics
13 5 (1.40%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.84%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.84%) Law
14 3 (0.84%) Legal
14 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (47.19%) Developer
2 65 (18.26%) Software Engineer
3 53 (14.89%) Senior
4 40 (11.24%) Java Developer
5 36 (10.11%) Senior Developer
6 23 (6.46%) C++ Software Engineer
7 19 (5.34%) C# Software Engineer
7 19 (5.34%) Lead
8 16 (4.49%) C# Developer
8 16 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.21%) .NET Developer
9 15 (4.21%) Angular Developer
9 15 (4.21%) Python Developer
10 14 (3.93%) Android Developer
11 13 (3.65%) Consultant
11 13 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.37%) Analyst
13 10 (2.81%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (2.25%) Architect
14 8 (2.25%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.01%) REST
2 56 (15.73%) React
3 51 (14.33%) Node.js
4 50 (14.04%) Web Services
5 48 (13.48%) .NET
5 48 (13.48%) RESTful
6 47 (13.20%) CSS
7 45 (12.64%) HTML
8 42 (11.80%) AngularJS
8 42 (11.80%) Spring
9 39 (10.96%) Spring Boot
10 24 (6.74%) JSON
10 24 (6.74%) Kafka
11 23 (6.46%) .NET Framework
11 23 (6.46%) Jest
12 22 (6.18%) HTML5
12 22 (6.18%) pytest
12 22 (6.18%) SOAP
13 20 (5.62%) CSS3
13 20 (5.62%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 20 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.37%) Life Science
4 12 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.09%) Genomics
6 8 (2.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.69%) FPGA
8 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.69%) PCIe
8 6 (1.69%) State Machine
9 5 (1.40%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
10 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.73%) Linux
2 46 (12.92%) Windows
3 30 (8.43%) Android
4 21 (5.90%) Apple iOS
5 18 (5.06%) Unix
6 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.84%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.28%) tvOS
9 1 (0.28%) watchOS
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (51.40%) Agile
2 151 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 102 (28.65%) DevOps
4 100 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (25.28%) Software Engineering
6 88 (24.72%) Test Automation
7 75 (21.07%) TDD
8 71 (19.94%) Microservices
9 60 (16.85%) Scrum
10 52 (14.61%) Integration Testing
11 51 (14.33%) Containerisation
12 49 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
13 45 (12.64%) Clean Code
14 43 (12.08%) Code Quality
15 42 (11.80%) Validation
16 41 (11.52%) Analytics
17 39 (10.96%) Mentoring
18 38 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
19 34 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
20 33 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (28.37%) Java
2 86 (24.16%) SQL
3 73 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 70 (19.66%) C#
5 63 (17.70%) Python
6 49 (13.76%) C++
7 25 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 24 (6.74%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.93%) PL/SQL
10 13 (3.65%) Scala
11 12 (3.37%) C
11 12 (3.37%) PowerShell
12 11 (3.09%) Swift
13 9 (2.53%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.25%) Groovy
14 8 (2.25%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.97%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.40%) ABAP
17 4 (1.12%) Bash
17 4 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 55 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 44 (12.36%) Degree
3 41 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) ISEB
7 1 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.76%) QA
2 29 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.53%) ISO 20022
5 8 (2.25%) PSD2
5 8 (2.25%) SEPA
5 8 (2.25%) SLA
6 4 (1.12%) WCAG
7 3 (0.84%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (16.85%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.84%) HDFS
5 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.78%) Terraform
3 7 (1.97%) Ansible
3 7 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.84%) Argo
4 3 (0.84%) Control-M
4 3 (0.84%) Grafana
4 3 (0.84%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.84%) Oozie
4 3 (0.84%) Podman
4 3 (0.84%) SELinux
5 2 (0.56%) Cilium
5 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.56%) Kibana
5 2 (0.56%) Rsyslog
5 2 (0.56%) SCOM
6 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.28%) Istio
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (13.48%) Oracle
2 41 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.87%) Google
4 16 (4.49%) SAP
5 12 (3.37%) Databricks
6 8 (2.25%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (2.25%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.25%) Splunk
7 7 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.69%) Citrix
8 6 (1.69%) Pega
8 6 (1.69%) Perforce
8 6 (1.69%) VMware
9 5 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.40%) IBM
9 5 (1.40%) Workday
10 4 (1.12%) Adobe
10 4 (1.12%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.12%) ServiceNow