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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 223 200
Rank change year-on-year -36 -23 -19
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 383 294 441
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.20% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.31% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 193 278
10th Percentile £357 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.33% -9.66%
75th Percentile £595 £656 £651
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £479 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -9.69% +0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 49
10th Percentile £55.34 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - £65.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -34 204 £490 -10.91% 27
North of England -22 61 £450 -2.70% 26
South East -32 57 £515 -17.60% 18
North West -18 35 £447 -4.64% 15
East of England -6 25 £625 +28.21% 9
Midlands -56 21 £447 -3.35% 17
North East -2 19 £513 +52.99% 7
South West -22 17 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -31 15 £430 -7.08% 9
Yorkshire -44 9 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -57 6 £489 +5.94% 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 (6.01%) Confluence
2 14 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.13%) Mendix
3 12 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.87%) HCL Notes
5 8 (2.09%) Apache
6 6 (1.57%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.57%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.78%) IIS
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.78%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.52%) Camunda
9 2 (0.52%) JBoss
9 2 (0.52%) Mule
9 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.52%) SAS
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.04%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.78%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.78%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.78%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.78%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 79 (20.63%) Azure
2 65 (16.97%) AWS
3 48 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (11.75%) GitHub
5 41 (10.70%) Serverless
6 27 (7.05%) OpenShift
7 24 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.22%) Azure Functions
10 19 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.70%) OCI
12 17 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.44%) GCP
13 16 (4.18%) Power Automate
13 16 (4.18%) PowerApps
14 13 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (3.39%) PaaS
15 12 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.74%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.44%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.78%) DSL
4 3 (0.78%) Modbus
4 3 (0.78%) RS-232
4 3 (0.78%) RS-422
4 3 (0.78%) RS-485
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.79%) Oracle Database
3 24 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.18%) Power BI
6 14 (3.66%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.87%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.09%) Aerospike
11 8 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.57%) Redis
13 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.04%) SAP HANA
14 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.78%) Big Data
15 3 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 83 (21.67%) Git
2 58 (15.14%) JIRA
3 51 (13.32%) GitLab
4 37 (9.66%) Visual Studio
5 35 (9.14%) Jenkins
6 34 (8.88%) SonarQube
7 33 (8.62%) JUnit
8 20 (5.22%) Postman
9 17 (4.44%) Eclipse
10 14 (3.66%) Gradle
11 12 (3.13%) Cucumber
11 12 (3.13%) Maven
11 12 (3.13%) Selenium
12 9 (2.35%) Mockito
12 9 (2.35%) MSTest
13 8 (2.09%) NUnit
13 8 (2.09%) PVCS
13 8 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.57%) SoapUI
General
1 99 (25.85%) Finance
2 80 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.18%) Banking
4 36 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.48%) Military
6 14 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.87%) Electronics
7 11 (2.87%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.61%) Front Office
9 5 (1.31%) Legal
9 5 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 196 (51.17%) Developer
2 55 (14.36%) Software Engineer
3 50 (13.05%) Java Developer
4 45 (11.75%) Senior
5 28 (7.31%) C# Developer
6 25 (6.53%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (5.48%) Java Engineer
9 15 (3.92%) .NET Developer
10 14 (3.66%) C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (3.66%) Consultant
11 13 (3.39%) C# Software Engineer
11 13 (3.39%) Python Developer
12 12 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
12 12 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
13 11 (2.87%) Cloud Specialist
13 11 (2.87%) Integration Engineer
13 11 (2.87%) Integration Specialist
13 11 (2.87%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.28%) .NET
2 62 (16.19%) REST
3 58 (15.14%) RESTful
4 48 (12.53%) Spring
5 47 (12.27%) React
6 46 (12.01%) AngularJS
7 40 (10.44%) Spring Boot
8 35 (9.14%) Web Services
9 33 (8.62%) Kafka
10 31 (8.09%) .NET Framework
11 30 (7.83%) CSS
11 30 (7.83%) Node.js
12 28 (7.31%) HTML
13 27 (7.05%) SOAP
14 26 (6.79%) JSON
15 25 (6.53%) Quarkus
16 23 (6.01%) XML
17 21 (5.48%) pytest
18 18 (4.70%) OAuth
19 17 (4.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.66%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.31%) Life Science
11 5 (1.31%) NHS
12 3 (0.78%) CMDB
12 3 (0.78%) Derivative
12 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.53%) Windows
2 27 (7.05%) Linux
3 15 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.39%) Android
5 9 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (51.17%) Agile
2 158 (41.25%) CI/CD
3 119 (31.07%) DevOps
4 97 (25.33%) Software Engineering
5 95 (24.80%) Test Automation
6 90 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (21.93%) Scrum
8 71 (18.54%) Microservices
9 63 (16.45%) TDD
10 57 (14.88%) SDLC
11 52 (13.58%) Code Quality
12 46 (12.01%) Integration Testing
13 43 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (10.97%) AI
14 42 (10.97%) Validation
15 41 (10.70%) Containerisation
16 38 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
17 37 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (9.66%) Sprint Planning
18 35 (9.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.90%) Java
2 118 (30.81%) SQL
3 105 (27.42%) C#
4 60 (15.67%) JavaScript
5 57 (14.88%) Python
6 35 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.88%) C++
8 31 (8.09%) PL/SQL
9 26 (6.79%) T-SQL
10 16 (4.18%) C
11 13 (3.39%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.87%) Formula Language
12 11 (2.87%) LotusScript
13 10 (2.61%) Apex Code
13 10 (2.61%) Scala
14 9 (2.35%) PowerShell
15 8 (2.09%) Swift
16 7 (1.83%) ABAP
16 7 (1.83%) Embedded C
16 7 (1.83%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 99 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 85 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.40%) Degree
4 20 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.57%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.24%) QA
2 12 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.83%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.57%) SEPA
6 5 (1.31%) PSD2
7 4 (1.04%) HL7
7 4 (1.04%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) GDPR
8 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (13.05%) Docker
2 8 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 2 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.52%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 58 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.53%) Argo
3 15 (3.92%) Terraform
4 5 (1.31%) Grafana
5 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.78%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.26%) Ansible
8 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (21.15%) Oracle
2 62 (16.19%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.01%) Red Hat
4 18 (4.70%) Citrix
4 18 (4.70%) Databricks
5 16 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.39%) SAP
7 11 (2.87%) Lotus
8 10 (2.61%) Google
8 10 (2.61%) IBM
8 10 (2.61%) Informatica
8 10 (2.61%) Kofax
9 8 (2.09%) ANSYS
9 8 (2.09%) VMware
10 7 (1.83%) Veracode
11 5 (1.31%) Pega
12 4 (1.04%) Brio
12 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.04%) Splunk
12 4 (1.04%) Workday