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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 236 177
Rank change year-on-year -27 -59 +4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 371 268 473
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.10% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.21% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 182 296
10th Percentile £343 £356 £375
25th Percentile £415 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £537 £548
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -1.96% -5.60%
75th Percentile £575 £643 £650
90th Percentile £675 £749 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.43% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 9 53
10th Percentile £59.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £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 £71.33 - -
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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -49 193 £475 -13.64% 21
South East -27 64 £514 -12.55% 11
North of England -26 58 £450 +9.09% 15
North West -20 32 £449 +2.51% 10
Midlands -58 21 £450 -2.70% 18
North East -5 19 £513 +52.99% 3
East of England -15 19 £625 +33.33% 12
South West -17 17 £500 -18.37% 10
East Midlands -29 15 £430 -7.08% 11
Yorkshire -44 9 £500 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -53 6 £550 +19.24% 7
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 17 (4.58%) Confluence
2 12 (3.23%) Mendix
2 12 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.70%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.89%) Apache
6 6 (1.62%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.62%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.81%) IIS
8 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.54%) Camunda
9 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.54%) CMS
9 2 (0.54%) JBoss
9 2 (0.54%) Mule
9 2 (0.54%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.54%) SAS
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (3.50%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.81%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.54%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.54%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 84 (22.64%) Azure
2 63 (16.98%) AWS
3 51 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.86%) GitHub
5 38 (10.24%) Serverless
6 28 (7.55%) OpenShift
7 24 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.85%) Azure Functions
9 18 (4.85%) Power Platform
10 16 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.31%) OCI
10 16 (4.31%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.04%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (3.23%) GCP
13 11 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.96%) PaaS
14 10 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.12%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.04%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.89%) HTTP
4 3 (0.81%) DSL
4 3 (0.81%) Modbus
4 3 (0.81%) RS-232
4 3 (0.81%) RS-422
4 3 (0.81%) RS-485
5 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.74%) Oracle Database
3 22 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.39%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.31%) Data Lake
6 14 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.50%) Power BI
8 11 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.96%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.96%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.16%) Aerospike
10 8 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.89%) Redis
12 5 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.08%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.81%) Big Data
14 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (21.02%) Git
2 52 (14.02%) GitLab
3 50 (13.48%) JIRA
4 34 (9.16%) Jenkins
4 34 (9.16%) SonarQube
4 34 (9.16%) Visual Studio
5 31 (8.36%) JUnit
6 16 (4.31%) Eclipse
6 16 (4.31%) Postman
7 14 (3.77%) Gradle
7 14 (3.77%) Selenium
8 11 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.96%) Maven
8 11 (2.96%) MSTest
9 10 (2.70%) NUnit
10 9 (2.43%) Mockito
11 7 (1.89%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.62%) MLflow
12 6 (1.62%) PVCS
12 6 (1.62%) Rational DOORS
General
1 88 (23.72%) Finance
2 72 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.51%) Banking
5 27 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.12%) Military
7 11 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.43%) Electronics
10 6 (1.62%) Front Office
10 6 (1.62%) Retail
11 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Marketing
11 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.54%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 185 (49.87%) Developer
2 52 (14.02%) Software Engineer
3 50 (13.48%) Senior
4 44 (11.86%) Java Developer
5 28 (7.55%) Senior Developer
6 26 (7.01%) C# Developer
7 24 (6.47%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.47%) Java Engineer
8 20 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.31%) .NET Developer
9 16 (4.31%) Consultant
10 15 (4.04%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (3.77%) Python Developer
12 12 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) Power Platform Developer
13 11 (2.96%) Salesforce Developer
14 10 (2.70%) Cloud Specialist
14 10 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
14 10 (2.70%) Integration Specialist
14 10 (2.70%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.22%) .NET
2 64 (17.25%) REST
3 61 (16.44%) RESTful
4 45 (12.13%) AngularJS
5 43 (11.59%) Spring
6 42 (11.32%) React
7 38 (10.24%) .NET Framework
8 36 (9.70%) Spring Boot
9 33 (8.89%) Kafka
10 30 (8.09%) CSS
10 30 (8.09%) Web Services
11 29 (7.82%) SOAP
12 28 (7.55%) HTML
12 28 (7.55%) JSON
13 26 (7.01%) Node.js
13 26 (7.01%) Quarkus
14 24 (6.47%) XML
15 20 (5.39%) OAuth
16 18 (4.85%) pytest
17 15 (4.04%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.74%) Cloud Native
1 25 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.04%) Low-Code
4 10 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 10 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.08%) CMDB
8 4 (1.08%) Derivative
9 3 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.81%) Equities
9 3 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.40%) Windows
2 23 (6.20%) Linux
3 15 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.43%) Android
4 9 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (49.06%) Agile
2 155 (41.78%) CI/CD
3 118 (31.81%) DevOps
4 92 (24.80%) Software Engineering
4 92 (24.80%) Test Automation
5 84 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (22.64%) Scrum
6 71 (19.14%) Microservices
7 60 (16.17%) TDD
8 59 (15.90%) SDLC
9 51 (13.75%) Integration Testing
10 49 (13.21%) Code Quality
11 46 (12.40%) Validation
12 43 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 41 (11.05%) AI
14 40 (10.78%) Clean Code
14 40 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.97%) Sprint Planning
16 35 (9.43%) Front End Development
17 34 (9.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (32.08%) SQL
2 118 (31.81%) Java
3 107 (28.84%) C#
4 65 (17.52%) JavaScript
5 60 (16.17%) Python
6 33 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 31 (8.36%) C++
8 29 (7.82%) PL/SQL
9 27 (7.28%) T-SQL
10 14 (3.77%) C
11 10 (2.70%) Formula Language
11 10 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.70%) LotusScript
12 9 (2.43%) Apex Code
12 9 (2.43%) Scala
13 8 (2.16%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.16%) Swift
14 6 (1.62%) Embedded C
14 6 (1.62%) Embedded C++
15 5 (1.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 98 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 82 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.89%) Degree
4 19 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.62%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.27%) ACCA
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) CIMA
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (25.07%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.08%) SEPA
5 4 (1.08%) WCAG
6 3 (0.81%) PSD2
7 2 (0.54%) GDPR
7 2 (0.54%) HL7
7 2 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (13.21%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) OpenAM
3 2 (0.54%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.54%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 60 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.01%) Argo
3 16 (4.31%) Terraform
4 4 (1.08%) Grafana
4 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.54%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 74 (19.95%) Oracle
2 62 (16.71%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.47%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.58%) Citrix
5 16 (4.31%) Databricks
6 15 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.50%) Informatica
8 12 (3.23%) SAP
9 10 (2.70%) Kofax
9 10 (2.70%) Lotus
10 8 (2.16%) IBM
11 7 (1.89%) Veracode
12 6 (1.62%) ANSYS
12 6 (1.62%) VMware
13 5 (1.35%) Avaloq
13 5 (1.35%) Google
13 5 (1.35%) Pega
13 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.08%) Splunk
15 3 (0.81%) Sybase