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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 257 156
Rank change year-on-year -62 -101 +21
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 358 294 544
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.05% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.16% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 190 341
10th Percentile £285 £356 £385
25th Percentile £400 £384 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £598 £636 £650
90th Percentile £688 £776 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 38
10th Percentile £46.05 - £59.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -36 178 £500 -4.76% 120
North of England -62 67 £460 +9.20% 48
South East -36 50 £545 +31.33% 36
Midlands -36 31 £500 +8.11% 31
North East -10 29 £425 -22.73% 9
West Midlands -29 28 £500 -2.91% 16
North West -75 25 £463 +0.65% 32
East of England -28 19 £619 +26.92% 27
Yorkshire -46 13 £429 +10.00% 7
South West -26 12 £500 -9.09% 27
East Midlands -30 3 £568 +28.61% 15
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 6 (1.68%) Confluence
2 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.12%) SAS
4 3 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 2 (0.56%) IIS
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.56%) Traefik
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Camunda
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) Mendix
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Mule
6 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.84%) Trello
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.12%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.84%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.84%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.56%) HFM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 86 (24.02%) Azure
2 59 (16.48%) AWS
3 40 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (10.34%) GitHub
5 32 (8.94%) Power Platform
6 29 (8.10%) OpenShift
7 21 (5.87%) GCP
8 19 (5.31%) Serverless
9 17 (4.75%) PowerApps
10 15 (4.19%) Power Automate
11 14 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.23%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.96%) Amazon S3
16 6 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.47%) Internet
2 13 (3.63%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.35%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.56%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) DSL
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.03%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.47%) MySQL
5 16 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.35%) Power BI
7 10 (2.79%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.51%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.96%) Redis
11 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.40%) Metadata
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.12%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (26.82%) Git
2 37 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 34 (9.50%) GitLab
4 32 (8.94%) SonarQube
5 27 (7.54%) JIRA
5 27 (7.54%) JUnit
5 27 (7.54%) Visual Studio
6 18 (5.03%) Gradle
6 18 (5.03%) Maven
7 15 (4.19%) Selenium
8 14 (3.91%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.91%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.79%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.51%) NUnit
11 7 (1.96%) Mockito
11 7 (1.96%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.68%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.68%) Gatling
12 6 (1.68%) MSTest
General
1 114 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.11%) Finance
3 59 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.25%) Banking
5 37 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.63%) Military
7 10 (2.79%) Front Office
8 9 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.68%) Retail
12 4 (1.12%) Billing
12 4 (1.12%) Legal
13 3 (0.84%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.84%) Law
13 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 166 (46.37%) Developer
2 67 (18.72%) Senior
3 39 (10.89%) Software Engineer
4 32 (8.94%) Java Developer
5 28 (7.82%) Java Engineer
6 26 (7.26%) Consultant
7 25 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.42%) C# Developer
9 22 (6.15%) Lead
10 16 (4.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 14 (3.91%) .NET Developer
11 14 (3.91%) SAP Consultant
12 13 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (3.35%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.07%) Python Developer
15 10 (2.79%) Architect
15 10 (2.79%) C# Software Engineer
15 10 (2.79%) Data Engineer
16 9 (2.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 9 (2.51%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (19.27%) .NET
2 63 (17.60%) REST
3 53 (14.80%) RESTful
4 44 (12.29%) Spring
5 42 (11.73%) AngularJS
5 42 (11.73%) Web Services
6 38 (10.61%) React
7 35 (9.78%) Spring Boot
8 32 (8.94%) Node.js
9 31 (8.66%) pytest
10 30 (8.38%) SOAP
11 28 (7.82%) .NET Framework
12 26 (7.26%) HTML
12 26 (7.26%) Quarkus
13 24 (6.70%) JSON
14 23 (6.42%) CSS
14 23 (6.42%) Terraform
15 20 (5.59%) Kafka
15 20 (5.59%) Playwright
16 19 (5.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.59%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.75%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.40%) CMDB
8 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.84%) IoT
10 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.50%) Linux
2 28 (7.82%) Windows
3 11 (3.07%) Unix
4 9 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (50.56%) Agile
2 158 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 114 (31.84%) DevOps
4 103 (28.77%) Software Engineering
5 100 (27.93%) Test Automation
6 92 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (25.42%) Integration Testing
8 90 (25.14%) Scrum
9 77 (21.51%) User Acceptance Testing
10 73 (20.39%) TDD
11 71 (19.83%) SDLC
12 61 (17.04%) Microservices
13 60 (16.76%) AI
14 58 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (14.53%) Validation
16 50 (13.97%) Clean Code
17 46 (12.85%) Code Quality
18 41 (11.45%) Sprint Planning
19 40 (11.17%) Front End Development
20 39 (10.89%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 107 (29.89%) SQL
2 93 (25.98%) C#
3 92 (25.70%) Java
4 70 (19.55%) JavaScript
5 62 (17.32%) Python
6 30 (8.38%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.03%) C++
8 16 (4.47%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.91%) PL/SQL
10 11 (3.07%) Bash
11 8 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.96%) ABAP
12 7 (1.96%) C
13 6 (1.68%) Scala
13 6 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.68%) X++
14 5 (1.40%) Go
14 5 (1.40%) XAML
15 4 (1.12%) Swift
16 3 (0.84%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 111 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 86 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.34%) Degree
4 17 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.12%) PhD
9 3 (0.84%) ACCA
9 3 (0.84%) CIMA
9 3 (0.84%) CISSP
9 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CISA
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.91%) QA
2 13 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.51%) WCAG
5 3 (0.84%) Basel III
5 3 (0.84%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
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%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (19.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (23.46%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.26%) Argo
3 4 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.84%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 59 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.45%) Oracle
3 26 (7.26%) Red Hat
3 26 (7.26%) SAP
4 11 (3.07%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.79%) Google
6 9 (2.51%) Avaloq
7 8 (2.23%) Citrix
7 8 (2.23%) Pega
7 8 (2.23%) UiPath
8 6 (1.68%) Splunk
9 5 (1.40%) Informatica
9 5 (1.40%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.12%) Databricks
10 4 (1.12%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.12%) VMware
10 4 (1.12%) Workday
11 3 (0.84%) webMethods
12 2 (0.56%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.56%) JDA