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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 242 180
Rank change year-on-year -41 -62 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 360 252 511
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.02% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.11% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 170 338
10th Percentile £313 £339 £375
25th Percentile £415 £404 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -8.56% -7.61%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £638
90th Percentile £670 £752 £688
UK median daily rate £492 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 54
10th Percentile £60.00 £54.25 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -31 184 £495 -6.60% 21
South East -8 65 £514 -4.42% 16
North of England -36 59 £460 +19.79% 20
North West -26 29 £450 +17.19% 8
North East -16 24 £511 +52.61% 7
South West -19 16 £500 -13.04% 11
Midlands -53 16 £459 -0.86% 11
East of England -23 15 £626 +33.44% 6
East Midlands -23 11 £447 -3.35% 7
Yorkshire -56 6 £522 -13.00% 5
West Midlands -49 5 £489 +6.22% 4
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 16 (4.44%) Confluence
2 8 (2.22%) Mendix
2 8 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.67%) Apache
4 6 (1.67%) Ethereum
4 6 (1.67%) HCL Notes
4 6 (1.67%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.11%) IIS
5 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Camunda
7 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 2 (0.56%) Mule
7 2 (0.56%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.11%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.83%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (23.06%) Azure
2 50 (13.89%) AWS
3 49 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.11%) GitHub
5 37 (10.28%) OpenShift
6 30 (8.33%) Serverless
7 20 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.61%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.61%) PowerApps
11 12 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (3.33%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.78%) OCI
13 9 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (2.50%) GCP
14 7 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.44%) Ethernet
3 8 (2.22%) Internet
4 7 (1.94%) HTTP
5 3 (0.83%) DSL
5 3 (0.83%) Modbus
5 3 (0.83%) RS-232
5 3 (0.83%) RS-422
5 3 (0.83%) RS-485
6 1 (0.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.17%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 20 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.33%) Power BI
7 11 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.94%) Redis
10 6 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.39%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.11%) Metadata
12 4 (1.11%) MySQL
12 4 (1.11%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (20.56%) Git
2 43 (11.94%) JIRA
2 43 (11.94%) SonarQube
3 42 (11.67%) GitLab
4 34 (9.44%) Visual Studio
5 28 (7.78%) JUnit
6 25 (6.94%) Jenkins
7 17 (4.72%) Eclipse
8 14 (3.89%) Selenium
9 13 (3.61%) Gradle
10 11 (3.06%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.06%) MSTest
10 11 (3.06%) NUnit
11 10 (2.78%) Maven
11 10 (2.78%) Postman
12 8 (2.22%) Mockito
13 6 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.67%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.39%) JMeter
14 5 (1.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (21.39%) Finance
2 68 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 45 (12.50%) Banking
4 43 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.00%) Military
7 10 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.67%) Front Office
9 6 (1.67%) Retail
10 5 (1.39%) Electronics
11 3 (0.83%) Marketing
11 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 178 (49.44%) Developer
2 54 (15.00%) Senior
3 48 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 43 (11.94%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.50%) C# Developer
6 24 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 24 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.28%) .NET Developer
8 18 (5.00%) Consultant
8 18 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.89%) Lead
10 13 (3.61%) C# Software Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 11 (3.06%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.78%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.50%) Informatica Engineer
14 9 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (21.39%) .NET
2 60 (16.67%) RESTful
3 56 (15.56%) AngularJS
4 55 (15.28%) REST
5 40 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 35 (9.72%) Quarkus
6 35 (9.72%) React
7 34 (9.44%) Spring
8 30 (8.33%) CSS
8 30 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 28 (7.78%) Kafka
10 27 (7.50%) HTML
11 25 (6.94%) Web Services
12 24 (6.67%) JSON
12 24 (6.67%) SOAP
13 23 (6.39%) pytest
14 21 (5.83%) Node.js
15 20 (5.56%) XML
16 16 (4.44%) Entity Framework
17 14 (3.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.06%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.67%) CMDB
8 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.11%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.83%) Equities
11 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.50%) Windows
2 23 (6.39%) Linux
3 15 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.67%) Android
6 5 (1.39%) Unix
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (50.00%) Agile
2 152 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 111 (30.83%) DevOps
4 97 (26.94%) Software Engineering
5 93 (25.83%) Scrum
6 89 (24.72%) Test Automation
7 72 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (18.33%) SDLC
9 62 (17.22%) Microservices
10 59 (16.39%) TDD
11 51 (14.17%) Validation
12 50 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
13 45 (12.50%) Integration Testing
13 45 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
14 43 (11.94%) AI
14 43 (11.94%) Front End Development
15 40 (11.11%) Code Quality
16 38 (10.56%) Sprint Review
17 37 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (10.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 114 (31.67%) SQL
2 110 (30.56%) Java
3 108 (30.00%) C#
4 63 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 58 (16.11%) Python
6 29 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.78%) PL/SQL
8 26 (7.22%) C++
8 26 (7.22%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.78%) C
10 9 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.50%) Scala
11 8 (2.22%) Apex Code
11 8 (2.22%) Swift
12 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.67%) Formula Language
13 6 (1.67%) LotusScript
14 5 (1.39%) Bicep
15 4 (1.11%) ABAP
15 4 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 81 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.33%) Degree
4 19 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.28%) ACCA
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) CIMA
7 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (27.22%) QA
2 11 (3.06%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) WCAG
4 4 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.83%) SEPA
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (14.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 72 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.72%) Argo
3 13 (3.61%) Terraform
4 3 (0.83%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.56%) Grafana
5 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (17.50%) Oracle
2 58 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 33 (9.17%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.72%) Citrix
5 14 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.61%) Informatica
7 12 (3.33%) SAP
8 8 (2.22%) Databricks
9 7 (1.94%) Pega
9 7 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.94%) Veracode
10 6 (1.67%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.67%) Kofax
10 6 (1.67%) Lotus
11 4 (1.11%) IBM
11 4 (1.11%) Splunk
12 3 (0.83%) Google
12 3 (0.83%) HP
12 3 (0.83%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.83%) Sybase