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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 251 174
Rank change year-on-year -30 -77 +14
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 381 270 523
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.03% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.14% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 181 349
10th Percentile £300 £331 £375
25th Percentile £406 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -6.78%
75th Percentile £581 £630 £637
90th Percentile £668 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 16 53
10th Percentile £60.00 £56.88 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £66.00 -
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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -37 200 £500 -4.76% 46
South East -10 69 £513 +2.50% 22
North of England -32 66 £460 +15.51% 29
North West -30 33 £455 +14.25% 19
North East -15 26 £511 +52.61% 7
East of England -21 15 £626 +33.44% 9
Midlands -65 15 £489 +6.22% 17
South West -22 14 £500 -9.09% 17
East Midlands -20 9 £470 +6.52% 10
Yorkshire -46 7 £519 -13.50% 3
West Midlands -60 6 £519 +12.89% 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 13 (3.41%) Confluence
2 7 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.57%) Apache
3 6 (1.57%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.57%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.31%) IIS
4 5 (1.31%) Mendix
4 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) JBoss
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.10%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.31%) SAP Payroll
4 4 (1.05%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.26%) HFM
6 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 85 (22.31%) Azure
2 51 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (11.81%) AWS
4 40 (10.50%) GitHub
5 39 (10.24%) OpenShift
6 26 (6.82%) Serverless
7 17 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (3.94%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (2.89%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.89%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.62%) GCP
12 10 (2.62%) OCI
12 10 (2.62%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.36%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.20%) Ethernet
2 14 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.89%) Internet
4 7 (1.84%) HTTP
5 3 (0.79%) DSL
5 3 (0.79%) Modbus
5 3 (0.79%) RS-232
5 3 (0.79%) RS-422
5 3 (0.79%) RS-485
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.65%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.46%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.46%) Oracle Database
4 15 (3.94%) Data Lake
4 15 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.62%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.62%) Power BI
8 9 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.57%) SAP HANA
11 5 (1.31%) Metadata
11 5 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.31%) Redis
12 4 (1.05%) MySQL
13 3 (0.79%) Aerospike
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.79%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 78 (20.47%) Git
2 45 (11.81%) SonarQube
3 40 (10.50%) GitLab
4 37 (9.71%) JIRA
5 35 (9.19%) Visual Studio
6 34 (8.92%) Jenkins
7 31 (8.14%) JUnit
8 17 (4.46%) Eclipse
9 15 (3.94%) Gradle
10 14 (3.67%) Selenium
11 12 (3.15%) Maven
12 11 (2.89%) MSTest
12 11 (2.89%) NUnit
13 10 (2.62%) Postman
14 9 (2.36%) Cucumber
15 8 (2.10%) Mockito
16 7 (1.84%) Bitbucket
16 7 (1.84%) TeamCity
17 5 (1.31%) JSUnit
17 5 (1.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 79 (20.73%) Finance
2 73 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 49 (12.86%) Banking
4 47 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.20%) Military
7 8 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.84%) Front Office
8 7 (1.84%) Retail
9 6 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.05%) Marketing
11 3 (0.79%) Electronics
11 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Legal
11 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Billing
12 2 (0.52%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 186 (48.82%) Developer
2 61 (16.01%) Senior
3 47 (12.34%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.81%) Java Developer
5 31 (8.14%) C# Developer
6 29 (7.61%) Java Engineer
7 24 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.04%) Consultant
9 22 (5.77%) .NET Developer
10 19 (4.99%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (3.94%) Lead
13 13 (3.41%) C# Software Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 11 (2.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Python Developer
16 10 (2.62%) C++ Software Engineer
16 10 (2.62%) Salesforce Developer
16 10 (2.62%) SAP Consultant
16 10 (2.62%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.00%) .NET
2 65 (17.06%) RESTful
3 60 (15.75%) REST
4 59 (15.49%) AngularJS
5 44 (11.55%) .NET Framework
6 39 (10.24%) React
6 39 (10.24%) Spring
7 37 (9.71%) Quarkus
8 34 (8.92%) Spring Boot
9 29 (7.61%) CSS
10 28 (7.35%) Web Services
11 27 (7.09%) Node.js
11 27 (7.09%) SOAP
12 26 (6.82%) HTML
12 26 (6.82%) JSON
12 26 (6.82%) Kafka
13 21 (5.51%) pytest
14 20 (5.25%) XML
15 18 (4.72%) Entity Framework
16 15 (3.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.89%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.10%) CMDB
7 8 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.10%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.79%) Equities
12 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.02%) Windows
2 20 (5.25%) Linux
3 14 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.84%) Unix
6 6 (1.57%) Android
7 2 (0.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (49.34%) Agile
2 162 (42.52%) CI/CD
3 122 (32.02%) DevOps
4 105 (27.56%) Software Engineering
5 98 (25.72%) Scrum
6 95 (24.93%) Test Automation
7 71 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (18.37%) SDLC
9 69 (18.11%) TDD
10 66 (17.32%) Microservices
11 60 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
12 50 (13.12%) Integration Testing
13 49 (12.86%) Validation
14 47 (12.34%) AI
15 45 (11.81%) Front End Development
16 44 (11.55%) Code Quality
16 44 (11.55%) Sprint Planning
17 41 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (10.50%) Sprint Review
19 38 (9.97%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 117 (30.71%) SQL
2 112 (29.40%) Java
3 108 (28.35%) C#
4 58 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 58 (15.22%) Python
5 37 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 30 (7.87%) PL/SQL
7 27 (7.09%) T-SQL
8 24 (6.30%) C++
9 11 (2.89%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.36%) C
10 9 (2.36%) Scala
10 9 (2.36%) Swift
11 8 (2.10%) ABAP
11 8 (2.10%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.31%) Bicep
12 5 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.05%) X++
14 3 (0.79%) SOQL
14 3 (0.79%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 105 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.87%) Degree
4 19 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.57%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) ACCA
8 2 (0.52%) CIMA
8 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (26.51%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.05%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.79%) SEPA
7 2 (0.52%) Basel III
7 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (13.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 76 (19.95%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.71%) Argo
3 13 (3.41%) Terraform
4 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.52%) Grafana
5 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 60 (15.75%) Oracle
3 35 (9.19%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.20%) Citrix
4 16 (4.20%) SAP
5 14 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.89%) Informatica
7 9 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.84%) Veracode
9 6 (1.57%) Avaloq
9 6 (1.57%) Databricks
9 6 (1.57%) Pega
9 6 (1.57%) Splunk
10 5 (1.31%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.05%) Workday
12 3 (0.79%) Google
12 3 (0.79%) HP
12 3 (0.79%) Kofax
12 3 (0.79%) Lotus
12 3 (0.79%) Sybase