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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 255 147
Rank change year-on-year -61 -108 +31
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 364 294 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 1.06% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.16% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 187 344
10th Percentile £286 £354 £378
25th Percentile £400 £384 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -14.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £599 £634 £650
90th Percentile £688 £769 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 39
10th Percentile £43.45 - £60.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.92% - -

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -44 174 £500 -4.76% 175
North of England -55 73 £460 +9.20% 56
South East -27 56 £513 +23.49% 45
North East -11 35 £468 -15.00% 10
Midlands -45 31 £500 +8.11% 35
West Midlands -28 28 £500 - 19
North West -74 25 £461 +0.38% 39
East of England -38 19 £619 +26.92% 32
Yorkshire -34 13 £429 +10.00% 7
South West -32 12 £500 -9.09% 30
East Midlands -33 3 £568 +28.61% 16
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 (1.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.10%) SAS
4 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) Camunda
5 2 (0.55%) IIS
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.55%) Traefik
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Mule
6 1 (0.27%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.82%) Trello
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.10%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.82%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.82%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.55%) HFM
4 2 (0.55%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.27%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 83 (22.80%) Azure
2 57 (15.66%) AWS
3 42 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (10.99%) OpenShift
5 34 (9.34%) GitHub
6 31 (8.52%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.77%) GCP
8 20 (5.49%) Serverless
9 16 (4.40%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 13 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.65%) Amazon S3
16 5 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.40%) Internet
2 13 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.30%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.55%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.55%) Intranet
4 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.27%) DSL
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) NFC
5 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.85%) MySQL
7 13 (3.57%) Power BI
8 10 (2.75%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.47%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.92%) Redis
11 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.37%) Metadata
12 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.10%) SAP HANA
13 4 (1.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 95 (26.10%) Git
2 42 (11.54%) SonarQube
3 37 (10.16%) Jenkins
4 35 (9.62%) GitLab
5 29 (7.97%) JIRA
6 28 (7.69%) JUnit
7 27 (7.42%) Visual Studio
8 18 (4.95%) Gradle
8 18 (4.95%) Maven
9 16 (4.40%) Selenium
10 14 (3.85%) Eclipse
11 13 (3.57%) Cucumber
12 11 (3.02%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.47%) NUnit
14 7 (1.92%) Mockito
14 7 (1.92%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.65%) Cypress.io
15 6 (1.65%) MSTest
15 6 (1.65%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 114 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.78%) Finance
3 56 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.01%) Banking
5 36 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.57%) Military
7 10 (2.75%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.75%) Front Office
8 9 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.65%) Retail
12 4 (1.10%) Billing
12 4 (1.10%) Legal
13 3 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.82%) Law
13 3 (0.82%) Marketing
13 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 166 (45.60%) Developer
2 66 (18.13%) Senior
3 43 (11.81%) Software Engineer
4 37 (10.16%) Java Developer
5 32 (8.79%) Java Engineer
6 26 (7.14%) Consultant
7 25 (6.87%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.32%) C# Developer
9 22 (6.04%) Lead
10 16 (4.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 15 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 14 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 12 (3.30%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.75%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (2.75%) Data Engineer
15 9 (2.47%) Architect
15 9 (2.47%) Python Developer
15 9 (2.47%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (18.41%) .NET
2 62 (17.03%) REST
3 51 (14.01%) AngularJS
3 51 (14.01%) RESTful
4 45 (12.36%) Spring
5 39 (10.71%) Web Services
6 37 (10.16%) React
7 36 (9.89%) Quarkus
8 35 (9.62%) Spring Boot
9 32 (8.79%) Node.js
10 31 (8.52%) pytest
11 27 (7.42%) .NET Framework
12 26 (7.14%) SOAP
13 23 (6.32%) HTML
13 23 (6.32%) Terraform
14 22 (6.04%) JSON
15 21 (5.77%) CSS
16 20 (5.49%) Kafka
16 20 (5.49%) Playwright
17 17 (4.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 18 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.37%) CMDB
8 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.82%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.52%) Linux
2 29 (7.97%) Windows
3 11 (3.02%) Unix
4 9 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.10%) Android
5 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (52.47%) Agile
2 158 (43.41%) CI/CD
3 116 (31.87%) DevOps
4 112 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 110 (30.22%) Test Automation
6 99 (27.20%) Scrum
7 90 (24.73%) Integration Testing
7 90 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (20.88%) SDLC
8 76 (20.88%) User Acceptance Testing
9 73 (20.05%) TDD
10 60 (16.48%) Microservices
11 58 (15.93%) AI
12 54 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (14.29%) Validation
14 50 (13.74%) Clean Code
15 48 (13.19%) Front End Development
15 48 (13.19%) Sprint Planning
16 45 (12.36%) Code Quality
17 39 (10.71%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 104 (28.57%) SQL
2 102 (28.02%) Java
3 93 (25.55%) C#
4 67 (18.41%) JavaScript
5 60 (16.48%) Python
6 29 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.95%) C++
8 14 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 14 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.47%) Bash
10 8 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.92%) ABAP
11 7 (1.92%) C
11 7 (1.92%) X++
12 6 (1.65%) Scala
13 5 (1.37%) Go
13 5 (1.37%) XAML
14 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.10%) Swift
15 3 (0.82%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 116 (31.87%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.44%) Degree
4 18 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.10%) PhD
9 3 (0.82%) ACCA
9 3 (0.82%) CIMA
9 3 (0.82%) CISSP
9 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISA
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (24.18%) QA
2 13 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.47%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) Basel III
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.27%) GMP
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (18.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 92 (25.27%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.89%) Argo
3 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.82%) Istio
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 55 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.99%) Oracle
3 34 (9.34%) Red Hat
4 25 (6.87%) SAP
5 11 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.75%) Google
7 9 (2.47%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.20%) Citrix
8 8 (2.20%) Pega
8 8 (2.20%) UiPath
9 6 (1.65%) Splunk
10 5 (1.37%) Informatica
10 5 (1.37%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.10%) Databricks
11 4 (1.10%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.10%) VMware
11 4 (1.10%) Workday
12 2 (0.55%) Adobe
12 2 (0.55%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.55%) webMethods