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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 247 150
Rank change year-on-year -77 -97 +43
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 350 287 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.05% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.15% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 191 337
10th Percentile £283 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £385 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £650
90th Percentile £680 £766 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 24 42
10th Percentile £38.25 £62.38 £61.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £61.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile - £65.50 -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -41 177 £500 - 124
North of England -60 69 £463 +9.79% 49
South East -31 58 £513 +12.02% 18
North East -6 35 £510 -7.27% 10
Midlands -54 29 £496 +7.27% 24
West Midlands -34 24 £500 - 16
North West -83 22 £463 +0.65% 32
Yorkshire -45 12 £447 +14.62% 8
South West -33 10 £500 -9.09% 27
East of England -38 9 £619 +26.92% 26
East Midlands -31 5 £430 -2.61% 8
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 5 (1.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) SAS
2 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.57%) Camunda
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) IIS
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) Mendix
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) Mule
5 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.86%) Trello
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (5.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.14%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.14%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.86%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.86%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.57%) HFM
4 2 (0.57%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.29%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 84 (24.00%) Azure
2 49 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (12.00%) AWS
4 41 (11.71%) GitHub
4 41 (11.71%) OpenShift
5 27 (7.71%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.71%) Serverless
7 14 (4.00%) GCP
8 13 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (3.71%) PowerApps
9 11 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.14%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.57%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.57%) Internet
2 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.43%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.57%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.57%) Intranet
4 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.29%) DSL
5 1 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) NFC
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) SSL
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.86%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.71%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.43%) Power BI
7 11 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.14%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.14%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.57%) MySQL
8 9 (2.57%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.29%) Redis
10 7 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.43%) Metadata
11 5 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.14%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 87 (24.86%) Git
2 42 (12.00%) SonarQube
3 34 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 33 (9.43%) GitLab
5 30 (8.57%) JIRA
6 22 (6.29%) JUnit
7 19 (5.43%) Selenium
8 18 (5.14%) Visual Studio
9 12 (3.43%) Gradle
10 11 (3.14%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.14%) Maven
11 9 (2.57%) Cucumber
12 8 (2.29%) NUnit
13 7 (2.00%) Eclipse
14 6 (1.71%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.71%) MSTest
14 6 (1.71%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.43%) JMeter
15 5 (1.43%) JSUnit
15 5 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.86%) Finance
3 51 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (14.00%) Banking
5 33 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.57%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.57%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.29%) Front Office
7 8 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.29%) Retail
8 6 (1.71%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.71%) Military
9 4 (1.14%) Billing
9 4 (1.14%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.86%) Marketing
10 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.86%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (45.71%) Developer
2 63 (18.00%) Senior
3 39 (11.14%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 30 (8.57%) Java Engineer
6 27 (7.71%) Consultant
7 22 (6.29%) Lead
7 22 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 20 (5.71%) C# Developer
9 16 (4.57%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (4.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 14 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
11 13 (3.71%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 12 (3.43%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
14 9 (2.57%) Informatica Engineer
14 9 (2.57%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.86%) .NET
2 57 (16.29%) REST
3 52 (14.86%) AngularJS
4 44 (12.57%) RESTful
5 38 (10.86%) Quarkus
6 36 (10.29%) Spring
7 34 (9.71%) React
8 29 (8.29%) pytest
9 28 (8.00%) .NET Framework
10 27 (7.71%) Spring Boot
10 27 (7.71%) Web Services
11 24 (6.86%) Node.js
12 23 (6.57%) SOAP
13 22 (6.29%) HTML
14 21 (6.00%) CSS
14 21 (6.00%) JSON
15 20 (5.71%) Playwright
16 19 (5.43%) Kafka
17 18 (5.14%) Terraform
18 14 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 19 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.00%) CMDB
8 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.86%) IoT
10 3 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.71%) Windows
2 16 (4.57%) Linux
3 9 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.43%) Unix
5 4 (1.14%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (50.57%) Agile
2 137 (39.14%) CI/CD
3 116 (33.14%) DevOps
4 100 (28.57%) Scrum
4 100 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 99 (28.29%) Software Engineering
6 89 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (22.57%) User Acceptance Testing
8 78 (22.29%) Integration Testing
9 77 (22.00%) SDLC
10 57 (16.29%) TDD
11 54 (15.43%) Microservices
12 53 (15.14%) AI
13 52 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (14.00%) Sprint Planning
15 46 (13.14%) Clean Code
15 46 (13.14%) Front End Development
15 46 (13.14%) Validation
16 42 (12.00%) Code Quality
17 39 (11.14%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 106 (30.29%) SQL
2 90 (25.71%) Java
3 84 (24.00%) C#
4 58 (16.57%) Python
5 53 (15.14%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 14 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.57%) Bash
9 9 (2.57%) C++
10 7 (2.00%) ABAP
10 7 (2.00%) Scala
10 7 (2.00%) X++
11 5 (1.43%) C
11 5 (1.43%) Swift
12 4 (1.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.86%) Bicep
13 3 (0.86%) XAML
14 2 (0.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 114 (32.57%) Security Cleared
2 92 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.43%) Degree
4 14 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.86%) ACCA
9 3 (0.86%) CIMA
9 3 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.57%) PhD
11 1 (0.29%) CCNA
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (26.57%) QA
2 12 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.00%) WCAG
5 3 (0.86%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) GDPR
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.29%) GMP
7 1 (0.29%) GxP
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (17.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (24.57%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.86%) Argo
3 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Istio
5 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 55 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.57%) Oracle
3 36 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 27 (7.71%) SAP
5 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.14%) Informatica
7 9 (2.57%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.29%) Citrix
8 8 (2.29%) UiPath
9 7 (2.00%) Pega
10 6 (1.71%) Splunk
11 5 (1.43%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.14%) Google
12 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.14%) Workday
13 3 (0.86%) Databricks
14 2 (0.57%) Adobe
14 2 (0.57%) HP
14 2 (0.57%) Hyperion
14 2 (0.57%) VMware