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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 240 154
Rank change year-on-year -79 -86 +30
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 376 310 544
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.10% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.21% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 194 342
10th Percentile £283 £357 £375
25th Percentile £374 £385 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £650
90th Percentile £668 £771 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £478 £550
% change year-on-year +2.62% -13.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 26 33
10th Percentile £51.25 £63.13 £56.25
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.92% - -

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 39,797 25,656 27,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 90.96% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 16,263 16,907
10th Percentile £325 £296 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,100 1,620 1,099
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.64 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.00 £66.80
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.55 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -45 179 £500 -4.76% 13
North of England -49 82 £460 +9.20% 24
South East -27 54 £530 +21.14% 11
North East -8 34 £413 -25.00% 9
Midlands -53 33 £500 +8.11% 11
North West -60 33 £460 +0.11% 12
West Midlands -36 30 £500 -3.66% 7
East of England -37 19 £619 +26.92% 5
Yorkshire -31 15 £475 +21.79% 5
South West -29 12 £500 -9.09% 8
East Midlands -20 3 £568 +35.12% 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 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.86%) Confluence
3 4 (1.06%) Traefik
4 3 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (0.80%) SAS
5 2 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
6 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.80%) Trello
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 20 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.06%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.80%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.80%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.53%) HFM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
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 PM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 109 (28.99%) Azure
2 65 (17.29%) AWS
3 49 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (12.50%) GitHub
5 40 (10.64%) Power Platform
6 33 (8.78%) OpenShift
7 27 (7.18%) GCP
8 24 (6.38%) PowerApps
8 24 (6.38%) Serverless
9 19 (5.05%) Power Automate
10 18 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.93%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.26%) Internet
2 13 (3.46%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.19%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.53%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.53%) Intranet
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
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 45 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.38%) Relational Database
4 23 (6.12%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.59%) MySQL
6 16 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.19%) Power BI
8 11 (2.93%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.39%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.13%) Redis
11 7 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.33%) Metadata
12 5 (1.33%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.80%) Chroma
13 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.80%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 104 (27.66%) Git
2 38 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 37 (9.84%) SonarQube
4 30 (7.98%) JIRA
5 29 (7.71%) Visual Studio
6 28 (7.45%) JUnit
7 26 (6.91%) GitLab
8 19 (5.05%) Maven
9 18 (4.79%) Selenium
10 17 (4.52%) Gradle
11 15 (3.99%) Cucumber
12 13 (3.46%) Eclipse
13 10 (2.66%) Bitbucket
13 10 (2.66%) Cypress.io
13 10 (2.66%) NUnit
14 9 (2.39%) MSTest
14 9 (2.39%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (2.13%) Mockito
16 7 (1.86%) Gatling
16 7 (1.86%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.54%) Finance
3 67 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (14.10%) Banking
5 41 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.46%) Military
7 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.66%) Front Office
8 10 (2.66%) Retail
9 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.33%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.06%) Billing
14 4 (1.06%) Legal
15 3 (0.80%) Law
15 3 (0.80%) Local Government
15 3 (0.80%) Marketing
15 3 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 171 (45.48%) Developer
2 69 (18.35%) Senior
3 39 (10.37%) Software Engineer
4 33 (8.78%) Java Developer
5 30 (7.98%) Consultant
6 28 (7.45%) Java Engineer
7 27 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 24 (6.38%) Lead
9 21 (5.59%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
11 15 (3.99%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.46%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (3.19%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.93%) Architect
14 11 (2.93%) Python Developer
14 11 (2.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 10 (2.66%) C# Software Engineer
15 10 (2.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 10 (2.66%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (19.15%) .NET
2 69 (18.35%) REST
3 61 (16.22%) RESTful
4 50 (13.30%) AngularJS
5 47 (12.50%) Web Services
6 45 (11.97%) React
7 41 (10.90%) Spring
8 40 (10.64%) Node.js
9 37 (9.84%) SOAP
10 34 (9.04%) pytest
11 33 (8.78%) Spring Boot
12 29 (7.71%) HTML
13 28 (7.45%) Quarkus
14 27 (7.18%) Terraform
15 26 (6.91%) .NET Framework
15 26 (6.91%) CSS
16 25 (6.65%) JSON
17 23 (6.12%) Playwright
18 21 (5.59%) XML
19 20 (5.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.31%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.59%) Data Structures
3 21 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.33%) CMDB
8 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.06%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.80%) AS400
10 3 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.80%) IoT
10 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.11%) Linux
2 26 (6.91%) Windows
3 12 (3.19%) Unix
4 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.80%) Android
6 3 (0.80%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (52.39%) Agile
2 165 (43.88%) CI/CD
3 131 (34.84%) DevOps
4 113 (30.05%) Test Automation
5 107 (28.46%) Software Engineering
6 97 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (25.80%) Scrum
7 95 (25.27%) Integration Testing
8 84 (22.34%) User Acceptance Testing
9 78 (20.74%) SDLC
10 76 (20.21%) TDD
11 67 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (17.29%) AI
13 59 (15.69%) Microservices
14 57 (15.16%) Validation
15 53 (14.10%) Clean Code
16 48 (12.77%) Code Quality
16 48 (12.77%) Front End Development
16 48 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
17 42 (11.17%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.59%) SQL
2 94 (25.00%) Java
3 92 (24.47%) C#
4 85 (22.61%) JavaScript
5 67 (17.82%) Python
6 40 (10.64%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.05%) C++
8 17 (4.52%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.72%) Bash
10 13 (3.46%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.86%) ABAP
11 7 (1.86%) C
11 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.60%) Scala
12 6 (1.60%) X++
13 5 (1.33%) XAML
14 4 (1.06%) Go
14 4 (1.06%) Swift
15 3 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 114 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.57%) Degree
4 18 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) PhD
9 3 (0.80%) ACCA
9 3 (0.80%) CIMA
9 3 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.53%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.67%) QA
2 15 (3.99%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.93%) WCAG
5 5 (1.33%) GDPR
6 3 (0.80%) Basel III
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.27%) GMP
8 1 (0.27%) GxP
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 78 (20.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.06%) 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 98 (26.06%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.98%) Argo
3 5 (1.33%) Istio
4 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 67 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.90%) Oracle
3 33 (8.78%) SAP
4 30 (7.98%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.19%) Google
6 11 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.66%) Databricks
8 9 (2.39%) Avaloq
8 9 (2.39%) Pega
8 9 (2.39%) UiPath
9 7 (1.86%) Citrix
10 6 (1.60%) Splunk
11 5 (1.33%) Informatica
11 5 (1.33%) Sitecore
11 5 (1.33%) webMethods
12 4 (1.06%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.06%) VMware
13 2 (0.53%) Adobe
13 2 (0.53%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.53%) JDA