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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 256 168
Rank change year-on-year -47 -88 +17
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 366 276 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.01% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.11% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 186 344
10th Percentile £283 £336 £388
25th Percentile £378 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £638
90th Percentile £669 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 19 49
10th Percentile £59.00 £59.50 £60.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £63.13 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -36 184 £475 -5.00% 38
South East -17 72 £513 +12.02% 20
North of England -46 67 £463 +11.45% 32
North East -12 31 £510 -7.27% 6
North West -48 27 £463 +5.47% 22
East of England -22 16 £625 +33.33% 9
South West -31 15 £500 -9.09% 14
Midlands -62 14 £494 +12.34% 20
Yorkshire -42 9 £483 +20.75% 5
East Midlands -25 8 £485 +15.48% 8
West Midlands -50 6 £519 +12.89% 12
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 (1.64%) Confluence
2 4 (1.09%) IIS
2 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (0.82%) Mendix
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 2 (0.55%) Camunda
4 2 (0.55%) CMS
4 2 (0.55%) JBoss
4 2 (0.55%) Mule
4 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.82%) Trello
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 11 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.91%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.64%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.55%) HFM
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 81 (22.13%) Azure
2 44 (12.02%) AWS
2 44 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (11.48%) OpenShift
4 40 (10.93%) GitHub
5 25 (6.83%) Serverless
6 18 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (3.28%) GCP
9 11 (3.01%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.73%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.73%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.91%) OCI
14 6 (1.64%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.37%) Ethernet
2 14 (3.83%) Internet
3 13 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.82%) Modbus
4 3 (0.82%) RS-232
4 3 (0.82%) RS-422
4 3 (0.82%) RS-485
5 2 (0.55%) DSL
5 2 (0.55%) Intranet
6 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) NFC
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.66%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.37%) Oracle Database
4 15 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 14 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.01%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.73%) Power BI
8 9 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.19%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.91%) Redis
11 6 (1.64%) Metadata
11 6 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.09%) MySQL
13 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 71 (19.40%) Git
2 42 (11.48%) SonarQube
3 35 (9.56%) Jenkins
4 32 (8.74%) GitLab
4 32 (8.74%) Visual Studio
5 27 (7.38%) JIRA
6 21 (5.74%) JUnit
7 16 (4.37%) Eclipse
7 16 (4.37%) Selenium
8 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.01%) MSTest
8 11 (3.01%) NUnit
9 10 (2.73%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.73%) Gradle
10 7 (1.91%) Maven
10 7 (1.91%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.37%) JMeter
11 5 (1.37%) JSUnit
11 5 (1.37%) Mockito
11 5 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 80 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.58%) Finance
3 48 (13.11%) Banking
4 41 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.83%) Military
7 9 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.19%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.91%) Retail
10 6 (1.64%) Front Office
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Electronics
11 3 (0.82%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Legal
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Marketing
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 173 (47.27%) Developer
2 67 (18.31%) Senior
3 52 (14.21%) Software Engineer
4 38 (10.38%) Java Developer
5 29 (7.92%) Java Engineer
6 28 (7.65%) C# Developer
7 26 (7.10%) Consultant
8 25 (6.83%) Senior Developer
9 21 (5.74%) .NET Developer
10 19 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.19%) Lead
11 14 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (3.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 13 (3.55%) C# Software Engineer
12 13 (3.55%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.28%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (20.77%) .NET
2 59 (16.12%) REST
3 57 (15.57%) AngularJS
4 48 (13.11%) RESTful
5 40 (10.93%) .NET Framework
5 40 (10.93%) Quarkus
6 35 (9.56%) React
7 34 (9.29%) Spring
8 30 (8.20%) Web Services
9 28 (7.65%) Spring Boot
10 27 (7.38%) Node.js
11 26 (7.10%) CSS
12 25 (6.83%) HTML
13 23 (6.28%) JSON
13 23 (6.28%) pytest
14 21 (5.74%) SOAP
15 20 (5.46%) Kafka
16 18 (4.92%) XML
17 17 (4.64%) Entity Framework
18 15 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.28%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.91%) CMDB
8 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.55%) Equities
12 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.38%) Windows
2 20 (5.46%) Linux
3 11 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.91%) Unix
6 6 (1.64%) Android
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (50.00%) Agile
2 143 (39.07%) CI/CD
3 115 (31.42%) Software Engineering
4 112 (30.60%) DevOps
5 103 (28.14%) Scrum
6 97 (26.50%) Test Automation
7 71 (19.40%) SDLC
8 69 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (18.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 60 (16.39%) Integration Testing
11 59 (16.12%) TDD
12 56 (15.30%) Microservices
13 50 (13.66%) Front End Development
13 50 (13.66%) Validation
14 48 (13.11%) AI
15 47 (12.84%) Sprint Planning
16 44 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (11.75%) Clean Code
17 43 (11.75%) Sprint Review
18 41 (11.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 110 (30.05%) SQL
2 105 (28.69%) C#
3 96 (26.23%) Java
4 55 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 54 (14.75%) Python
6 30 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 26 (7.10%) PL/SQL
8 23 (6.28%) C++
8 23 (6.28%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.83%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.01%) ABAP
11 9 (2.46%) C
11 9 (2.46%) Swift
12 7 (1.91%) X++
13 5 (1.37%) Bicep
13 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.82%) Go
15 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.55%) ProC
Qualifications
1 110 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.20%) Degree
4 12 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.91%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) ACCA
8 3 (0.82%) CIMA
9 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.55%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (27.87%) QA
2 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.64%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.55%) Basel III
5 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.27%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (15.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 83 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 40 (10.93%) Argo
3 16 (4.37%) Terraform
4 5 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.55%) Ansible
6 2 (0.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.93%) Oracle
3 38 (10.38%) Red Hat
4 22 (6.01%) SAP
5 13 (3.55%) Citrix
6 11 (3.01%) Informatica
7 9 (2.46%) Avaloq
8 8 (2.19%) Pega
8 8 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.37%) Databricks
9 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.37%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.37%) Splunk
10 4 (1.09%) Google
10 4 (1.09%) Workday
11 3 (0.82%) HP
11 3 (0.82%) Sybase
12 2 (0.55%) Adobe
12 2 (0.55%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.55%) IBM