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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 258 149
Rank change year-on-year -51 -109 +32
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 354 292 548
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.05% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.16% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 186 344
10th Percentile £285 £357 £378
25th Percentile £390 £384 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -14.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £688 £766 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 40
10th Percentile £43.45 - £60.63
25th Percentile £62.50 - £62.19
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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -33 171 £500 -4.76% 171
North of England -57 71 £460 +9.20% 53
South East -26 56 £513 +23.49% 52
North East -14 35 £468 -15.00% 12
Midlands -47 29 £500 +8.11% 39
West Midlands -30 26 £500 - 23
North West -74 24 £461 +0.38% 34
East of England -39 17 £619 +26.92% 39
South West -29 12 £500 -9.09% 30
Yorkshire -38 12 £447 +14.62% 7
East Midlands -30 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 5 (1.41%) Confluence
1 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.13%) SAS
3 3 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.56%) Camunda
4 2 (0.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.28%) Mendix
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Traefik
5 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.85%) Trello
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.85%) SAP HCM
3 3 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.85%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.56%) HFM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.03%) Azure
2 47 (13.28%) AWS
3 42 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.30%) OpenShift
5 35 (9.89%) GitHub
6 30 (8.47%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.37%) Serverless
8 17 (4.80%) GCP
9 15 (4.24%) PowerApps
10 13 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.67%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.54%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.52%) Internet
2 13 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.39%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.56%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) DSL
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.67%) Power BI
7 12 (3.39%) MySQL
8 10 (2.82%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.54%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.26%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.98%) Redis
11 7 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.41%) Metadata
13 5 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (1.13%) SAP HANA
14 4 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (25.71%) Git
2 41 (11.58%) SonarQube
3 36 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 33 (9.32%) GitLab
5 28 (7.91%) JIRA
6 25 (7.06%) Visual Studio
7 23 (6.50%) JUnit
8 17 (4.80%) Gradle
8 17 (4.80%) Selenium
9 16 (4.52%) Maven
10 14 (3.95%) Eclipse
11 11 (3.11%) Bitbucket
11 11 (3.11%) Cucumber
12 9 (2.54%) NUnit
13 7 (1.98%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.69%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.69%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.41%) JSUnit
15 5 (1.41%) MSTest
15 5 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 107 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.06%) Finance
3 53 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (13.56%) Banking
5 34 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.67%) Military
7 10 (2.82%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.82%) Front Office
8 9 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.69%) Retail
12 4 (1.13%) Billing
12 4 (1.13%) Legal
13 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.85%) Law
13 3 (0.85%) Marketing
13 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 162 (45.76%) Developer
2 64 (18.08%) Senior
3 43 (12.15%) Software Engineer
4 36 (10.17%) Java Developer
5 31 (8.76%) Java Engineer
6 26 (7.34%) Consultant
7 24 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 22 (6.21%) Lead
9 21 (5.93%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 15 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (3.95%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.39%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.39%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 12 (3.39%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.82%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (2.54%) Python Developer
15 9 (2.54%) Technical Consultant
16 8 (2.26%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.64%) .NET
2 57 (16.10%) REST
3 50 (14.12%) AngularJS
4 47 (13.28%) RESTful
5 43 (12.15%) Spring
6 36 (10.17%) Quarkus
7 35 (9.89%) React
8 34 (9.60%) Web Services
9 33 (9.32%) Spring Boot
10 31 (8.76%) Node.js
11 27 (7.63%) pytest
12 26 (7.34%) .NET Framework
13 22 (6.21%) HTML
13 22 (6.21%) JSON
14 21 (5.93%) Playwright
14 21 (5.93%) SOAP
15 20 (5.65%) CSS
16 19 (5.37%) Kafka
17 18 (5.08%) Terraform
18 15 (4.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.19%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.41%) CMDB
8 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.85%) IoT
10 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.19%) Linux
2 27 (7.63%) Windows
3 11 (3.11%) Unix
4 9 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.13%) Android
5 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (51.69%) Agile
2 148 (41.81%) CI/CD
3 109 (30.79%) DevOps
4 107 (30.23%) Software Engineering
5 103 (29.10%) Test Automation
6 95 (26.84%) Scrum
7 88 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (23.16%) Integration Testing
9 77 (21.75%) User Acceptance Testing
10 76 (21.47%) SDLC
11 67 (18.93%) TDD
12 57 (16.10%) AI
13 56 (15.82%) Microservices
14 53 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (14.12%) Validation
16 49 (13.84%) Clean Code
17 48 (13.56%) Front End Development
18 47 (13.28%) Sprint Planning
19 42 (11.86%) Code Quality
20 38 (10.73%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (29.10%) SQL
2 94 (26.55%) Java
3 90 (25.42%) C#
4 63 (17.80%) JavaScript
5 55 (15.54%) Python
6 28 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.08%) C++
8 14 (3.95%) PL/SQL
8 14 (3.95%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.26%) Bash
9 8 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.98%) ABAP
10 7 (1.98%) C
10 7 (1.98%) X++
11 6 (1.69%) Scala
12 4 (1.13%) Swift
13 3 (0.85%) Bicep
13 3 (0.85%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.85%) XAML
Qualifications
1 116 (32.77%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.89%) Degree
4 17 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.13%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.85%) ACCA
8 3 (0.85%) CIMA
8 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.56%) PhD
10 1 (0.28%) CCNA
10 1 (0.28%) CISA
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (25.71%) QA
2 12 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.26%) WCAG
5 3 (0.85%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 65 (18.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (24.86%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.17%) Argo
3 4 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.56%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 57 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.73%) Oracle
3 34 (9.60%) Red Hat
4 25 (7.06%) SAP
5 11 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.54%) Avaloq
7 8 (2.26%) Citrix
7 8 (2.26%) UiPath
8 7 (1.98%) Informatica
8 7 (1.98%) Pega
9 6 (1.69%) Google
9 6 (1.69%) Splunk
10 5 (1.41%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.13%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.13%) VMware
11 4 (1.13%) Workday
12 2 (0.56%) Adobe
12 2 (0.56%) Hyperion
13 1 (0.28%) Cisco
13 1 (0.28%) Murex