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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 157 188
Rank change year-on-year -76 +31 -23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 355 500 514
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.61% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.84% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 310 337
10th Percentile £359 £395 £429
25th Percentile £404 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% -3.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £662 £688
90th Percentile £763 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 59
10th Percentile £55.69 £47.50 £48.32
25th Percentile - £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £71.50
90th Percentile £67.67 £65.25 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -72 168 £525 -5.96% 44
North of England -2 70 £447 -10.60% 25
North West +4 48 £453 -7.03% 17
Midlands -22 39 £463 -11.48% 12
East of England -6 36 £488 +33.56% 23
South East -55 25 £591 -7.29% 52
West Midlands -13 24 £519 -15.20% 5
Yorkshire -17 17 £395 -34.17% 5
East Midlands -11 15 £415 -4.60% 7
South West -1 7 £550 +10.00% 15
North East -5 5 £550 - 3
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 23 (6.48%) Confluence
2 15 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.69%) Apache
4 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.13%) CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Camunda
6 3 (0.85%) JBoss
6 3 (0.85%) Mule
6 3 (0.85%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Drupal
8 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) InVision
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.13%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.85%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.85%) SAP MDG-M
4 3 (0.85%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.59%) Azure
2 60 (16.90%) AWS
3 37 (10.42%) GitHub
4 32 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.76%) GCP
6 18 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.79%) Serverless
8 12 (3.38%) PaaS
9 10 (2.82%) Cloud Run
9 10 (2.82%) OCI
10 9 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.54%) npm
11 8 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.25%) Firebase
11 8 (2.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (2.25%) Google Play
11 8 (2.25%) IaaS
12 7 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.76%) TCP/IP
2 21 (5.92%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.85%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.56%) X.509
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.79%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.51%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.94%) Power BI
6 11 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.10%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.10%) Redis
7 8 (2.25%) Big Data
8 7 (1.97%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.69%) MySQL
10 5 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.13%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.13%) DB2
12 3 (0.85%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.85%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.85%) Metadata
12 3 (0.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 118 (33.24%) Git
2 56 (15.77%) JIRA
3 40 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 30 (8.45%) Visual Studio
5 29 (8.17%) Postman
6 28 (7.89%) JUnit
7 25 (7.04%) SonarQube
8 23 (6.48%) Eclipse
9 15 (4.23%) Xcode
10 14 (3.94%) SpecFlow
11 13 (3.66%) Bitbucket
11 13 (3.66%) Cypress.io
11 13 (3.66%) Maven
12 10 (2.82%) GitLab
12 10 (2.82%) Mockito
13 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.25%) Gradle
13 8 (2.25%) Selenium
14 7 (1.97%) Android Studio
14 7 (1.97%) gulp
General
1 112 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.23%) Finance
3 49 (13.80%) Banking
4 45 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.48%) Military
7 22 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.66%) Front Office
10 11 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.10%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.69%) Marketing
13 5 (1.41%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.13%) Electronics
15 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.85%) Law
15 3 (0.85%) Legal
15 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (47.61%) Developer
2 64 (18.03%) Software Engineer
3 53 (14.93%) Senior
4 41 (11.55%) Java Developer
5 36 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 22 (6.20%) C++ Software Engineer
7 19 (5.35%) C# Software Engineer
7 19 (5.35%) Lead
8 17 (4.79%) C# Developer
9 16 (4.51%) .NET Developer
9 16 (4.51%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.23%) Angular Developer
11 14 (3.94%) Android Developer
11 14 (3.94%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.66%) Consultant
12 13 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.38%) Analyst
14 11 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.25%) iOS Developer
15 8 (2.25%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.06%) REST
2 55 (15.49%) React
3 50 (14.08%) Node.js
3 50 (14.08%) Web Services
4 49 (13.80%) .NET
5 48 (13.52%) RESTful
6 47 (13.24%) CSS
7 46 (12.96%) HTML
8 43 (12.11%) AngularJS
8 43 (12.11%) Spring
9 40 (11.27%) Spring Boot
10 25 (7.04%) Kafka
11 24 (6.76%) JSON
12 23 (6.48%) .NET Framework
13 22 (6.20%) HTML5
13 22 (6.20%) Jest
13 22 (6.20%) SOAP
14 21 (5.92%) pytest
15 20 (5.63%) CSS3
15 20 (5.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 20 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.38%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.38%) Life Science
4 12 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.10%) Genomics
6 8 (2.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.69%) FPGA
8 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.69%) PCIe
8 6 (1.69%) State Machine
9 5 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
9 5 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
10 4 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.77%) Linux
2 47 (13.24%) Windows
3 31 (8.73%) Android
4 22 (6.20%) Apple iOS
5 18 (5.07%) Unix
6 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.85%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.28%) tvOS
9 1 (0.28%) watchOS
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (51.27%) Agile
2 150 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 101 (28.45%) DevOps
4 99 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (24.79%) Software Engineering
6 87 (24.51%) Test Automation
7 77 (21.69%) TDD
8 71 (20.00%) Microservices
9 61 (17.18%) Scrum
10 51 (14.37%) Integration Testing
11 50 (14.08%) Containerisation
12 48 (13.52%) Continuous Integration
13 45 (12.68%) Clean Code
14 43 (12.11%) Code Quality
15 41 (11.55%) Analytics
15 41 (11.55%) Validation
16 40 (11.27%) Mentoring
17 38 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (9.58%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (29.01%) Java
2 85 (23.94%) SQL
3 74 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 71 (20.00%) C#
5 62 (17.46%) Python
6 49 (13.80%) C++
7 25 (7.04%) Kotlin
8 24 (6.76%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.94%) PL/SQL
9 14 (3.94%) Scala
10 12 (3.38%) C
10 12 (3.38%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.38%) Swift
11 9 (2.54%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.25%) Groovy
12 8 (2.25%) Objective-C
12 8 (2.25%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.41%) ABAP
14 4 (1.13%) Ruby
14 4 (1.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 44 (12.39%) Degree
3 42 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) ISEB
7 1 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.80%) QA
2 29 (8.17%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.54%) ISO 20022
5 8 (2.25%) PSD2
5 8 (2.25%) SEPA
5 8 (2.25%) SLA
6 4 (1.13%) WCAG
7 3 (0.85%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (16.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) HDFS
5 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.79%) Terraform
3 7 (1.97%) Ansible
3 7 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.85%) Argo
4 3 (0.85%) Control-M
4 3 (0.85%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.85%) Oozie
4 3 (0.85%) Podman
4 3 (0.85%) SELinux
5 2 (0.56%) Cilium
5 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.56%) Kibana
5 2 (0.56%) Rsyslog
5 2 (0.56%) SCOM
6 1 (0.28%) Istio
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (13.52%) Oracle
2 41 (11.55%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.89%) Google
4 16 (4.51%) SAP
5 12 (3.38%) Databricks
6 8 (2.25%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (2.25%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.25%) Splunk
7 7 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.69%) Citrix
8 6 (1.69%) Pega
8 6 (1.69%) Perforce
9 5 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.41%) VMware
9 5 (1.41%) Workday
10 4 (1.13%) Adobe
10 4 (1.13%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.13%) ServiceNow