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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 158 187
Rank change year-on-year -82 +29 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 333 510 542
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.64% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.89% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 321 359
10th Percentile £358 £396 £430
25th Percentile £385 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £625 £651 £688
90th Percentile £763 £731 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -10.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 58
10th Percentile £57.40 £48.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £74.75
90th Percentile £67.25 - £87.59
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 26,934 26,984 35,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.48% 86.62% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,108 16,470 24,373
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,747 976 1,492
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.08% +25.12%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -83 156 £515 -6.45% 215
North of England +5 68 £425 -22.73% 55
North West +14 48 £464 -0.96% 38
Midlands -22 36 £463 -9.54% 26
East of England -15 30 £469 -6.25% 41
West Midlands -20 22 £520 -15.11% 11
South East -52 21 £438 -30.00% 207
Yorkshire -28 15 £390 -35.00% 10
East Midlands -15 14 £420 -3.45% 15
South West -12 6 £550 +15.79% 33
North East -8 5 £550 - 7
Unit Testing
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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 21 (6.31%) Confluence
2 10 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.80%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.50%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) Camunda
5 4 (1.20%) CMS
5 4 (1.20%) JBoss
6 3 (0.90%) Mule
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.60%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) CICS
8 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) InVision
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.50%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.50%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.60%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.60%) SAP VC
4 2 (0.60%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 64 (19.22%) Azure
2 48 (14.41%) AWS
3 37 (11.11%) GitHub
4 35 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.71%) GCP
6 15 (4.50%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.60%) Serverless
9 11 (3.30%) PaaS
10 10 (3.00%) Cloud Run
11 9 (2.70%) npm
11 9 (2.70%) OCI
12 8 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.40%) Firebase
12 8 (2.40%) Google Play
13 7 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.10%) IaaS
14 6 (1.80%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.11%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.90%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.60%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.60%) X.509
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.21%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.60%) Power BI
6 11 (3.30%) Redis
7 10 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.10%) Big Data
8 7 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.10%) MySQL
9 4 (1.20%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.20%) DB2
9 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.90%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.90%) HBase
10 3 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 112 (33.63%) Git
2 51 (15.32%) JIRA
3 37 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 28 (8.41%) JUnit
4 28 (8.41%) Postman
5 24 (7.21%) SonarQube
5 24 (7.21%) Visual Studio
6 19 (5.71%) Eclipse
6 19 (5.71%) Xcode
7 17 (5.11%) SpecFlow
8 14 (4.20%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 14 (4.20%) Maven
9 12 (3.60%) Gradle
10 10 (3.00%) Mockito
10 10 (3.00%) Selenium
11 7 (2.10%) Android Studio
11 7 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.10%) gulp
11 7 (2.10%) SoapUI
General
1 105 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.82%) Finance
3 51 (15.32%) Banking
4 39 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 35 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.41%) Military
6 18 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.60%) Front Office
10 10 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.80%) Marketing
13 5 (1.50%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.90%) Legal
16 2 (0.60%) Billing
16 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 165 (49.55%) Developer
2 57 (17.12%) Software Engineer
3 50 (15.02%) Senior
4 39 (11.71%) Java Developer
5 34 (10.21%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.01%) C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (5.41%) Angular Developer
8 17 (5.11%) .NET Developer
8 17 (5.11%) C# Software Engineer
9 15 (4.50%) Android Developer
9 15 (4.50%) Consultant
9 15 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (4.50%) Lead
9 15 (4.50%) Python Developer
10 14 (4.20%) C# Developer
11 12 (3.60%) Analyst
12 11 (3.30%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.30%) iOS Developer
13 9 (2.70%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (2.40%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.22%) REST
2 53 (15.92%) CSS
2 53 (15.92%) HTML
2 53 (15.92%) React
3 51 (15.32%) .NET
4 48 (14.41%) RESTful
5 46 (13.81%) AngularJS
6 44 (13.21%) Node.js
6 44 (13.21%) Web Services
7 40 (12.01%) Spring
8 35 (10.51%) Spring Boot
9 24 (7.21%) Kafka
10 23 (6.91%) .NET Framework
10 23 (6.91%) HTML5
11 22 (6.61%) Jest
11 22 (6.61%) JSON
11 22 (6.61%) Playwright
12 21 (6.31%) CSS3
12 21 (6.31%) SOAP
13 17 (5.11%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.61%) Mobile App
2 21 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.00%) Genomics
5 10 (3.00%) Life Science
5 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
8 7 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.80%) FPGA
9 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.80%) PCIe
9 6 (1.80%) State Machine
10 5 (1.50%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.50%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.32%) Linux
2 39 (11.71%) Windows
3 35 (10.51%) Android
4 26 (7.81%) Apple iOS
5 18 (5.41%) Unix
6 6 (1.80%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.90%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.30%) tvOS
9 1 (0.30%) watchOS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (51.35%) Agile
2 135 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 92 (27.63%) DevOps
4 88 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (23.12%) Software Engineering
5 77 (23.12%) TDD
6 76 (22.82%) Test Automation
7 68 (20.42%) Microservices
8 66 (19.82%) Scrum
9 42 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (12.61%) Mentoring
10 41 (12.31%) Clean Code
10 41 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
11 40 (12.01%) Integration Testing
12 38 (11.41%) Containerisation
13 36 (10.81%) Front End Development
14 35 (10.51%) Analytics
15 34 (10.21%) Code Quality
15 34 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (10.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.53%) Java
2 76 (22.82%) JavaScript
2 76 (22.82%) SQL
3 69 (20.72%) C#
4 60 (18.02%) Python
5 45 (13.51%) C++
6 28 (8.41%) Kotlin
7 23 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.11%) Scala
9 15 (4.50%) Swift
10 12 (3.60%) C
11 11 (3.30%) Objective-C
11 11 (3.30%) PL/SQL
11 11 (3.30%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.10%) Groovy
12 7 (2.10%) Ruby
12 7 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.20%) Bash
13 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 50 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.21%) Degree
3 38 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) ISEB
7 1 (0.30%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.31%) QA
2 29 (8.71%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.40%) SLA
5 6 (1.80%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.50%) PSD2
6 5 (1.50%) SEPA
7 4 (1.20%) WCAG
8 3 (0.90%) HL7
9 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.30%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (15.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) HDFS
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (15.02%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.80%) Terraform
3 7 (2.10%) Ansible
4 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.90%) Control-M
5 3 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (0.90%) Oozie
5 3 (0.90%) Podman
5 3 (0.90%) SELinux
6 2 (0.60%) Argo
6 2 (0.60%) Cilium
6 2 (0.60%) Grafana
6 2 (0.60%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.60%) Rsyslog
6 2 (0.60%) SCOM
7 1 (0.30%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.30%) Istio
7 1 (0.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (12.91%) Oracle
2 34 (10.21%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.21%) Google
4 15 (4.50%) SAP
5 10 (3.00%) Splunk
6 8 (2.40%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (2.40%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.10%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.80%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.80%) Perforce
9 5 (1.50%) Databricks
9 5 (1.50%) OpenText
9 5 (1.50%) Pega
9 5 (1.50%) Workday
10 4 (1.20%) Adobe
10 4 (1.20%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.90%) Apple