Unit Testing Contracts in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 179 190
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -34
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 471 728 1,116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.46% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.62% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 503 770
10th Percentile £375 £401 £380
25th Percentile £450 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £651
90th Percentile £696 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 38 14
10th Percentile - £48.26 £37.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £50.42 £46.64
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £69.31 £63.63
90th Percentile - £75.90 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +27.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +2 223 £538 -10.42% 83
North of England +26 66 £495 -10.00% 48
South East +17 64 £625 +19.05% 48
East of England +14 53 £600 +100.00% 27
North West +30 48 £495 -5.71% 23
South West -27 30 £650 +7.47% 22
Yorkshire +19 18 £550 - 17
Midlands +4 6 £450 -14.29% 45
West Midlands 0 4 £450 -21.40% 26
East Midlands +12 2 £400 +11.11% 18
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.76%) Apache
2 13 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.12%) Confluence
4 5 (1.06%) CMS
5 4 (0.85%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.85%) Mule
6 3 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.64%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.42%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.42%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.42%) nginx
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.06%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.85%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.64%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.64%) SAP VC
6 2 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.42%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.42%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.42%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.42%) Shopify
7 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 101 (21.44%) AWS
2 97 (20.59%) Azure
3 39 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (6.16%) Serverless
5 27 (5.73%) GCP
6 23 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (3.82%) Azure Functions
9 16 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.97%) GitHub
11 12 (2.55%) dbt
11 12 (2.55%) Entra ID
11 12 (2.55%) Power Platform
12 11 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (2.12%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.91%) PaaS
15 8 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.64%) Modbus
1 36 (7.64%) RS-422
1 36 (7.64%) RS-485
2 13 (2.76%) BGP
2 13 (2.76%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (2.76%) MPLS
2 13 (2.76%) VPN
3 12 (2.55%) Radio Access Network
3 12 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.12%) Ethernet
5 7 (1.49%) HTTP
6 4 (0.85%) SSL
7 2 (0.42%) DNS
7 2 (0.42%) FTP
7 2 (0.42%) Tactical Data Link
8 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.21%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) Multicast
8 1 (0.21%) PPP
8 1 (0.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (12.31%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 39 (8.28%) Relational Database
5 24 (5.10%) Oracle Database
6 22 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.82%) Oracle Database 11g
8 17 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.55%) MySQL
10 11 (2.34%) DynamoDB
11 10 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.70%) Big Data
12 8 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.49%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.27%) Power BI
15 5 (1.06%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.06%) HBase
Development Applications
1 118 (25.05%) Git
2 47 (9.98%) JIRA
3 29 (6.16%) JUnit
4 22 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.03%) GitLab
5 19 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 19 (4.03%) Visual Studio
6 16 (3.40%) Android Studio
7 15 (3.18%) Selenium
8 14 (2.97%) TestRail
9 13 (2.76%) Robot Framework
10 12 (2.55%) Mockito
11 11 (2.34%) Eclipse
12 10 (2.12%) NUnit
13 9 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (1.70%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.70%) Maven
15 7 (1.49%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
General
1 118 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.50%) Finance
3 58 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.49%) Electronics
6 20 (4.25%) Banking
6 20 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.12%) Military
8 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.70%) Marketing
8 8 (1.70%) Retail
9 7 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.49%) Law
9 7 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (0.64%) Front Office
12 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (58.17%) Developer
2 71 (15.07%) Software Engineer
3 46 (9.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 44 (9.34%) Senior
5 38 (8.07%) C++ Software Engineer
6 37 (7.86%) Java Developer
7 35 (7.43%) C# Developer
8 32 (6.79%) Lead
9 28 (5.94%) .NET Developer
10 25 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.25%) Android Developer
11 20 (4.25%) Azure Developer
12 19 (4.03%) Test Engineer
13 17 (3.61%) C# .NET Developer
13 17 (3.61%) Consultant
14 15 (3.18%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 15 (3.18%) SQL Developer
15 14 (2.97%) Angular Developer
15 14 (2.97%) Data Engineer
15 14 (2.97%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (17.41%) REST
2 79 (16.77%) React
3 66 (14.01%) .NET
4 56 (11.89%) Spring
5 54 (11.46%) AngularJS
5 54 (11.46%) RESTful
6 45 (9.55%) Web Services
7 40 (8.49%) Node.js
8 39 (8.28%) Spring Boot
9 37 (7.86%) Kafka
10 34 (7.22%) Hibernate
10 34 (7.22%) HTML
11 30 (6.37%) JPA
11 30 (6.37%) SOAP
12 28 (5.94%) CSS
13 27 (5.73%) .NET Core
14 24 (5.10%) .NET Framework
15 18 (3.82%) ASP.NET
16 17 (3.61%) Entity Framework
16 17 (3.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.82%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.27%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.27%) iPad
8 6 (1.27%) iPhone
9 5 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Wiki
11 3 (0.64%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.64%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.64%) LIMS
11 3 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.01%) Linux
2 24 (5.10%) Android
3 23 (4.88%) Windows
4 19 (4.03%) Unix
5 10 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.42%) CentOS
8 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (49.26%) Agile
2 178 (37.79%) DevOps
3 128 (27.18%) Software Engineering
4 125 (26.54%) TDD
5 107 (22.72%) CI/CD
6 98 (20.81%) Continuous Integration
7 90 (19.11%) Scrum
8 89 (18.90%) Test Automation
9 86 (18.26%) Software Testing
10 74 (15.71%) Microservices
11 61 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (12.53%) OO
13 58 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (11.89%) Full Stack Development
15 55 (11.68%) Integration Testing
16 47 (9.98%) Pair Programming
17 43 (9.13%) Customer Requirements
18 42 (8.92%) High Availability
18 42 (8.92%) SDLC
19 41 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 131 (27.81%) Java
2 129 (27.39%) SQL
3 125 (26.54%) C#
4 101 (21.44%) Python
5 78 (16.56%) JavaScript
6 72 (15.29%) C++
7 67 (14.23%) C
8 55 (11.68%) TypeScript
9 35 (7.43%) PL/SQL
10 25 (5.31%) Kotlin
11 23 (4.88%) Scala
12 13 (2.76%) PowerShell
13 11 (2.34%) Perl
14 10 (2.12%) PHP
15 9 (1.91%) Bicep
15 9 (1.91%) Go
16 8 (1.70%) Swift
16 8 (1.70%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.49%) Bash
17 7 (1.49%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 106 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 91 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.43%) Degree
4 32 (6.79%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.55%) QA
2 12 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.27%) GDPR
5 4 (0.85%) SLA
6 3 (0.64%) MiFID
6 3 (0.64%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 75 (15.92%) Docker
2 13 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.06%) HDFS
5 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.31%) Terraform
3 12 (2.55%) Grafana
4 8 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.85%) Istio
6 4 (0.85%) Puppet
7 3 (0.64%) Ansible
7 3 (0.64%) Kibana
8 2 (0.42%) Consul
8 2 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.42%) Graphite
8 2 (0.42%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.42%) linkerd
8 2 (0.42%) Packer
8 2 (0.42%) Podman
8 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.21%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (11.68%) Oracle
2 44 (9.34%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.73%) SAP
4 14 (2.97%) Google
5 7 (1.49%) VMware
6 6 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.06%) Adobe
7 5 (1.06%) Databricks
7 5 (1.06%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.06%) Typelevel
8 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.64%) Citrix
9 3 (0.64%) IBM
9 3 (0.64%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.64%) Siemens
9 3 (0.64%) Splunk
9 3 (0.64%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.42%) Advent
10 2 (0.42%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.42%) Sitecore