Unit Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 44 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 17 28 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.23% 3.42% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 3.71% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 9
10th Percentile £290 £418 £420
25th Percentile £300 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £479 £523
Median % change year-on-year -31.52% -8.33% +16.11%
75th Percentile £387 £511 £538
90th Percentile £509 £564 £583
Scotland median daily rate £356 £483 £488
% change year-on-year -26.29% -0.92% -4.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 754 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.19% 92.18% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 494 589
10th Percentile £300 £275 £349
25th Percentile £381 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.83% +7.33%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £580
90th Percentile £600 £618 £688
Scotland median daily rate £461 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.27% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 34
10th Percentile £15.44 £11.94 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £36.22 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +161.05% -62.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £54.69 £22.50
90th Percentile £73.19 £68.75 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (35.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MongoDB
2 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
4 5 (29.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (11.76%) MySQL
6 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.88%) DB2
7 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JUnit
2 8 (47.06%) Git
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (35.29%) PVCS
3 6 (35.29%) Subversion
4 2 (11.76%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) Mockito
General
1 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 1 (5.88%) ETL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Oracle ETL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) React
3 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
3 6 (35.29%) Java EE
3 6 (35.29%) Kafka
4 5 (29.41%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
5 2 (11.76%) JMS
5 2 (11.76%) JPA
5 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (41.18%) Front End Development
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
2 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
3 6 (35.29%) ETL
3 6 (35.29%) SDLC
3 6 (35.29%) Technical Analysis
4 5 (29.41%) Community of Practice
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (29.41%) ETL Development
4 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
4 5 (29.41%) Micro Frontends
4 5 (29.41%) Operational Stability
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) C
3 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
3 6 (35.29%) ProC
4 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 4 (23.53%) Python
6 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Dynatrace
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase