Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Unit Testing
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 13 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 23.21% 2.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.89% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £513 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 40 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 80.36% 97.56% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 49
10th Percentile £208 £250 £197
25th Percentile £336 £306 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -1.71% -1.44%
75th Percentile £509 £581 £550
90th Percentile £519 £588 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile £55.00 £23.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +125.35% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £13.14
90th Percentile - £30.30 £18.75
Surrey median hourly rate £66.99 £25.15 £18.35
% change year-on-year +166.36% +37.06% -59.22%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Guildford

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in Guildford

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in Guildford over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in Guildford

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 13 (100.00%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 12 (92.31%) Front End Development
2 12 (92.31%) Scrum
2 12 (92.31%) SDLC
2 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
3 11 (84.62%) Sprint Planning
3 11 (84.62%) Sprint Review
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Argo
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Red Hat