JUnit Contract Job Trends in London

JUnit
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 248 316
Rank change year-on-year -118 +68 +50
Contract jobs citing JUnit 85 114 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.85% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.33% 5.36% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 69 55
10th Percentile £374 £359 £459
25th Percentile £426 £385 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.78%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £606
90th Percentile £635 £626 £723
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £56.50 -
England median hourly rate - £63.25 -

All Development Application Skills
London

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,554 2,127 2,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.65% 15.84% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,654 1,430 1,592
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £742 £750 £774
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 18
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £30.75 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -32.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £105.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JUnit job vacancy trend in London

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JUnit

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in London

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JUnit

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Central London -24 16 £525 +34.62% 7
South London -16 2 - - 1
JUnit
England

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (9.41%) Confluence
2 6 (7.06%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.29%) GitHub
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
2 29 (34.12%) Azure
3 22 (25.88%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (17.65%) GCP
5 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.24%) Serverless
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.18%) Internet
2 1 (1.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.76%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.94%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.71%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.71%) MySQL
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.35%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.35%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 48 (56.47%) Jenkins
2 39 (45.88%) Mockito
3 33 (38.82%) Gradle
4 32 (37.65%) Git
5 26 (30.59%) GitLab
6 22 (25.88%) Cucumber
6 22 (25.88%) Maven
7 14 (16.47%) SonarQube
8 12 (14.12%) Liquibase
8 12 (14.12%) Selenium
9 11 (12.94%) JIRA
9 11 (12.94%) REST Assured
10 8 (9.41%) TestNG
11 7 (8.24%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (7.06%) CircleCI
12 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (5.88%) Postman
14 4 (4.71%) Flyway
14 4 (4.71%) Gatling
14 4 (4.71%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (27.06%) Finance
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Banking
3 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Law
6 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.53%) Police
8 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Publishing
9 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (54.12%) Developer
2 39 (45.88%) Java Developer
3 18 (21.18%) Senior
4 11 (12.94%) Java Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Lead
10 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Android Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (64.71%) Spring
1 55 (64.71%) Spring Boot
2 41 (48.24%) Kafka
3 40 (47.06%) REST
4 37 (43.53%) RESTful
5 21 (24.71%) React
6 15 (17.65%) OpenAPI
6 15 (17.65%) Swagger
7 13 (15.29%) CSS
7 13 (15.29%) JPA
7 13 (15.29%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (14.12%) Hibernate
9 11 (12.94%) HTML
10 10 (11.76%) Android Jetpack
10 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
11 9 (10.59%) Jetpack Compose
11 9 (10.59%) RxJava
12 8 (9.41%) SOAP
12 8 (9.41%) Terraform
13 7 (8.24%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.24%) Mobile App
4 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.53%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Linux
2 10 (11.76%) Android
3 8 (9.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.18%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (85.88%) CI/CD
2 54 (63.53%) Agile
3 52 (61.18%) Microservices
4 50 (58.82%) Test Automation
5 38 (44.71%) DevOps
6 37 (43.53%) TDD
7 32 (37.65%) Containerisation
8 23 (27.06%) BDD
9 19 (22.35%) Event-Driven
9 19 (22.35%) Scrum
10 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (20.00%) Clean Code
12 16 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
13 15 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
14 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
15 12 (14.12%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (12.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 76 (89.41%) Java
2 37 (43.53%) SQL
3 23 (27.06%) TypeScript
4 13 (15.29%) Kotlin
5 10 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.88%) C#
6 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.71%) Python
8 2 (2.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) Korn
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) SC Cleared
1 27 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) Degree
3 12 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.71%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (45.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (34.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Grafana
3 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.53%) Ansible
5 1 (1.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (10.59%) Oracle
2 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) Databricks
3 5 (5.88%) IBM
3 5 (5.88%) Veracode
4 4 (4.71%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase