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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 261 310
Rank change year-on-year -86 +49 +62
Contract jobs citing JUnit 87 107 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.79% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.50% 5.13% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 55
10th Percentile £329 £359 £405
25th Percentile £423 £391 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £540 £549 £638
90th Percentile £613 £625 £825
England median daily rate £474 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -14.73% -8.33%

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 2,488 2,086 2,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.49% 15.38% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,603 1,419 1,651
10th Percentile £363 £343 £363
25th Percentile £436 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 24
10th Percentile - £26.04 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.95 £88.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 0 19 £525 +29.63%
South London -22 5 - -
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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) Camunda
2 3 (3.45%) JBoss
3 2 (2.30%) Drupal
3 2 (2.30%) WordPress
4 1 (1.15%) Ethereum
4 1 (1.15%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.15%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.23%) AWS
2 33 (37.93%) GitHub
3 26 (29.89%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (27.59%) Azure
5 14 (16.09%) GCP
6 11 (12.64%) Amazon S3
7 10 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (10.34%) Serverless
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.60%) AWS KMS
10 4 (4.60%) Route 53
11 3 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.30%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (2.30%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.15%) DSL
2 1 (1.15%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (11.49%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.30%) Db2
9 2 (2.30%) MySQL
10 1 (1.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (52.87%) Jenkins
2 39 (44.83%) Mockito
3 30 (34.48%) Git
4 28 (32.18%) Gradle
5 22 (25.29%) GitLab
6 19 (21.84%) JIRA
7 17 (19.54%) Cucumber
8 14 (16.09%) Liquibase
8 14 (16.09%) Maven
9 9 (10.34%) Selenium
10 7 (8.05%) SonarQube
10 7 (8.05%) TestNG
11 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
11 6 (6.90%) REST Assured
12 5 (5.75%) Postman
13 4 (4.60%) DbUnit
13 4 (4.60%) Flyway
13 4 (4.60%) jMock
13 4 (4.60%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (27.59%) Finance
2 22 (25.29%) Banking
3 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Law
6 3 (3.45%) Police
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Publishing
8 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (45.98%) Developer
2 30 (34.48%) Java Developer
3 15 (17.24%) Senior
4 13 (14.94%) Java Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Software Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Analyst
10 4 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Test Analyst
11 3 (3.45%) Citrix Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (65.52%) Spring
2 54 (62.07%) Spring Boot
3 46 (52.87%) Kafka
4 36 (41.38%) REST
5 33 (37.93%) RESTful
6 21 (24.14%) React
7 14 (16.09%) OpenAPI
7 14 (16.09%) Swagger
8 11 (12.64%) Android Jetpack
9 10 (11.49%) AngularJS
9 10 (11.49%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (10.34%) JPA
10 9 (10.34%) RxJava
10 9 (10.34%) SOAP
10 9 (10.34%) WireMock
11 8 (9.20%) CSS
11 8 (9.20%) Hibernate
11 8 (9.20%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (9.20%) Web Services
12 7 (8.05%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.20%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.30%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.15%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Android
2 6 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Unix
5 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (77.01%) CI/CD
2 54 (62.07%) Agile
2 54 (62.07%) Microservices
3 38 (43.68%) Test Automation
4 34 (39.08%) DevOps
5 32 (36.78%) TDD
6 30 (34.48%) Containerisation
7 21 (24.14%) Scrum
8 18 (20.69%) BDD
9 15 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven
11 12 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.64%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (12.64%) Migration
12 11 (12.64%) Observability
13 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (11.49%) Integration Testing
14 9 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (83.91%) Java
2 33 (37.93%) SQL
3 24 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 11 (12.64%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.20%) C#
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.05%) Python
7 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.30%) PHP
9 1 (1.15%) Korn
9 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.99%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (48.28%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Postfix
2 3 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (40.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) Ansible
3 6 (6.90%) Grafana
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.60%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (3.45%) Citrix
3 3 (3.45%) IBM
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle
3 3 (3.45%) Sybase
4 2 (2.30%) Google
4 2 (2.30%) Splunk
4 2 (2.30%) Veracode
5 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow