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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 266 317
Rank change year-on-year -91 +51 +45
Contract jobs citing JUnit 85 107 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.81% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.37% 5.06% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 57
10th Percentile £378 £359 £408
25th Percentile £439 £384 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £606
90th Percentile £630 £613 £773
England median daily rate £478 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +0.63% -13.64% -
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 2,522 2,114 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.59% 15.92% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 1,445 1,611
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £31.85 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £40.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 2 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 2 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 -12 17 £525 +37.25% 4
South London -23 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 7 (8.24%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) AWS
1 31 (36.47%) GitHub
2 27 (31.76%) Azure
3 22 (25.88%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (16.47%) GCP
5 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.06%) Serverless
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.12%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.94%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.53%) MySQL
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.18%) SQLite
8 1 (1.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 47 (55.29%) Jenkins
2 42 (49.41%) Mockito
3 34 (40.00%) Gradle
4 29 (34.12%) Git
5 26 (30.59%) GitLab
6 18 (21.18%) Maven
7 17 (20.00%) Cucumber
8 16 (18.82%) Liquibase
9 12 (14.12%) JIRA
9 12 (14.12%) SonarQube
10 10 (11.76%) Selenium
11 8 (9.41%) REST Assured
12 7 (8.24%) TestNG
13 6 (7.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (7.06%) CircleCI
14 5 (5.88%) Postman
14 5 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (4.71%) Flyway
15 4 (4.71%) WebDriver
16 3 (3.53%) Gatling
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
1 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Banking
3 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Law
6 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.53%) Police
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
8 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (51.76%) Developer
2 36 (42.35%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.82%) Senior
4 13 (15.29%) Java Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Android Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Lead
11 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (3.53%) Android Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (68.24%) Spring Boot
2 57 (67.06%) Spring
3 44 (51.76%) Kafka
4 39 (45.88%) REST
5 37 (43.53%) RESTful
6 23 (27.06%) React
7 18 (21.18%) OpenAPI
7 18 (21.18%) Swagger
8 13 (15.29%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (12.94%) CSS
9 11 (12.94%) JPA
10 10 (11.76%) Android Jetpack
10 10 (11.76%) Hibernate
11 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
11 9 (10.59%) HTML
11 9 (10.59%) Jetpack Compose
11 9 (10.59%) RxJava
11 9 (10.59%) Terraform
12 8 (9.41%) SOAP
13 7 (8.24%) Spring Cloud
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 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Android
2 9 (10.59%) Linux
3 7 (8.24%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (87.06%) CI/CD
2 55 (64.71%) Microservices
3 53 (62.35%) Agile
4 48 (56.47%) Test Automation
5 38 (44.71%) DevOps
5 38 (44.71%) TDD
6 32 (37.65%) Containerisation
7 20 (23.53%) BDD
8 18 (21.18%) Event-Driven
9 17 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (20.00%) Scrum
9 17 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 16 (18.82%) Clean Code
11 14 (16.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (11.76%) Code Quality
15 10 (11.76%) Migration
15 10 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (87.06%) Java
2 37 (43.53%) SQL
3 25 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 12 (14.12%) Kotlin
5 6 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.88%) C#
6 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.71%) Python
8 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.18%) Korn
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
9 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) Degree
3 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.18%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (47.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Postfix
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.06%) Grafana
3 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.53%) Ansible
5 1 (1.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Oracle
2 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.71%) Databricks
3 4 (4.71%) IBM
3 4 (4.71%) Veracode
4 3 (3.53%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) Citrix
5 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase