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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 298 314
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing JUnit 95 59 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.25% 2.96% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 30 67
10th Percentile £356 £423 £320
25th Percentile £403 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £557 £684 £650
90th Percentile £626 £825 £863
England median daily rate £475 £565 £479
% change year-on-year -15.93% +18.02% -18.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £76.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% -15.03% +5.52%

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 2,236 1,991 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.51% 13.74% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 1,297 1,730
10th Percentile £356 £341 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £736 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £521 £550
% change year-on-year -4.08% -5.23% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 22
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.42
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £30.31
Median hourly rate £59.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.44 £77.19 £69.25
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.49
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2 January 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 January 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 +3 10 £409 -27.81%
East London - 2 £416 -
South London -7 1 £513 +13.89%
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 10 (10.53%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Camunda
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.05%) CICS
4 1 (1.05%) Drupal
4 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) AWS
2 29 (30.53%) Azure
3 18 (18.95%) GitHub
4 16 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.58%) Serverless
6 10 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.47%) GCP
8 7 (7.37%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.21%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.16%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.16%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.16%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.16%) Azure Storage
12 3 (3.16%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.32%) MongoDB
2 24 (25.26%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (23.16%) Relational Database
4 15 (15.79%) DB2
5 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
6 10 (10.53%) Oracle Database
7 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
8 7 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (5.26%) MySQL
9 5 (5.26%) Redis
10 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
12 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database 10g
13 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Jenkins
1 29 (30.53%) Mockito
2 22 (23.16%) Git
3 19 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 18 (18.95%) Selenium
5 17 (17.89%) JIRA
6 15 (15.79%) Maven
6 15 (15.79%) Postman
7 14 (14.74%) Cypress.io
8 13 (13.68%) GitLab
9 12 (12.63%) REST Assured
10 9 (9.47%) SoapUI
10 9 (9.47%) SonarQube
11 8 (8.42%) Gradle
11 8 (8.42%) JMeter
12 5 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (5.26%) Subversion
12 5 (5.26%) TestNG
12 5 (5.26%) Xcode
12 5 (5.26%) XCTest
General
1 43 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 39 (41.05%) Finance
3 31 (32.63%) Banking
4 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.79%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (52.63%) Developer
2 31 (32.63%) Java Developer
3 23 (24.21%) Senior
4 17 (17.89%) Senior Developer
4 17 (17.89%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Linux Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Senior SQL Developer
5 11 (11.58%) SQL Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Tester
6 9 (9.47%) Automation Tester
7 8 (8.42%) Android Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Lead
11 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (50.53%) Spring
2 38 (40.00%) Kafka
3 32 (33.68%) REST
4 29 (30.53%) Spring Boot
5 21 (22.11%) AngularJS
5 21 (22.11%) Hibernate
6 17 (17.89%) CSS
6 17 (17.89%) HTML
6 17 (17.89%) RESTful
7 15 (15.79%) React
7 15 (15.79%) SOAP
7 15 (15.79%) WireMock
8 12 (12.63%) JMS
9 11 (11.58%) Vue
9 11 (11.58%) XML
10 9 (9.47%) JPA
10 9 (9.47%) Playwright
10 9 (9.47%) RAML
11 8 (8.42%) Bootstrap
12 7 (7.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Data Structures
1 11 (11.58%) Equities
2 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.32%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (6.32%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (36.84%) Linux
2 14 (14.74%) Unix
3 13 (13.68%) Android
4 7 (7.37%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.32%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.26%) Windows
7 3 (3.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.68%) Agile
2 43 (45.26%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.84%) Microservices
4 33 (34.74%) DevOps
4 33 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (29.47%) SDLC
6 27 (28.42%) Test Automation
7 25 (26.32%) TDD
8 18 (18.95%) Software Engineering
8 18 (18.95%) Unit Testing
9 17 (17.89%) Multithreading
10 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.74%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (13.68%) Code Quality
12 13 (13.68%) Containerisation
12 13 (13.68%) Open Source
12 13 (13.68%) Regression Testing
13 12 (12.63%) Clean Code
13 12 (12.63%) Database Tuning
13 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 79 (83.16%) Java
2 41 (43.16%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.84%) Shell Script
5 13 (13.68%) Python
6 11 (11.58%) Kotlin
7 6 (6.32%) C++
7 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.26%) Groovy
9 4 (4.21%) C#
9 4 (4.21%) Korn
9 4 (4.21%) Perl
9 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.16%) Bash
10 3 (3.16%) Go
11 1 (1.05%) COBOL
11 1 (1.05%) JCL
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
11 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) SEPA
3 2 (2.11%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (31.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.42%) Terraform
3 6 (6.32%) Ansible
4 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.05%) Control-M
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Oracle
2 15 (15.79%) Sybase
3 9 (9.47%) Dynatrace
3 9 (9.47%) Splunk
4 7 (7.37%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (5.26%) Google
6 4 (4.21%) IBM
6 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.21%) VMware
7 2 (2.11%) Adobe
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.05%) Perforce
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) UiPath