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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 297 317
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing JUnit 90 59 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.13% 3.05% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 29 70
10th Percentile £356 £420 £324
25th Percentile £415 £463 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £499
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +10.28% -20.20%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £650
90th Percentile £629 £825 £864
England median daily rate £477 £565 £479
% change year-on-year -15.66% +18.02% -18.72%
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 2,180 1,937 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.45% 13.79% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 1,266 1,694
10th Percentile £356 £345 £386
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 £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 11 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 11 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 -9 8 £531 -4.71%
East London - 2 £416 -
South London -6 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Camunda
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.11%) CICS
4 1 (1.11%) Drupal
4 1 (1.11%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.11%) SAS
4 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.78%) AWS
2 26 (28.89%) Azure
3 17 (18.89%) GitHub
4 15 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (12.22%) Serverless
6 10 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.89%) GCP
8 7 (7.78%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.44%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.33%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.33%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.33%) Azure Storage
12 3 (3.33%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.56%) MongoDB
2 22 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 13 (14.44%) DB2
5 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
6 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (5.56%) MySQL
9 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.33%) Redis
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database 10g
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (30.00%) Mockito
2 26 (28.89%) Jenkins
3 20 (22.22%) Git
4 18 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 17 (18.89%) Selenium
6 15 (16.67%) JIRA
7 13 (14.44%) Cypress.io
7 13 (14.44%) Maven
8 12 (13.33%) GitLab
8 12 (13.33%) Postman
9 9 (10.00%) REST Assured
10 8 (8.89%) Gradle
11 7 (7.78%) JMeter
11 7 (7.78%) SoapUI
11 7 (7.78%) SonarQube
12 5 (5.56%) CircleCI
12 5 (5.56%) Liquibase
12 5 (5.56%) TestNG
13 4 (4.44%) Gatling
13 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (37.78%) Finance
3 27 (30.00%) Banking
4 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (53.33%) Developer
2 29 (32.22%) Java Developer
3 21 (23.33%) Senior
4 15 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Tester
6 9 (10.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Linux Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
6 9 (10.00%) SQL Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Android Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Automation Tester
8 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead
11 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.33%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (48.89%) Spring
2 34 (37.78%) Kafka
3 29 (32.22%) REST
4 27 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 19 (21.11%) AngularJS
5 19 (21.11%) Hibernate
6 16 (17.78%) RESTful
7 15 (16.67%) CSS
7 15 (16.67%) HTML
7 15 (16.67%) React
7 15 (16.67%) WireMock
8 13 (14.44%) SOAP
9 11 (12.22%) Vue
9 11 (12.22%) XML
10 10 (11.11%) JMS
11 9 (10.00%) Playwright
11 9 (10.00%) RAML
12 7 (7.78%) Android Jetpack
12 7 (7.78%) Android SDK
12 7 (7.78%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (10.00%) Equities
2 7 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.67%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.67%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Android
3 12 (13.33%) Unix
4 7 (7.78%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.67%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.56%) Windows
7 3 (3.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) Agile
2 42 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.67%) DevOps
3 33 (36.67%) Microservices
4 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (28.89%) Test Automation
6 23 (25.56%) SDLC
7 22 (24.44%) TDD
8 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 16 (17.78%) Unit Testing
10 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
11 13 (14.44%) Multithreading
11 13 (14.44%) Regression Testing
12 12 (13.33%) Clean Code
12 12 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (12.22%) Code Quality
13 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (12.22%) Integration Testing
13 11 (12.22%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 74 (82.22%) Java
2 37 (41.11%) SQL
3 17 (18.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 11 (12.22%) Kotlin
5 11 (12.22%) Python
6 6 (6.67%) C++
6 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.44%) C#
7 4 (4.44%) Korn
7 4 (4.44%) Perl
7 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.33%) Bash
8 3 (3.33%) Go
8 3 (3.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.11%) COBOL
9 1 (1.11%) JCL
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) SEPA
3 2 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (31.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.89%) Terraform
3 6 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.11%) Control-M
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Oracle
2 13 (14.44%) Sybase
3 7 (7.78%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.78%) Splunk
4 5 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (5.56%) Google
5 4 (4.44%) IBM
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.44%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) Adobe
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) Perforce
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow