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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 275 316
Rank change year-on-year -29 +41 -1
Contract jobs citing JUnit 101 82 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.31% 4.29% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 43 66
10th Percentile £356 £386 £325
25th Percentile £416 £423 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +5.26% -21.15%
75th Percentile £591 £566 £828
90th Percentile £638 £810 £875
England median daily rate £477 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -8.37% +9.47% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £79.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.24% +13.57%

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 2,343 1,913 2,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.98% 14.12% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 1,254 1,709
10th Percentile £350 £341 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £503 £533
% change year-on-year -0.50% -5.72% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.25 £25.80
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.41% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.94
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.49
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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -11 9 £352 -35.35% 1
South London -12 3 £513 +13.89%
East London - 2 £416 -
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 11 (10.89%) Confluence
2 6 (5.94%) Ethereum
2 6 (5.94%) Hyperledger
3 3 (2.97%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Camunda
4 2 (1.98%) Drupal
4 2 (1.98%) JBoss
4 2 (1.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.99%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.56%) AWS
2 26 (25.74%) Azure
3 24 (23.76%) GitHub
4 21 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (14.85%) Serverless
6 11 (10.89%) Amazon S3
6 11 (10.89%) GCP
7 10 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.93%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.96%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (3.96%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.76%) MongoDB
1 24 (23.76%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (19.80%) NoSQL
3 17 (16.83%) Relational Database
4 13 (12.87%) DB2
5 9 (8.91%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.93%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.93%) MySQL
7 7 (6.93%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 34 (33.66%) Git
3 31 (30.69%) Mockito
4 28 (27.72%) JIRA
5 25 (24.75%) Cucumber
6 16 (15.84%) GitLab
7 15 (14.85%) Maven
8 14 (13.86%) Selenium
9 12 (11.88%) Cypress.io
9 12 (11.88%) Gradle
10 11 (10.89%) Postman
11 7 (6.93%) REST Assured
12 6 (5.94%) JMeter
12 6 (5.94%) SoapUI
12 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
13 5 (4.95%) Ant
13 5 (4.95%) Liquibase
14 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (3.96%) TestNG
General
1 34 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 32 (31.68%) Finance
3 28 (27.72%) Banking
4 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.90%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Legal
7 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Local Government
8 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (56.44%) Developer
2 41 (40.59%) Java Developer
3 29 (28.71%) Senior
4 21 (20.79%) Senior Developer
5 20 (19.80%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Automation Tester
6 6 (5.94%) AWS Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Lead
6 6 (5.94%) Linux Developer
6 6 (5.94%) QA Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Senior SQL Developer
6 6 (5.94%) SQL Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Tester
7 5 (4.95%) Android Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Backend Developer
8 4 (3.96%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (58.42%) Spring
2 48 (47.52%) Kafka
3 42 (41.58%) Spring Boot
4 35 (34.65%) REST
5 29 (28.71%) RESTful
6 22 (21.78%) AngularJS
7 18 (17.82%) Hibernate
8 15 (14.85%) React
9 14 (13.86%) CSS
9 14 (13.86%) HTML
9 14 (13.86%) SOAP
9 14 (13.86%) Vue
9 14 (13.86%) WireMock
10 11 (10.89%) XML
11 9 (8.91%) J2EE
11 9 (8.91%) JMS
11 9 (8.91%) Playwright
12 7 (6.93%) JPA
12 7 (6.93%) JSON
12 7 (6.93%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.94%) Equities
4 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.98%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (24.75%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Unix
3 7 (6.93%) Android
4 4 (3.96%) Windows
5 3 (2.97%) AIX
6 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) Agile
2 54 (53.47%) CI/CD
3 46 (45.54%) Microservices
4 31 (30.69%) DevOps
5 27 (26.73%) Test Automation
6 25 (24.75%) TDD
7 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.82%) Containerisation
8 18 (17.82%) Scrum
9 17 (16.83%) Code Quality
9 17 (16.83%) SDLC
9 17 (16.83%) Unit Testing
10 15 (14.85%) Integration Testing
11 14 (13.86%) Multithreading
11 14 (13.86%) OOP
11 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (13.86%) Software Engineering
12 13 (12.87%) BDD
13 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.88%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 88 (87.13%) Java
2 37 (36.63%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.89%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.90%) Python
6 7 (6.93%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.94%) C#
7 6 (5.94%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.96%) Go
8 4 (3.96%) Korn
8 4 (3.96%) Perl
8 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) PHP
10 1 (0.99%) Bash
10 1 (0.99%) C++
10 1 (0.99%) Groovy
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.99%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.98%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.84%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) SEPA
3 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (35.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Squid
Systems Management
1 37 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.92%) Ansible
2 8 (7.92%) Terraform
3 4 (3.96%) Grafana
3 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Oracle
2 14 (13.86%) Sybase
3 6 (5.94%) Google
4 5 (4.95%) IBM
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.97%) Splunk
7 2 (1.98%) Adobe
7 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.99%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.99%) Perforce