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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 250 296
Rank change year-on-year -69 +46 +79
Contract jobs citing JUnit 85 98 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.64% 5.43% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 60 78
10th Percentile £413 £374 £375
25th Percentile £455 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -18.62%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £775
90th Percentile £624 £754 £863
England median daily rate £481 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -3.80% -6.19% -9.66%
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 £70.00 £65.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% -19.75% +8.00%

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 2,336 1,805 2,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.94% 14.61% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 1,225 1,657
10th Percentile £356 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 26
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -47.86%
75th Percentile £72.75 £43.75 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +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 21 May 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 21 May 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 12 £525 -3.67% 2
South London -19 6 £513 -
East London -7 1 £416 +0.20%
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 6 (7.06%) Ethereum
1 6 (7.06%) Hyperledger
2 3 (3.53%) Camunda
2 3 (3.53%) JBoss
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) Drupal
3 2 (2.35%) WordPress
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.24%) AWS
2 23 (27.06%) GitHub
3 20 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (20.00%) Azure
5 13 (15.29%) Amazon S3
6 12 (14.12%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.59%) GCP
7 9 (10.59%) Serverless
8 8 (9.41%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.71%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (4.71%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.71%) Route 53
10 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) DSL
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (18.82%) NoSQL
3 11 (12.94%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.59%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (5.88%) MySQL
5 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.71%) DB2
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 42 (49.41%) Jenkins
2 40 (47.06%) Mockito
3 30 (35.29%) Git
4 22 (25.88%) JIRA
5 19 (22.35%) Gradle
6 17 (20.00%) GitLab
7 16 (18.82%) Cucumber
8 11 (12.94%) Liquibase
8 11 (12.94%) Maven
9 10 (11.76%) Selenium
10 7 (8.24%) TestNG
11 5 (5.88%) Postman
12 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
12 4 (4.71%) DbUnit
12 4 (4.71%) jMock
12 4 (4.71%) REST Assured
12 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
13 3 (3.53%) Ant
13 3 (3.53%) Appium
General
1 23 (27.06%) Banking
2 20 (23.53%) Finance
3 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Police
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Local Government
8 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (50.59%) Developer
2 33 (38.82%) Java Developer
3 19 (22.35%) Senior
4 13 (15.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) QA Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Test Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.53%) PowerShell Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) QA Test Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (69.41%) Spring
2 54 (63.53%) Spring Boot
3 44 (51.76%) Kafka
4 34 (40.00%) RESTful
5 28 (32.94%) REST
6 21 (24.71%) React
7 18 (21.18%) AngularJS
8 11 (12.94%) OpenAPI
8 11 (12.94%) Swagger
9 10 (11.76%) Hibernate
9 10 (11.76%) JPA
9 10 (11.76%) Spring Batch
10 9 (10.59%) CSS
10 9 (10.59%) J2EE
10 9 (10.59%) SOAP
11 8 (9.41%) Vue
11 8 (9.41%) Web Services
12 7 (8.24%) HTML
12 7 (8.24%) Spring Cloud
13 6 (7.06%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.35%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Android
1 7 (8.24%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
3 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.18%) AIX
4 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.88%) CI/CD
2 52 (61.18%) Agile
3 47 (55.29%) Microservices
4 32 (37.65%) Containerisation
5 29 (34.12%) TDD
6 27 (31.76%) Test Automation
7 22 (25.88%) DevOps
8 20 (23.53%) Scrum
9 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.47%) BDD
10 14 (16.47%) Unit Testing
11 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
12 12 (14.12%) Event-Driven
12 12 (14.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (10.59%) Integration Testing
13 9 (10.59%) Migration
13 9 (10.59%) Observability
13 9 (10.59%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (9.41%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 69 (81.18%) Java
2 34 (40.00%) SQL
3 25 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.41%) C#
6 7 (8.24%) Python
7 6 (7.06%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.71%) Go
8 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.35%) PHP
10 1 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Korn
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (52.94%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Postfix
2 3 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (44.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Grafana
3 6 (7.06%) Terraform
4 5 (5.88%) Ansible
5 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle
2 4 (4.71%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.71%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (4.71%) Sybase
3 3 (3.53%) Citrix
4 2 (2.35%) IBM
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe
5 1 (1.18%) Google
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow