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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 253 322
Rank change year-on-year -108 +69 +40
Contract jobs citing JUnit 91 115 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.86% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.53% 5.37% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 71 54
10th Percentile £393 £356 £452
25th Percentile £418 £375 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £600
90th Percentile £610 £638 £650
England median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -13.64% +4.76%
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 2,580 2,141 2,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.69% 16.01% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,452 1,564
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £436 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £41.69 £27.30
Median hourly rate £56.25 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.70% -30.97%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 30 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 30 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 -24 15 £525 +27.27% 5
South London -13 2 - -
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 8 (8.79%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
2 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 29 (31.87%) GitHub
3 21 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (18.68%) GCP
5 10 (10.99%) Serverless
6 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.30%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.49%) MySQL
6 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.30%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.30%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 49 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 41 (45.05%) Mockito
3 37 (40.66%) Git
4 34 (37.36%) Gradle
5 28 (30.77%) Cucumber
6 27 (29.67%) Maven
7 26 (28.57%) GitLab
8 15 (16.48%) Selenium
8 15 (16.48%) SonarQube
9 12 (13.19%) JIRA
9 12 (13.19%) REST Assured
10 11 (12.09%) Liquibase
10 11 (12.09%) TestNG
11 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
12 6 (6.59%) Postman
12 6 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (5.49%) Gatling
14 4 (4.40%) Flyway
14 4 (4.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.47%) Finance
3 21 (23.08%) Banking
4 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.40%) Law
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Police
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Publishing
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (51.65%) Developer
2 40 (43.96%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.88%) Senior
4 12 (13.19%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Android Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead
9 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (61.54%) Spring
1 56 (61.54%) Spring Boot
2 45 (49.45%) REST
3 40 (43.96%) Kafka
4 37 (40.66%) RESTful
5 21 (23.08%) React
6 15 (16.48%) OpenAPI
6 15 (16.48%) Swagger
7 14 (15.38%) CSS
7 14 (15.38%) JPA
7 14 (15.38%) SOAP
8 13 (14.29%) Hibernate
8 13 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (13.19%) HTML
10 11 (12.09%) AngularJS
10 11 (12.09%) Terraform
10 11 (12.09%) Web Services
11 9 (9.89%) Android Jetpack
12 8 (8.79%) Jetpack Compose
12 8 (8.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.79%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.40%) AI Agents
6 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.10%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Android
2 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 60 (65.93%) Agile
3 56 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 51 (56.04%) Microservices
5 43 (47.25%) DevOps
6 38 (41.76%) TDD
7 33 (36.26%) Containerisation
8 26 (28.57%) BDD
9 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (21.98%) Scrum
10 18 (19.78%) Event-Driven
11 17 (18.68%) Clean Code
12 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
13 14 (15.38%) Code Quality
13 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (15.38%) SDLC
14 13 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 83 (91.21%) Java
2 36 (39.56%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 10 (10.99%) Python
6 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 3 (3.30%) Go
8 3 (3.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Korn
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.20%) CISSP
8 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.47%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (43.96%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.79%) Grafana
3 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Argo
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Google
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
3 5 (5.49%) IBM
3 5 (5.49%) Veracode
4 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.20%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase