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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 316 366
Rank change year-on-year +68 +50 -55
Contract jobs citing JUnit 114 72 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.36% 3.04% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 55 54
10th Percentile £359 £459 £378
25th Percentile £385 £523 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £584
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.78% -2.71%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £731
90th Percentile £626 £723 £841
England median daily rate £475 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.25 - £75.00

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 2,127 2,368 3,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 14.66% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,592 2,372
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £774 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +7 12 £390 -31.28% 4
South London +4 11 - - 2
West London - 2 £398 -
East London - 2 £415 -
JUnit
England

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Apache
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) CICS
3 1 (0.88%) Drupal
3 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
3 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.46%) AWS
2 22 (19.30%) Azure
3 12 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
3 12 (10.53%) Serverless
4 10 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
4 10 (8.77%) GitHub
5 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Fargate
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.26%) GCP
8 3 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.75%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.46%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 27 (23.68%) MongoDB
4 20 (17.54%) DB2
5 9 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (7.89%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.89%) Oracle Database
6 7 (6.14%) Redis
7 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.75%) Big Data
9 2 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.88%) KDB
10 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (35.96%) Jenkins
2 39 (34.21%) Mockito
3 24 (21.05%) Git
4 23 (20.18%) Maven
5 22 (19.30%) Selenium
6 17 (14.91%) Cucumber
7 15 (13.16%) JIRA
8 14 (12.28%) Gradle
8 14 (12.28%) Postman
9 13 (11.40%) SonarQube
10 12 (10.53%) REST Assured
11 11 (9.65%) Cypress.io
11 11 (9.65%) GitLab
12 10 (8.77%) Liquibase
13 9 (7.89%) SoapUI
14 8 (7.02%) JMeter
14 8 (7.02%) Subversion
15 7 (6.14%) TestNG
15 7 (6.14%) Xcode
16 6 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 56 (49.12%) Finance
2 50 (43.86%) Social Skills
3 37 (32.46%) Banking
4 33 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (17.54%) Investment Banking
6 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
7 10 (8.77%) Electronics
7 10 (8.77%) Manufacturing
7 10 (8.77%) Marketing
7 10 (8.77%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.63%) Automotive
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
11 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (60.53%) Developer
2 51 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 31 (27.19%) Senior
4 25 (21.93%) Senior Developer
4 25 (21.93%) Senior Java Developer
5 17 (14.91%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (14.91%) Linux Developer
5 17 (14.91%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (14.91%) Senior SQL Developer
5 17 (14.91%) SQL Developer
6 14 (12.28%) Tester
7 12 (10.53%) Automation Tester
8 10 (8.77%) Java Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Lead
10 8 (7.02%) AWS Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Android Developer
11 7 (6.14%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (62.28%) Spring
2 45 (39.47%) Kafka
2 45 (39.47%) Spring Boot
3 34 (29.82%) REST
4 21 (18.42%) Hibernate
5 18 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 17 (14.91%) JMS
6 17 (14.91%) SOAP
7 16 (14.04%) JPA
7 16 (14.04%) React
7 16 (14.04%) Swagger
8 14 (12.28%) WireMock
9 13 (11.40%) Web Services
10 10 (8.77%) HTML
10 10 (8.77%) OpenAPI
10 10 (8.77%) Playwright
10 10 (8.77%) RESTful
10 10 (8.77%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (7.89%) Bootstrap
12 8 (7.02%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 19 (16.67%) Equities
2 12 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.39%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (4.39%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.63%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.82%) Linux
2 13 (11.40%) Unix
3 12 (10.53%) Android
4 7 (6.14%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.39%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.63%) Windows
7 2 (1.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) Agile
2 50 (43.86%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.84%) Microservices
4 41 (35.96%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (32.46%) SDLC
6 35 (30.70%) TDD
7 32 (28.07%) Test Automation
8 28 (24.56%) DevOps
9 25 (21.93%) Multithreading
10 24 (21.05%) Containerisation
11 22 (19.30%) Software Engineering
12 20 (17.54%) Clean Code
12 20 (17.54%) Open Source
13 19 (16.67%) Unit Testing
14 18 (15.79%) Database Tuning
15 17 (14.91%) Code Quality
15 17 (14.91%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (13.16%) Integration Testing
17 13 (11.40%) Migration
18 12 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (85.09%) Java
2 49 (42.98%) SQL
3 31 (27.19%) Python
4 25 (21.93%) Shell Script
5 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 20 (17.54%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.65%) Kotlin
8 6 (5.26%) C#
8 6 (5.26%) Groovy
9 5 (4.39%) C++
9 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.63%) Bash
10 3 (2.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.75%) COBOL
11 2 (1.75%) JCL
11 2 (1.75%) Korn
11 2 (1.75%) Perl
11 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) Ada
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.04%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.75%) SEPA
3 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Postfix
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Grafana
3 4 (3.51%) Terraform
4 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.75%) Ansible
5 2 (1.75%) Kibana
5 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (16.67%) Sybase
2 14 (12.28%) CA Agile Central
3 13 (11.40%) Splunk
4 12 (10.53%) Dynatrace
4 12 (10.53%) Oracle
5 10 (8.77%) SAP
6 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.63%) Duck Creek
8 3 (2.63%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.75%) Google
9 2 (1.75%) IBM
9 2 (1.75%) Perforce
9 2 (1.75%) VMware
10 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.88%) UiPath