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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 278 311
Rank change year-on-year -6 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing JUnit 101 72 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.43% 3.73% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 36 76
10th Percentile £353 £391 £325
25th Percentile £416 £444 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% -20.20%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £775
90th Percentile £638 £825 £869
England median daily rate £483 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +11.68% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £58.40 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.25 £65.00 £79.50
% change year-on-year -18.08% -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 2,279 1,932 2,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.39% 13.96% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,255 1,757
10th Percentile £356 £345 £381
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £512 £538
% change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 19
10th Percentile £46.50 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £51.75 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 31 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JUnit in London over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JUnit in London

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 31 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 -8 10 £409 -25.68%
East London - 2 £416 - 1
South London -4 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 (9.90%) Confluence
2 6 (5.94%) Ethereum
2 6 (5.94%) Hyperledger
3 3 (2.97%) Apache
3 3 (2.97%) Drupal
3 3 (2.97%) WordPress
4 2 (1.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.99%) SAS
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 42 (41.58%) AWS
2 24 (23.76%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) GitHub
4 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (11.88%) Serverless
6 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.92%) GCP
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
8 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.95%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.96%) Azure API Management
11 3 (2.97%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.73%) MongoDB
2 24 (23.76%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (20.79%) Relational Database
4 18 (17.82%) NoSQL
5 13 (12.87%) DB2
6 8 (7.92%) MySQL
6 8 (7.92%) Oracle Database
6 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (1.98%) Redis
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (31.68%) Git
1 32 (31.68%) Jenkins
2 31 (30.69%) Mockito
3 22 (21.78%) JIRA
4 20 (19.80%) Cucumber
5 17 (16.83%) Selenium
6 15 (14.85%) GitLab
6 15 (14.85%) Maven
7 13 (12.87%) Cypress.io
8 12 (11.88%) Gradle
8 12 (11.88%) Postman
9 8 (7.92%) REST Assured
10 6 (5.94%) JMeter
10 6 (5.94%) SoapUI
10 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
11 5 (4.95%) CircleCI
11 5 (4.95%) Liquibase
11 5 (4.95%) TestNG
12 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
12 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (35.64%) Finance
3 29 (28.71%) Banking
4 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.88%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Legal
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (55.45%) Developer
2 37 (36.63%) Java Developer
3 28 (27.72%) Senior
4 20 (19.80%) Senior Developer
5 19 (18.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Tester
7 8 (7.92%) Android Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Linux Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior SQL Developer
7 8 (7.92%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Automation Tester
9 6 (5.94%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) QA Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) AWS Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (56.44%) Spring
2 43 (42.57%) Kafka
3 41 (40.59%) Spring Boot
4 35 (34.65%) REST
5 25 (24.75%) RESTful
6 23 (22.77%) AngularJS
7 21 (20.79%) Hibernate
8 15 (14.85%) React
9 14 (13.86%) CSS
9 14 (13.86%) HTML
9 14 (13.86%) WireMock
10 13 (12.87%) SOAP
10 13 (12.87%) Vue
11 11 (10.89%) XML
12 10 (9.90%) JPA
12 10 (9.90%) Playwright
13 9 (8.91%) JMS
14 7 (6.93%) J2EE
14 7 (6.93%) JSON
14 7 (6.93%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
2 8 (7.92%) Equities
3 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.96%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.96%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
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%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.99%) PKI
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.71%) Linux
2 11 (10.89%) Android
2 11 (10.89%) Unix
3 5 (4.95%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.95%) Windows
4 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.97%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) Agile
2 52 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 42 (41.58%) Microservices
4 33 (32.67%) DevOps
5 28 (27.72%) Test Automation
6 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (23.76%) TDD
8 22 (21.78%) SDLC
9 20 (19.80%) Unit Testing
10 17 (16.83%) Code Quality
10 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 16 (15.84%) Multithreading
12 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.86%) OOP
13 13 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (12.87%) Scrum
14 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (11.88%) Integration Testing
14 12 (11.88%) Regression Testing
15 11 (10.89%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 85 (84.16%) Java
2 38 (37.62%) SQL
3 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.89%) Python
4 11 (10.89%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.91%) Kotlin
7 7 (6.93%) C#
8 4 (3.96%) C++
8 4 (3.96%) Go
8 4 (3.96%) Korn
8 4 (3.96%) Perl
8 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.97%) PHP
10 2 (1.98%) Groovy
11 1 (0.99%) Bash
11 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.99%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 28 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) Degree
3 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) SEPA
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (32.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.91%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Ansible
4 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) Oracle
2 14 (13.86%) Sybase
3 6 (5.94%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.94%) Splunk
4 5 (4.95%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.98%) Adobe
7 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.99%) Perforce
8 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow