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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 261 313
Rank change year-on-year -61 +52 +52
Contract jobs citing JUnit 95 92 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.97% 5.08% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 52 68
10th Percentile £413 £381 £325
25th Percentile £440 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £499
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.27% -23.27%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £838
90th Percentile £625 £784 £875
England median daily rate £485 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -8.49% +11.58% -19.49%
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 £81.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -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 2,391 1,811 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.79% 14.31% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,229 1,647
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £418 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £68.50
90th Percentile £91.35 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -7 14 £528 -4.09% 3
South London -16 4 £513 -
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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
1 6 (6.32%) Ethereum
1 6 (6.32%) Hyperledger
2 3 (3.16%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) JBoss
3 2 (2.11%) Camunda
3 2 (2.11%) Drupal
3 2 (2.11%) WordPress
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.05%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.32%) AWS
2 26 (27.37%) Azure
3 24 (25.26%) GitHub
4 19 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (17.89%) Serverless
6 14 (14.74%) Amazon S3
7 13 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (11.58%) GCP
10 10 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (7.37%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (6.32%) Azure AKS
15 5 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (4.21%) AWS CodeBuild
17 3 (3.16%) AWS CodePipeline
17 3 (3.16%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) DSL
2 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.42%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (18.95%) NoSQL
3 14 (14.74%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.74%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
6 8 (8.42%) DB2
7 7 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (7.37%) MySQL
8 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.26%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (3.16%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 41 (43.16%) Mockito
2 40 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 37 (38.95%) Git
4 26 (27.37%) JIRA
5 20 (21.05%) Cucumber
6 17 (17.89%) GitLab
7 13 (13.68%) Gradle
8 12 (12.63%) Maven
9 11 (11.58%) Liquibase
9 11 (11.58%) Selenium
10 9 (9.47%) Postman
11 8 (8.42%) TestNG
12 6 (6.32%) Cypress.io
13 5 (5.26%) REST Assured
14 4 (4.21%) Ant
14 4 (4.21%) SoapUI
14 4 (4.21%) SonarQube
15 3 (3.16%) Appium
15 3 (3.16%) jMock
16 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.21%) Banking
2 23 (24.21%) Finance
3 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Law
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Legal
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Local Government
7 1 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (55.79%) Developer
2 40 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 23 (24.21%) Senior
4 17 (17.89%) Senior Developer
5 16 (16.84%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Lead
7 6 (6.32%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Citrix Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.16%) QA Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) QA Test Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (62.11%) Spring
2 51 (53.68%) Spring Boot
3 45 (47.37%) Kafka
4 33 (34.74%) RESTful
5 30 (31.58%) REST
6 20 (21.05%) AngularJS
7 18 (18.95%) React
8 13 (13.68%) Hibernate
9 12 (12.63%) CSS
9 12 (12.63%) HTML
9 12 (12.63%) SOAP
10 11 (11.58%) Vue
10 11 (11.58%) WireMock
11 9 (9.47%) J2EE
12 8 (8.42%) Spring Batch
12 8 (8.42%) XML
13 7 (7.37%) JPA
14 6 (6.32%) gRPC
14 6 (6.32%) Swagger
14 6 (6.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Equities
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Android
2 6 (6.32%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) AIX
4 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (64.21%) CI/CD
2 58 (61.05%) Agile
3 50 (52.63%) Microservices
4 33 (34.74%) DevOps
5 29 (30.53%) Test Automation
6 28 (29.47%) Containerisation
6 28 (29.47%) TDD
7 21 (22.11%) Scrum
8 20 (21.05%) Code Quality
9 17 (17.89%) Unit Testing
10 15 (15.79%) BDD
10 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.68%) Event-Driven
11 13 (13.68%) OOP
11 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (12.63%) Integration Testing
13 11 (11.58%) API Testing
13 11 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (87.37%) Java
2 36 (37.89%) SQL
3 18 (18.95%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.47%) C#
5 9 (9.47%) Python
6 4 (4.21%) Go
6 4 (4.21%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.16%) Korn
7 3 (3.16%) Perl
7 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.05%) Bash
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.05%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.05%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.89%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.11%) NCSC
2 2 (2.11%) SEPA
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (46.32%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Postfix
3 1 (1.05%) Squid
3 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (43.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Ansible
2 7 (7.37%) Terraform
3 5 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Oracle
2 9 (9.47%) Sybase
3 6 (6.32%) Google
4 4 (4.21%) IBM
5 3 (3.16%) Citrix
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.11%) Adobe
6 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.11%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.05%) Perforce
7 1 (1.05%) VMware