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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 256 315
Rank change year-on-year -106 +59 +49
Contract jobs citing JUnit 100 106 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.79% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.77% 4.96% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 64 55
10th Percentile £400 £352 £435
25th Percentile £423 £363 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £466 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -15.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £633 £650
England median daily rate £460 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -1.92% -14.73% +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 2,652 2,139 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.93% 15.97% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 1,460 1,545
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £437 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.69 £28.62
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.88
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -16 15 £525 +41.41% 4
South London -17 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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.00%) AWS
2 33 (33.00%) GitHub
3 32 (32.00%) Azure
4 25 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (19.00%) GCP
6 10 (10.00%) Serverless
7 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.00%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.00%) Internet
2 1 (1.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.00%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.00%) MySQL
4 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.00%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.00%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.00%) Redis
8 1 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (53.00%) Jenkins
2 43 (43.00%) Git
3 42 (42.00%) Mockito
4 39 (39.00%) Gradle
5 33 (33.00%) Cucumber
6 31 (31.00%) Maven
7 28 (28.00%) GitLab
8 20 (20.00%) Selenium
9 17 (17.00%) SonarQube
10 16 (16.00%) TestNG
11 15 (15.00%) REST Assured
12 14 (14.00%) JIRA
13 10 (10.00%) Liquibase
14 8 (8.00%) CircleCI
14 8 (8.00%) Postman
15 7 (7.00%) Bitbucket Server
16 6 (6.00%) Gatling
16 6 (6.00%) JMeter
16 6 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
17 5 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.00%) Finance
3 21 (21.00%) Banking
4 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.00%) Law
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Police
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Publishing
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (49.00%) Developer
2 42 (42.00%) Java Developer
3 22 (22.00%) Senior
4 12 (12.00%) Java Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (11.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (9.00%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Lead
9 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Android Developer
10 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Android Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Test Leader
12 3 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (57.00%) Spring
1 57 (57.00%) Spring Boot
2 51 (51.00%) REST
3 42 (42.00%) Kafka
4 40 (40.00%) RESTful
5 23 (23.00%) React
6 16 (16.00%) CSS
6 16 (16.00%) OpenAPI
6 16 (16.00%) SOAP
6 16 (16.00%) Swagger
7 15 (15.00%) JPA
8 14 (14.00%) Hibernate
8 14 (14.00%) HTML
8 14 (14.00%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (13.00%) AngularJS
9 13 (13.00%) Web Services
10 11 (11.00%) Android Jetpack
10 11 (11.00%) Terraform
11 9 (9.00%) Jetpack Compose
11 9 (9.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
9 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.00%) Android
2 11 (11.00%) Unix
3 4 (4.00%) macOS
4 1 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 66 (66.00%) Agile
3 64 (64.00%) Test Automation
4 52 (52.00%) Microservices
5 46 (46.00%) DevOps
6 40 (40.00%) TDD
7 36 (36.00%) Containerisation
8 30 (30.00%) BDD
9 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (22.00%) Scrum
11 19 (19.00%) Event-Driven
12 18 (18.00%) Clean Code
13 17 (17.00%) Code Quality
13 17 (17.00%) Computer Science
14 16 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (16.00%) SDLC
15 15 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
15 15 (15.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (90.00%) Java
2 37 (37.00%) SQL
3 24 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.00%) Kotlin
6 14 (14.00%) Python
7 7 (7.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.00%) C#
9 3 (3.00%) Go
9 3 (3.00%) Scala
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) Korn
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 35 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) Degree
3 17 (17.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) CISSP
8 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (33.00%) QA
2 9 (9.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 43 (43.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Grafana
3 7 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.00%) Argo
5 1 (1.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Oracle
2 9 (9.00%) Google
3 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.00%) Databricks
5 5 (5.00%) IBM
5 5 (5.00%) Veracode
6 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (2.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.00%) Sybase