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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 260 297
Rank change year-on-year -49 +37 +70
Contract jobs citing JUnit 92 95 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.86% 5.21% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 53 80
10th Percentile £413 £382 £325
25th Percentile £444 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - -19.23%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £825
90th Percentile £606 £780 £864
England median daily rate £481 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.38% +5.00% -15.25%
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 2,382 1,824 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.70% 14.35% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,588 1,233 1,650
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.24% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.88 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £89.53 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.40% - +4.17%

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 19 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 19 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 -14 13 £525 -4.55% 4
South London -18 5 £513 - 1
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 (6.52%) Ethereum
1 6 (6.52%) Hyperledger
2 5 (5.43%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.26%) JBoss
4 2 (2.17%) Camunda
4 2 (2.17%) Drupal
4 2 (2.17%) WordPress
5 1 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.09%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (46.74%) AWS
2 26 (28.26%) Azure
3 23 (25.00%) GitHub
4 18 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (18.48%) Serverless
6 15 (16.30%) Amazon S3
7 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (11.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (11.96%) GCP
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (7.61%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (6.52%) Azure AKS
14 5 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
16 3 (3.26%) AWS CodePipeline
16 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) DSL
2 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.35%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.57%) NoSQL
3 13 (14.13%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (14.13%) MongoDB
3 13 (14.13%) Relational Database
4 11 (11.96%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (7.61%) DB2
5 7 (7.61%) MySQL
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.26%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 41 (44.57%) Mockito
2 39 (42.39%) Jenkins
3 36 (39.13%) Git
4 25 (27.17%) JIRA
5 18 (19.57%) Cucumber
6 17 (18.48%) GitLab
7 13 (14.13%) Gradle
8 11 (11.96%) Liquibase
8 11 (11.96%) Maven
8 11 (11.96%) Selenium
9 9 (9.78%) Postman
10 8 (8.70%) TestNG
11 5 (5.43%) Cypress.io
11 5 (5.43%) REST Assured
11 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
12 4 (4.35%) Ant
12 4 (4.35%) SoapUI
13 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (3.26%) DbUnit
13 3 (3.26%) jMock
General
1 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.00%) Banking
3 22 (23.91%) Finance
4 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Law
7 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Local Government
9 1 (1.09%) Police
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (55.43%) Developer
2 37 (40.22%) Java Developer
3 21 (22.83%) Senior
4 15 (16.30%) Senior Developer
5 14 (15.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Lead
8 5 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.43%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Test Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Citrix Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) QA Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (60.87%) Spring
2 51 (55.43%) Spring Boot
3 43 (46.74%) Kafka
4 34 (36.96%) RESTful
5 29 (31.52%) REST
6 21 (22.83%) AngularJS
7 18 (19.57%) React
8 13 (14.13%) Hibernate
9 11 (11.96%) CSS
9 11 (11.96%) HTML
9 11 (11.96%) Vue
9 11 (11.96%) WireMock
10 10 (10.87%) SOAP
11 9 (9.78%) J2EE
11 9 (9.78%) Spring Batch
12 8 (8.70%) JPA
13 7 (7.61%) Web Services
14 6 (6.52%) Android Jetpack
14 6 (6.52%) Bootstrap
14 6 (6.52%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) PKI
6 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Android
3 6 (6.52%) Windows
4 3 (3.26%) AIX
4 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
5 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 56 (60.87%) Agile
3 49 (53.26%) Microservices
4 31 (33.70%) DevOps
5 29 (31.52%) Containerisation
6 28 (30.43%) TDD
6 28 (30.43%) Test Automation
7 21 (22.83%) Scrum
8 20 (21.74%) Code Quality
9 17 (18.48%) Unit Testing
10 15 (16.30%) BDD
10 15 (16.30%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.13%) Event-Driven
12 12 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (13.04%) Integration Testing
12 12 (13.04%) OOP
12 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.96%) API Testing
13 11 (11.96%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (10.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (84.78%) Java
2 35 (38.04%) SQL
3 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.78%) C#
6 7 (7.61%) Python
7 5 (5.43%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.35%) Go
8 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.26%) Korn
9 3 (3.26%) Perl
9 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.17%) PHP
11 1 (1.09%) Bash
11 1 (1.09%) C++
11 1 (1.09%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 24 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.17%) NCSC
2 2 (2.17%) SEPA
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (46.74%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.17%) Postfix
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (44.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) Grafana
4 4 (4.35%) Ansible
4 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Oracle
2 8 (8.70%) Sybase
3 6 (6.52%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) IBM
5 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.26%) Citrix
5 3 (3.26%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.17%) Adobe
6 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.09%) Perforce