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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 277 303
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing JUnit 93 74 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.10% 3.87% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 36 69
10th Percentile £351 £391 £325
25th Percentile £416 £444 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £800
90th Percentile £638 £825 £875
England median daily rate £477 £525 £483
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.81% -18.07%
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 £79.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -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 2,269 1,911 2,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.13% 14.20% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,234 1,740
10th Percentile £356 £345 £375
25th Percentile £421 £413 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -6.17% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £735 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £57.81
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.17
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 February 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 February 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 -9 9 £368 -33.18% 1
East London - 2 £416 -
South London -8 1 £513 +13.89% 1
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 (10.75%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) Ethereum
2 6 (6.45%) Hyperledger
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (3.23%) Drupal
3 3 (3.23%) WordPress
4 2 (2.15%) Camunda
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.08%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.01%) AWS
2 24 (25.81%) Azure
3 22 (23.66%) GitHub
4 19 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (13.98%) Serverless
6 8 (8.60%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.60%) GCP
7 7 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.45%) Azure AKS
8 6 (6.45%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.38%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.30%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.23%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.68%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.81%) MongoDB
1 24 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.35%) Relational Database
3 17 (18.28%) NoSQL
4 11 (11.83%) DB2
5 8 (8.60%) Oracle Database
6 7 (7.53%) MySQL
6 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.23%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (2.15%) Redis
11 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (34.41%) Git
2 31 (33.33%) Mockito
3 30 (32.26%) Jenkins
4 22 (23.66%) JIRA
5 19 (20.43%) Cucumber
6 16 (17.20%) Maven
7 15 (16.13%) GitLab
8 14 (15.05%) Selenium
9 13 (13.98%) Cypress.io
10 12 (12.90%) Gradle
10 12 (12.90%) Postman
11 8 (8.60%) REST Assured
12 7 (7.53%) SoapUI
13 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
14 5 (5.38%) Ant
14 5 (5.38%) CircleCI
14 5 (5.38%) JMeter
14 5 (5.38%) Liquibase
15 4 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (4.30%) TestNG
General
1 34 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.26%) Finance
3 24 (25.81%) Banking
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (54.84%) Developer
2 35 (37.63%) Java Developer
3 25 (26.88%) Senior
4 18 (19.35%) Senior Developer
5 17 (18.28%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (7.53%) Automation Tester
6 7 (7.53%) Tester
7 6 (6.45%) Android Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Linux Developer
7 6 (6.45%) QA Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior SQL Developer
7 6 (6.45%) SQL Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (58.06%) Spring
2 41 (44.09%) Kafka
3 40 (43.01%) Spring Boot
4 36 (38.71%) REST
5 24 (25.81%) RESTful
6 22 (23.66%) AngularJS
7 20 (21.51%) Hibernate
8 14 (15.05%) CSS
8 14 (15.05%) HTML
8 14 (15.05%) React
8 14 (15.05%) SOAP
8 14 (15.05%) WireMock
9 13 (13.98%) Vue
10 11 (11.83%) XML
11 10 (10.75%) Playwright
12 9 (9.68%) JPA
13 8 (8.60%) J2EE
14 7 (7.53%) JMS
14 7 (7.53%) JSON
14 7 (7.53%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.45%) Equities
4 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.81%) Linux
2 10 (10.75%) Unix
3 8 (8.60%) Android
4 4 (4.30%) Windows
5 3 (3.23%) AIX
6 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.84%) Agile
2 49 (52.69%) CI/CD
3 42 (45.16%) Microservices
4 31 (33.33%) DevOps
5 25 (26.88%) Test Automation
6 24 (25.81%) TDD
7 22 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.43%) SDLC
9 17 (18.28%) Code Quality
9 17 (18.28%) Unit Testing
10 14 (15.05%) OOP
10 14 (15.05%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.98%) Containerisation
11 13 (13.98%) Multithreading
11 13 (13.98%) Scrum
12 12 (12.90%) Integration Testing
13 11 (11.83%) BDD
13 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (11.83%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (84.95%) Java
2 35 (37.63%) SQL
3 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.83%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.75%) Python
6 8 (8.60%) Shell Script
7 7 (7.53%) C#
7 7 (7.53%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.30%) Go
8 4 (4.30%) Korn
8 4 (4.30%) Perl
8 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.23%) PHP
10 2 (2.15%) Groovy
11 1 (1.08%) Bash
11 1 (1.08%) C++
11 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.08%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) SEPA
3 2 (2.15%) NCSC
4 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (34.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (31.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.68%) Terraform
3 6 (6.45%) Ansible
4 4 (4.30%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.08%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Oracle
2 12 (12.90%) Sybase
3 6 (6.45%) Google
4 5 (5.38%) IBM
5 4 (4.30%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.30%) Splunk
5 4 (4.30%) VMware
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.15%) Adobe
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.08%) Perforce
8 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow