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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 255 306
Rank change year-on-year -57 +51 +66
Contract jobs citing JUnit 93 92 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.74% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.95% 5.09% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 55 76
10th Percentile £413 £382 £369
25th Percentile £451 £402 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.50% -15.40%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £825
90th Percentile £619 £773 £863
England median daily rate £475 £520 £529
% change year-on-year -8.61% -1.75% -10.34%
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 2,357 1,807 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.25% 14.50% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 1,222 1,653
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £423 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -35.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -11 15 £525 -4.55% 3
South London -21 5 £513 -
East London -6 2 £416 +0.20% 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 6 (6.45%) Ethereum
1 6 (6.45%) Hyperledger
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 3 (3.23%) Camunda
3 3 (3.23%) JBoss
4 2 (2.15%) Drupal
4 2 (2.15%) WordPress
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.08%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.08%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) AWS
2 25 (26.88%) GitHub
3 22 (23.66%) Azure
4 20 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
5 12 (12.90%) GCP
6 11 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (10.75%) Serverless
8 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (7.53%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.30%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.23%) AWS KMS
12 3 (3.23%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) DSL
2 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.35%) NoSQL
3 13 (13.98%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (10.75%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
6 7 (7.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (7.53%) MySQL
7 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.30%) DB2
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 43 (46.24%) Mockito
2 42 (45.16%) Jenkins
3 35 (37.63%) Git
4 24 (25.81%) JIRA
5 19 (20.43%) GitLab
6 18 (19.35%) Cucumber
6 18 (19.35%) Gradle
7 11 (11.83%) Liquibase
8 10 (10.75%) Maven
8 10 (10.75%) Selenium
9 7 (7.53%) Postman
9 7 (7.53%) TestNG
10 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
11 4 (4.30%) Ant
11 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
11 4 (4.30%) REST Assured
11 4 (4.30%) SoapUI
12 3 (3.23%) Appium
12 3 (3.23%) DbUnit
12 3 (3.23%) jMock
General
1 25 (26.88%) Banking
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Law
7 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Police
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (52.69%) Developer
2 35 (37.63%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.43%) Senior
4 13 (13.98%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Senior Developer
6 11 (11.83%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Android Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Test Analyst
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.23%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) QA Test Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (64.52%) Spring
2 55 (59.14%) Spring Boot
3 46 (49.46%) Kafka
4 37 (39.78%) RESTful
5 31 (33.33%) REST
6 23 (24.73%) React
7 20 (21.51%) AngularJS
8 12 (12.90%) CSS
8 12 (12.90%) Hibernate
9 11 (11.83%) Vue
10 10 (10.75%) HTML
10 10 (10.75%) OpenAPI
10 10 (10.75%) SOAP
10 10 (10.75%) Swagger
11 9 (9.68%) J2EE
11 9 (9.68%) JPA
11 9 (9.68%) Spring Batch
11 9 (9.68%) WireMock
12 8 (8.60%) Android Jetpack
12 8 (8.60%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.15%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.08%) NHS
7 1 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Android
1 9 (9.68%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Windows
3 3 (3.23%) AIX
3 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (65.59%) CI/CD
2 57 (61.29%) Agile
3 49 (52.69%) Microservices
4 31 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 30 (32.26%) TDD
6 29 (31.18%) Test Automation
7 28 (30.11%) DevOps
8 21 (22.58%) Scrum
9 20 (21.51%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.20%) Unit Testing
11 15 (16.13%) BDD
11 15 (16.13%) Code Quality
12 13 (13.98%) Event-Driven
12 13 (13.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (12.90%) OOP
14 11 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (10.75%) API Testing
15 10 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (10.75%) Integration Testing
16 9 (9.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 76 (81.72%) Java
2 34 (36.56%) SQL
3 24 (25.81%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.60%) C#
5 8 (8.60%) Kotlin
6 7 (7.53%) Python
7 4 (4.30%) Go
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.23%) Korn
8 3 (3.23%) Perl
8 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.15%) PHP
10 1 (1.08%) Bash
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 27 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) NCSC
2 2 (2.15%) SEPA
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (49.46%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.15%) Postfix
4 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (44.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.53%) Terraform
3 6 (6.45%) Grafana
4 5 (5.38%) Ansible
5 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.08%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Oracle
2 5 (5.38%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) IBM
3 4 (4.30%) Sybase
4 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.23%) Citrix
4 3 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.08%) Adobe
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.08%) Perforce
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow