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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 336 351
Rank change year-on-year +67 +15 -40
Contract jobs citing JUnit 109 56 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.81% 2.56% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 32 58
10th Percentile £356 £403 £309
25th Percentile £413 £513 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% -18.00%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £650
90th Percentile £638 £694 £832
England median daily rate £475 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -13.64% +11.68% -17.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% -7.14% +64.71%

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 2,265 2,189 2,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.10% 13.76% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,434 2,035
10th Percentile £350 £357 £399
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 27
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £28.30
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £39.06
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £71.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £76.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +10 10 £409 -27.81% 1
South London -5 1 - - 2
East London - 1 £416 - 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 9 (8.26%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) CICS
3 1 (0.92%) Drupal
3 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
3 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.20%) AWS
2 28 (25.69%) Azure
3 18 (16.51%) Serverless
4 16 (14.68%) GitHub
5 14 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (10.09%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (10.09%) AWS Fargate
7 11 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.26%) GCP
10 7 (6.42%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.59%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.52%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (26.61%) MongoDB
3 26 (23.85%) Relational Database
4 21 (19.27%) DB2
5 12 (11.01%) DynamoDB
6 10 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (9.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (7.34%) Oracle Database
8 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
9 6 (5.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (5.50%) RDBMS
10 5 (4.59%) Redis
11 3 (2.75%) MySQL
12 2 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database 10g
13 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (30.28%) Mockito
2 29 (26.61%) Jenkins
3 24 (22.02%) Git
4 22 (20.18%) Cucumber
4 22 (20.18%) Maven
5 18 (16.51%) Selenium
6 16 (14.68%) JIRA
7 13 (11.93%) Postman
8 12 (11.01%) Cypress.io
9 11 (10.09%) SonarQube
10 10 (9.17%) GitLab
10 10 (9.17%) REST Assured
11 8 (7.34%) JMeter
11 8 (7.34%) SoapUI
12 6 (5.50%) Gradle
13 5 (4.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (4.59%) CircleCI
13 5 (4.59%) Liquibase
13 5 (4.59%) Xcode
13 5 (4.59%) XCTest
General
1 48 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 43 (39.45%) Finance
3 34 (31.19%) Banking
4 23 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (15.60%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Automotive
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Aviation
10 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (61.47%) Developer
2 45 (41.28%) Java Developer
3 29 (26.61%) Senior
4 26 (23.85%) Senior Developer
4 26 (23.85%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Linux Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Senior SQL Developer
5 15 (13.76%) SQL Developer
6 13 (11.93%) Tester
7 11 (10.09%) Automation Tester
7 11 (10.09%) AWS Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Android Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Lead
10 5 (4.59%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (58.72%) Spring
2 41 (37.61%) Kafka
3 38 (34.86%) REST
4 37 (33.94%) Spring Boot
5 23 (21.10%) Hibernate
6 20 (18.35%) WireMock
7 19 (17.43%) AngularJS
8 18 (16.51%) RESTful
9 17 (15.60%) SOAP
10 16 (14.68%) JMS
11 13 (11.93%) CSS
11 13 (11.93%) HTML
12 12 (11.01%) JPA
13 11 (10.09%) React
14 10 (9.17%) XML
15 9 (8.26%) Playwright
15 9 (8.26%) RAML
16 8 (7.34%) Android Jetpack
16 8 (7.34%) Vue
16 8 (7.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Data Structures
1 15 (13.76%) Equities
2 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (4.59%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.67%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.94%) Linux
2 13 (11.93%) Android
2 13 (11.93%) Unix
3 6 (5.50%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.59%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.67%) Windows
6 2 (1.83%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (60.55%) Agile
2 51 (46.79%) CI/CD
3 45 (41.28%) Microservices
4 38 (34.86%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (30.28%) SDLC
6 31 (28.44%) DevOps
7 30 (27.52%) Test Automation
8 25 (22.94%) TDD
9 22 (20.18%) Integration Testing
10 21 (19.27%) Multithreading
11 19 (17.43%) Code Quality
12 18 (16.51%) Clean Code
12 18 (16.51%) Open Source
12 18 (16.51%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (16.51%) Unit Testing
13 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
13 16 (14.68%) Database Tuning
13 16 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (13.76%) Software Engineering
15 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (87.16%) Java
2 45 (41.28%) SQL
3 21 (19.27%) Python
4 20 (18.35%) Shell Script
5 18 (16.51%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.01%) Kotlin
6 12 (11.01%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.59%) C++
7 5 (4.59%) Groovy
8 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.75%) C#
9 3 (2.75%) Korn
9 3 (2.75%) Perl
9 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.92%) COBOL
11 1 (0.92%) JCL
11 1 (0.92%) PHP
11 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) SEPA
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (30.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 6 (5.50%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.92%) Control-M
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (19.27%) Sybase
2 14 (12.84%) CA Agile Central
2 14 (12.84%) Oracle
3 9 (8.26%) Dynatrace
3 9 (8.26%) Splunk
4 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.50%) Google
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.67%) VMware
8 3 (2.75%) IBM
9 1 (0.92%) Adobe
9 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.92%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.92%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.92%) Perforce
9 1 (0.92%) UiPath