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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 313 307
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing JUnit 96 59 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.30% 2.88% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 31 65
10th Percentile £356 £425 £318
25th Percentile £375 £488 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £650
90th Percentile £625 £825 £863
England median daily rate £475 £565 £483
% change year-on-year -15.93% +17.10% -18.22%
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 £40.00 £65.00 £76.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% -15.03% +5.52%

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 2,231 2,047 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.56% 13.82% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,338 1,762
10th Percentile £356 £345 £400
25th Percentile £425 £421 £463
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 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 21
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 0 10 £409 -27.81% 7
East London - 2 £416 -
South London -3 1 £513 +13.89%
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 (10.42%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.04%) Camunda
3 1 (1.04%) CICS
3 1 (1.04%) Drupal
3 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) AWS
2 29 (30.21%) Azure
3 18 (18.75%) GitHub
4 16 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.46%) Serverless
6 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.38%) GCP
8 7 (7.29%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.21%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.17%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.13%) Azure App Service
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Storage
11 3 (3.13%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.08%) MongoDB
2 24 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (21.88%) Relational Database
4 15 (15.63%) DB2
5 11 (11.46%) NoSQL
6 10 (10.42%) Oracle Database
7 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 7 (7.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (5.21%) Redis
10 4 (4.17%) MySQL
10 4 (4.17%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
13 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (31.25%) Mockito
2 29 (30.21%) Jenkins
3 21 (21.88%) Git
4 18 (18.75%) Cucumber
4 18 (18.75%) Selenium
5 17 (17.71%) JIRA
6 15 (15.63%) Maven
6 15 (15.63%) Postman
7 13 (13.54%) Cypress.io
7 13 (13.54%) GitLab
8 12 (12.50%) REST Assured
9 9 (9.38%) SoapUI
9 9 (9.38%) SonarQube
10 8 (8.33%) JMeter
11 7 (7.29%) Gradle
12 5 (5.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (5.21%) Liquibase
12 5 (5.21%) Subversion
12 5 (5.21%) TestNG
12 5 (5.21%) Xcode
General
1 43 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 39 (40.63%) Finance
3 31 (32.29%) Banking
4 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Automotive
8 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (54.17%) Developer
2 33 (34.38%) Java Developer
3 23 (23.96%) Senior
4 18 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 18 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Linux Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Senior SQL Developer
5 11 (11.46%) SQL Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Tester
6 9 (9.38%) Automation Tester
7 8 (8.33%) Android Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Lead
8 6 (6.25%) QA Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.04%) Spring
2 38 (39.58%) Kafka
3 33 (34.38%) REST
4 30 (31.25%) Spring Boot
5 22 (22.92%) Hibernate
6 21 (21.88%) AngularJS
7 17 (17.71%) RESTful
8 16 (16.67%) CSS
8 16 (16.67%) HTML
8 16 (16.67%) WireMock
9 15 (15.63%) SOAP
10 14 (14.58%) React
11 12 (12.50%) JMS
12 11 (11.46%) XML
13 10 (10.42%) JPA
13 10 (10.42%) Vue
14 9 (9.38%) Playwright
14 9 (9.38%) RAML
15 7 (7.29%) Android Jetpack
15 7 (7.29%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Data Structures
1 11 (11.46%) Equities
2 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (5.21%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (36.46%) Linux
2 14 (14.58%) Unix
3 13 (13.54%) Android
4 7 (7.29%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.21%) Windows
7 3 (3.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) Agile
2 44 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 36 (37.50%) Microservices
4 33 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (33.33%) DevOps
6 28 (29.17%) SDLC
7 26 (27.08%) Test Automation
8 25 (26.04%) TDD
9 19 (19.79%) Unit Testing
10 17 (17.71%) Multithreading
10 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
11 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.54%) Clean Code
13 13 (13.54%) Code Quality
13 13 (13.54%) Mentoring
13 13 (13.54%) Open Source
13 13 (13.54%) Regression Testing
14 12 (12.50%) Containerisation
14 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (84.38%) Java
2 41 (42.71%) SQL
3 20 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 13 (13.54%) Python
6 11 (11.46%) Kotlin
7 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.25%) C++
9 5 (5.21%) Groovy
10 4 (4.17%) C#
10 4 (4.17%) Korn
10 4 (4.17%) Perl
10 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.13%) Bash
12 2 (2.08%) Go
13 1 (1.04%) COBOL
13 1 (1.04%) JCL
13 1 (1.04%) PHP
13 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 4 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) SEPA
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (30.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.33%) Terraform
3 6 (6.25%) Ansible
4 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Control-M
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Oracle
2 15 (15.63%) Sybase
3 9 (9.38%) Dynatrace
3 9 (9.38%) Splunk
4 7 (7.29%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (5.21%) Google
6 4 (4.17%) IBM
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.17%) VMware
7 2 (2.08%) Adobe
8 1 (1.04%) Perforce
8 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) UiPath