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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 243 316
Rank change year-on-year -93 +73 +70
Contract jobs citing JUnit 100 108 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.84% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.09% 5.46% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 68 70
10th Percentile £320 £371 £375
25th Percentile £447 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.98% -20.37%
75th Percentile £569 £546 £650
90th Percentile £615 £620 £840
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -8.33%
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 £90.00 £70.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +28.57% -13.58% +9.83%

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 2,447 1,978 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.70% 15.42% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,603 1,333 1,723
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £671
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.70 £27.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -1.16% -42.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 20 £506 -7.11% 1
South London -11 5 - -
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 (6.00%) Ethereum
1 6 (6.00%) Hyperledger
2 3 (3.00%) Camunda
2 3 (3.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) JBoss
3 2 (2.00%) Drupal
3 2 (2.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.00%) AWS
2 36 (36.00%) GitHub
3 28 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (23.00%) Azure
5 14 (14.00%) Amazon S3
6 13 (13.00%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (12.00%) GCP
7 12 (12.00%) Serverless
8 11 (11.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (4.00%) AWS KMS
12 4 (4.00%) Route 53
13 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (3.00%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (3.00%) OpenShift
14 2 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.00%) NoSQL
3 13 (13.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (11.00%) DynamoDB
5 10 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.00%) MySQL
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (4.00%) Db2
10 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (51.00%) Jenkins
2 47 (47.00%) Mockito
3 39 (39.00%) Git
4 30 (30.00%) Gradle
5 25 (25.00%) JIRA
6 24 (24.00%) GitLab
7 21 (21.00%) Cucumber
8 18 (18.00%) Maven
9 14 (14.00%) Liquibase
10 11 (11.00%) Selenium
11 8 (8.00%) TestNG
12 6 (6.00%) Postman
12 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
12 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
13 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (5.00%) CircleCI
14 4 (4.00%) DbUnit
14 4 (4.00%) Flyway
14 4 (4.00%) jMock
14 4 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (28.00%) Finance
2 26 (26.00%) Banking
3 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.00%) Law
6 3 (3.00%) Police
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Legal
7 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Local Government
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (47.00%) Developer
2 38 (38.00%) Java Developer
3 21 (21.00%) Senior
4 15 (15.00%) Java Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) Senior Developer
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (12.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Test Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Android Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Test Analyst
12 3 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) AWS Developer
12 3 (3.00%) Citrix Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.00%) QA Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (70.00%) Spring
2 66 (66.00%) Spring Boot
3 53 (53.00%) Kafka
4 41 (41.00%) RESTful
5 38 (38.00%) REST
6 21 (21.00%) React
7 16 (16.00%) AngularJS
8 14 (14.00%) OpenAPI
8 14 (14.00%) Swagger
9 11 (11.00%) JPA
10 10 (10.00%) Hibernate
10 10 (10.00%) SOAP
10 10 (10.00%) Spring Batch
11 9 (9.00%) Android Jetpack
11 9 (9.00%) J2EE
11 9 (9.00%) WireMock
12 8 (8.00%) CSS
12 8 (8.00%) Jetpack Compose
12 8 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
12 8 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.00%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Android
2 4 (4.00%) Linux
3 3 (3.00%) Windows
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 62 (62.00%) Agile
3 61 (61.00%) Microservices
4 39 (39.00%) Test Automation
5 35 (35.00%) DevOps
5 35 (35.00%) TDD
6 34 (34.00%) Containerisation
7 25 (25.00%) Scrum
8 21 (21.00%) BDD
9 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.00%) Event-Driven
10 16 (16.00%) Unit Testing
11 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (13.00%) Code Quality
13 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (11.00%) Integration Testing
13 11 (11.00%) Migration
13 11 (11.00%) Observability
14 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 84 (84.00%) Java
2 36 (36.00%) SQL
3 29 (29.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (9.00%) C#
4 9 (9.00%) Kotlin
5 8 (8.00%) Python
6 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.00%) Go
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (1.00%) Ruby
9 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (49.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Postfix
2 3 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (42.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) Grafana
4 6 (6.00%) Ansible
5 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Oracle
2 5 (5.00%) Sybase
3 4 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (3.00%) Citrix
5 2 (2.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Google
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.00%) Veracode