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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 327 337
Rank change year-on-year +53 +10 -38
Contract jobs citing JUnit 111 55 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.85% 2.51% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 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 2,289 2,195 2,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.10% 13.79% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,440 1,985
10th Percentile £350 £357 £400
25th Percentile £419 £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 £734 £775 £799
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 25
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £27.45
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £36.88
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 £72.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £76.50
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 27 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 27 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 -5 10 £409 -27.81% 1
East London - 2 £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 (8.11%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) CICS
3 1 (0.90%) Drupal
3 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.90%) SAS
3 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.44%) AWS
2 30 (27.03%) Azure
3 18 (16.22%) Serverless
4 17 (15.32%) GitHub
5 15 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (9.91%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (9.91%) AWS Fargate
7 11 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.11%) GCP
10 7 (6.31%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.50%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (3.60%) Azure API Management
12 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.13%) MongoDB
1 29 (26.13%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.42%) Relational Database
3 21 (18.92%) DB2
4 11 (9.91%) DynamoDB
5 10 (9.01%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (8.11%) Oracle Database
7 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
8 6 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.41%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.50%) Redis
10 3 (2.70%) MySQL
11 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database 10g
12 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (29.73%) Mockito
2 30 (27.03%) Jenkins
3 23 (20.72%) Git
4 22 (19.82%) Cucumber
5 21 (18.92%) Maven
6 19 (17.12%) Selenium
7 16 (14.41%) JIRA
8 14 (12.61%) Postman
9 13 (11.71%) Cypress.io
10 11 (9.91%) GitLab
10 11 (9.91%) REST Assured
11 10 (9.01%) SonarQube
12 9 (8.11%) SoapUI
13 8 (7.21%) JMeter
14 6 (5.41%) Gradle
15 5 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (4.50%) Liquibase
15 5 (4.50%) Subversion
15 5 (4.50%) TestNG
15 5 (4.50%) Xcode
General
1 49 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 44 (39.64%) Finance
3 35 (31.53%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (16.22%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Automotive
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Aviation
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (61.26%) Developer
2 44 (39.64%) Java Developer
3 28 (25.23%) Senior
4 25 (22.52%) Senior Developer
4 25 (22.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (13.51%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (13.51%) Linux Developer
5 15 (13.51%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 15 (13.51%) Senior SQL Developer
5 15 (13.51%) SQL Developer
6 13 (11.71%) Tester
7 11 (9.91%) Automation Tester
7 11 (9.91%) AWS Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Android Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Lead
10 6 (5.41%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (57.66%) Spring
2 42 (37.84%) Kafka
3 37 (33.33%) REST
3 37 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 22 (19.82%) Hibernate
5 20 (18.02%) WireMock
6 18 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 17 (15.32%) RESTful
7 17 (15.32%) SOAP
8 16 (14.41%) JMS
9 13 (11.71%) CSS
9 13 (11.71%) HTML
10 11 (9.91%) JPA
10 11 (9.91%) React
10 11 (9.91%) XML
11 10 (9.01%) Playwright
12 9 (8.11%) RAML
13 8 (7.21%) Android Jetpack
13 8 (7.21%) Vue
14 7 (6.31%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Data Structures
1 15 (13.51%) Equities
2 9 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.50%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.33%) Linux
2 14 (12.61%) Unix
3 13 (11.71%) Android
4 6 (5.41%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.50%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.50%) Windows
6 3 (2.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (59.46%) Agile
2 52 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 44 (39.64%) Microservices
4 38 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (30.63%) SDLC
6 31 (27.93%) DevOps
6 31 (27.93%) Test Automation
7 25 (22.52%) TDD
8 23 (20.72%) Integration Testing
9 21 (18.92%) Multithreading
10 19 (17.12%) Code Quality
11 18 (16.22%) Clean Code
11 18 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (16.22%) Unit Testing
12 17 (15.32%) Open Source
13 16 (14.41%) Database Tuning
13 16 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (13.51%) Containerisation
14 15 (13.51%) Software Engineering
15 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (86.49%) Java
2 45 (40.54%) SQL
3 21 (18.92%) Python
4 20 (18.02%) Shell Script
5 18 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.81%) Kotlin
6 12 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.50%) C++
7 5 (4.50%) Groovy
8 4 (3.60%) C#
8 4 (3.60%) Korn
8 4 (3.60%) Perl
8 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.80%) Bash
10 1 (0.90%) COBOL
10 1 (0.90%) Go
10 1 (0.90%) JCL
10 1 (0.90%) PHP
10 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (20.72%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Degree
4 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.22%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) SEPA
3 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (29.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.31%) Terraform
3 6 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.90%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Sybase
2 15 (13.51%) Oracle
3 14 (12.61%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (8.11%) Dynatrace
4 9 (8.11%) Splunk
5 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.41%) Google
7 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.60%) IBM
8 4 (3.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.90%) Adobe
9 1 (0.90%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.90%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.90%) Perforce
9 1 (0.90%) UiPath