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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 251 313
Rank change year-on-year -106 +62 +60
Contract jobs citing JUnit 91 116 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.87% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.51% 5.48% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 55
10th Percentile £393 £356 £459
25th Percentile £418 £375 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -12.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £603
90th Percentile £610 £622 £680
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £56.50 -
England median hourly rate - £63.25 -

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 2,590 2,117 2,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.72% 15.83% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,684 1,431 1,582
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £742 £750 £774
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 16
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £23.63
25th Percentile £30.75 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +27.53% -47.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -16 16 £525 +34.62% 8
South London -15 2 - -
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 8 (8.79%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
2 30 (32.97%) Azure
2 30 (32.97%) GitHub
3 22 (24.18%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (19.78%) GCP
5 10 (10.99%) Serverless
6 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.30%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.49%) MySQL
6 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.30%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.30%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (54.95%) Jenkins
2 41 (45.05%) Mockito
3 37 (40.66%) Git
4 34 (37.36%) Gradle
5 27 (29.67%) Cucumber
5 27 (29.67%) GitLab
6 26 (28.57%) Maven
7 15 (16.48%) Selenium
7 15 (16.48%) SonarQube
8 12 (13.19%) JIRA
8 12 (13.19%) REST Assured
9 11 (12.09%) Liquibase
9 11 (12.09%) TestNG
10 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
11 6 (6.59%) Postman
11 6 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (5.49%) Gatling
13 4 (4.40%) Serenity BDD
13 4 (4.40%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.37%) Finance
3 20 (21.98%) Banking
4 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.49%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Police
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Publishing
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (52.75%) Developer
2 41 (45.05%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.78%) Senior
4 11 (12.09%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Android Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead
9 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Automation Tester
11 3 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (61.54%) Spring
1 56 (61.54%) Spring Boot
2 45 (49.45%) REST
3 41 (45.05%) Kafka
4 38 (41.76%) RESTful
5 21 (23.08%) React
6 15 (16.48%) OpenAPI
6 15 (16.48%) Swagger
7 14 (15.38%) CSS
7 14 (15.38%) JPA
7 14 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (15.38%) SOAP
8 13 (14.29%) Hibernate
9 12 (13.19%) HTML
10 11 (12.09%) AngularJS
10 11 (12.09%) Terraform
10 11 (12.09%) Web Services
11 9 (9.89%) Android Jetpack
12 8 (8.79%) RxJava
12 8 (8.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.10%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Android
2 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 61 (67.03%) Agile
3 56 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 51 (56.04%) Microservices
5 44 (48.35%) DevOps
6 38 (41.76%) TDD
7 33 (36.26%) Containerisation
8 26 (28.57%) BDD
9 21 (23.08%) Scrum
10 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (20.88%) Event-Driven
12 18 (19.78%) Clean Code
13 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
14 14 (15.38%) Code Quality
14 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
14 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (91.21%) Java
2 36 (39.56%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 10 (10.99%) Python
6 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 3 (3.30%) Go
8 3 (3.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Korn
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (35.16%) SC Cleared
1 32 (35.16%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.20%) CISSP
8 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.47%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 41 (45.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.79%) Grafana
3 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.30%) Ansible
5 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Google
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
3 5 (5.49%) IBM
3 5 (5.49%) Veracode
4 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.20%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase