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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 267 310
Rank change year-on-year -29 +43 +40
Contract jobs citing JUnit 98 84 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.08% 4.71% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 47 68
10th Percentile £413 £382 £325
25th Percentile £431 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.26% -23.27%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £838
90th Percentile £625 £780 £875
England median daily rate £476 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.68% -19.49%
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 £50.00 £65.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -19.75% +8.00%

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 2,401 1,783 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.40% 14.10% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 1,220 1,641
10th Percentile £353 £343 £374
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 20
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £30.34
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -32.20% -23.04%
75th Percentile £75.69 £67.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -15 13 £525 -2.78% 3
South London -15 4 £513 -
East London - 2 £416 -
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 (8.16%) Confluence
2 6 (6.12%) Ethereum
2 6 (6.12%) Hyperledger
3 3 (3.06%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) JBoss
4 2 (2.04%) Camunda
4 2 (2.04%) Drupal
4 2 (2.04%) WordPress
5 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.02%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.94%) AWS
2 27 (27.55%) Azure
3 24 (24.49%) GitHub
4 19 (19.39%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (17.35%) Serverless
6 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 13 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (11.22%) GCP
10 10 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (6.12%) Azure AKS
15 5 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
16 4 (4.08%) Azure API Management
17 3 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) DSL
2 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (19.39%) NoSQL
3 16 (16.33%) MongoDB
4 14 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 12 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (10.20%) DynamoDB
7 9 (9.18%) DB2
8 7 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (7.14%) MySQL
8 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
9 6 (6.12%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
12 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (41.84%) Jenkins
2 39 (39.80%) Mockito
3 38 (38.78%) Git
4 28 (28.57%) JIRA
5 22 (22.45%) Cucumber
6 17 (17.35%) GitLab
7 13 (13.27%) Gradle
7 13 (13.27%) Maven
7 13 (13.27%) Selenium
8 10 (10.20%) Liquibase
9 9 (9.18%) Postman
10 8 (8.16%) TestNG
11 6 (6.12%) Cypress.io
12 5 (5.10%) Ant
12 5 (5.10%) REST Assured
12 5 (5.10%) SoapUI
13 4 (4.08%) SonarQube
14 3 (3.06%) Appium
14 3 (3.06%) jMock
15 2 (2.04%) JMeter
General
1 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.51%) Finance
3 24 (24.49%) Banking
4 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (55.10%) Developer
2 40 (40.82%) Java Developer
3 24 (24.49%) Senior
4 18 (18.37%) Senior Developer
5 17 (17.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) QA Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) AWS Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Lead
9 5 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Citrix Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Middleware Developer
11 3 (3.06%) QA Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (60.20%) Spring
2 49 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 47 (47.96%) Kafka
4 33 (33.67%) RESTful
5 32 (32.65%) REST
6 21 (21.43%) AngularJS
7 18 (18.37%) React
8 15 (15.31%) SOAP
9 14 (14.29%) Hibernate
10 12 (12.24%) CSS
10 12 (12.24%) HTML
10 12 (12.24%) Vue
11 11 (11.22%) WireMock
12 10 (10.20%) XML
13 9 (9.18%) J2EE
14 8 (8.16%) Spring Batch
15 7 (7.14%) JPA
15 7 (7.14%) JSON
16 6 (6.12%) JMS
16 6 (6.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.04%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Equities
5 2 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.35%) Linux
2 7 (7.14%) Unix
2 7 (7.14%) Windows
3 6 (6.12%) Android
4 3 (3.06%) AIX
4 3 (3.06%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.27%) CI/CD
2 60 (61.22%) Agile
3 51 (52.04%) Microservices
4 34 (34.69%) DevOps
5 29 (29.59%) TDD
6 28 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 27 (27.55%) Containerisation
8 21 (21.43%) Scrum
9 19 (19.39%) Code Quality
10 17 (17.35%) BDD
10 17 (17.35%) Unit Testing
11 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.29%) OOP
12 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.27%) Event-Driven
13 13 (13.27%) Integration Testing
13 13 (13.27%) Regression Testing
14 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (12.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (11.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 86 (87.76%) Java
2 38 (38.78%) SQL
3 17 (17.35%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.20%) Python
6 9 (9.18%) C#
7 4 (4.08%) Go
7 4 (4.08%) Korn
7 4 (4.08%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.08%) Perl
7 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.04%) PHP
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.39%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) SEPA
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (43.88%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) Postfix
3 1 (1.02%) Squid
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (41.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Ansible
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.02%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) Oracle
2 10 (10.20%) Sybase
3 6 (6.12%) Google
4 5 (5.10%) IBM
5 3 (3.06%) Citrix
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.04%) Adobe
6 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.02%) Perforce
7 1 (1.02%) VMware