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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 300 294
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing JUnit 101 64 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.45% 3.31% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 82
10th Percentile £356 £400 £325
25th Percentile £416 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.26% -20.20%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £650
90th Percentile £638 £825 £863
England median daily rate £477 £539 £479
% change year-on-year -11.55% +12.53% -18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £58.40 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.25 £65.00 £79.50
% change year-on-year -18.08% -18.24% +13.57%

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 2,269 1,932 2,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.49% 13.87% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,259 1,756
10th Percentile £357 £341 £398
25th Percentile £421 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.06% -5.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £511 £538
% change year-on-year -2.15% -5.02% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 20
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +7.14% -20.87%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.66
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 24 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JUnit in London over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JUnit in London

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 24 January 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 -8 9 £450 -18.18% 2
East London - 2 £416 - 1
South London -2 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 (9.90%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) Ethereum
2 5 (4.95%) Hyperledger
3 4 (3.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.99%) Drupal
5 1 (0.99%) SAS
5 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.61%) AWS
2 25 (24.75%) Azure
3 21 (20.79%) GitHub
4 18 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (12.87%) Serverless
6 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.92%) GCP
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
8 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.93%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.95%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.96%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.97%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.74%) MongoDB
2 22 (21.78%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (18.81%) Relational Database
4 18 (17.82%) NoSQL
5 13 (12.87%) DB2
6 8 (7.92%) Oracle Database
6 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.93%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (6.93%) MySQL
8 6 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (1.98%) Redis
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (30.69%) Jenkins
1 31 (30.69%) Mockito
2 29 (28.71%) Git
3 21 (20.79%) Cucumber
3 21 (20.79%) JIRA
4 18 (17.82%) Selenium
5 15 (14.85%) GitLab
6 14 (13.86%) Maven
7 13 (12.87%) Cypress.io
8 12 (11.88%) Postman
9 11 (10.89%) Gradle
10 9 (8.91%) REST Assured
11 7 (6.93%) JMeter
12 6 (5.94%) SoapUI
12 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
12 6 (5.94%) TestNG
13 5 (4.95%) CircleCI
13 5 (4.95%) Liquibase
14 4 (3.96%) Gatling
14 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (35.64%) Finance
3 29 (28.71%) Banking
4 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.88%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (55.45%) Developer
2 37 (36.63%) Java Developer
3 27 (26.73%) Senior
4 19 (18.81%) Senior Developer
4 19 (18.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Tester
6 8 (7.92%) Android Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Linux Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Senior SQL Developer
6 8 (7.92%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.93%) Automation Tester
7 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (53.47%) Spring
2 42 (41.58%) Kafka
3 38 (37.62%) Spring Boot
4 33 (32.67%) REST
5 25 (24.75%) RESTful
6 22 (21.78%) AngularJS
7 19 (18.81%) Hibernate
8 15 (14.85%) React
8 15 (14.85%) WireMock
9 14 (13.86%) CSS
9 14 (13.86%) HTML
10 13 (12.87%) SOAP
11 11 (10.89%) Vue
11 11 (10.89%) XML
12 10 (9.90%) Playwright
13 9 (8.91%) JMS
14 8 (7.92%) RAML
15 7 (6.93%) Android Jetpack
15 7 (6.93%) Jetpack Compose
15 7 (6.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
2 8 (7.92%) Equities
3 6 (5.94%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.94%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.95%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) PKI
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.69%) Linux
2 13 (12.87%) Android
3 11 (10.89%) Unix
4 7 (6.93%) Apple iOS
5 6 (5.94%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.95%) Windows
7 3 (2.97%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) Agile
2 52 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 40 (39.60%) Microservices
4 33 (32.67%) DevOps
5 29 (28.71%) Test Automation
6 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.78%) SDLC
7 22 (21.78%) TDD
8 20 (19.80%) Unit Testing
9 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
10 16 (15.84%) Code Quality
10 16 (15.84%) Containerisation
11 15 (14.85%) Multithreading
12 13 (12.87%) OOP
12 13 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (12.87%) Regression Testing
13 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.88%) Integration Testing
13 12 (11.88%) Scrum
14 11 (10.89%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 85 (84.16%) Java
2 38 (37.62%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.89%) Kotlin
4 11 (10.89%) Python
5 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
5 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.94%) C++
7 5 (4.95%) C#
8 4 (3.96%) Go
8 4 (3.96%) Korn
8 4 (3.96%) Perl
8 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) Bash
9 2 (1.98%) Groovy
10 1 (0.99%) PHP
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.99%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) Degree
4 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.86%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) SEPA
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (32.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Ansible
4 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Oracle
2 14 (13.86%) Sybase
3 6 (5.94%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.94%) Splunk
4 5 (4.95%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
5 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 2 (1.98%) Adobe
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.99%) Perforce
7 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow