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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 272 314
Rank change year-on-year -82 +42 +62
Contract jobs citing JUnit 86 108 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.79% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% 5.12% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 69 54
10th Percentile £371 £359 £404
25th Percentile £429 £388 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £620
90th Percentile £575 £613 £825
England median daily rate £475 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +1.28% -14.73% -6.38%
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 2,495 2,111 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.47% 15.50% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 1,446 1,616
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.69
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -7 18 £525 +29.63%
South London -20 5 - - 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 4 (4.65%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Camunda
2 3 (3.49%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.37%) GitHub
2 32 (37.21%) AWS
3 26 (30.23%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (29.07%) Azure
5 13 (15.12%) GCP
6 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (11.63%) Amazon S3
7 9 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.30%) Serverless
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.65%) AWS KMS
11 4 (4.65%) Route 53
12 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.33%) Azure Storage
13 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.16%) DSL
2 1 (1.16%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (33.72%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.33%) Db2
8 2 (2.33%) MySQL
9 1 (1.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (54.65%) Jenkins
2 40 (46.51%) Mockito
3 29 (33.72%) Gradle
4 27 (31.40%) Git
5 24 (27.91%) GitLab
6 19 (22.09%) Cucumber
7 18 (20.93%) JIRA
8 15 (17.44%) Liquibase
9 13 (15.12%) Maven
10 9 (10.47%) Selenium
11 7 (8.14%) SonarQube
11 7 (8.14%) TestNG
12 6 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (6.98%) CircleCI
13 5 (5.81%) Postman
13 5 (5.81%) REST Assured
14 4 (4.65%) DbUnit
14 4 (4.65%) Flyway
14 4 (4.65%) jMock
14 4 (4.65%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (26.74%) Finance
2 22 (25.58%) Banking
3 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
5 12 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.30%) Law
7 3 (3.49%) Police
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Publishing
9 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (46.51%) Developer
2 31 (36.05%) Java Developer
3 15 (17.44%) Senior
4 14 (16.28%) Java Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 10 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Android Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Test Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Android Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.49%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (63.95%) Spring
2 52 (60.47%) Spring Boot
3 46 (53.49%) Kafka
4 34 (39.53%) REST
5 33 (38.37%) RESTful
6 22 (25.58%) React
7 15 (17.44%) OpenAPI
7 15 (17.44%) Swagger
8 11 (12.79%) Android Jetpack
9 10 (11.63%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
10 9 (10.47%) RxJava
10 9 (10.47%) WireMock
11 8 (9.30%) CSS
11 8 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (9.30%) SOAP
12 7 (8.14%) JPA
12 7 (8.14%) Spring Cloud
12 7 (8.14%) Web Services
13 6 (6.98%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.30%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.16%) IoT
7 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.79%) Android
2 6 (6.98%) Linux
3 3 (3.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (79.07%) CI/CD
2 54 (62.79%) Agile
3 51 (59.30%) Microservices
4 40 (46.51%) Test Automation
5 33 (38.37%) TDD
6 32 (37.21%) DevOps
7 31 (36.05%) Containerisation
8 20 (23.26%) BDD
8 20 (23.26%) Scrum
9 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.28%) Event-Driven
11 13 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (13.95%) Migration
13 11 (12.79%) Clean Code
13 11 (12.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (11.63%) Integration Testing
15 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (10.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (83.72%) Java
2 34 (39.53%) SQL
3 24 (27.91%) TypeScript
4 11 (12.79%) Kotlin
5 6 (6.98%) C#
5 6 (6.98%) Python
6 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) Korn
8 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (47.67%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Postfix
2 3 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (37.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 6 (6.98%) Ansible
3 6 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.65%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (3.49%) Citrix
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle
3 3 (3.49%) Sybase
4 2 (2.33%) Databricks
4 2 (2.33%) IBM
4 2 (2.33%) Splunk
4 2 (2.33%) Veracode
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow