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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 260 329
Rank change year-on-year -99 +69 +50
Contract jobs citing JUnit 82 108 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.81% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 5.08% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 54
10th Percentile £380 £359 £404
25th Percentile £447 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £606
90th Percentile £625 £613 £799
England median daily rate £483 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -13.64% -4.35%
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 2,513 2,125 2,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.52% 15.89% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,615 1,459 1,589
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £24.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.38 £84.50 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% - -

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 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 26 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 -14 17 £525 +37.25%
South London -19 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 3 (3.66%) Camunda
1 3 (3.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) GitHub
2 29 (35.37%) AWS
3 27 (32.93%) Azure
4 24 (29.27%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (15.85%) GCP
6 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.10%) Serverless
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.66%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.44%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.22%) DSL
2 1 (1.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (32.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.10%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 42 (51.22%) Jenkins
2 38 (46.34%) Mockito
3 30 (36.59%) Gradle
4 25 (30.49%) GitLab
5 24 (29.27%) Git
6 16 (19.51%) Liquibase
7 14 (17.07%) Cucumber
8 11 (13.41%) Maven
9 10 (12.20%) JIRA
9 10 (12.20%) Selenium
10 8 (9.76%) TestNG
11 6 (7.32%) CircleCI
11 6 (7.32%) REST Assured
12 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
13 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (4.88%) Flyway
13 4 (4.88%) Postman
13 4 (4.88%) WebDriver
14 3 (3.66%) Appium
15 2 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 21 (25.61%) Finance
2 17 (20.73%) Banking
3 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.76%) Law
7 3 (3.66%) Police
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (48.78%) Developer
2 32 (39.02%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Senior
4 14 (17.07%) Java Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Software Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Test Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Android Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) PowerShell Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) QA Test Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (64.63%) Spring
1 53 (64.63%) Spring Boot
2 42 (51.22%) Kafka
3 37 (45.12%) REST
4 33 (40.24%) RESTful
5 22 (26.83%) React
6 17 (20.73%) OpenAPI
6 17 (20.73%) Swagger
7 12 (14.63%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (13.41%) Android Jetpack
9 10 (12.20%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (10.98%) CSS
10 9 (10.98%) RxJava
11 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
12 7 (8.54%) HTML
12 7 (8.54%) Terraform
12 7 (8.54%) WireMock
13 6 (7.32%) Dagger
13 6 (7.32%) JPA
13 6 (7.32%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.41%) Android
2 8 (9.76%) Linux
3 7 (8.54%) Unix
4 3 (3.66%) Windows
5 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (86.59%) CI/CD
2 51 (62.20%) Microservices
3 49 (59.76%) Agile
4 45 (54.88%) Test Automation
5 36 (43.90%) DevOps
6 32 (39.02%) TDD
7 27 (32.93%) Containerisation
8 20 (24.39%) BDD
9 17 (20.73%) Software Engineering
10 16 (19.51%) Event-Driven
10 16 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (17.07%) Scrum
12 13 (15.85%) Clean Code
13 12 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (12.20%) Migration
14 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (10.98%) Android Development
15 9 (10.98%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 69 (84.15%) Java
2 37 (45.12%) SQL
3 26 (31.71%) TypeScript
4 11 (13.41%) Kotlin
5 6 (7.32%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) Python
6 5 (6.10%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.22%) Korn
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (26.83%) SC Cleared
1 22 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.32%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.17%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 35 (42.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Ansible
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
1 7 (8.54%) Oracle
2 4 (4.88%) Databricks
3 3 (3.66%) Citrix
4 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.44%) IBM
4 2 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (2.44%) Splunk
4 2 (2.44%) Veracode
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) Sybase