Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 174 193
Rank change year-on-year -36 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 202 198 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.56% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.69% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 128 142
10th Percentile £397 £393 £381
25th Percentile £415 £447 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £713 £755 £726
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £53.68
25th Percentile £67.63 - £55.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £60.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £64.44
90th Percentile - - £65.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -20 21 £566 -1.52% 9
West London -23 7 £552 -0.09% 1
East London - 1 £450 -
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
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 12 (5.94%) Mendix
2 11 (5.45%) HCL Notes
2 11 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.95%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.46%) Confluence
5 8 (3.96%) Apache
6 6 (2.97%) Ethereum
6 6 (2.97%) Hyperledger
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) CMS
9 1 (0.50%) IIS
9 1 (0.50%) JBoss
9 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.74%) Azure
2 40 (19.80%) AWS
3 33 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.36%) Serverless
5 24 (11.88%) GitHub
6 18 (8.91%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.43%) GCP
8 14 (6.93%) Azure Functions
9 13 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.44%) OCI
9 13 (6.44%) PaaS
9 13 (6.44%) Power Automate
9 13 (6.44%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.95%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.39%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.92%) Power BI
4 14 (6.93%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.49%) MySQL
9 3 (1.49%) Power Query
9 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.99%) DB2
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (22.28%) Git
2 23 (11.39%) JIRA
3 21 (10.40%) Jenkins
4 17 (8.42%) JUnit
4 17 (8.42%) Postman
5 13 (6.44%) Visual Studio
6 12 (5.94%) GitLab
7 9 (4.46%) Selenium
8 8 (3.96%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.47%) Gradle
9 7 (3.47%) MSTest
10 6 (2.97%) Maven
10 6 (2.97%) MLflow
10 6 (2.97%) SoapUI
11 5 (2.48%) Mockito
11 5 (2.48%) NUnit
12 4 (1.98%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.98%) Mocha
13 3 (1.49%) tSQLt
13 3 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (35.64%) Finance
2 39 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.85%) Banking
4 23 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.95%) Front Office
8 5 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.98%) Legal
9 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (57.92%) Developer
2 36 (17.82%) Senior
3 26 (12.87%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.39%) C# Developer
5 19 (9.41%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.92%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.45%) Cloud Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Oracle Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
7 11 (5.45%) Python Developer
7 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (4.46%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.96%) .NET Developer
9 8 (3.96%) Backend Developer
9 8 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.96%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.47%) Informatica Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.78%) .NET
2 43 (21.29%) REST
3 28 (13.86%) RESTful
4 27 (13.37%) Spring
4 27 (13.37%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.87%) React
6 22 (10.89%) .NET Framework
7 20 (9.90%) CSS
7 20 (9.90%) HTML
8 19 (9.41%) SOAP
9 18 (8.91%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.42%) JSON
10 17 (8.42%) Kafka
11 16 (7.92%) Web Services
11 16 (7.92%) XML
12 14 (6.93%) OAuth
13 12 (5.94%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (5.94%) pytest
14 10 (4.95%) HTML5 Canvas
15 8 (3.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.93%) Algorithms
1 14 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.44%) Low-Code
3 9 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.48%) Life Science
8 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.49%) CMDB
9 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.49%) Derivative
9 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.49%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.99%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.42%) Windows
2 15 (7.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.47%) Unix
4 6 (2.97%) Android
5 5 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.49%) Linux
7 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.58%) Agile
2 79 (39.11%) CI/CD
3 78 (38.61%) DevOps
4 41 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (19.80%) Microservices
6 36 (17.82%) Scrum
7 35 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 34 (16.83%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (15.84%) AI
10 30 (14.85%) Software Engineering
11 29 (14.36%) Code Quality
12 24 (11.88%) Analytics
13 22 (10.89%) Containerisation
13 22 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (10.40%) Data Analysis
14 21 (10.40%) Machine Learning
14 21 (10.40%) TDD
15 20 (9.90%) ERP
16 19 (9.41%) Integration Testing
17 18 (8.91%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 76 (37.62%) SQL
2 54 (26.73%) C#
3 53 (26.24%) Java
4 43 (21.29%) Python
5 31 (15.35%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.88%) T-SQL
7 22 (10.89%) PL/SQL
8 18 (8.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.45%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.45%) Kotlin
9 11 (5.45%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.47%) Scala
11 4 (1.98%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.98%) Swift
12 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.99%) Bicep
13 2 (0.99%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.50%) Solidity
14 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.86%) Degree
2 28 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (27.72%) QA
2 6 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.49%) WCAG
5 2 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (15.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.99%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.99%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 22 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) Grafana
3 3 (1.49%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (30.20%) Oracle
2 33 (16.34%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.91%) Citrix
4 11 (5.45%) Lotus
5 10 (4.95%) Google
5 10 (4.95%) Kofax
6 9 (4.46%) Informatica
7 8 (3.96%) Databricks
8 5 (2.48%) Pega
8 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.49%) HP
9 3 (1.49%) SAP
9 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Workday
10 2 (0.99%) Adobe
10 2 (0.99%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.99%) Foundry
10 2 (0.99%) IBM
10 2 (0.99%) Sybase
11 1 (0.50%) Murex