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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 245 138
Rank change year-on-year -42 -107 +66
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 178 132 308
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.98% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.06% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 89 205
10th Percentile £281 £359 £375
25th Percentile £390 £404 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £598 £750 £649
90th Percentile £669 £805 £738
England median daily rate £500 £472 £550
% change year-on-year +5.93% -14.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.31% -30.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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
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 2 October 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 39 £538 +31.90% 13
West London -18 7 £611 +10.60% 4
East London +4 2 £615 +36.67% 1
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 6 (3.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Traefik
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Trello
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) HFM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.97%) Azure
2 29 (16.29%) AWS
3 25 (14.04%) GitHub
4 19 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.87%) GCP
7 13 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.49%) Serverless
9 7 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.12%) Intranet
2 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.55%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.18%) MySQL
4 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.49%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.81%) Redis
8 4 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.25%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.69%) Metadata
9 3 (1.69%) Power BI
10 2 (1.12%) Essbase
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.12%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 52 (29.21%) Git
2 29 (16.29%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.11%) JIRA
4 13 (7.30%) GitLab
5 11 (6.18%) Gradle
5 11 (6.18%) Visual Studio
6 10 (5.62%) JUnit
7 9 (5.06%) Maven
8 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.93%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.81%) JSUnit
10 4 (2.25%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (2.25%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.69%) Mocha
11 3 (1.69%) Mockito
11 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (30.90%) Finance
2 53 (29.78%) Social Skills
3 43 (24.16%) Banking
4 33 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.62%) Front Office
6 8 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.25%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.12%) Local Government
10 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (50.56%) Developer
2 56 (31.46%) Senior
3 23 (12.92%) Senior Developer
4 16 (8.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) C# Developer
6 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.18%) Consultant
7 11 (6.18%) Lead
7 11 (6.18%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Java Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Architect
9 7 (3.93%) Junior
9 7 (3.93%) Python Developer
9 7 (3.93%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Pega Architect
10 6 (3.37%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (3.37%) Systems Architect
11 5 (2.81%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.91%) .NET
2 33 (18.54%) REST
3 32 (17.98%) RESTful
4 29 (16.29%) pytest
5 25 (14.04%) Spring
6 22 (12.36%) Spring Boot
7 21 (11.80%) React
8 20 (11.24%) .NET Framework
9 17 (9.55%) SOAP
10 16 (8.99%) Web Services
11 15 (8.43%) CSS
11 15 (8.43%) HTML
11 15 (8.43%) Node.js
12 14 (7.87%) JSON
13 12 (6.74%) AngularJS
13 12 (6.74%) XML
14 10 (5.62%) GraphQL
14 10 (5.62%) Next.js
14 10 (5.62%) OAuth
15 9 (5.06%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.06%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.37%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.25%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.69%) IoT
9 2 (1.12%) FMCG
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.24%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Unix
2 10 (5.62%) Windows
3 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.25%) Android
4 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (46.63%) CI/CD
2 82 (46.07%) Agile
3 59 (33.15%) DevOps
4 48 (26.97%) AI
5 46 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (23.60%) Integration Testing
6 42 (23.60%) Software Engineering
7 40 (22.47%) Clean Code
8 37 (20.79%) Scrum
9 34 (19.10%) Microservices
10 32 (17.98%) OOP
10 32 (17.98%) TDD
10 32 (17.98%) Test Automation
10 32 (17.98%) User Acceptance Testing
11 30 (16.85%) Validation
12 27 (15.17%) SDLC
13 25 (14.04%) Design Patterns
14 22 (12.36%) Code Quality
14 22 (12.36%) Containerisation
14 22 (12.36%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.52%) SQL
2 47 (26.40%) Python
3 43 (24.16%) C#
4 37 (20.79%) Java
5 24 (13.48%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.67%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.87%) T-SQL
8 12 (6.74%) PL/SQL
9 11 (6.18%) Bash
10 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.25%) Swift
12 3 (1.69%) C
12 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.69%) X++
13 2 (1.12%) ABAP
13 2 (1.12%) C++
13 2 (1.12%) Go
13 2 (1.12%) ProC
13 2 (1.12%) Ruby
13 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.48%) Degree
4 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) ACCA
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CIMA
6 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.35%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) Basel III
5 2 (1.12%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (26.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Oracle
3 9 (5.06%) Avaloq
3 9 (5.06%) SAP
4 8 (4.49%) Citrix
5 7 (3.93%) Pega
6 6 (3.37%) Google
7 4 (2.25%) Informatica
7 4 (2.25%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.25%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.25%) UiPath
8 3 (1.69%) webMethods
8 3 (1.69%) Workday
9 2 (1.12%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) JDA
10 1 (0.56%) Kofax
10 1 (0.56%) Murex
10 1 (0.56%) Sybase