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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 143 216
Rank change year-on-year -73 +73 -68
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 167 294 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.86% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 2.08% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 188 163
10th Percentile £368 £363 £450
25th Percentile £415 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £637
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -12.36% +1.92%
75th Percentile £706 £669 £746
90th Percentile £800 £748 £787
England median daily rate £500 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £81.25
25th Percentile £51.75 - £84.53
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £91.88
90th Percentile - - £93.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +3 27 £525 -9.17% 7
South London -2 2 £850 +13.33%
West London -18 2 £552 +11.41% 1
East London - 2 £450 - 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 18 (10.78%) Confluence
2 8 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.99%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.80%) CMS
6 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.20%) Apache
6 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.60%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) CICS
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Drupal
7 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.60%) Traefik
7 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.80%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.20%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.56%) AWS
2 27 (16.17%) Azure
3 26 (15.57%) GitHub
4 23 (13.77%) GCP
5 12 (7.19%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.99%) Cloud Run
6 10 (5.99%) OCI
6 10 (5.99%) PaaS
7 8 (4.79%) Firebase
7 8 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (4.79%) IaaS
8 7 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.19%) Serverless
9 6 (3.59%) Figma
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.20%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.57%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.59%) Power BI
5 10 (5.99%) Oracle Database
6 9 (5.39%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.19%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.99%) Redis
9 4 (2.40%) DB2
9 4 (2.40%) MySQL
10 3 (1.80%) Power Query
11 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.20%) SQLite
11 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 57 (34.13%) Git
2 27 (16.17%) JIRA
3 25 (14.97%) Jenkins
4 18 (10.78%) JUnit
5 16 (9.58%) Postman
6 11 (6.59%) Maven
6 11 (6.59%) SpecFlow
7 10 (5.99%) Xcode
8 9 (5.39%) Mockito
9 8 (4.79%) Bitbucket
9 8 (4.79%) SonarQube
10 7 (4.19%) Visual Studio
11 6 (3.59%) Android Studio
11 6 (3.59%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (2.99%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.99%) GitLab
12 5 (2.99%) REST Assured
12 5 (2.99%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.99%) Subversion
General
1 50 (29.94%) Finance
2 41 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.96%) Banking
4 20 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (7.78%) Front Office
7 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 95 (56.89%) Developer
2 34 (20.36%) Senior
3 23 (13.77%) Senior Developer
4 22 (13.17%) Java Developer
5 17 (10.18%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Angular Developer
6 14 (8.38%) C# Developer
7 12 (7.19%) Python Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Lead
9 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Agile Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Android Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Python Developer
12 6 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Agile .NET Developer
13 5 (2.99%) C# .NET Developer
13 5 (2.99%) Cloud Specialist
13 5 (2.99%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.77%) .NET
2 27 (16.17%) CSS
3 26 (15.57%) REST
4 25 (14.97%) HTML
4 25 (14.97%) React
5 24 (14.37%) RESTful
6 22 (13.17%) AngularJS
7 19 (11.38%) .NET Framework
8 17 (10.18%) Spring
8 17 (10.18%) Web Services
9 16 (9.58%) Spring Boot
10 15 (8.98%) Node.js
10 15 (8.98%) pytest
11 14 (8.38%) Playwright
11 14 (8.38%) SOAP
12 13 (7.78%) Entity Framework
13 12 (7.19%) FastAPI
13 12 (7.19%) HTML5
14 11 (6.59%) Kafka
14 11 (6.59%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.98%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.19%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.19%) Life Science
4 11 (6.59%) Genomics
5 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.99%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.99%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.80%) Animation
10 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.80%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Android
2 13 (7.78%) Apple iOS
3 11 (6.59%) Linux
4 9 (5.39%) Unix
5 7 (4.19%) Windows
5 7 (4.19%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) tvOS
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.50%) Agile
2 53 (31.74%) CI/CD
3 49 (29.34%) DevOps
4 42 (25.15%) Microservices
4 42 (25.15%) Test Automation
5 40 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (22.75%) Scrum
7 37 (22.16%) Software Engineering
8 32 (19.16%) Clean Code
9 29 (17.37%) Analytics
10 28 (16.77%) TDD
11 26 (15.57%) Containerisation
12 25 (14.97%) Code Quality
13 24 (14.37%) Machine Learning
14 23 (13.77%) AI
15 20 (11.98%) Integration Testing
16 19 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 18 (10.78%) Design Patterns
17 18 (10.78%) Mentoring
17 18 (10.78%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.53%) Java
2 51 (30.54%) SQL
3 34 (20.36%) Python
4 30 (17.96%) C#
5 29 (17.37%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.58%) Kotlin
7 15 (8.98%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.79%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.19%) Groovy
10 6 (3.59%) C++
11 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.99%) Swift
12 4 (2.40%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.20%) X++
15 1 (0.60%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.60%) JCL
15 1 (0.60%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 31 (18.56%) Degree
2 20 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.17%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (21.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.20%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.20%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.99%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Control-M
5 1 (0.60%) Istio
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (17.96%) Oracle
2 24 (14.37%) Google
3 9 (5.39%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.79%) Databricks
5 6 (3.59%) Citrix
6 5 (2.99%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (2.99%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.99%) SAP
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
7 4 (2.40%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.80%) Adobe
8 3 (1.80%) Apple
8 3 (1.80%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.80%) OpenText
8 3 (1.80%) Pega
8 3 (1.80%) Workday
9 2 (1.20%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.20%) Marketo
9 2 (1.20%) Temenos
9 2 (1.20%) VMware