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 citing Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	294	226	138
Rank change year-on-year	-68	-88	+45
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing	181	146	302
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.89%	1.07%	1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.99%	1.16%	2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted	127	95	196
10^th Percentile	£280	£359	£366
25^th Percentile	£401	£404	£493
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-4.76%	-4.55%	-11.65%
75^th Percentile	£588	£731	£651
90^th Percentile	£669	£811	£743
England median daily rate	£478	£483	£550
% change year-on-year	-0.93%	-12.27%	-8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	£49.93
25^th 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%	-36.39%
75^th Percentile	£53.75	£61.25	£61.44
90^th Percentile	-	-	£63.58
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00

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 citing process or methodology skills in London.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	18,266	12,627	14,037
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	89.69%	92.42%	89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	12,023	8,296	9,051
10^th Percentile	£360	£326	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£539	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+2.01%	-1.97%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£663	£663	£675
90^th Percentile	£775	£775	£797
England median daily rate	£525	£508	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.45%	-3.33%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	373	251	171
10^th Percentile	£15.56	£17.98	£17.50
25^th Percentile	£18.75	£25.09	£24.34
Median hourly rate	£31.35	£31.49	£38.07
Median % change year-on-year	-0.46%	-17.28%	-4.62%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.25	£58.13
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£64.75	£80.00
England median hourly rate	£35.22	£25.15	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+40.04%	-37.13%	-10.11%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 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.

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 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-13	37	£538	+31.90%	2
West London	-	8	£613	-	2
East London	+3	1	£615	+36.67%
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Unit Testing Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Unit Testing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Unit Testing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	52.5%	95
2	CI/CD	48.6%	88
3	SQL	37.6%	68
4	DevOps	36.5%	66
5	Azure	32.6%	59
5	Git	32.6%	59
7	Docker	29.3%	53
8	Problem-Solving	28.2%	51
9	AI	27.6%	50
10	Security Cleared	27.1%	49
11	Python	26.5%	48
12	Kubernetes	25.4%	46
13	Software Engineering	23.2%	42
14	QA	22.7%	41
14	TDD	22.7%	41
16	C#	22.1%	40
16	Clean Code	22.1%	40
18	Integration Testing	21.5%	39
19	Scrum	21.0%	38
20	Test Automation	20.4%	37
21	AWS	19.9%	36
21	REST	19.9%	36
23	Java	19.3%	35
23	SC Cleared	19.3%	35
23	Validation	19.3%	35
26	.NET	18.8%	34
26	SQL Server	18.8%	34
26	User Acceptance Testing	18.8%	34
29	OOP	18.2%	33
29	pytest	18.2%	33

Unit Testing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	52.5%	95
2	CI/CD	48.6%	88
3	DevOps	36.5%	66
4	Problem-Solving	28.2%	51
5	AI	27.6%	50
6	Software Engineering	23.2%	42
7	TDD	22.7%	41
8	Clean Code	22.1%	40
9	Integration Testing	21.5%	39
10	Scrum	21.0%	38
11	Test Automation	20.4%	37
12	Validation	19.3%	35
13	User Acceptance Testing	18.8%	34
14	OOP	18.2%	33
15	Microservices	17.7%	32
16	SDLC	17.1%	31
17	Continuous Improvement	14.9%	27
18	Design Patterns	13.8%	25
19	Containerisation	13.3%	24
19	Generative AI	13.3%	24