Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 188 183
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 184 218 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.47% 1.22% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.38% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 144 280
10th Percentile £396 £375 £436
25th Percentile £447 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £713
90th Percentile £766 £725 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £53.68 -
25th Percentile - £55.44 £50.42
Median hourly rate - £60.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.03% -5.38%
75th Percentile - £64.44 £73.63
90th Percentile - £65.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +8 30 £575 - 16
West London +7 5 £552 +38.00% 4
South London +8 2 £750 - 4
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.61%) SAS
2 2 (1.09%) Alfresco
2 2 (1.09%) Camunda
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) IIS
2 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (2.72%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (2.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (2.17%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.63%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.63%) Shopify
4 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.54%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.54%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 58 (31.52%) AWS
2 30 (16.30%) Azure
3 12 (6.52%) Amazon S3
3 12 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
3 12 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.89%) GitHub
6 7 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.26%) CloudFront
7 6 (3.26%) GCP
7 6 (3.26%) Route 53
7 6 (3.26%) Serverless
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) VPN
2 2 (1.09%) BGP
2 2 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) LAN
2 2 (1.09%) MPLS
2 2 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.96%) Oracle Database
3 21 (11.41%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.87%) NoSQL
5 17 (9.24%) MongoDB
6 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.98%) Redis
8 10 (5.43%) MySQL
9 6 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.26%) DocumentDB
9 6 (3.26%) Power BI
9 6 (3.26%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.26%) Tableau
10 5 (2.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (20.11%) Git
2 19 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.33%) JUnit
3 15 (8.15%) JIRA
4 12 (6.52%) Maven
5 9 (4.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (4.89%) GitLab
6 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.80%) Subversion
8 6 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (3.26%) Gradle
8 6 (3.26%) Mockito
9 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.72%) NUnit
10 4 (2.17%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.17%) Postman
10 4 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.63%) PHPUnit
11 3 (1.63%) Xcode
General
1 53 (28.80%) Finance
1 53 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.59%) Banking
3 17 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.98%) Front Office
4 11 (5.98%) Retail
5 7 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.26%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.26%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.26%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.72%) Marketing
8 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (63.59%) Developer
2 30 (16.30%) Senior
3 23 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 22 (11.96%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.78%) Java Developer
6 16 (8.70%) C# Developer
7 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Lead
9 10 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.89%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Angular Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Lead Software Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) .NET
2 24 (13.04%) REST
3 23 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 23 (12.50%) HTML
4 22 (11.96%) Spring
5 20 (10.87%) RESTful
6 17 (9.24%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.70%) .NET Framework
7 16 (8.70%) Web Services
8 15 (8.15%) Entity Framework
9 13 (7.07%) Kafka
9 13 (7.07%) React
10 12 (6.52%) .NET Core
10 12 (6.52%) HTML5
10 12 (6.52%) JPA
10 12 (6.52%) Node.js
11 11 (5.98%) CSS
12 10 (5.43%) Hibernate
12 10 (5.43%) SOAP
13 8 (4.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Derivative
1 10 (5.43%) N-Tier
2 9 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.72%) PKI
6 4 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.17%) CMDB
6 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.63%) Equities
7 3 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.96%) Linux
2 10 (5.43%) Unix
3 6 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.72%) Android
4 5 (2.72%) Windows
5 2 (1.09%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.61%) DevOps
2 59 (32.07%) Agile
3 53 (28.80%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.54%) Integration Testing
5 46 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (20.65%) Test Automation
8 36 (19.57%) Microservices
9 35 (19.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 33 (17.93%) TDD
12 20 (10.87%) Containerisation
12 20 (10.87%) Scrum
13 18 (9.78%) Code Quality
13 18 (9.78%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (9.78%) Mentoring
14 17 (9.24%) Migration
15 16 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (8.70%) Design Patterns
15 16 (8.70%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.24%) SQL
2 50 (27.17%) Java
3 49 (26.63%) Python
4 41 (22.28%) C#
5 31 (16.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.72%) PHP
9 4 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.17%) Scala
9 4 (2.17%) Swift
10 3 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.63%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.09%) Groovy
11 2 (1.09%) VB
11 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 41 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.96%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.24%) Degree
5 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.72%) MCPD
7 5 (2.72%) MCSD
8 2 (1.09%) SnowPro
8 2 (1.09%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) HL7
5 1 (0.54%) Basel II
5 1 (0.54%) Basel III
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) SEPA
5 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (16.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 29 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.98%) Terraform
3 6 (3.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Control-M
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.54%) Puppet
4 1 (0.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (20.11%) Oracle
2 16 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.52%) SAP
4 10 (5.43%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.89%) Splunk
6 5 (2.72%) Databricks
7 4 (2.17%) Cisco
7 4 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.17%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.63%) Adobe
8 3 (1.63%) Google
8 3 (1.63%) Murex
8 3 (1.63%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.09%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.09%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.09%) IBM
9 2 (1.09%) Thunderhead
9 2 (1.09%) webMethods