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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 238 147
Rank change year-on-year -28 -91 +37
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 184 149 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.09% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.18% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 107 199
10th Percentile £286 £362 £400
25th Percentile £389 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £627
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile £50.25 £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate £50.50 £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.62% -1.31% -4.58%
75th Percentile £50.75 £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 17,962 12,654 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.20% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,849 8,470 10,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 249 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.18
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -15.71% -14.72%
75th Percentile £57.13 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 August 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 August 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 -1 39 £538 +31.90% 7
West London -11 10 £611 +10.60% 2
East London - 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 5 (2.72%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.63%) IIS
2 3 (1.63%) Mendix
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.54%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.63%) Trello
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) HFM
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.54%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.54%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.72%) Azure
2 28 (15.22%) GitHub
3 27 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.59%) AWS
5 13 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.07%) Serverless
6 12 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (5.43%) GCP
8 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.72%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.72%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) Intranet
3 1 (0.54%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.54%) DSL
3 1 (0.54%) NFC
3 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.07%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.98%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.72%) Redis
8 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.63%) Metadata
9 3 (1.63%) Power BI
10 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.09%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (16.85%) Git
2 26 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.24%) JIRA
4 15 (8.15%) GitLab
5 10 (5.43%) Selenium
6 9 (4.89%) Visual Studio
7 8 (4.35%) JUnit
7 8 (4.35%) MSTest
8 7 (3.80%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.26%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.72%) JSUnit
10 5 (2.72%) Mocha
10 5 (2.72%) NUnit
11 4 (2.17%) Gradle
11 4 (2.17%) JMeter
11 4 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.17%) tSQLt
11 4 (2.17%) Xcode
12 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (27.17%) Finance
2 43 (23.37%) Banking
3 42 (22.83%) Social Skills
4 26 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.72%) Front Office
7 4 (2.17%) Retail
8 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.09%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Legal
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.09%) Publishing
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (51.63%) Developer
2 59 (32.07%) Senior
3 22 (11.96%) C# Developer
4 20 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 15 (8.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.43%) Lead
9 9 (4.89%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.89%) Informatica Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Consultant
10 7 (3.80%) Junior
10 7 (3.80%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.26%) Architect
11 6 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.26%) iOS Developer
11 6 (3.26%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.00%) .NET
2 36 (19.57%) REST
3 28 (15.22%) RESTful
4 26 (14.13%) .NET Framework
5 22 (11.96%) pytest
6 21 (11.41%) React
7 19 (10.33%) Spring
8 17 (9.24%) CSS
8 17 (9.24%) HTML
9 16 (8.70%) JSON
9 16 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.07%) AngularJS
10 13 (7.07%) SOAP
11 12 (6.52%) GraphQL
11 12 (6.52%) OAuth
12 11 (5.98%) Node.js
12 11 (5.98%) XML
13 9 (4.89%) Next.js
13 9 (4.89%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.07%) Data Structures
2 12 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.26%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.63%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (1.09%) CMDB
10 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.09%) Equities
10 2 (1.09%) FMCG
10 2 (1.09%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.61%) Windows
2 11 (5.98%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.26%) Unix
5 5 (2.72%) Android
5 5 (2.72%) Linux
6 2 (1.09%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 77 (41.85%) Agile
3 69 (37.50%) DevOps
4 44 (23.91%) Software Engineering
5 41 (22.28%) AI
6 37 (20.11%) Scrum
7 36 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.48%) Integration Testing
9 33 (17.93%) Microservices
10 32 (17.39%) Clean Code
11 29 (15.76%) User Acceptance Testing
12 28 (15.22%) Design Patterns
13 27 (14.67%) Test Automation
14 26 (14.13%) OOP
14 26 (14.13%) Validation
15 24 (13.04%) TDD
16 22 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.87%) Code Quality
18 19 (10.33%) Generative AI
18 19 (10.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.78%) SQL
2 50 (27.17%) C#
3 41 (22.28%) Python
4 28 (15.22%) Java
5 27 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 21 (11.41%) T-SQL
7 19 (10.33%) PL/SQL
8 18 (9.78%) TypeScript
9 13 (7.07%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.35%) Swift
11 4 (2.17%) Bicep
12 3 (1.63%) X++
13 2 (1.09%) ABAP
13 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.09%) C
13 2 (1.09%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.09%) ProC
13 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.54%) Bash
14 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.87%) Degree
4 6 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.72%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) ACCA
7 2 (1.09%) CIMA
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (28.80%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.17%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) Basel III
4 2 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.09%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.54%) SEPA
5 1 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (23.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 35 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.35%) Terraform
3 5 (2.72%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.63%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.39%) Oracle
3 12 (6.52%) Citrix
4 11 (5.98%) Informatica
5 9 (4.89%) Avaloq
6 8 (4.35%) Pega
7 7 (3.80%) SAP
8 4 (2.17%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.63%) HP
9 3 (1.63%) Workday
10 2 (1.09%) Foundry
10 2 (1.09%) Google
10 2 (1.09%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.09%) Sybase
11 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.54%) Lotus
11 1 (0.54%) Splunk