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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 172 197
Rank change year-on-year -46 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 200 196 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.54% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.68% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 127 140
10th Percentile £397 £391 £380
25th Percentile £415 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £713 £756 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £53.68
25th Percentile £67.63 - £55.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £60.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £64.44
90th Percentile - - £65.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 April 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 -22 21 £566 -1.52% 5
West London -22 7 £552 -0.09% 1
East London - 1 £450 -
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 12 (6.00%) Mendix
2 11 (5.50%) HCL Notes
2 11 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.50%) Confluence
5 8 (4.00%) Apache
6 6 (3.00%) Ethereum
6 6 (3.00%) Hyperledger
7 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) CMS
9 1 (0.50%) IIS
9 1 (0.50%) JBoss
9 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.50%) Azure
2 39 (19.50%) AWS
3 33 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.50%) Serverless
5 23 (11.50%) GitHub
6 17 (8.50%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.50%) GCP
8 14 (7.00%) Azure Functions
9 13 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.50%) OCI
9 13 (6.50%) PaaS
9 13 (6.50%) Power Automate
9 13 (6.50%) PowerApps
10 12 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
12 10 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.50%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.50%) Power BI
5 14 (7.00%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.50%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.50%) MySQL
11 3 (1.50%) Power Query
11 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.00%) DB2
12 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (22.00%) Git
2 23 (11.50%) JIRA
3 20 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 17 (8.50%) Postman
5 16 (8.00%) JUnit
6 13 (6.50%) Visual Studio
7 12 (6.00%) GitLab
8 9 (4.50%) Selenium
9 8 (4.00%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.50%) MSTest
11 6 (3.00%) Gradle
11 6 (3.00%) Maven
11 6 (3.00%) MLflow
11 6 (3.00%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.50%) NUnit
13 4 (2.00%) Mocha
13 4 (2.00%) Mockito
14 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
14 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.50%) tSQLt
General
1 72 (36.00%) Finance
2 39 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.00%) Banking
4 22 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
7 10 (5.00%) Front Office
8 5 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.00%) Legal
9 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (57.50%) Developer
2 35 (17.50%) Senior
3 26 (13.00%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.50%) C# Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Cloud Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Oracle Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Power Platform Developer
7 11 (5.50%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Informatica Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.00%) .NET
2 42 (21.00%) REST
3 27 (13.50%) RESTful
3 27 (13.50%) Spring
3 27 (13.50%) Spring Boot
4 26 (13.00%) React
5 22 (11.00%) .NET Framework
6 20 (10.00%) CSS
6 20 (10.00%) HTML
7 19 (9.50%) SOAP
8 18 (9.00%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.50%) JSON
9 17 (8.50%) Kafka
10 15 (7.50%) Web Services
10 15 (7.50%) XML
11 14 (7.00%) OAuth
12 12 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (6.00%) pytest
13 10 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Algorithms
1 14 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.50%) Low-Code
3 9 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.50%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.50%) Life Science
8 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.50%) CMDB
9 3 (1.50%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.50%) Derivative
9 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.50%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.50%) Windows
2 15 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.50%) Unix
4 5 (2.50%) Android
4 5 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.50%) Linux
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.00%) Agile
2 78 (39.00%) CI/CD
3 77 (38.50%) DevOps
4 40 (20.00%) Microservices
4 40 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.00%) Scrum
6 34 (17.00%) Test Automation
7 33 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (16.00%) AI
9 30 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 29 (14.50%) Code Quality
11 22 (11.00%) Analytics
11 22 (11.00%) Containerisation
11 22 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.50%) Machine Learning
12 21 (10.50%) TDD
13 20 (10.00%) Data Analysis
13 20 (10.00%) ERP
14 19 (9.50%) Integration Testing
15 17 (8.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 75 (37.50%) SQL
2 54 (27.00%) C#
3 52 (26.00%) Java
4 42 (21.00%) Python
5 31 (15.50%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.00%) T-SQL
7 22 (11.00%) PL/SQL
8 18 (9.00%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.50%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.50%) LotusScript
10 10 (5.00%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.50%) Scala
12 4 (2.00%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.00%) Swift
13 3 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) Groovy
15 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.50%) Solidity
15 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.00%) Degree
2 28 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (28.00%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.50%) WCAG
5 2 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (15.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.00%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.00%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 22 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) Grafana
3 3 (1.50%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (30.50%) Oracle
2 33 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.00%) Citrix
4 11 (5.50%) Lotus
5 10 (5.00%) Kofax
6 9 (4.50%) Google
6 9 (4.50%) Informatica
7 8 (4.00%) Databricks
8 5 (2.50%) Pega
8 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.50%) HP
9 3 (1.50%) SAP
9 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.50%) Workday
10 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.00%) Foundry
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) Sybase
11 1 (0.50%) Adobe
11 1 (0.50%) Murex