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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 229 143
Rank change year-on-year -35 -86 +36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 180 142 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.05% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.14% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 105 194
10th Percentile £286 £360 £400
25th Percentile £405 £404 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £635
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile - £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate - £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.31% -17.03%
75th Percentile - £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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 +4 39 £538 +31.90% 6
West London -14 10 £611 +10.60% 2
East London - 1 - - 2
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.67%) IIS
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.11%) CMS
3 2 (1.11%) SAS
3 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.56%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.67%) Trello
3 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.11%) HFM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.00%) Azure
2 29 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (15.00%) GitHub
4 23 (12.78%) AWS
5 13 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.11%) Serverless
8 10 (5.56%) GCP
9 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.78%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.22%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.89%) Internet
2 2 (1.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.11%) Intranet
2 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.11%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.22%) Redis
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.67%) Metadata
9 3 (1.67%) Power BI
10 2 (1.11%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.11%) Essbase
10 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (20.56%) Git
2 24 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.00%) JIRA
4 14 (7.78%) GitLab
5 10 (5.56%) Visual Studio
6 9 (5.00%) Selenium
7 7 (3.89%) JUnit
8 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.33%) MSTest
9 5 (2.78%) Gradle
9 5 (2.78%) JSUnit
10 4 (2.22%) JMeter
10 4 (2.22%) NUnit
10 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.67%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.67%) Xcode
11 3 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (27.78%) Finance
2 47 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 45 (25.00%) Banking
4 28 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.33%) Front Office
7 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.11%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.11%) Legal
8 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.11%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.11%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (51.67%) Developer
2 54 (30.00%) Senior
3 22 (12.22%) C# Developer
4 19 (10.56%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.11%) Lead
8 10 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Informatica Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.89%) Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) Junior
11 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.33%) Architect
12 6 (3.33%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Pega Architect
12 6 (3.33%) Systems Architect
13 5 (2.78%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.78%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.56%) .NET
2 34 (18.89%) REST
3 26 (14.44%) .NET Framework
4 24 (13.33%) pytest
5 23 (12.78%) RESTful
6 19 (10.56%) Spring
7 18 (10.00%) React
8 16 (8.89%) Spring Boot
9 15 (8.33%) JSON
10 14 (7.78%) CSS
10 14 (7.78%) HTML
11 12 (6.67%) GraphQL
11 12 (6.67%) SOAP
12 11 (6.11%) AngularJS
13 10 (5.56%) Node.js
13 10 (5.56%) XML
14 9 (5.00%) Next.js
14 9 (5.00%) Playwright
14 9 (5.00%) Web Services
15 8 (4.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) IoT
7 3 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.11%) CMDB
8 2 (1.11%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.11%) FMCG
8 2 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.78%) Windows
2 11 (6.11%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.44%) Linux
4 6 (3.33%) Unix
5 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.22%) Android
7 2 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (42.22%) Agile
2 75 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 68 (37.78%) DevOps
4 43 (23.89%) AI
5 40 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 35 (19.44%) Scrum
7 33 (18.33%) Clean Code
7 33 (18.33%) Integration Testing
8 32 (17.78%) User Acceptance Testing
9 29 (16.11%) Microservices
9 29 (16.11%) OOP
10 28 (15.56%) Design Patterns
10 28 (15.56%) Validation
11 26 (14.44%) Test Automation
12 25 (13.89%) TDD
13 21 (11.67%) SDLC
14 20 (11.11%) Code Quality
14 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.56%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.33%) SQL
2 50 (27.78%) C#
3 43 (23.89%) Python
4 25 (13.89%) Java
5 22 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 18 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.67%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.78%) Swift
10 3 (1.67%) Bash
10 3 (1.67%) C
10 3 (1.67%) X++
11 2 (1.11%) ABAP
11 2 (1.11%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.11%) Bicep
11 2 (1.11%) C++
11 2 (1.11%) ProC
11 2 (1.11%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) ACCA
6 2 (1.11%) CIMA
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (26.67%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.67%) WCAG
4 2 (1.11%) Basel III
4 2 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (23.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.67%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.67%) Oracle
3 12 (6.67%) Citrix
4 11 (6.11%) Informatica
5 9 (5.00%) Avaloq
6 8 (4.44%) Pega
7 7 (3.89%) SAP
8 4 (2.22%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.22%) UiPath
9 3 (1.67%) HP
9 3 (1.67%) Workday
10 2 (1.11%) Foundry
10 2 (1.11%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Apple
11 1 (0.56%) Kofax
11 1 (0.56%) Lotus
11 1 (0.56%) Perforce
11 1 (0.56%) Splunk