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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 226 143
Rank change year-on-year -37 -83 +42
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 180 139 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.04% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.12% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 102 202
10th Percentile £285 £362 £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 £593 £675 £638
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 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th 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% -23.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 27 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 27 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 -7 39 £538 +31.90% 7
West London -14 10 £611 +10.60% 5
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
3 2 (1.11%) CMS
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
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 5 (2.78%) 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 56 (31.11%) Azure
2 31 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.56%) GitHub
4 22 (12.22%) AWS
5 14 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (5.56%) GCP
9 8 (4.44%) Serverless
10 6 (3.33%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.22%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.67%) SaaS
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 31 (17.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (6.11%) Data Lake
2 11 (6.11%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.78%) Redis
7 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.67%) Metadata
7 3 (1.67%) Power BI
8 2 (1.11%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.11%) Essbase
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (21.67%) Git
2 26 (14.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.00%) JIRA
4 15 (8.33%) GitLab
5 10 (5.56%) Visual Studio
6 8 (4.44%) Selenium
7 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.89%) JUnit
8 5 (2.78%) Gradle
8 5 (2.78%) JSUnit
9 4 (2.22%) JMeter
9 4 (2.22%) MSTest
9 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.67%) Maven
10 3 (1.67%) NUnit
10 3 (1.67%) Xcode
10 3 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (28.33%) Finance
2 49 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 43 (23.89%) Banking
4 28 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.44%) Front Office
7 6 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.22%) Retail
9 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.67%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.11%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.11%) Legal
10 2 (1.11%) Local Government
10 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (51.11%) Developer
2 56 (31.11%) Senior
3 20 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 20 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 16 (8.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.11%) Lead
6 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.00%) Informatica Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) .NET Developer
9 7 (3.89%) Consultant
9 7 (3.89%) Java Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Junior
10 6 (3.33%) Architect
10 6 (3.33%) Pega Architect
10 6 (3.33%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Systems Architect
11 5 (2.78%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.89%) .NET
2 30 (16.67%) REST
3 25 (13.89%) RESTful
4 24 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 24 (13.33%) pytest
5 20 (11.11%) React
6 19 (10.56%) Spring
7 16 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.78%) JSON
9 13 (7.22%) CSS
9 13 (7.22%) HTML
9 13 (7.22%) Node.js
10 12 (6.67%) SOAP
11 11 (6.11%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.56%) Web Services
13 9 (5.00%) Next.js
13 9 (5.00%) OAuth
13 9 (5.00%) XML
14 8 (4.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.67%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) IoT
8 3 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.11%) CMDB
9 2 (1.11%) FMCG
9 2 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.22%) Windows
2 10 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.44%) Linux
4 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.78%) Unix
5 4 (2.22%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.33%) Agile
2 77 (42.78%) CI/CD
3 67 (37.22%) DevOps
4 44 (24.44%) AI
5 42 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 39 (21.67%) Integration Testing
8 37 (20.56%) Scrum
9 33 (18.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 32 (17.78%) Clean Code
11 30 (16.67%) Microservices
12 29 (16.11%) Validation
13 28 (15.56%) OOP
13 28 (15.56%) TDD
13 28 (15.56%) Test Automation
14 27 (15.00%) Design Patterns
15 24 (13.33%) SDLC
16 21 (11.67%) Code Quality
17 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.78%) SQL
2 48 (26.67%) C#
3 43 (23.89%) Python
4 26 (14.44%) Java
5 22 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.89%) PL/SQL
7 16 (8.89%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.78%) Bash
9 5 (2.78%) Swift
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%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) ACCA
6 2 (1.11%) CIMA
6 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (25.56%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) WCAG
5 3 (1.67%) Basel III
6 2 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (22.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.67%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.00%) Oracle
3 11 (6.11%) Citrix
3 11 (6.11%) Informatica
4 9 (5.00%) Avaloq
5 8 (4.44%) SAP
6 7 (3.89%) Pega
7 4 (2.22%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.22%) UiPath
8 3 (1.67%) HP
8 3 (1.67%) Workday
9 2 (1.11%) Google
9 2 (1.11%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry
10 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk