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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 242 144
Rank change year-on-year -40 -98 +52
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 176 132 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.98% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.06% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 97 202
10th Percentile £284 £361 £400
25th Percentile £405 £404 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £590 £675 £638
90th Percentile £668 £793 £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% -21.47%
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 18,024 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,281 9,881
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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 30 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 30 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% 4
West London -12 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 (2.84%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.14%) CMS
3 2 (1.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.14%) SAS
3 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.57%) Mendix
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.70%) Trello
3 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) HFM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.25%) Azure
2 31 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.91%) GitHub
4 22 (12.50%) AWS
5 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (5.68%) GCP
9 7 (3.98%) Serverless
10 6 (3.41%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.84%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.70%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.70%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.70%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.09%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.14%) Intranet
2 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.57%) DSL
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) NFC
3 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 11 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.84%) Redis
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.70%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.70%) Metadata
7 3 (1.70%) Power BI
8 2 (1.14%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.14%) Essbase
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (22.16%) Git
2 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.23%) JIRA
4 15 (8.52%) GitLab
5 10 (5.68%) Visual Studio
6 8 (4.55%) Selenium
7 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.98%) JUnit
8 5 (2.84%) Gradle
8 5 (2.84%) JSUnit
9 4 (2.27%) JMeter
9 4 (2.27%) MSTest
9 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.70%) Maven
10 3 (1.70%) Mocha
10 3 (1.70%) NUnit
10 3 (1.70%) Xcode
10 3 (1.70%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (28.41%) Finance
2 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 42 (23.86%) Banking
4 27 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.55%) Front Office
7 6 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.70%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Local Government
10 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (50.57%) Developer
2 55 (31.25%) Senior
3 20 (11.36%) Senior Developer
4 19 (10.80%) C# Developer
5 16 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Lead
8 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Informatica Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Consultant
10 7 (3.98%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Junior
11 6 (3.41%) Pega Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.84%) Senior Systems Architect
12 5 (2.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.86%) .NET
2 29 (16.48%) REST
3 25 (14.20%) RESTful
4 23 (13.07%) .NET Framework
4 23 (13.07%) pytest
5 19 (10.80%) Spring
6 18 (10.23%) React
7 16 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.39%) JSON
8 13 (7.39%) Node.js
9 12 (6.82%) CSS
9 12 (6.82%) HTML
10 11 (6.25%) GraphQL
10 11 (6.25%) SOAP
11 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.68%) Web Services
12 9 (5.11%) Next.js
12 9 (5.11%) OAuth
13 8 (4.55%) Playwright
13 8 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.70%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.70%) IoT
7 3 (1.70%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.14%) CMDB
8 2 (1.14%) FMCG
8 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.82%) Windows
2 10 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.55%) Linux
4 5 (2.84%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.84%) Unix
5 4 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.61%) Agile
1 75 (42.61%) CI/CD
2 65 (36.93%) DevOps
3 44 (25.00%) AI
4 42 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (22.16%) Integration Testing
5 39 (22.16%) Software Engineering
6 36 (20.45%) Scrum
7 33 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 32 (18.18%) Clean Code
9 29 (16.48%) Microservices
9 29 (16.48%) Validation
10 28 (15.91%) Test Automation
11 27 (15.34%) OOP
11 27 (15.34%) TDD
12 26 (14.77%) Design Patterns
13 24 (13.64%) SDLC
14 20 (11.36%) Code Quality
15 19 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.50%) SQL
2 47 (26.70%) C#
3 42 (23.86%) Python
4 26 (14.77%) Java
5 21 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.66%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.52%) PL/SQL
7 15 (8.52%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.68%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.84%) Bash
9 5 (2.84%) Swift
10 3 (1.70%) C
10 3 (1.70%) X++
11 2 (1.14%) ABAP
11 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.14%) Bicep
11 2 (1.14%) C++
11 2 (1.14%) ProC
11 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.93%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.41%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) ACCA
6 2 (1.14%) CIMA
6 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) CCNA
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (25.00%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.70%) Basel III
3 3 (1.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (23.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.70%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.77%) Oracle
3 11 (6.25%) Citrix
3 11 (6.25%) Informatica
4 9 (5.11%) Avaloq
5 8 (4.55%) SAP
6 6 (3.41%) Pega
7 4 (2.27%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.27%) UiPath
8 3 (1.70%) HP
8 3 (1.70%) Workday
9 2 (1.14%) Google
9 2 (1.14%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.57%) Foundry
10 1 (0.57%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.57%) Splunk