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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 190 176
Rank change year-on-year -44 -14 +11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 193 169 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.38% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.50% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 165
10th Percentile £363 £372 £377
25th Percentile £415 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% -10.42%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £672 £795 £726
England median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.53
25th Percentile £67.63 - £51.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £65.44
90th Percentile - - £66.23
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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -28 15 £575 +4.55% 6
West London -26 6 £509 -7.79%
East London - 1 - - 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 12 (6.22%) Mendix
2 10 (5.18%) HCL Notes
2 10 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.63%) Apache
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.11%) Ethereum
4 6 (3.11%) Hyperledger
5 4 (2.07%) Confluence
6 3 (1.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.04%) CMS
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.52%) IIS
8 1 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.02%) Azure
2 38 (19.69%) AWS
3 36 (18.65%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (15.03%) Serverless
5 23 (11.92%) GitHub
6 14 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.74%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.74%) Power Automate
7 13 (6.74%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.74%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (6.22%) OCI
9 11 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.70%) PaaS
10 10 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.88%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.74%) Data Lake
3 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.18%) MongoDB
5 10 (5.18%) Power BI
6 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.04%) MySQL
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (19.17%) Git
2 19 (9.84%) JIRA
3 18 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.25%) JUnit
5 13 (6.74%) Visual Studio
6 12 (6.22%) GitLab
6 12 (6.22%) Postman
7 9 (4.66%) Selenium
8 8 (4.15%) Cucumber
8 8 (4.15%) MSTest
9 6 (3.11%) Gradle
9 6 (3.11%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.59%) MLflow
10 5 (2.59%) Mockito
10 5 (2.59%) NUnit
11 4 (2.07%) JMeter
11 4 (2.07%) Maven
11 4 (2.07%) Mocha
11 4 (2.07%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (33.68%) Finance
2 36 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.62%) Banking
4 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.70%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.63%) Front Office
8 4 (2.07%) Military
9 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (55.44%) Developer
2 44 (22.80%) Senior
3 23 (11.92%) Senior Developer
4 22 (11.40%) C# Developer
5 21 (10.88%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (5.70%) Oracle Specialist
7 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
8 10 (5.18%) Cloud Specialist
8 10 (5.18%) Power Platform Developer
8 10 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.66%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.66%) Informatica Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.15%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Backend Developer
11 6 (3.11%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (25.91%) .NET
2 45 (23.32%) REST
3 34 (17.62%) RESTful
4 27 (13.99%) .NET Framework
4 27 (13.99%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.47%) Spring
6 24 (12.44%) React
7 21 (10.88%) JSON
8 20 (10.36%) CSS
8 20 (10.36%) HTML
9 19 (9.84%) SOAP
10 18 (9.33%) AngularJS
10 18 (9.33%) Kafka
11 16 (8.29%) XML
12 15 (7.77%) OAuth
13 14 (7.25%) Web Services
14 11 (5.70%) pytest
15 10 (5.18%) HTML5 Canvas
15 10 (5.18%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (4.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.25%) Low-Code
3 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.07%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.07%) Derivative
8 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.55%) CMDB
9 3 (1.55%) Equities
9 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.33%) Windows
2 15 (7.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Linux
5 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.49%) CI/CD
2 74 (38.34%) DevOps
3 73 (37.82%) Agile
4 44 (22.80%) Microservices
5 37 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (18.13%) Scrum
7 32 (16.58%) AI
8 29 (15.03%) Software Engineering
8 29 (15.03%) Test Automation
9 26 (13.47%) Integration Testing
10 25 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (12.44%) Code Quality
12 23 (11.92%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (11.40%) ERP
14 21 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (10.36%) Containerisation
15 20 (10.36%) Data Analysis
16 19 (9.84%) Clean Code
16 19 (9.84%) ETL
17 18 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.90%) SQL
2 56 (29.02%) C#
3 44 (22.80%) Python
4 43 (22.28%) Java
5 36 (18.65%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.44%) T-SQL
7 20 (10.36%) PL/SQL
8 15 (7.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.18%) Formula Language
9 10 (5.18%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.63%) Scala
11 4 (2.07%) Bicep
11 4 (2.07%) Swift
12 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.04%) C++
13 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.04%) X++
14 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.47%) Degree
2 26 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (29.53%) QA
2 7 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
5 2 (1.04%) Basel III
5 2 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (18.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 56 (29.02%) Oracle
2 33 (17.10%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.81%) Citrix
4 12 (6.22%) Informatica
5 10 (5.18%) Kofax
5 10 (5.18%) Lotus
6 6 (3.11%) Avaloq
7 5 (2.59%) Databricks
7 5 (2.59%) Pega
8 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.55%) Google
9 3 (1.55%) HP
9 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.04%) Foundry
10 2 (1.04%) IBM
10 2 (1.04%) SAP
10 2 (1.04%) Sybase
10 2 (1.04%) Workday
11 1 (0.52%) Murex
11 1 (0.52%) Perforce