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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 178 192
Rank change year-on-year -48 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 202 191 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.50% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 124 140
10th Percentile £372 £397 £375
25th Percentile £415 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £693 £761 £725
England median daily rate £490 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -10.91% +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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -19 21 £550 -4.35% 5
West London -21 7 £552 -0.09% 1
East London - 2 £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 (5.94%) Mendix
2 11 (5.45%) HCL Notes
2 11 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.95%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.46%) Confluence
5 8 (3.96%) Apache
6 6 (2.97%) Ethereum
6 6 (2.97%) Hyperledger
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.99%) CMS
8 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.50%) Camunda
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) IIS
9 1 (0.50%) JBoss
9 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.45%) 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%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.25%) Azure
2 40 (19.80%) AWS
3 34 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (14.85%) Serverless
5 23 (11.39%) GitHub
6 18 (8.91%) Power Platform
7 14 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.93%) Azure Functions
7 14 (6.93%) GCP
7 14 (6.93%) Power Automate
7 14 (6.93%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.44%) OCI
8 13 (6.44%) PaaS
9 12 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.39%) Oracle Database
3 15 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.43%) Power BI
4 14 (6.93%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.49%) MySQL
9 3 (1.49%) Power Query
10 2 (0.99%) DB2
10 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (21.29%) Git
2 23 (11.39%) JIRA
3 21 (10.40%) Jenkins
4 17 (8.42%) JUnit
4 17 (8.42%) Postman
5 14 (6.93%) GitLab
5 14 (6.93%) Visual Studio
6 9 (4.46%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.46%) Selenium
7 7 (3.47%) MSTest
8 6 (2.97%) Gradle
8 6 (2.97%) MLflow
8 6 (2.97%) SoapUI
9 5 (2.48%) Maven
9 5 (2.48%) Mockito
9 5 (2.48%) NUnit
10 4 (1.98%) Mocha
11 3 (1.49%) Android Studio
11 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (35.64%) Finance
2 42 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.35%) Banking
4 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.95%) Front Office
8 4 (1.98%) Legal
8 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.49%) Military
10 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (57.92%) Developer
2 36 (17.82%) Senior
3 26 (12.87%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.39%) C# Developer
5 18 (8.91%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.92%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.45%) Cloud Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Oracle Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
7 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.46%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.46%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.96%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Informatica Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.77%) .NET
2 42 (20.79%) REST
3 31 (15.35%) RESTful
4 28 (13.86%) React
4 28 (13.86%) Spring
4 28 (13.86%) Spring Boot
5 24 (11.88%) .NET Framework
6 22 (10.89%) CSS
6 22 (10.89%) HTML
7 21 (10.40%) SOAP
8 18 (8.91%) AngularJS
8 18 (8.91%) Kafka
9 17 (8.42%) JSON
10 16 (7.92%) Web Services
10 16 (7.92%) XML
11 15 (7.43%) OAuth
12 12 (5.94%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (5.45%) pytest
14 10 (4.95%) HTML5 Canvas
15 9 (4.46%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.93%) Low-Code
3 13 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.46%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.47%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.98%) Life Science
9 3 (1.49%) CMDB
9 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.49%) Derivative
9 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.49%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.99%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.42%) Windows
2 15 (7.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.47%) Unix
4 5 (2.48%) Android
4 5 (2.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.49%) Linux
6 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (42.08%) Agile
2 80 (39.60%) CI/CD
3 78 (38.61%) DevOps
4 42 (20.79%) Microservices
5 41 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.32%) Scrum
7 34 (16.83%) Test Automation
8 33 (16.34%) AI
8 33 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 29 (14.36%) Code Quality
11 24 (11.88%) Containerisation
12 23 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (10.89%) Analytics
14 21 (10.40%) ERP
14 21 (10.40%) Integration Testing
14 21 (10.40%) TDD
15 20 (9.90%) Data Analysis
15 20 (9.90%) Machine Learning
16 18 (8.91%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 75 (37.13%) SQL
2 56 (27.72%) C#
3 53 (26.24%) Java
4 42 (20.79%) Python
5 33 (16.34%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.88%) T-SQL
7 22 (10.89%) PL/SQL
8 18 (8.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.45%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.45%) LotusScript
10 10 (4.95%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.47%) Scala
12 4 (1.98%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.98%) Swift
13 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.99%) Bicep
14 2 (0.99%) Groovy
14 2 (0.99%) X++
15 1 (0.50%) Solidity
15 1 (0.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.36%) Degree
3 28 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (27.72%) QA
2 6 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.49%) WCAG
5 2 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (16.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.99%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.99%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 23 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) Grafana
3 3 (1.49%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (30.20%) Oracle
2 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.91%) Citrix
4 11 (5.45%) Lotus
5 10 (4.95%) Kofax
6 9 (4.46%) Informatica
7 8 (3.96%) Databricks
7 8 (3.96%) Google
8 5 (2.48%) Pega
8 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.49%) HP
9 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Workday
10 2 (0.99%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.99%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.99%) Foundry
10 2 (0.99%) IBM
10 2 (0.99%) SAP
10 2 (0.99%) Sybase
11 1 (0.50%) Ariba