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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 158 212
Rank change year-on-year -34 +54 -50
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 209 222 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.64% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.81% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 139 124
10th Percentile £400 £341 £377
25th Percentile £415 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £700
90th Percentile £788 £755 £750
England median daily rate £492 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -18.00% - -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £57.20 - £54.85
25th Percentile £67.63 - £58.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £95.00 - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £88.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -

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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -15 22 £525 -20.75% 3
West London -14 4 £552 - 2
South London -8 2 £850 +13.33%
East London - 2 £450 - 3
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 14 (6.70%) Apache Spark
1 14 (6.70%) Confluence
2 11 (5.26%) Mendix
2 11 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.78%) HCL Notes
4 8 (3.83%) Apache
5 7 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (2.87%) Ethereum
6 6 (2.87%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.91%) Jupyter
8 3 (1.44%) CMS
9 2 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) Drupal
10 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.48%) SAS
10 1 (0.48%) Traefik
10 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (19.62%) AWS
2 37 (17.70%) Azure
3 24 (11.48%) GitHub
4 23 (11.00%) Power Platform
5 22 (10.53%) GCP
5 22 (10.53%) Serverless
6 20 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (9.57%) OCI
6 20 (9.57%) PaaS
7 12 (5.74%) Power Automate
7 12 (5.74%) PowerApps
8 11 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.26%) IaaS
9 10 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.88%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.57%) Power BI
4 19 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 11 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.78%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.35%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.87%) MySQL
9 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.44%) DB2
10 3 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.44%) Power Query
10 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.96%) Redis
11 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (28.23%) Git
2 26 (12.44%) JIRA
3 24 (11.48%) Jenkins
4 23 (11.00%) Postman
5 17 (8.13%) JUnit
6 16 (7.66%) Visual Studio
7 10 (4.78%) Maven
8 8 (3.83%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.35%) GitLab
9 7 (3.35%) Gradle
9 7 (3.35%) MLflow
9 7 (3.35%) SoapUI
9 7 (3.35%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.35%) Xcode
10 6 (2.87%) Android Studio
10 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.87%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.39%) Mockito
12 4 (1.91%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.91%) Selenium
General
1 70 (33.49%) Finance
2 47 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Banking
4 22 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.66%) Front Office
6 13 (6.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (4.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.91%) Legal
8 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Military
10 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.96%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) French Language
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 117 (55.98%) Developer
2 34 (16.27%) Senior
3 27 (12.92%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.00%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.05%) C# Developer
6 14 (6.70%) Cloud Specialist
6 14 (6.70%) Integration Specialist
6 14 (6.70%) Oracle Specialist
6 14 (6.70%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.22%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.74%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.78%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.31%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Agile Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) Angular Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.57%) REST
2 38 (18.18%) .NET
3 29 (13.88%) React
4 26 (12.44%) RESTful
5 25 (11.96%) CSS
6 24 (11.48%) Web Services
7 23 (11.00%) HTML
8 22 (10.53%) .NET Framework
8 22 (10.53%) SOAP
9 21 (10.05%) JSON
9 21 (10.05%) Spring
9 21 (10.05%) Spring Boot
10 19 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 19 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
11 17 (8.13%) pytest
12 15 (7.18%) Kafka
12 15 (7.18%) XML
13 13 (6.22%) FastAPI
13 13 (6.22%) OAuth
14 12 (5.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.66%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.74%) Low-Code
3 12 (5.74%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.26%) Life Science
5 9 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.31%) Genomics
6 8 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.91%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.91%) Derivative
9 4 (1.91%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.44%) Animation
10 3 (1.44%) Equities
10 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.18%) Windows
2 14 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.83%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.35%) Android
4 7 (3.35%) Unix
5 5 (2.39%) Linux
6 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.02%) Agile
2 77 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 67 (32.06%) DevOps
4 46 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (20.10%) Microservices
6 40 (19.14%) Test Automation
7 39 (18.66%) Scrum
8 36 (17.22%) Analytics
9 35 (16.75%) AI
10 34 (16.27%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (16.27%) Software Engineering
11 30 (14.35%) Containerisation
11 30 (14.35%) Machine Learning
12 27 (12.92%) Code Quality
13 24 (11.48%) ERP
14 21 (10.05%) Clean Code
14 21 (10.05%) TDD
15 19 (9.09%) Data Analysis
15 19 (9.09%) Natural Language Processing
15 19 (9.09%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.06%) SQL
2 58 (27.75%) Java
3 49 (23.44%) Python
4 45 (21.53%) C#
5 35 (16.75%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.66%) T-SQL
8 15 (7.18%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.78%) Formula Language
9 10 (4.78%) LotusScript
10 9 (4.31%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.35%) Scala
11 7 (3.35%) Swift
12 4 (1.91%) Groovy
12 4 (1.91%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.44%) X++
14 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (16.27%) Degree
2 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.96%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.22%) QA
2 8 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) SEPA
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (17.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.83%) Terraform
3 4 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Istio
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (27.75%) Oracle
2 21 (10.05%) Google
3 20 (9.57%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.22%) Citrix
5 11 (5.26%) Databricks
6 10 (4.78%) Lotus
7 9 (4.31%) Kofax
8 5 (2.39%) Pega
9 4 (1.91%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.44%) Adobe
10 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) Workday
11 2 (0.96%) Apple
11 2 (0.96%) Informatica
11 2 (0.96%) Murex
11 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.96%) Sybase
11 2 (0.96%) VMware