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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 197 166
Rank change year-on-year -42 -31 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 188 161 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.31% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.42% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 110 191
10th Percentile £313 £383 £385
25th Percentile £415 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £638
90th Percentile £668 £789 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £548
% change year-on-year - -8.68% -5.19%
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 £65.00 £65.00

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -24 27 £575 +5.50% 10
West London -22 5 - -
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 8 (4.26%) Mendix
2 6 (3.19%) Apache
2 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.19%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.19%) HCL Notes
2 6 (3.19%) Hyperledger
2 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.60%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) IIS
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.53%) Camunda
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.53%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.72%) Azure
2 33 (17.55%) AWS
2 33 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.23%) GitHub
4 22 (11.70%) Serverless
5 12 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.79%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.79%) PowerApps
8 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.26%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.26%) OCI
9 7 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.72%) GCP
9 7 (3.72%) PaaS
10 6 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.72%) HTTP
1 7 (3.72%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.81%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.57%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.91%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.85%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.32%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.72%) Power BI
6 7 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.60%) Tableau
10 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.06%) Db2
10 2 (1.06%) MySQL
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 38 (20.21%) Git
2 20 (10.64%) JIRA
3 15 (7.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.45%) JUnit
5 13 (6.91%) Visual Studio
6 11 (5.85%) GitLab
7 9 (4.79%) Selenium
8 8 (4.26%) Cucumber
8 8 (4.26%) MSTest
8 8 (4.26%) Postman
9 6 (3.19%) Gradle
10 5 (2.66%) Mockito
10 5 (2.66%) NUnit
11 4 (2.13%) JMeter
11 4 (2.13%) Maven
11 4 (2.13%) Mocha
11 4 (2.13%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.13%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.60%) git-flow
12 3 (1.60%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (31.38%) Finance
2 41 (21.81%) Banking
3 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 28 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.19%) Front Office
8 3 (1.60%) Military
8 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
9 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Back Office
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (54.79%) Developer
2 47 (25.00%) Senior
3 23 (12.23%) C# Developer
4 21 (11.17%) Senior Developer
5 19 (10.11%) Java Developer
6 12 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.79%) Informatica Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Integration Specialist
9 8 (4.26%) Oracle Specialist
9 8 (4.26%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.72%) Cloud Specialist
10 7 (3.72%) Lead
11 6 (3.19%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Consultant
12 5 (2.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.60%) .NET
2 41 (21.81%) REST
3 35 (18.62%) RESTful
4 28 (14.89%) .NET Framework
5 26 (13.83%) Spring Boot
6 25 (13.30%) Spring
7 20 (10.64%) React
8 19 (10.11%) CSS
8 19 (10.11%) HTML
9 18 (9.57%) AngularJS
9 18 (9.57%) JSON
10 17 (9.04%) Kafka
11 16 (8.51%) pytest
11 16 (8.51%) SOAP
12 14 (7.45%) XML
13 12 (6.38%) OAuth
14 11 (5.85%) Web Services
15 8 (4.26%) OAuth2
16 7 (3.72%) ASP.NET
16 7 (3.72%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.32%) Low-Code
3 9 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) CMDB
8 3 (1.60%) Equities
8 3 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.06%) Derivative
9 2 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.57%) Windows
2 15 (7.98%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.13%) Linux
4 4 (2.13%) Unix
5 3 (1.60%) Android
6 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.68%) CI/CD
2 74 (39.36%) Agile
3 71 (37.77%) DevOps
4 42 (22.34%) Microservices
5 36 (19.15%) Scrum
6 34 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.55%) Software Engineering
8 32 (17.02%) AI
9 25 (13.30%) Integration Testing
10 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
10 23 (12.23%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (11.70%) Clean Code
11 22 (11.70%) Code Quality
11 22 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.17%) Observability
13 20 (10.64%) Data Analysis
13 20 (10.64%) Design Patterns
13 20 (10.64%) ETL
13 20 (10.64%) OOP
13 20 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.89%) SQL
2 56 (29.79%) C#
3 43 (22.87%) Python
4 40 (21.28%) Java
5 32 (17.02%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.77%) T-SQL
7 22 (11.70%) PL/SQL
8 15 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.72%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.72%) Scala
9 7 (3.72%) Swift
10 6 (3.19%) Formula Language
10 6 (3.19%) LotusScript
11 4 (2.13%) Bicep
12 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.06%) C++
12 2 (1.06%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.06%) X++
13 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.83%) Degree
3 24 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.32%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) WCAG
5 2 (1.06%) Basel III
5 2 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.06%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) IFRS
6 1 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.53%) SEPA
6 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (20.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 30 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.26%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.06%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (25.53%) Oracle
2 31 (16.49%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.04%) Citrix
4 13 (6.91%) Informatica
5 7 (3.72%) Pega
6 6 (3.19%) Avaloq
6 6 (3.19%) Kofax
6 6 (3.19%) Lotus
7 3 (1.60%) HP
7 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.60%) SAP
7 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.06%) Foundry
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.06%) Sybase
8 2 (1.06%) Workday
9 1 (0.53%) Databricks
9 1 (0.53%) Okta
9 1 (0.53%) Typelevel