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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 156 202
Rank change year-on-year -49 +46 -34
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 211 217 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.62% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.79% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 137 125
10th Percentile £398 £348 £377
25th Percentile £415 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -5.17% -10.77%
75th Percentile £625 £690 £688
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
England median daily rate £490 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -10.91% -4.56% -3.96%
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 £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 14,282 12,124 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.37% 90.69% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,850 11,525
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 159 347
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.95 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.50 £49.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.47 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

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 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 25 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 25 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 -10 22 £550 -15.38% 9
West London -20 4 £552 - 3
East London - 2 £450 - 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 14 (6.64%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.69%) Confluence
3 11 (5.21%) Mendix
3 11 (5.21%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.74%) HCL Notes
5 8 (3.79%) Apache
6 7 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (2.84%) Ethereum
7 6 (2.84%) Hyperledger
8 4 (1.90%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.95%) CMS
9 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.47%) JBoss
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.47%) Traefik
10 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.06%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.91%) AWS
2 40 (18.96%) Azure
3 26 (12.32%) GitHub
4 23 (10.90%) GCP
4 23 (10.90%) Power Platform
5 22 (10.43%) Serverless
6 21 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (9.95%) OCI
6 21 (9.95%) PaaS
7 12 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.69%) Power Automate
7 12 (5.69%) PowerApps
8 11 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.21%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.21%) IaaS
9 10 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.69%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.48%) Power BI
3 19 (9.00%) Oracle Database
4 18 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.69%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.21%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.32%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.84%) MySQL
10 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.42%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.42%) Power Query
11 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.95%) Redis
12 2 (0.95%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (26.54%) Git
2 23 (10.90%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.90%) JIRA
2 23 (10.90%) Postman
3 17 (8.06%) JUnit
4 16 (7.58%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.79%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.32%) Maven
6 7 (3.32%) MLflow
6 7 (3.32%) SoapUI
6 7 (3.32%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.84%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.84%) Gradle
7 6 (2.84%) Xcode
8 5 (2.37%) Mockito
8 5 (2.37%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.90%) MSTest
General
1 68 (32.23%) Finance
2 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.22%) Banking
4 25 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.64%) Front Office
7 13 (6.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (4.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Legal
9 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Military
11 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Billing
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) French Language
12 1 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 118 (55.92%) Developer
2 37 (17.54%) Senior
3 26 (12.32%) Java Developer
4 24 (11.37%) Senior Developer
5 22 (10.43%) C# Developer
6 15 (7.11%) Cloud Specialist
6 15 (7.11%) Integration Specialist
6 15 (7.11%) Oracle Specialist
6 15 (7.11%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.16%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.69%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.74%) .NET Developer
9 10 (4.74%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.79%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Angular Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.33%) REST
2 43 (20.38%) .NET
3 30 (14.22%) React
4 28 (13.27%) RESTful
5 25 (11.85%) Web Services
6 23 (10.90%) .NET Framework
6 23 (10.90%) CSS
6 23 (10.90%) JSON
7 22 (10.43%) HTML
7 22 (10.43%) SOAP
7 22 (10.43%) Spring
8 21 (9.95%) Spring Boot
9 20 (9.48%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.48%) Oracle Fusion
10 17 (8.06%) pytest
10 17 (8.06%) XML
11 16 (7.58%) Kafka
11 16 (7.58%) OAuth
12 13 (6.16%) FastAPI
12 13 (6.16%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.69%) Low-Code
3 12 (5.69%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.21%) Life Science
5 9 (4.27%) Genomics
5 9 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.90%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.42%) Animation
11 3 (1.42%) Derivative
11 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.11%) Windows
2 14 (6.64%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.79%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.32%) Android
4 7 (3.32%) Unix
5 4 (1.90%) Linux
6 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (43.60%) Agile
2 77 (36.49%) CI/CD
3 69 (32.70%) DevOps
4 46 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (19.43%) Microservices
6 39 (18.48%) Scrum
7 38 (18.01%) Test Automation
8 37 (17.54%) AI
9 36 (17.06%) Analytics
10 35 (16.59%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (16.11%) Software Engineering
12 31 (14.69%) Containerisation
12 31 (14.69%) Machine Learning
13 27 (12.80%) Code Quality
14 25 (11.85%) ERP
15 22 (10.43%) Clean Code
16 20 (9.48%) Data Analysis
16 20 (9.48%) OOP
17 19 (9.00%) Natural Language Processing
18 18 (8.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.75%) SQL
2 55 (26.07%) Java
3 50 (23.70%) Python
4 49 (23.22%) C#
5 34 (16.11%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.53%) T-SQL
8 16 (7.58%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.74%) Formula Language
9 10 (4.74%) Kotlin
9 10 (4.74%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.32%) Scala
10 7 (3.32%) Swift
11 4 (1.90%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.42%) Groovy
12 3 (1.42%) X++
13 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.95%) Bicep
13 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (16.11%) Degree
2 29 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.95%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.54%) QA
2 9 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (17.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.95%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.95%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 26 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Terraform
3 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (27.96%) Oracle
2 21 (9.95%) Google
2 21 (9.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.64%) Citrix
4 11 (5.21%) Databricks
5 10 (4.74%) Lotus
6 9 (4.27%) Kofax
7 5 (2.37%) Pega
8 4 (1.90%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.42%) Adobe
9 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.42%) SAP
9 3 (1.42%) Workday
10 2 (0.95%) Apple
10 2 (0.95%) Informatica
10 2 (0.95%) Marketo
10 2 (0.95%) Murex
10 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.95%) Sybase
10 2 (0.95%) VMware