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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 214 142
Rank change year-on-year -54 -72 +36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 180 147 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.08% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.17% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 109 198
10th Percentile £286 £362 £400
25th Percentile £405 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £637
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £468 £550
% change year-on-year +6.78% -14.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile - £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate - £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.31% -9.13%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 August 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
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 August 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 -13 39 £538 +31.90% 6
West London -11 10 £611 +10.60% 2
East London - 1 - - 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 4 (2.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.67%) IIS
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.11%) CMS
3 2 (1.11%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.67%) Trello
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.11%) HFM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.00%) Azure
2 29 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.56%) GitHub
4 24 (13.33%) AWS
5 13 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (6.67%) Serverless
7 11 (6.11%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.56%) GCP
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.78%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.89%) Internet
2 2 (1.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.11%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.78%) Redis
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.67%) Metadata
8 3 (1.67%) Power BI
9 2 (1.11%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.11%) Essbase
9 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (18.89%) Git
2 24 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.89%) JIRA
4 14 (7.78%) GitLab
5 9 (5.00%) Selenium
5 9 (5.00%) Visual Studio
6 8 (4.44%) JUnit
7 7 (3.89%) MSTest
8 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.78%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.78%) NUnit
10 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.22%) Gradle
10 4 (2.22%) JMeter
10 4 (2.22%) Mocha
10 4 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.67%) Mockito
11 3 (1.67%) Moq
11 3 (1.67%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 43 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 42 (23.33%) Banking
4 27 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.33%) Front Office
7 4 (2.22%) Retail
8 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.11%) Legal
9 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.11%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.11%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (51.11%) Developer
2 56 (31.11%) Senior
3 22 (12.22%) C# Developer
4 19 (10.56%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.11%) Lead
7 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 9 (5.00%) Informatica Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Consultant
9 7 (3.89%) Junior
9 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Architect
10 6 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Pega Architect
10 6 (3.33%) Systems Architect
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.11%) .NET
2 35 (19.44%) REST
3 26 (14.44%) .NET Framework
3 26 (14.44%) RESTful
4 23 (12.78%) pytest
5 20 (11.11%) React
6 19 (10.56%) Spring
7 16 (8.89%) JSON
8 15 (8.33%) CSS
8 15 (8.33%) HTML
8 15 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 13 (7.22%) SOAP
10 12 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.67%) GraphQL
11 11 (6.11%) OAuth
11 11 (6.11%) XML
12 10 (5.56%) Node.js
12 10 (5.56%) Web Services
13 9 (5.00%) Next.js
13 9 (5.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.11%) CMDB
9 2 (1.11%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.11%) FMCG
9 2 (1.11%) IoT
9 2 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.22%) Windows
2 11 (6.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.89%) Linux
4 6 (3.33%) Unix
5 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.22%) Android
7 2 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 74 (41.11%) Agile
3 70 (38.89%) DevOps
4 41 (22.78%) AI
4 41 (22.78%) Software Engineering
5 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (20.00%) Scrum
7 34 (18.89%) Integration Testing
8 33 (18.33%) Clean Code
9 30 (16.67%) Microservices
9 30 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 29 (16.11%) Validation
11 28 (15.56%) Design Patterns
11 28 (15.56%) OOP
12 26 (14.44%) Test Automation
13 25 (13.89%) TDD
14 20 (11.11%) Code Quality
15 19 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.56%) Generative AI
16 18 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.67%) SQL
2 51 (28.33%) C#
3 42 (23.33%) Python
4 25 (13.89%) Java
5 24 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.56%) T-SQL
7 18 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.67%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.78%) Swift
10 4 (2.22%) Bicep
11 3 (1.67%) C
11 3 (1.67%) X++
12 2 (1.11%) ABAP
12 2 (1.11%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.11%) Bash
12 2 (1.11%) C++
12 2 (1.11%) ProC
12 2 (1.11%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.11%) ACCA
7 2 (1.11%) CIMA
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (26.67%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) WCAG
5 2 (1.11%) Basel III
5 2 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (23.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.89%) Terraform
3 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.67%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.22%) Oracle
3 12 (6.67%) Citrix
4 11 (6.11%) Informatica
5 9 (5.00%) Avaloq
6 8 (4.44%) Pega
7 7 (3.89%) SAP
8 4 (2.22%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.67%) HP
9 3 (1.67%) UiPath
9 3 (1.67%) Workday
10 2 (1.11%) Foundry
10 2 (1.11%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) Kofax
11 1 (0.56%) Murex
11 1 (0.56%) Perforce
11 1 (0.56%) Splunk