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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 205 147
Rank change year-on-year -29 -58 +31
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 205 169 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.24% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.35% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 116 207
10th Percentile £300 £360 £400
25th Percentile £415 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £625
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.93
25th Percentile £67.63 - £52.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £57.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
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 17,691 12,549 15,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.21% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,395 11,020
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.84 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -5 39 £538 +31.90% 11
West London -9 10 £611 +10.60% 9
East London - 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 6 (2.93%) Apache
1 6 (2.93%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.93%) Confluence
1 6 (2.93%) Ethereum
1 6 (2.93%) Hyperledger
2 4 (1.95%) Mendix
3 3 (1.46%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.46%) IIS
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 2 (0.98%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.98%) HFM
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.49%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.34%) Azure
2 32 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.15%) AWS
4 26 (12.68%) GitHub
5 17 (8.29%) Serverless
6 12 (5.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.39%) GCP
9 7 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.41%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.93%) OCI
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.44%) PaaS
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.85%) Internet
2 7 (3.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.98%) Intranet
4 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.49%) DSL
4 1 (0.49%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.83%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.85%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.37%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.37%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.95%) Power BI
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.46%) Metadata
10 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.98%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.98%) MySQL
10 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.98%) Redis
10 2 (0.98%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Git
2 26 (12.68%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.73%) JIRA
4 17 (8.29%) JUnit
5 12 (5.85%) GitLab
6 10 (4.88%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.39%) Selenium
8 8 (3.90%) Gradle
8 8 (3.90%) MSTest
9 6 (2.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.93%) Postman
10 5 (2.44%) JSUnit
10 5 (2.44%) Maven
10 5 (2.44%) Mockito
10 5 (2.44%) NUnit
11 4 (1.95%) JMeter
11 4 (1.95%) Mocha
11 4 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.95%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.95%) Xcode
General
1 59 (28.78%) Finance
2 48 (23.41%) Banking
3 41 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 33 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.41%) Front Office
7 4 (1.95%) Legal
7 4 (1.95%) Retail
8 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Military
8 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.98%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (0.98%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Billing
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (51.71%) Developer
2 59 (28.78%) Senior
3 25 (12.20%) C# Developer
4 23 (11.22%) Senior Developer
5 20 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.85%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) Software Engineer
7 10 (4.88%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.39%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (3.90%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Consultant
10 7 (3.41%) Lead
10 7 (3.41%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Integration Specialist
11 6 (2.93%) iOS Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.44%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.39%) .NET
2 44 (21.46%) REST
3 37 (18.05%) RESTful
4 30 (14.63%) .NET Framework
5 28 (13.66%) Spring
6 27 (13.17%) Spring Boot
7 22 (10.73%) React
8 19 (9.27%) AngularJS
8 19 (9.27%) JSON
9 18 (8.78%) pytest
10 17 (8.29%) CSS
10 17 (8.29%) HTML
10 17 (8.29%) Kafka
10 17 (8.29%) SOAP
11 13 (6.34%) XML
12 12 (5.85%) GraphQL
12 12 (5.85%) OAuth
13 10 (4.88%) Web Services
14 9 (4.39%) Next.js
14 9 (4.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.85%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.39%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) CMDB
9 3 (1.46%) Equities
9 3 (1.46%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.46%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) FMCG
10 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.29%) Windows
2 14 (6.83%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.90%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.93%) Unix
5 5 (2.44%) Android
6 4 (1.95%) Linux
7 2 (0.98%) VMS
8 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (45.85%) CI/CD
2 83 (40.49%) Agile
3 77 (37.56%) DevOps
4 45 (21.95%) Microservices
5 41 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 40 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (18.54%) AI
8 37 (18.05%) Scrum
9 31 (15.12%) Integration Testing
10 30 (14.63%) Clean Code
11 28 (13.66%) TDD
11 28 (13.66%) User Acceptance Testing
12 27 (13.17%) Test Automation
13 26 (12.68%) Design Patterns
14 25 (12.20%) Code Quality
14 25 (12.20%) OOP
15 24 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.71%) Validation
16 21 (10.24%) Observability
17 20 (9.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (37.07%) SQL
2 52 (25.37%) C#
3 43 (20.98%) Python
4 40 (19.51%) Java
5 27 (13.17%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.20%) T-SQL
7 23 (11.22%) PL/SQL
8 22 (10.73%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.37%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.90%) Swift
11 7 (3.41%) Scala
12 4 (1.95%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) ABAP
13 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.98%) C
13 2 (0.98%) Formula Language
13 2 (0.98%) LotusScript
13 2 (0.98%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.98%) ProC
13 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.73%) Degree
4 10 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.98%) ACCA
6 2 (0.98%) CIMA
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (29.27%) QA
2 7 (3.41%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.46%) WCAG
4 2 (0.98%) Basel III
4 2 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (0.98%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) IFRS
5 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.49%) SEPA
5 1 (0.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (19.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 34 (16.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.90%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.98%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (20.98%) Oracle
2 36 (17.56%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.80%) Citrix
4 11 (5.37%) Informatica
5 8 (3.90%) Avaloq
6 7 (3.41%) Pega
7 6 (2.93%) SAP
8 4 (1.95%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.46%) HP
9 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.46%) Workday
10 2 (0.98%) Foundry
10 2 (0.98%) Google
10 2 (0.98%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.98%) IBM
10 2 (0.98%) Kofax
10 2 (0.98%) Lotus
10 2 (0.98%) Sybase
11 1 (0.49%) Splunk