Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 191 174
Rank change year-on-year +2 -17 -43
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 223 383 665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.25% 1.43% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.57% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 279 491
10th Percentile £375 £420 £413
25th Percentile £456 £491 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £540 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £53.68 - -
25th Percentile £55.44 £50.42 £62.50
Median hourly rate £60.25 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -3.08% -2.26%
75th Percentile £64.44 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,808 24,326 35,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.98% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,340 17,488 26,268
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.95 £63.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 May 2024. 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 +14 27 £538 -14.00% 13
West London +31 12 £450 -40.00% 6
South London +3 1 - - 3
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.04%) Confluence
3 3 (1.35%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.35%) CMS
3 3 (1.35%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.90%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.35%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.35%) SAP VC
3 2 (0.90%) Advent Geneva
3 2 (0.90%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.90%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.90%) SAP R/3
3 2 (0.90%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.45%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.45%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.32%) AWS
2 38 (17.04%) Azure
3 26 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.87%) GCP
5 14 (6.28%) Serverless
6 12 (5.38%) GitHub
7 11 (4.93%) dbt
8 10 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.59%) PaaS
10 7 (3.14%) Azure API Management
10 7 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.69%) NuGet
12 5 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.79%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) HTTP
2 4 (1.79%) SSL
3 2 (0.90%) BGP
3 2 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.90%) MPLS
3 2 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) FTP
4 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.45%) Multicast
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.45%) NoSQL
2 26 (11.66%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.97%) Relational Database
4 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (4.93%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.14%) Big Data
9 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.14%) MySQL
10 6 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.69%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.24%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.24%) HBase
12 4 (1.79%) Mixpanel
12 4 (1.79%) Redis
13 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 58 (26.01%) Git
2 18 (8.07%) JIRA
3 16 (7.17%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.38%) JUnit
5 10 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 9 (4.04%) Selenium
7 7 (3.14%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.14%) Maven
7 7 (3.14%) NUnit
7 7 (3.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (2.69%) Jasmine
9 5 (2.24%) Gatling
9 5 (2.24%) Subversion
10 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.79%) GitLab
10 4 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (1.79%) Mercurial
10 4 (1.79%) Mockito
10 4 (1.79%) ScalaTest
10 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.97%) Finance
3 27 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.17%) Banking
6 7 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.69%) Retail
8 5 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.24%) Marketing
9 3 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Front Office
9 3 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.35%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Electronics
10 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 146 (65.47%) Developer
2 36 (16.14%) Senior
3 26 (11.66%) C# Developer
4 22 (9.87%) Senior Developer
5 18 (8.07%) .NET Developer
6 17 (7.62%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.73%) Lead
7 15 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.83%) Angular Developer
8 13 (5.83%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (5.38%) Scala Developer
10 11 (4.93%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.48%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) SQL Developer
13 8 (3.59%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.59%) React Developer
14 7 (3.14%) AWS Developer
14 7 (3.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 7 (3.14%) Python Developer
15 6 (2.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (21.08%) REST
2 46 (20.63%) .NET
3 34 (15.25%) RESTful
4 32 (14.35%) React
5 31 (13.90%) Kafka
6 30 (13.45%) AngularJS
7 28 (12.56%) Spring
8 24 (10.76%) .NET Core
8 24 (10.76%) Web Services
9 22 (9.87%) Spring Boot
10 18 (8.07%) Hibernate
10 18 (8.07%) JPA
11 17 (7.62%) .NET Framework
11 17 (7.62%) HTML
12 15 (6.73%) SOAP
13 14 (6.28%) CSS
14 13 (5.83%) ASP.NET
14 13 (5.83%) Node.js
15 12 (5.38%) Entity Framework
15 12 (5.38%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.48%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.04%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.69%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.24%) iPad
5 5 (2.24%) iPhone
5 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Wiki
7 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.35%) LIMS
7 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Derivative
8 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.17%) Unix
2 13 (5.83%) Linux
3 7 (3.14%) Android
3 7 (3.14%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (42.15%) Agile
2 59 (26.46%) DevOps
2 59 (26.46%) TDD
3 52 (23.32%) CI/CD
4 47 (21.08%) Test Automation
5 43 (19.28%) Microservices
6 41 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (17.04%) Scrum
8 37 (16.59%) Software Engineering
9 32 (14.35%) OO
10 27 (12.11%) High Availability
11 26 (11.66%) Integration Testing
12 25 (11.21%) Design Patterns
12 25 (11.21%) Front End Development
13 24 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (9.87%) BDD
14 22 (9.87%) Full Stack Development
15 21 (9.42%) ETL
15 21 (9.42%) MVC
16 19 (8.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.87%) SQL
2 66 (29.60%) Java
3 53 (23.77%) Python
4 51 (22.87%) C#
5 38 (17.04%) JavaScript
6 32 (14.35%) TypeScript
7 20 (8.97%) Scala
8 16 (7.17%) C++
9 13 (5.83%) PL/SQL
10 10 (4.48%) C
10 10 (4.48%) Kotlin
11 9 (4.04%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.69%) Bicep
12 6 (2.69%) Go
12 6 (2.69%) Perl
12 6 (2.69%) Swift
13 5 (2.24%) Objective-C
13 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.24%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (13.90%) SC Cleared
1 31 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.42%) Degree
3 9 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.93%) QA
2 10 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) MiFID
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (18.39%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (17.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.17%) Terraform
3 10 (4.48%) Grafana
4 5 (2.24%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.90%) Istio
5 2 (0.90%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.45%) Puppet
6 1 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (9.87%) Oracle
2 15 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.28%) SAP
4 12 (5.38%) Google
5 5 (2.24%) Adobe
5 5 (2.24%) Databricks
5 5 (2.24%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.24%) Typelevel
6 4 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.35%) Citrix
7 3 (1.35%) IBM
7 3 (1.35%) Micro Focus
8 2 (0.90%) Advent
8 2 (0.90%) ESRI
8 2 (0.90%) Eze Castle Integration
8 2 (0.90%) New Relic
8 2 (0.90%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.90%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) Xamarin