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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 185 188
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 200 181 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.44% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.56% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 118 147
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £415 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £590 £689 £638
90th Percentile £684 £779 £725
England median daily rate £490 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -10.91% +1.85% -9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £53.68
25th Percentile £67.63 - £55.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £60.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £64.44
90th Percentile - - £65.83
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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -27 19 £566 -1.52% 7
West London -20 7 £552 -0.09% 1
East London - 2 £450 - 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 12 (6.00%) Mendix
2 11 (5.50%) HCL Notes
2 11 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.50%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.00%) Apache
4 8 (4.00%) Confluence
5 6 (3.00%) Ethereum
5 6 (3.00%) Hyperledger
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.00%) CMS
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.50%) Camunda
8 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) IIS
8 1 (0.50%) JBoss
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.00%) Azure
2 39 (19.50%) AWS
3 37 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (15.00%) Serverless
5 23 (11.50%) GitHub
6 17 (8.50%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.00%) Azure Functions
7 14 (7.00%) Power Automate
7 14 (7.00%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.50%) OCI
8 13 (6.50%) PaaS
9 12 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.00%) GCP
10 11 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.50%) Oracle Database
3 14 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.00%) Power BI
4 13 (6.50%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.50%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.50%) MySQL
9 3 (1.50%) Power Query
10 2 (1.00%) DB2
10 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (20.50%) Git
2 22 (11.00%) JIRA
3 20 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.00%) JUnit
4 16 (8.00%) Postman
5 14 (7.00%) Visual Studio
6 13 (6.50%) GitLab
7 9 (4.50%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.50%) Selenium
8 7 (3.50%) MSTest
9 6 (3.00%) Gradle
9 6 (3.00%) MLflow
9 6 (3.00%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.50%) Mockito
10 5 (2.50%) NUnit
11 4 (2.00%) Maven
11 4 (2.00%) Mocha
12 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
12 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.50%) Moq
General
1 72 (36.00%) Finance
2 40 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Banking
4 23 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.50%) Front Office
8 4 (2.00%) Military
9 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (57.00%) Developer
2 39 (19.50%) Senior
3 23 (11.50%) Java Developer
4 22 (11.00%) C# Developer
5 20 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Cloud Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Oracle Specialist
7 11 (5.50%) Power Platform Developer
8 10 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Informatica Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.50%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.50%) .NET
2 42 (21.00%) REST
3 32 (16.00%) RESTful
4 27 (13.50%) React
4 27 (13.50%) Spring
4 27 (13.50%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.00%) .NET Framework
6 21 (10.50%) CSS
6 21 (10.50%) HTML
6 21 (10.50%) SOAP
7 18 (9.00%) JSON
8 17 (8.50%) Kafka
8 17 (8.50%) XML
9 16 (8.00%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.00%) OAuth
9 16 (8.00%) Web Services
10 12 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (5.00%) pytest
12 9 (4.50%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.00%) Low-Code
3 13 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.50%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.50%) CMDB
10 3 (1.50%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.50%) Derivative
10 3 (1.50%) Life Science
10 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.50%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.50%) Windows
2 15 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.50%) Android
3 5 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.00%) Unix
5 3 (1.50%) Linux
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 80 (40.00%) DevOps
2 78 (39.00%) Agile
3 43 (21.50%) Microservices
4 40 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (17.50%) Scrum
6 32 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 31 (15.50%) AI
8 29 (14.50%) Software Engineering
9 28 (14.00%) Code Quality
10 24 (12.00%) Integration Testing
11 23 (11.50%) Containerisation
11 23 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.50%) ERP
12 21 (10.50%) ETL
13 20 (10.00%) Data Analysis
13 20 (10.00%) TDD
14 19 (9.50%) Analytics
14 19 (9.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (39.50%) SQL
2 54 (27.00%) C#
3 51 (25.50%) Java
4 41 (20.50%) Python
5 35 (17.50%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 22 (11.00%) PL/SQL
8 17 (8.50%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.50%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.50%) LotusScript
10 10 (5.00%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.50%) Scala
12 4 (2.00%) Swift
13 3 (1.50%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.50%) Groovy
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.00%) X++
15 1 (0.50%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 38 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.00%) Degree
4 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (28.50%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.00%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.00%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 23 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) Grafana
3 3 (1.50%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (30.00%) Oracle
2 37 (18.50%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.00%) Citrix
4 12 (6.00%) Informatica
5 11 (5.50%) Lotus
6 10 (5.00%) Kofax
7 8 (4.00%) Databricks
8 6 (3.00%) Google
9 5 (2.50%) Pega
10 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.50%) Avaloq
11 3 (1.50%) HP
11 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
12 2 (1.00%) Foundry
12 2 (1.00%) IBM
12 2 (1.00%) SAP
12 2 (1.00%) Workday
13 1 (0.50%) Okta
13 1 (0.50%) Typelevel