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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 150 216
Rank change year-on-year -37 +66 -65
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 208 235 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.69% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.87% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 146 120
10th Percentile £402 £348 £375
25th Percentile £415 £470 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £656 £689 £713
90th Percentile £788 £763 £750
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £58.40 - £56.03
25th Percentile £68.38 - £61.31
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £77.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £90.94
90th Percentile - - £92.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

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 13,486 12,571 16,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.07% 90.51% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,936 7,985 11,699
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 211 158 330
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.81 £19.52
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +15.40% -19.12%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.11 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.13 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -7 22 £550 -15.38% 6
West London -18 4 £552 - 2
South London -7 2 £850 +13.33%
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 14 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.25%) Confluence
3 11 (5.29%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.81%) HCL Notes
5 9 (4.33%) Mendix
6 8 (3.85%) Apache
7 7 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (2.88%) Ethereum
8 6 (2.88%) Hyperledger
9 4 (1.92%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.44%) CMS
11 2 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.48%) Drupal
12 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.48%) SAS
12 1 (0.48%) Traefik
12 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (18.75%) AWS
2 37 (17.79%) Azure
3 28 (13.46%) GitHub
4 24 (11.54%) GCP
5 23 (11.06%) Power Platform
6 21 (10.10%) Serverless
7 20 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.62%) OCI
7 20 (9.62%) PaaS
8 13 (6.25%) IaaS
9 12 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.77%) Power Automate
9 12 (5.77%) PowerApps
10 11 (5.29%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.29%) Azure Functions
11 10 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (4.81%) Cloud Run
12 9 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.94%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.62%) Power BI
3 19 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.65%) Oracle Database
5 11 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.37%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.88%) MySQL
9 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.44%) Power Query
10 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.96%) DB2
11 2 (0.96%) Redis
11 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (29.81%) Git
2 26 (12.50%) JIRA
3 23 (11.06%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.06%) Postman
4 22 (10.58%) JUnit
5 16 (7.69%) Visual Studio
6 10 (4.81%) Maven
7 9 (4.33%) SpecFlow
8 7 (3.37%) Gradle
8 7 (3.37%) MLflow
8 7 (3.37%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.88%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.88%) GitLab
9 6 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.88%) Xcode
10 5 (2.40%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.40%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.40%) Mockito
11 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
General
1 70 (33.65%) Finance
2 46 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.90%) Banking
4 22 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (7.69%) Front Office
7 15 (7.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.92%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.96%) Marketing
11 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) French Language
12 1 (0.48%) Games
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
12 1 (0.48%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 117 (56.25%) Developer
2 32 (15.38%) Senior
3 26 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 24 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.10%) C# Developer
6 16 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Cloud Specialist
7 14 (6.73%) Integration Specialist
7 14 (6.73%) Oracle Specialist
8 13 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.81%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.33%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.33%) Angular Developer
11 8 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Agile Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.19%) REST
2 39 (18.75%) .NET
3 28 (13.46%) React
4 27 (12.98%) RESTful
5 24 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 24 (11.54%) Web Services
6 23 (11.06%) CSS
7 22 (10.58%) SOAP
8 21 (10.10%) HTML
8 21 (10.10%) JSON
8 21 (10.10%) Spring
9 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.62%) Spring Boot
10 19 (9.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (8.65%) pytest
12 15 (7.21%) FastAPI
12 15 (7.21%) Kafka
12 15 (7.21%) XML
13 14 (6.73%) Playwright
14 12 (5.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.21%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.25%) Life Science
4 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (5.29%) Genomics
6 10 (4.81%) Low-Code
7 9 (4.33%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.85%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.88%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.88%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.92%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.92%) Derivative
11 4 (1.92%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.44%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.73%) Windows
1 14 (6.73%) Windows Server
2 11 (5.29%) Android
2 11 (5.29%) Linux
3 10 (4.81%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.37%) Unix
5 6 (2.88%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (43.75%) Agile
2 72 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 67 (32.21%) DevOps
4 45 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (19.71%) Microservices
5 41 (19.71%) Scrum
6 40 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 37 (17.79%) Software Engineering
8 35 (16.83%) AI
9 33 (15.87%) Analytics
9 33 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 32 (15.38%) Machine Learning
11 27 (12.98%) Clean Code
11 27 (12.98%) Code Quality
12 23 (11.06%) ERP
13 22 (10.58%) TDD
14 21 (10.10%) Natural Language Processing
15 19 (9.13%) OOP
16 18 (8.65%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.21%) SQL
2 60 (28.85%) Java
3 50 (24.04%) Python
4 46 (22.12%) C#
5 32 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.73%) PL/SQL
7 14 (6.73%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.77%) Kotlin
9 10 (4.81%) Formula Language
9 10 (4.81%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.37%) C++
10 7 (3.37%) Scala
11 4 (1.92%) Groovy
11 4 (1.92%) Swift
12 3 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.44%) X++
13 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (19.71%) Degree
2 29 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.96%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.90%) QA
2 8 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (17.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.33%) Terraform
3 4 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Istio
4 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (27.40%) Oracle
2 22 (10.58%) Google
3 18 (8.65%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.25%) Citrix
5 11 (5.29%) Databricks
6 10 (4.81%) Lotus
7 9 (4.33%) Kofax
8 5 (2.40%) Pega
9 4 (1.92%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.44%) Adobe
10 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) Workday
11 2 (0.96%) Apple
11 2 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.96%) Informatica
11 2 (0.96%) Murex
11 2 (0.96%) Splunk
11 2 (0.96%) VMware