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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 240 143
Rank change year-on-year -35 -97 +46
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 175 133 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.00% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.08% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 97 200
10th Percentile £284 £361 £400
25th Percentile £404 £404 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £641
90th Percentile £668 £793 £738
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.31% -30.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -3 38 £538 +31.90% 12
West London -10 9 £611 +10.60% 5
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 5 (2.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) CMS
3 2 (1.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.14%) Mendix
3 2 (1.14%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Trello
3 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) HFM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.43%) Azure
2 32 (18.29%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (16.00%) GitHub
4 21 (12.00%) AWS
5 15 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.14%) GCP
8 9 (5.14%) Serverless
9 7 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.43%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.29%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.14%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.14%) Intranet
2 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.57%) DSL
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) NFC
3 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (6.29%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.14%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.14%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.86%) Redis
7 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.29%) Power BI
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.71%) Metadata
9 2 (1.14%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.14%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (22.86%) Git
2 26 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.71%) JIRA
4 14 (8.00%) GitLab
5 10 (5.71%) Visual Studio
6 7 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.00%) Selenium
7 6 (3.43%) JUnit
8 5 (2.86%) Gradle
8 5 (2.86%) JSUnit
8 5 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.29%) JMeter
9 4 (2.29%) MSTest
9 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.71%) Maven
10 3 (1.71%) Mocha
10 3 (1.71%) NUnit
10 3 (1.71%) Xcode
General
1 51 (29.14%) Finance
2 46 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.43%) Banking
4 26 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.57%) Front Office
5 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.43%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.29%) Retail
8 3 (1.71%) Legal
8 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.71%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.14%) Local Government
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Publishing
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (49.71%) Developer
2 55 (31.43%) Senior
3 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
4 16 (9.14%) C# Developer
4 16 (9.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (6.86%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.29%) Lead
6 11 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Consultant
10 7 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.43%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.43%) Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Pega Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.43%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.86%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Senior Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.43%) .NET
2 29 (16.57%) REST
3 26 (14.86%) RESTful
4 24 (13.71%) pytest
5 20 (11.43%) .NET Framework
6 18 (10.29%) Spring
7 17 (9.71%) React
8 15 (8.57%) Spring Boot
9 13 (7.43%) JSON
9 13 (7.43%) Node.js
10 11 (6.29%) CSS
10 11 (6.29%) GraphQL
10 11 (6.29%) HTML
10 11 (6.29%) SOAP
11 10 (5.71%) Next.js
11 10 (5.71%) OAuth
11 10 (5.71%) Web Services
12 9 (5.14%) AngularJS
12 9 (5.14%) XML
13 8 (4.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.57%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.71%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.71%) IoT
7 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.71%) Windows
2 8 (4.57%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.86%) Unix
4 4 (2.29%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 76 (43.43%) Agile
3 66 (37.71%) DevOps
4 44 (25.14%) AI
5 41 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.43%) Software Engineering
6 40 (22.86%) Integration Testing
7 38 (21.71%) Scrum
8 33 (18.86%) Clean Code
8 33 (18.86%) User Acceptance Testing
9 29 (16.57%) Microservices
9 29 (16.57%) Validation
10 28 (16.00%) Design Patterns
10 28 (16.00%) TDD
10 28 (16.00%) Test Automation
11 27 (15.43%) OOP
12 26 (14.86%) SDLC
13 19 (10.86%) Code Quality
13 19 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (10.86%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.00%) SQL
2 46 (26.29%) C#
3 44 (25.14%) Python
4 26 (14.86%) Java
5 20 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.86%) PL/SQL
7 12 (6.86%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.43%) Bash
10 5 (2.86%) Swift
11 3 (1.71%) C
11 3 (1.71%) X++
12 2 (1.14%) ABAP
12 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.14%) Bicep
12 2 (1.14%) C++
12 2 (1.14%) ProC
12 2 (1.14%) Ruby
12 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.00%) Degree
4 7 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) ACCA
7 2 (1.14%) CIMA
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (22.86%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.71%) Basel III
4 2 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (23.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.14%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.14%) Oracle
3 11 (6.29%) Informatica
4 9 (5.14%) Avaloq
4 9 (5.14%) SAP
5 8 (4.57%) Citrix
6 6 (3.43%) Pega
7 4 (2.29%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.29%) UiPath
8 3 (1.71%) Workday
9 2 (1.14%) Google
9 2 (1.14%) HP
9 2 (1.14%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.14%) Kofax
9 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco
10 1 (0.57%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.57%) Lotus