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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 185 186
Rank change year-on-year -46 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 193 172 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.39% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.50% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 116 149
10th Percentile £333 £393 £375
25th Percentile £415 £434 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £638
90th Percentile £672 £781 £725
England median daily rate £489 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.46% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £57.20 - £54.85
25th Percentile £67.63 - £58.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £65.88
90th Percentile - - £66.40
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 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -24 14 £588 +6.82% 8
West London -19 7 £552 -0.09%
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 12 (6.22%) Mendix
2 10 (5.18%) HCL Notes
2 10 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.63%) Apache
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.11%) Ethereum
4 6 (3.11%) Hyperledger
5 5 (2.59%) Confluence
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.04%) CMS
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.52%) IIS
8 1 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.42%) Azure
2 36 (18.65%) AWS
2 36 (18.65%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (15.54%) Serverless
4 23 (11.92%) GitHub
5 15 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.74%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.74%) OCI
7 13 (6.74%) PaaS
7 13 (6.74%) Power Automate
7 13 (6.74%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.40%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.74%) Data Lake
3 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.70%) Power BI
5 10 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.04%) MySQL
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (18.13%) Git
2 20 (10.36%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.36%) JIRA
3 15 (7.77%) JUnit
3 15 (7.77%) Postman
4 13 (6.74%) Visual Studio
5 12 (6.22%) GitLab
6 9 (4.66%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.66%) Selenium
7 8 (4.15%) MSTest
8 6 (3.11%) Gradle
8 6 (3.11%) MLflow
8 6 (3.11%) SoapUI
9 5 (2.59%) Mocha
9 5 (2.59%) Mockito
9 5 (2.59%) NUnit
10 4 (2.07%) Maven
10 4 (2.07%) tSQLt
11 3 (1.55%) Moq
11 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (33.16%) Finance
2 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Banking
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.70%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.11%) Front Office
8 4 (2.07%) Military
9 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (55.44%) Developer
2 40 (20.73%) Senior
3 22 (11.40%) C# Developer
3 22 (11.40%) Java Developer
4 20 (10.36%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.29%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.70%) Cloud Specialist
6 11 (5.70%) Integration Specialist
6 11 (5.70%) Oracle Specialist
6 11 (5.70%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.18%) Power Platform Developer
8 9 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) Informatica Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.15%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.63%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.87%) .NET
2 43 (22.28%) REST
3 34 (17.62%) RESTful
4 28 (14.51%) Spring Boot
5 27 (13.99%) Spring
6 26 (13.47%) .NET Framework
7 24 (12.44%) React
8 21 (10.88%) SOAP
9 20 (10.36%) CSS
9 20 (10.36%) HTML
10 19 (9.84%) JSON
11 17 (8.81%) Kafka
11 17 (8.81%) OAuth
11 17 (8.81%) XML
12 16 (8.29%) Web Services
13 15 (7.77%) AngularJS
14 12 (6.22%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (5.18%) HTML5 Canvas
16 9 (4.66%) JWT
16 9 (4.66%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.25%) Low-Code
2 12 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.63%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.11%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.07%) Derivative
10 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.55%) CMDB
11 3 (1.55%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.55%) Equities
11 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.55%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.33%) Windows
2 15 (7.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Linux
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.93%) CI/CD
2 77 (39.90%) DevOps
3 71 (36.79%) Agile
4 42 (21.76%) Microservices
5 39 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.58%) Test Automation
7 30 (15.54%) Scrum
8 29 (15.03%) AI
9 28 (14.51%) Software Engineering
10 27 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (13.99%) Integration Testing
11 26 (13.47%) Code Quality
12 22 (11.40%) ERP
13 21 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (10.36%) Containerisation
14 20 (10.36%) Data Analysis
14 20 (10.36%) ETL
15 19 (9.84%) Clean Code
15 19 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.34%) SQL
2 54 (27.98%) C#
3 45 (23.32%) Java
4 40 (20.73%) Python
5 34 (17.62%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.95%) T-SQL
7 21 (10.88%) PL/SQL
8 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.18%) Formula Language
9 10 (5.18%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.63%) Scala
11 4 (2.07%) Swift
12 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.55%) Bicep
12 3 (1.55%) Groovy
13 2 (1.04%) C++
13 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.04%) X++
14 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 40 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.44%) Degree
4 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (30.05%) QA
2 7 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
5 2 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) Basel III
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (15.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.04%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.04%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 22 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 57 (29.53%) Oracle
2 35 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.81%) Citrix
4 12 (6.22%) Informatica
5 10 (5.18%) Kofax
5 10 (5.18%) Lotus
6 6 (3.11%) Databricks
6 6 (3.11%) Pega
7 4 (2.07%) Avaloq
7 4 (2.07%) Google
7 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.55%) HP
8 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.04%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.04%) Foundry
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) SAP
9 2 (1.04%) Sybase
9 2 (1.04%) Workday
10 1 (0.52%) Murex