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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 234 148
Rank change year-on-year -33 -86 +37
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 182 140 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.04% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.12% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 103 199
10th Percentile £286 £362 £400
25th Percentile £406 £404 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £593 £675 £638
90th Percentile £668 £788 £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% -23.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 17,870 12,469 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 92.49% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,292 9,981
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £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 287 258 190
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -14.89% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
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 24 August 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 24 August 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 39 £538 +31.90% 7
West London -10 10 £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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 3 (1.65%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.65%) IIS
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) CMS
3 2 (1.10%) SAS
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.55%) Mendix
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.65%) Trello
3 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.55%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.10%) HFM
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.55%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.22%) Azure
2 30 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (14.84%) GitHub
4 23 (12.64%) AWS
5 14 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.04%) Serverless
7 9 (4.95%) GCP
8 6 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.75%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.20%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.65%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.79%) Internet
2 2 (1.10%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.10%) Intranet
2 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.55%) DSL
3 1 (0.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) LAN
3 1 (0.55%) NFC
3 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.55%) SSL
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.59%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.04%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.75%) Redis
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.65%) Metadata
9 3 (1.65%) Power BI
10 2 (1.10%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.10%) Essbase
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (21.43%) Git
2 25 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.89%) JIRA
4 14 (7.69%) GitLab
5 10 (5.49%) Visual Studio
6 8 (4.40%) Selenium
7 7 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.30%) JUnit
8 6 (3.30%) MSTest
9 5 (2.75%) Gradle
9 5 (2.75%) JSUnit
10 4 (2.20%) JMeter
10 4 (2.20%) Mocha
10 4 (2.20%) NUnit
10 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.65%) Xcode
11 3 (1.65%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (28.57%) Finance
2 48 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 44 (24.18%) Banking
4 30 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.40%) Front Office
7 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.20%) Retail
8 3 (1.65%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.10%) Publishing
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (52.75%) Developer
2 55 (30.22%) Senior
3 22 (12.09%) C# Developer
4 20 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) Lead
8 10 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.95%) Informatica Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Consultant
10 7 (3.85%) Junior
10 7 (3.85%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Pega Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.75%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.27%) .NET
2 35 (19.23%) REST
3 26 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 25 (13.74%) RESTful
5 24 (13.19%) pytest
6 19 (10.44%) Spring
7 18 (9.89%) React
8 16 (8.79%) Spring Boot
9 15 (8.24%) JSON
10 14 (7.69%) CSS
10 14 (7.69%) HTML
11 12 (6.59%) GraphQL
11 12 (6.59%) SOAP
12 11 (6.04%) AngularJS
12 11 (6.04%) Node.js
13 9 (4.95%) Next.js
13 9 (4.95%) OAuth
13 9 (4.95%) Web Services
13 9 (4.95%) XML
14 8 (4.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Data Structures
1 12 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.95%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.20%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.20%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.65%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.65%) IoT
6 3 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.10%) CMDB
7 2 (1.10%) FMCG
7 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Windows
2 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.40%) Linux
4 5 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.75%) Unix
5 4 (2.20%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (42.86%) Agile
2 76 (41.76%) CI/CD
3 69 (37.91%) DevOps
4 44 (24.18%) AI
5 42 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 37 (20.33%) Scrum
8 36 (19.78%) Integration Testing
9 32 (17.58%) Clean Code
9 32 (17.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 30 (16.48%) OOP
11 29 (15.93%) Microservices
12 28 (15.38%) Design Patterns
12 28 (15.38%) Validation
13 27 (14.84%) Test Automation
14 25 (13.74%) TDD
15 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (11.54%) SDLC
16 20 (10.99%) Code Quality
17 19 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.46%) SQL
2 50 (27.47%) C#
3 42 (23.08%) Python
4 25 (13.74%) Java
5 23 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.89%) PL/SQL
6 18 (9.89%) T-SQL
6 18 (9.89%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.59%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.75%) Swift
9 3 (1.65%) Bash
9 3 (1.65%) C
9 3 (1.65%) X++
10 2 (1.10%) ABAP
10 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.10%) Bicep
10 2 (1.10%) C++
10 2 (1.10%) ProC
10 2 (1.10%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.54%) Degree
4 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.30%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) ACCA
6 2 (1.10%) CIMA
7 1 (0.55%) CCNA
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (26.92%) QA
2 8 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.20%) WCAG
5 3 (1.65%) Basel III
6 2 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (22.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.65%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.48%) Oracle
3 12 (6.59%) Citrix
4 11 (6.04%) Informatica
5 9 (4.95%) Avaloq
6 8 (4.40%) Pega
7 7 (3.85%) SAP
8 4 (2.20%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.20%) UiPath
9 3 (1.65%) HP
9 3 (1.65%) Workday
10 2 (1.10%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.55%) Apple
11 1 (0.55%) Foundry
11 1 (0.55%) Kofax
11 1 (0.55%) Lotus
11 1 (0.55%) Perforce
11 1 (0.55%) Splunk