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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 202 160
Rank change year-on-year -41 -42 +22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 195 164 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 1.29% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.39% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 112 202
10th Percentile £300 £364 £387
25th Percentile £415 £406 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £625
90th Percentile £668 £788 £726
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.10
25th Percentile £67.63 - £50.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £63.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -17 36 £550 +15.79% 10
West London -17 9 £604 +9.42% 2
East London - 1 - - 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 6 (3.08%) Apache
1 6 (3.08%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.08%) Confluence
1 6 (3.08%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.08%) Hyperledger
1 6 (3.08%) Mendix
2 4 (2.05%) HCL Notes
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.54%) IIS
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) Camunda
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.69%) Azure
2 32 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.87%) AWS
4 23 (11.79%) GitHub
5 20 (10.26%) Serverless
6 12 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.59%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.59%) GCP
10 7 (3.59%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.59%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (3.08%) OCI
12 5 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Internet
2 7 (3.59%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.72%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.64%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.08%) Power BI
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.54%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.03%) Db2
10 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.03%) SQLPlus
10 2 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (20.00%) Git
2 23 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.77%) JIRA
4 15 (7.69%) JUnit
5 12 (6.15%) Visual Studio
6 11 (5.64%) GitLab
7 9 (4.62%) Selenium
8 8 (4.10%) MSTest
9 7 (3.59%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.59%) Gradle
10 6 (3.08%) Postman
11 5 (2.56%) JSUnit
11 5 (2.56%) Maven
11 5 (2.56%) Mockito
11 5 (2.56%) NUnit
12 4 (2.05%) JMeter
12 4 (2.05%) Mocha
12 4 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (2.05%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.05%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (29.74%) Finance
2 45 (23.08%) Banking
3 38 (19.49%) Social Skills
4 30 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.08%) Front Office
7 5 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.54%) Military
8 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (54.36%) Developer
2 53 (27.18%) Senior
3 25 (12.82%) C# Developer
4 21 (10.77%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.74%) Java Developer
6 11 (5.64%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.64%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.10%) Lead
9 8 (4.10%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.08%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (3.08%) iOS Developer
10 6 (3.08%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.08%) Oracle Specialist
10 6 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (2.56%) Consultant
11 5 (2.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (26.67%) .NET
2 38 (19.49%) REST
3 36 (18.46%) RESTful
4 30 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 27 (13.85%) Spring
5 27 (13.85%) Spring Boot
6 26 (13.33%) React
7 19 (9.74%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.74%) CSS
7 19 (9.74%) HTML
8 17 (8.72%) Kafka
8 17 (8.72%) pytest
9 16 (8.21%) JSON
10 15 (7.69%) SOAP
11 13 (6.67%) XML
12 12 (6.15%) GraphQL
12 12 (6.15%) OAuth
13 11 (5.64%) Next.js
14 10 (5.13%) Node.js
14 10 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.62%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.10%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.10%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.54%) CMDB
7 3 (1.54%) Equities
7 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.54%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.23%) Windows
2 15 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.10%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.08%) Unix
5 4 (2.05%) Linux
6 2 (1.03%) Android
6 2 (1.03%) VMS
7 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 82 (42.05%) Agile
3 73 (37.44%) DevOps
4 43 (22.05%) Microservices
5 37 (18.97%) Software Engineering
6 36 (18.46%) Scrum
7 35 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.44%) AI
9 28 (14.36%) TDD
10 26 (13.33%) Integration Testing
11 24 (12.31%) Clean Code
11 24 (12.31%) Test Automation
11 24 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (11.79%) Code Quality
12 23 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (11.79%) Design Patterns
13 22 (11.28%) OOP
14 21 (10.77%) Observability
14 21 (10.77%) Validation
15 20 (10.26%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.49%) SQL
2 56 (28.72%) C#
3 43 (22.05%) Python
4 39 (20.00%) Java
5 31 (15.90%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.82%) T-SQL
7 24 (12.31%) PL/SQL
7 24 (12.31%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.10%) Swift
9 7 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.59%) Scala
10 4 (2.05%) Bicep
10 4 (2.05%) Formula Language
10 4 (2.05%) LotusScript
11 2 (1.03%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.03%) C
11 2 (1.03%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.03%) ProC
11 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.51%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 34 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.31%) Degree
2 24 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (29.74%) QA
2 7 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.54%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Basel III
4 2 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) IFRS
5 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.51%) SEPA
5 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (19.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 31 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.10%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 45 (23.08%) Oracle
2 38 (19.49%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.72%) Citrix
4 12 (6.15%) Informatica
5 6 (3.08%) Avaloq
5 6 (3.08%) Pega
6 4 (2.05%) Kofax
6 4 (2.05%) Lotus
6 4 (2.05%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.54%) HP
7 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.54%) SAP
7 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.54%) Workday
8 2 (1.03%) Foundry
8 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 2 (1.03%) Sybase
9 1 (0.51%) Google
9 1 (0.51%) Murex
9 1 (0.51%) Perforce