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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 228 143
Rank change year-on-year -40 -85 +34
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 179 146 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.08% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.17% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 109 196
10th Percentile £286 £361 £400
25th Percentile £405 £404 £480
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 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +6.61% -14.73% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile - £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate - £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.31% -9.13%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £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 £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 15 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 -5 40 £538 +31.90% 7
West London -12 10 £611 +10.60% 3
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 (2.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.68%) IIS
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.56%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Trello
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) HFM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.61%) Azure
2 28 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (15.08%) GitHub
4 24 (13.41%) AWS
5 12 (6.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.70%) Serverless
6 10 (5.59%) GCP
7 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.79%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.79%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.68%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.94%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.12%) Intranet
2 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.70%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.15%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.23%) Redis
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.68%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.68%) Metadata
9 3 (1.68%) Power BI
10 2 (1.12%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.12%) Essbase
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (19.55%) Git
2 24 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.50%) JIRA
4 14 (7.82%) GitLab
5 10 (5.59%) Visual Studio
6 9 (5.03%) Selenium
7 7 (3.91%) JUnit
7 7 (3.91%) MSTest
8 6 (3.35%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.79%) Gradle
9 5 (2.79%) JSUnit
10 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.23%) JMeter
10 4 (2.23%) Mocha
10 4 (2.23%) NUnit
10 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.68%) tSQLt
11 3 (1.68%) Xcode
General
1 48 (26.82%) Finance
2 45 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 43 (24.02%) Banking
4 28 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.35%) Front Office
7 4 (2.23%) Retail
8 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.12%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.12%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (50.84%) Developer
2 55 (30.73%) Senior
3 22 (12.29%) C# Developer
4 19 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (6.70%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.15%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.15%) Lead
7 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) .NET Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Junior
10 7 (3.91%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Pega Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.79%) iOS Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.70%) .NET
2 36 (20.11%) REST
3 26 (14.53%) .NET Framework
4 24 (13.41%) RESTful
5 23 (12.85%) pytest
6 19 (10.61%) Spring
7 18 (10.06%) React
8 16 (8.94%) JSON
8 16 (8.94%) Spring Boot
9 15 (8.38%) CSS
9 15 (8.38%) HTML
10 13 (7.26%) SOAP
11 12 (6.70%) AngularJS
11 12 (6.70%) GraphQL
12 11 (6.15%) XML
13 10 (5.59%) Node.js
14 9 (5.03%) Next.js
14 9 (5.03%) OAuth
14 9 (5.03%) Playwright
14 9 (5.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.03%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.23%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.23%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.68%) IoT
7 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.68%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.12%) CMDB
8 2 (1.12%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.12%) FMCG
8 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 11 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.91%) Linux
4 6 (3.35%) Unix
5 5 (2.79%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.23%) Android
7 2 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (42.46%) CI/CD
2 74 (41.34%) Agile
3 69 (38.55%) DevOps
4 42 (23.46%) AI
5 41 (22.91%) Software Engineering
6 38 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (18.99%) Scrum
8 33 (18.44%) Clean Code
8 33 (18.44%) Integration Testing
9 31 (17.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 30 (16.76%) Microservices
11 28 (15.64%) Design Patterns
11 28 (15.64%) OOP
11 28 (15.64%) Validation
12 26 (14.53%) Test Automation
13 24 (13.41%) TDD
14 20 (11.17%) Code Quality
15 19 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.61%) Generative AI
15 19 (10.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.43%) SQL
2 50 (27.93%) C#
3 42 (23.46%) Python
4 25 (13.97%) Java
5 23 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.61%) T-SQL
7 18 (10.06%) PL/SQL
8 17 (9.50%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.70%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.79%) Swift
11 3 (1.68%) C
11 3 (1.68%) X++
12 2 (1.12%) ABAP
12 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.12%) Bash
12 2 (1.12%) Bicep
12 2 (1.12%) C++
12 2 (1.12%) ProC
12 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.73%) Degree
4 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.35%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) ACCA
6 2 (1.12%) CIMA
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (26.82%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) WCAG
4 2 (1.12%) Basel III
4 2 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (23.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.35%) Terraform
3 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.32%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) Citrix
4 11 (6.15%) Informatica
5 9 (5.03%) Avaloq
6 8 (4.47%) Pega
7 7 (3.91%) SAP
8 4 (2.23%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.68%) HP
9 3 (1.68%) UiPath
9 3 (1.68%) Workday
10 2 (1.12%) Foundry
10 2 (1.12%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Apple
11 1 (0.56%) Kofax
11 1 (0.56%) Lotus
11 1 (0.56%) Perforce
11 1 (0.56%) Splunk