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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 160 203
Rank change year-on-year -28 +43 -29
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 226 213 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.65% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.82% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 137 134
10th Percentile £384 £360 £366
25th Percentile £415 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £738 £734
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
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 - £65.50
75th Percentile £95.00 - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £88.35
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 14,705 11,729 16,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.08% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,847 11,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 163 342
10th Percentile £18.11 £20.09 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +19.00% -17.37%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.00 £77.00 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -10 24 £563 -13.46% 8
West London -17 6 £552 +3.57%
East London - 2 £450 -
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 14 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.31%) Mendix
2 12 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.87%) Confluence
3 11 (4.87%) HCL Notes
4 8 (3.54%) Apache
5 6 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.65%) Ethereum
5 6 (2.65%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.77%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.44%) IIS
9 1 (0.44%) JBoss
9 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.45%) Azure
2 44 (19.47%) AWS
3 31 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (13.27%) GitHub
5 29 (12.83%) Serverless
6 24 (10.62%) Power Platform
7 20 (8.85%) GCP
8 17 (7.52%) OCI
8 17 (7.52%) PaaS
9 14 (6.19%) Azure Functions
10 13 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.75%) Power Automate
10 13 (5.75%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.42%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.42%) IaaS
13 10 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.93%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.18%) Oracle Database
3 21 (9.29%) Power BI
4 18 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.75%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.31%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.87%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.10%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.65%) MySQL
11 5 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.33%) Power Query
13 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (25.22%) Git
2 23 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.18%) JIRA
3 19 (8.41%) Postman
4 18 (7.96%) JUnit
5 16 (7.08%) Visual Studio
6 10 (4.42%) GitLab
7 8 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.54%) MSTest
8 7 (3.10%) Maven
8 7 (3.10%) MLflow
8 7 (3.10%) Selenium
8 7 (3.10%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.65%) Gradle
9 6 (2.65%) Mockito
10 5 (2.21%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.21%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.77%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.77%) Mocha
General
1 77 (34.07%) Finance
2 44 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.49%) Banking
4 28 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.06%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.19%) Front Office
7 11 (4.87%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.77%) Legal
8 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) French Language
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (57.08%) Developer
2 40 (17.70%) Senior
3 27 (11.95%) Java Developer
4 24 (10.62%) C# Developer
4 24 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 18 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.19%) Python Developer
7 13 (5.75%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.31%) Cloud Specialist
8 12 (5.31%) Integration Specialist
8 12 (5.31%) Oracle Specialist
9 11 (4.87%) .NET Developer
9 11 (4.87%) Power Platform Developer
10 10 (4.42%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.54%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.10%) Data Scientist
13 7 (3.10%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (3.10%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.01%) REST
2 45 (19.91%) .NET
3 34 (15.04%) React
4 29 (12.83%) CSS
5 28 (12.39%) HTML
6 27 (11.95%) RESTful
7 24 (10.62%) .NET Framework
7 24 (10.62%) Spring
7 24 (10.62%) Spring Boot
8 23 (10.18%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.18%) SOAP
9 22 (9.73%) Web Services
10 20 (8.85%) JSON
11 17 (7.52%) Kafka
11 17 (7.52%) pytest
11 17 (7.52%) XML
12 16 (7.08%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (6.19%) OAuth
14 13 (5.75%) FastAPI
15 10 (4.42%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.08%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.75%) Low-Code
3 13 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (4.42%) Life Science
5 8 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.54%) Genomics
5 8 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.77%) CMDB
9 4 (1.77%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.77%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.33%) Derivative
10 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Windows
2 15 (6.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.10%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.10%) Unix
4 6 (2.65%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.36%) Agile
2 82 (36.28%) CI/CD
2 82 (36.28%) DevOps
3 48 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (18.14%) Microservices
5 39 (17.26%) Test Automation
6 38 (16.81%) Scrum
7 37 (16.37%) AI
7 37 (16.37%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (15.49%) Analytics
9 34 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.83%) Code Quality
10 29 (12.83%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.83%) Machine Learning
11 24 (10.62%) Data Analysis
11 24 (10.62%) OOP
12 23 (10.18%) ERP
13 20 (8.85%) Integration Testing
13 20 (8.85%) TDD
13 20 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (35.84%) SQL
2 55 (24.34%) Java
3 54 (23.89%) C#
4 52 (23.01%) Python
5 41 (18.14%) JavaScript
6 23 (10.18%) T-SQL
7 22 (9.73%) TypeScript
8 21 (9.29%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.87%) Formula Language
9 11 (4.87%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.87%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.10%) Scala
11 6 (2.65%) Swift
12 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.33%) Groovy
12 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.33%) X++
13 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.88%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 33 (14.60%) Degree
1 33 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.21%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (22.12%) QA
2 11 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.77%) WCAG
4 3 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (16.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.88%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.88%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 24 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.54%) Terraform
3 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 65 (28.76%) Oracle
2 30 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.41%) Google
4 17 (7.52%) Citrix
5 11 (4.87%) Databricks
5 11 (4.87%) Lotus
6 10 (4.42%) Kofax
7 7 (3.10%) Informatica
7 7 (3.10%) Pega
8 4 (1.77%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.77%) SAP
8 4 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.33%) Adobe
9 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.33%) Workday
10 2 (0.88%) Apple
10 2 (0.88%) HP
10 2 (0.88%) IBM
10 2 (0.88%) Murex
10 2 (0.88%) VMware