Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 159 184
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 -15
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 169 292 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.66% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.87% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 204 271
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £406 £473 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £698
90th Percentile £788 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -10.55% -5.94% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 14
10th Percentile - £49.93 £50.42
25th Percentile - £52.44 £52.82
Median hourly rate - £57.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.92% -
75th Percentile - £61.44 £75.00
90th Percentile - £63.58 £88.97
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 12,246 15,579 23,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 11,085 16,913
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 294 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 +1 32 £475 -10.12% 36
West London -6 4 £552 +11.52%
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.73%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) SAS
3 3 (1.78%) Camunda
3 3 (1.78%) IIS
4 2 (1.18%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) Appian
5 1 (0.59%) JBoss
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.96%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.78%) Shopify
4 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.18%) SAP PLM
4 2 (1.18%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.59%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.99%) AWS
2 27 (15.98%) Azure
3 10 (5.92%) GitHub
4 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
4 8 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (4.14%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.37%) GCP
6 4 (2.37%) SaaS
6 4 (2.37%) Serverless
7 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.78%) CloudFront
7 3 (1.78%) Firebase
7 3 (1.78%) Google Play
7 3 (1.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.89%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.47%) MongoDB
2 16 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.47%) Relational Database
3 15 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.88%) Oracle Database
4 11 (6.51%) MySQL
5 7 (4.14%) Redis
6 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.96%) Tableau
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.78%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.78%) Power BI
8 3 (1.78%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.18%) Looker
Development Applications
1 35 (20.71%) Git
2 21 (12.43%) JUnit
3 19 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.06%) JIRA
5 14 (8.28%) Maven
6 8 (4.73%) Mockito
7 7 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (4.14%) GitLab
7 7 (4.14%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.14%) Subversion
8 6 (3.55%) Gradle
9 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.96%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.37%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.37%) NUnit
10 4 (2.37%) Postman
10 4 (2.37%) Xcode
11 3 (1.78%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (33.73%) Finance
2 56 (33.14%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.20%) Banking
4 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.33%) Front Office
6 7 (4.14%) Retail
7 6 (3.55%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Marketing
10 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.78%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Back Office
12 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Legal
12 1 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (61.54%) Developer
2 32 (18.93%) Senior
3 21 (12.43%) Senior Developer
4 18 (10.65%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.47%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.51%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.92%) Angular Developer
7 10 (5.92%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Lead
8 9 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (4.73%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Analyst
10 7 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Consultant
11 6 (3.55%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.89%) .NET
2 28 (16.57%) HTML
3 24 (14.20%) Spring
4 22 (13.02%) AngularJS
4 22 (13.02%) RESTful
5 21 (12.43%) .NET Framework
5 21 (12.43%) REST
6 20 (11.83%) Spring Boot
7 17 (10.06%) CSS
7 17 (10.06%) Entity Framework
8 16 (9.47%) Node.js
8 16 (9.47%) React
8 16 (9.47%) Web Services
9 14 (8.28%) JPA
9 14 (8.28%) Kafka
10 13 (7.69%) HTML5
11 11 (6.51%) Hibernate
12 10 (5.92%) .NET Core
13 9 (5.33%) Jest
14 8 (4.73%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.14%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.14%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.14%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.55%) Derivative
4 6 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.96%) PKI
5 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.78%) Equities
6 3 (1.78%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) CMDB
7 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.88%) Linux
2 9 (5.33%) Android
3 8 (4.73%) Apple iOS
4 7 (4.14%) Windows
5 6 (3.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (34.91%) Agile
2 49 (28.99%) CI/CD
3 45 (26.63%) DevOps
4 41 (24.26%) Test Automation
5 40 (23.67%) TDD
6 37 (21.89%) Microservices
6 37 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (20.71%) Integration Testing
8 32 (18.93%) User Acceptance Testing
9 29 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (14.79%) Scrum
10 25 (14.79%) Software Engineering
11 20 (11.83%) Mentoring
12 18 (10.65%) Clean Code
13 17 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (8.28%) Containerisation
14 14 (8.28%) SDLC
15 13 (7.69%) Code Quality
15 13 (7.69%) Design Patterns
15 13 (7.69%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.91%) SQL
2 47 (27.81%) Java
3 46 (27.22%) C#
4 35 (20.71%) Python
5 32 (18.93%) JavaScript
6 20 (11.83%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.92%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.14%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.37%) PHP
9 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.78%) Swift
11 2 (1.18%) ABAP
11 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.18%) C++
11 2 (1.18%) VB
11 2 (1.18%) VB6
12 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.02%) Degree
4 11 (6.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.96%) MCPD
6 5 (2.96%) MCSD
7 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.18%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.59%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.34%) QA
2 8 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) HL7
5 1 (0.59%) Basel II
5 1 (0.59%) Basel III
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 25 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.33%) Terraform
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Control-M
4 1 (0.59%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Kibana
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.59%) Puppet
4 1 (0.59%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (20.12%) Oracle
2 12 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.73%) SAP
3 8 (4.73%) Splunk
4 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.37%) Databricks
5 4 (2.37%) Google
5 4 (2.37%) OpenText
5 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.78%) Adobe
6 3 (1.78%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.78%) Murex
6 3 (1.78%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.18%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.18%) IBM
7 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.18%) Thunderhead
8 1 (0.59%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.59%) UiPath