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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 161 210
Rank change year-on-year -29 +49 -37
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 220 213 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.62% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.78% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 134 130
10th Percentile £379 £365 £374
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £625 £689 £679
90th Percentile £765 £746 £738
England median daily rate £500 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -11.50% -1.74% -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 14,518 11,989 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.05% 90.98% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,761 7,892 11,520
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 162 352
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £56.25 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £77.25 £69.95
England median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 23 £563 -15.09% 9
West London -17 5 £552 -2.39%
East London - 2 £450 - 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 14 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 12 (5.45%) Mendix
2 12 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.00%) HCL Notes
4 8 (3.64%) Apache
5 7 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (2.73%) Ethereum
6 6 (2.73%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.82%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.91%) CMS
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) IIS
9 1 (0.45%) JBoss
9 1 (0.45%) Traefik
9 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.45%) AWS
2 44 (20.00%) Azure
3 27 (12.27%) Serverless
4 26 (11.82%) GitHub
5 24 (10.91%) Power Platform
6 23 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.45%) GCP
7 18 (8.18%) OCI
7 18 (8.18%) PaaS
8 13 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.91%) Azure Functions
8 13 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.91%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.91%) PowerApps
9 12 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.55%) IaaS
11 10 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.82%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.45%) Oracle Database
3 21 (9.55%) Power BI
4 19 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.91%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.45%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.18%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.73%) MySQL
10 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.36%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.36%) Power Query
11 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.91%) Redis
12 2 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (25.45%) Git
2 24 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 23 (10.45%) JIRA
4 20 (9.09%) Postman
5 18 (8.18%) JUnit
6 16 (7.27%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.09%) GitLab
8 8 (3.64%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.18%) Maven
9 7 (3.18%) MLflow
9 7 (3.18%) SoapUI
10 6 (2.73%) Android Studio
10 6 (2.73%) Gradle
10 6 (2.73%) Mockito
10 6 (2.73%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.73%) Xcode
11 5 (2.27%) MSTest
11 5 (2.27%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.82%) Mocha
General
1 72 (32.73%) Finance
2 45 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.45%) Banking
4 27 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.91%) Front Office
6 13 (5.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.82%) Legal
8 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 128 (58.18%) Developer
2 38 (17.27%) Senior
3 28 (12.73%) Java Developer
4 25 (11.36%) C# Developer
4 25 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 15 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 13 (5.91%) Cloud Specialist
6 13 (5.91%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.91%) Integration Specialist
6 13 (5.91%) Oracle Specialist
6 13 (5.91%) Python Developer
7 12 (5.45%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (21.82%) REST
2 47 (21.36%) .NET
3 35 (15.91%) React
4 28 (12.73%) RESTful
5 27 (12.27%) CSS
6 26 (11.82%) HTML
7 25 (11.36%) .NET Framework
8 24 (10.91%) Spring
9 23 (10.45%) Spring Boot
10 22 (10.00%) AngularJS
10 22 (10.00%) JSON
10 22 (10.00%) Web Services
11 21 (9.55%) SOAP
12 18 (8.18%) XML
13 17 (7.73%) Kafka
13 17 (7.73%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (7.73%) pytest
14 15 (6.82%) OAuth
15 14 (6.36%) FastAPI
16 11 (5.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.27%) Algorithms
3 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.91%) Low-Code
4 13 (5.91%) Mobile App
5 11 (5.00%) Life Science
6 10 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (4.09%) Genomics
8 8 (3.64%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.64%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.82%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.82%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.36%) Animation
12 3 (1.36%) Derivative
12 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.73%) Windows
2 15 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.18%) Android
4 7 (3.18%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Linux
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.09%) Agile
2 83 (37.73%) CI/CD
3 76 (34.55%) DevOps
4 46 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.55%) Microservices
6 39 (17.73%) AI
6 39 (17.73%) Test Automation
7 37 (16.82%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (16.82%) Scrum
8 36 (16.36%) Analytics
9 35 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 31 (14.09%) Containerisation
10 31 (14.09%) Machine Learning
11 29 (13.18%) Code Quality
12 24 (10.91%) Data Analysis
13 23 (10.45%) ERP
13 23 (10.45%) OOP
14 21 (9.55%) Clean Code
14 21 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.64%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.18%) SQL
2 56 (25.45%) Java
3 53 (24.09%) C#
4 51 (23.18%) Python
5 40 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 23 (10.45%) T-SQL
7 22 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 21 (9.55%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.00%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 11 (5.00%) LotusScript
10 7 (3.18%) Scala
10 7 (3.18%) Swift
11 4 (1.82%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.36%) Groovy
12 3 (1.36%) X++
13 2 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.91%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 33 (15.00%) Degree
2 27 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.45%) QA
2 11 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.82%) WCAG
4 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (17.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.91%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.91%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 27 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.09%) Terraform
3 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.91%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.45%) Istio
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (29.09%) Oracle
2 23 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.55%) Google
4 17 (7.73%) Citrix
5 11 (5.00%) Databricks
5 11 (5.00%) Lotus
6 10 (4.55%) Kofax
7 7 (3.18%) Pega
8 4 (1.82%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.36%) Adobe
9 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.36%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) Workday
10 2 (0.91%) Apple
10 2 (0.91%) IBM
10 2 (0.91%) Informatica
10 2 (0.91%) Murex
10 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.91%) Sybase
10 2 (0.91%) VMware