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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 216 152
Rank change year-on-year -28 -64 +28
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 197 159 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.17% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.27% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 107 205
10th Percentile £286 £359 £400
25th Percentile £404 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £629
90th Percentile £668 £780 £738
England median daily rate £500 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.93
25th Percentile £67.63 - £52.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £57.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -7 39 £538 +31.90% 5
West London -6 10 £611 +10.60% 1
East London - 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 (3.05%) Confluence
1 6 (3.05%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.05%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.54%) Apache
2 5 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.52%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) Mendix
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) Camunda
5 1 (0.51%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.02%) Trello
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.02%) HFM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.51%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.90%) Azure
2 30 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (13.71%) AWS
3 27 (13.71%) GitHub
4 13 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (6.60%) Serverless
5 12 (6.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (5.08%) GCP
7 7 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.03%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.03%) OCI
9 4 (2.03%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.03%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.52%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.60%) Internet
2 7 (3.55%) HTTP
3 2 (1.02%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.51%) DSL
4 1 (0.51%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.60%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.09%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.09%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.58%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.55%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) Metadata
9 3 (1.52%) Power BI
9 3 (1.52%) Redis
10 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.02%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (20.81%) Git
2 26 (13.20%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.68%) JIRA
4 17 (8.63%) JUnit
5 13 (6.60%) GitLab
6 10 (5.08%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.57%) Selenium
8 8 (4.06%) MSTest
9 7 (3.55%) Gradle
10 6 (3.05%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.54%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.54%) JSUnit
11 5 (2.54%) Mockito
11 5 (2.54%) NUnit
12 4 (2.03%) JMeter
12 4 (2.03%) Maven
12 4 (2.03%) Mocha
12 4 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (2.03%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.03%) Xcode
General
1 58 (29.44%) Finance
2 48 (24.37%) Banking
3 39 (19.80%) Social Skills
4 30 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.05%) Front Office
7 4 (2.03%) Legal
7 4 (2.03%) Retail
8 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Military
9 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.02%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 102 (51.78%) Developer
2 61 (30.96%) Senior
3 24 (12.18%) C# Developer
4 23 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.64%) Java Developer
6 13 (6.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (6.60%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.08%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.57%) Informatica Engineer
10 8 (4.06%) Lead
11 7 (3.55%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.05%) Architect
12 6 (3.05%) Consultant
12 6 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.05%) iOS Developer
12 6 (3.05%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.05%) Junior
12 6 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.05%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.37%) .NET
2 42 (21.32%) REST
3 35 (17.77%) RESTful
4 29 (14.72%) .NET Framework
5 26 (13.20%) Spring
6 24 (12.18%) Spring Boot
7 21 (10.66%) React
8 19 (9.64%) AngularJS
8 19 (9.64%) pytest
9 17 (8.63%) JSON
10 16 (8.12%) CSS
10 16 (8.12%) HTML
11 14 (7.11%) Kafka
11 14 (7.11%) SOAP
12 12 (6.09%) GraphQL
13 11 (5.58%) OAuth
13 11 (5.58%) XML
14 9 (4.57%) Next.js
14 9 (4.57%) Node.js
15 8 (4.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.09%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.58%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.54%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.52%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.02%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.12%) Windows
2 13 (6.60%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.06%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.05%) Unix
5 5 (2.54%) Android
6 4 (2.03%) Linux
7 2 (1.02%) VMS
8 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.69%) CI/CD
2 79 (40.10%) Agile
3 72 (36.55%) DevOps
4 42 (21.32%) Microservices
4 42 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.30%) AI
6 39 (19.80%) Scrum
7 38 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (16.24%) Integration Testing
9 29 (14.72%) Clean Code
10 27 (13.71%) Test Automation
10 27 (13.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (13.20%) Design Patterns
11 26 (13.20%) OOP
12 25 (12.69%) Code Quality
12 25 (12.69%) Validation
13 24 (12.18%) TDD
14 22 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (10.15%) Machine Learning
15 20 (10.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.04%) SQL
2 51 (25.89%) C#
3 43 (21.83%) Python
4 37 (18.78%) Java
5 25 (12.69%) JavaScript
6 23 (11.68%) T-SQL
7 22 (11.17%) TypeScript
8 21 (10.66%) PL/SQL
9 12 (6.09%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.06%) Swift
11 6 (3.05%) Scala
12 4 (2.03%) Bicep
13 2 (1.02%) ABAP
13 2 (1.02%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.02%) C
13 2 (1.02%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.02%) ProC
13 2 (1.02%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.02%) X++
14 1 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.17%) Degree
4 10 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.54%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.02%) ACCA
6 2 (1.02%) CIMA
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (28.43%) QA
2 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.02%) Basel III
4 2 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.02%) 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 41 (20.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 33 (16.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.06%) Terraform
3 4 (2.03%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.52%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.02%) Grafana
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (19.29%) Oracle
2 35 (17.77%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.61%) Citrix
4 11 (5.58%) Informatica
5 8 (4.06%) Avaloq
5 8 (4.06%) Pega
6 6 (3.05%) SAP
7 4 (2.03%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.52%) HP
8 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.52%) Workday
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) Google
9 2 (1.02%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.02%) IBM
9 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.02%) Sybase
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.51%) Splunk
10 1 (0.51%) Veracode