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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 192 196
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 195 177 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.41% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.53% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 149
10th Percentile £363 £396 £375
25th Percentile £415 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £578 £689 £638
90th Percentile £678 £791 £725
England median daily rate £490 £548 £540
% change year-on-year -10.50% +1.39% -8.47%
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 - £65.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £65.88
90th Percentile - - £66.40
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 15,818 11,593 15,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.21% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 7,857 11,245
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £758 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 176 315
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.66 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -20 18 £583 +3.56% 5
West London -23 7 £552 -0.09% 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 12 (6.15%) Mendix
2 10 (5.13%) HCL Notes
2 10 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.59%) Apache
3 7 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.08%) Confluence
4 6 (3.08%) Ethereum
4 6 (3.08%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.03%) CMS
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.67%) Azure
2 39 (20.00%) AWS
3 36 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (15.38%) Serverless
5 22 (11.28%) GitHub
6 16 (8.21%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (6.67%) Azure Functions
8 13 (6.67%) OCI
8 13 (6.67%) PaaS
8 13 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 13 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 12 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (5.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (5.64%) GCP
11 10 (5.13%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.28%) Oracle Database
3 14 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.67%) Power BI
5 10 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.54%) MySQL
9 3 (1.54%) Power Query
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.03%) DB2
10 2 (1.03%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (19.49%) Git
2 21 (10.77%) JIRA
3 20 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.21%) JUnit
4 16 (8.21%) Postman
5 13 (6.67%) GitLab
5 13 (6.67%) Visual Studio
6 10 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.62%) Selenium
8 8 (4.10%) MSTest
9 6 (3.08%) Gradle
9 6 (3.08%) MLflow
9 6 (3.08%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.56%) Mocha
10 5 (2.56%) Mockito
10 5 (2.56%) NUnit
11 4 (2.05%) Maven
11 4 (2.05%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.54%) Moq
12 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 68 (34.87%) Finance
2 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.90%) Banking
4 24 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.64%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.08%) Front Office
8 4 (2.05%) Military
9 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (56.41%) Developer
2 40 (20.51%) Senior
3 22 (11.28%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.77%) C# Developer
4 21 (10.77%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.21%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.64%) Cloud Specialist
6 11 (5.64%) Integration Specialist
6 11 (5.64%) Oracle Specialist
6 11 (5.64%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
8 9 (4.62%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Informatica Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Python Developer
8 9 (4.62%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.59%) Backend Developer
10 7 (3.59%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.59%) .NET
2 42 (21.54%) REST
3 33 (16.92%) RESTful
4 28 (14.36%) Spring Boot
5 27 (13.85%) Spring
6 26 (13.33%) React
7 25 (12.82%) .NET Framework
8 21 (10.77%) CSS
8 21 (10.77%) HTML
8 21 (10.77%) SOAP
9 18 (9.23%) JSON
10 17 (8.72%) Kafka
10 17 (8.72%) XML
11 16 (8.21%) AngularJS
11 16 (8.21%) OAuth
11 16 (8.21%) Web Services
12 12 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (5.13%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (4.62%) JWT
14 9 (4.62%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.18%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.18%) Low-Code
2 12 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.08%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.54%) CMDB
10 3 (1.54%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.54%) Derivative
10 3 (1.54%) Equities
10 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.54%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.54%) Android
4 3 (1.54%) Linux
4 3 (1.54%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.51%) CI/CD
2 77 (39.49%) DevOps
3 73 (37.44%) Agile
4 44 (22.56%) Microservices
5 41 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (15.90%) Scrum
6 31 (15.90%) Test Automation
7 30 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (14.87%) AI
8 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
9 27 (13.85%) Code Quality
10 24 (12.31%) Integration Testing
11 22 (11.28%) Containerisation
11 22 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (11.28%) ERP
12 21 (10.77%) ETL
13 20 (10.26%) Clean Code
13 20 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (9.74%) Data Analysis
14 19 (9.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (38.97%) SQL
2 52 (26.67%) C#
3 48 (24.62%) Java
4 40 (20.51%) Python
5 35 (17.95%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.82%) T-SQL
7 21 (10.77%) PL/SQL
8 17 (8.72%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.13%) Formula Language
9 10 (5.13%) LotusScript
10 8 (4.10%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.59%) Scala
12 4 (2.05%) Swift
13 3 (1.54%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.54%) Groovy
14 2 (1.03%) Bicep
14 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.03%) X++
15 1 (0.51%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 39 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.31%) Degree
4 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (29.23%) QA
2 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.54%) WCAG
5 2 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (15.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.03%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.03%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.59%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Grafana
3 3 (1.54%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (29.74%) Oracle
2 35 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.72%) Citrix
4 12 (6.15%) Informatica
5 10 (5.13%) Kofax
5 10 (5.13%) Lotus
6 7 (3.59%) Databricks
7 5 (2.56%) Google
7 5 (2.56%) Pega
8 4 (2.05%) Avaloq
8 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.54%) HP
9 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.03%) Foundry
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (1.03%) Sybase
10 2 (1.03%) Workday
11 1 (0.51%) Okta