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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 154 209
Rank change year-on-year -43 +55 -42
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 210 220 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.63% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.80% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 140 127
10th Percentile £397 £350 £378
25th Percentile £415 £434 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £753 £750
England median daily rate £489 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -14.90% -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 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -9.62% -

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 14,164 12,253 16,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.70% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 7,900 11,699
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% - -8.10%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 345
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.50 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -11 22 £550 -16.98% 9
West London -20 4 £552 - 2
East London - 2 £450 - 4
South London -13 1 £850 +13.33%
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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.71%) Confluence
3 11 (5.24%) Mendix
3 11 (5.24%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.76%) HCL Notes
5 8 (3.81%) Apache
6 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (2.86%) Ethereum
7 6 (2.86%) Hyperledger
8 4 (1.90%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.95%) CMS
9 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) JBoss
10 1 (0.48%) Traefik
10 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.00%) AWS
2 39 (18.57%) Azure
3 26 (12.38%) GitHub
4 23 (10.95%) GCP
4 23 (10.95%) Power Platform
4 23 (10.95%) Serverless
5 21 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.00%) OCI
5 21 (10.00%) PaaS
6 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (5.71%) IaaS
6 12 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 12 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 11 (5.24%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.24%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.24%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.52%) Power BI
3 18 (8.57%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.24%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.86%) MySQL
9 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.43%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.43%) Power Query
10 3 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.95%) Redis
11 2 (0.95%) SQLite
11 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (26.67%) Git
2 23 (10.95%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.95%) JIRA
2 23 (10.95%) Postman
3 17 (8.10%) JUnit
4 16 (7.62%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.81%) GitLab
5 8 (3.81%) Maven
6 7 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.33%) MLflow
6 7 (3.33%) SoapUI
6 7 (3.33%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.86%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.86%) Gradle
7 6 (2.86%) Xcode
8 5 (2.38%) Mockito
8 5 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.90%) MSTest
General
1 67 (31.90%) Finance
2 43 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.29%) Banking
4 25 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.14%) Front Office
7 13 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Legal
9 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.43%) Military
11 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.95%) Marketing
11 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
12 1 (0.48%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 117 (55.71%) Developer
2 37 (17.62%) Senior
3 26 (12.38%) Java Developer
4 24 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 15 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
6 15 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
6 15 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
6 15 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.71%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.76%) .NET Developer
9 10 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.81%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Angular Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.95%) REST
2 41 (19.52%) .NET
3 30 (14.29%) React
4 28 (13.33%) RESTful
5 25 (11.90%) Web Services
6 23 (10.95%) CSS
7 22 (10.48%) .NET Framework
7 22 (10.48%) HTML
7 22 (10.48%) JSON
7 22 (10.48%) SOAP
8 21 (10.00%) Spring
9 20 (9.52%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
9 20 (9.52%) Spring Boot
10 17 (8.10%) pytest
11 16 (7.62%) Kafka
11 16 (7.62%) OAuth
11 16 (7.62%) XML
12 13 (6.19%) FastAPI
13 12 (5.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.62%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.71%) Low-Code
3 12 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.24%) Life Science
5 9 (4.29%) Genomics
5 9 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.90%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.43%) Animation
10 3 (1.43%) Derivative
10 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.14%) Windows
2 14 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.81%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.33%) Android
5 6 (2.86%) Unix
6 5 (2.38%) Linux
7 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (44.29%) Agile
2 78 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 70 (33.33%) DevOps
4 46 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (19.52%) Microservices
6 39 (18.57%) Scrum
6 39 (18.57%) Test Automation
7 36 (17.14%) Analytics
8 35 (16.67%) AI
9 34 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (15.71%) Software Engineering
11 31 (14.76%) Containerisation
12 30 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 27 (12.86%) Code Quality
14 25 (11.90%) ERP
15 21 (10.00%) Clean Code
16 19 (9.05%) Data Analysis
16 19 (9.05%) Natural Language Processing
16 19 (9.05%) OOP
16 19 (9.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 66 (31.43%) SQL
2 55 (26.19%) Java
3 49 (23.33%) Python
4 47 (22.38%) C#
5 34 (16.19%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.10%) T-SQL
8 15 (7.14%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.76%) Formula Language
9 10 (4.76%) LotusScript
10 9 (4.29%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.33%) Scala
11 7 (3.33%) Swift
12 4 (1.90%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.43%) Groovy
13 3 (1.43%) X++
14 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.95%) C++
14 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Degree
2 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.95%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.62%) QA
2 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.95%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.95%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Terraform
3 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Istio
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (27.62%) Oracle
2 21 (10.00%) Google
3 20 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.19%) Citrix
5 11 (5.24%) Databricks
6 10 (4.76%) Lotus
7 9 (4.29%) Kofax
8 5 (2.38%) Pega
9 4 (1.90%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.43%) Adobe
10 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.43%) SAP
10 3 (1.43%) Workday
11 2 (0.95%) Apple
11 2 (0.95%) Informatica
11 2 (0.95%) Marketo
11 2 (0.95%) Murex
11 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.95%) Sybase
11 2 (0.95%) VMware