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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 238 135
Rank change year-on-year -38 -103 +61
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 178 129 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.96% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.04% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 87 202
10th Percentile £286 £359 £375
25th Percentile £400 £402 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £593 £744 £638
90th Percentile £670 £800 £738
England median daily rate £500 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +6.61% -14.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.93
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £52.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.31% -30.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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
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 23 September 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 -5 39 £538 +31.90% 19
West London -16 8 £611 +10.60% 5
East London - 2 £615 - 2
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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Traefik
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Trello
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) HFM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.65%) Azure
2 30 (16.85%) AWS
3 25 (14.04%) GitHub
4 23 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.43%) GCP
5 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.49%) Serverless
8 7 (3.93%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.37%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.12%) Intranet
2 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.43%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.06%) MySQL
5 8 (4.49%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.81%) Redis
9 4 (2.25%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.69%) Metadata
10 3 (1.69%) Power BI
11 2 (1.12%) Essbase
11 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.12%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 51 (28.65%) Git
2 31 (17.42%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.24%) JIRA
4 15 (8.43%) GitLab
5 11 (6.18%) Gradle
5 11 (6.18%) Visual Studio
6 10 (5.62%) JUnit
7 9 (5.06%) Maven
8 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.81%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.25%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (2.25%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.25%) Selenium
10 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.69%) Mockito
11 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (30.90%) Finance
3 44 (24.72%) Banking
4 32 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.62%) Front Office
6 8 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.12%) Local Government
10 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 88 (49.44%) Developer
2 57 (32.02%) Senior
3 23 (12.92%) Senior Developer
4 16 (8.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) C# Developer
6 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.18%) Lead
7 11 (6.18%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Consultant
10 7 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Pega Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Junior
12 5 (2.81%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Senior Systems Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.91%) .NET
2 33 (18.54%) REST
3 30 (16.85%) pytest
3 30 (16.85%) RESTful
4 25 (14.04%) Spring
5 22 (12.36%) Spring Boot
6 19 (10.67%) .NET Framework
6 19 (10.67%) React
7 15 (8.43%) Node.js
7 15 (8.43%) SOAP
8 13 (7.30%) CSS
8 13 (7.30%) HTML
8 13 (7.30%) JSON
8 13 (7.30%) Web Services
9 11 (6.18%) OAuth
9 11 (6.18%) XML
10 10 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.62%) Next.js
10 10 (5.62%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.69%) IoT
9 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.55%) Linux
2 11 (6.18%) Unix
3 10 (5.62%) Windows
4 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.25%) Android
5 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (47.75%) Agile
1 85 (47.75%) CI/CD
2 64 (35.96%) DevOps
3 50 (28.09%) AI
4 47 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.16%) Integration Testing
5 43 (24.16%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.91%) Clean Code
7 38 (21.35%) Scrum
8 34 (19.10%) Microservices
8 34 (19.10%) Test Automation
9 33 (18.54%) TDD
10 30 (16.85%) OOP
10 30 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 28 (15.73%) Validation
12 26 (14.61%) SDLC
13 25 (14.04%) Design Patterns
14 23 (12.92%) Generative AI
15 20 (11.24%) Code Quality
15 20 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.52%) SQL
2 48 (26.97%) Python
3 43 (24.16%) C#
4 36 (20.22%) Java
5 22 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.55%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.74%) PL/SQL
7 12 (6.74%) T-SQL
8 9 (5.06%) Bash
9 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.25%) Swift
11 3 (1.69%) C
11 3 (1.69%) X++
12 2 (1.12%) ABAP
12 2 (1.12%) Bicep
12 2 (1.12%) C++
12 2 (1.12%) Go
12 2 (1.12%) ProC
12 2 (1.12%) Ruby
12 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.04%) Degree
4 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) ACCA
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CIMA
6 2 (1.12%) CISSP
6 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (23.60%) QA
2 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.69%) Basel III
4 2 (1.12%) WCAG
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (26.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (21.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.12%) Istio
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Oracle
3 9 (5.06%) Avaloq
4 8 (4.49%) Citrix
4 8 (4.49%) SAP
5 7 (3.93%) Pega
6 6 (3.37%) Google
6 6 (3.37%) Informatica
7 4 (2.25%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.25%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.25%) UiPath
8 3 (1.69%) Workday
9 2 (1.12%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.12%) webMethods
10 1 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) HP
10 1 (0.56%) Kofax
10 1 (0.56%) Murex
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce