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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 186 182
Rank change year-on-year -38 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 193 168 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.37% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.49% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 114 158
10th Percentile £363 £370 £379
25th Percentile £415 £414 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £672 £788 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.53
25th Percentile £67.63 - £51.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £65.44
90th Percentile - - £66.23
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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -28 15 £575 +4.55% 10
West London -24 6 £509 -7.79%
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 (6.22%) Mendix
2 10 (5.18%) HCL Notes
2 10 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.63%) Apache
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.11%) Ethereum
4 6 (3.11%) Hyperledger
5 4 (2.07%) Confluence
6 3 (1.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.04%) CMS
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.52%) IIS
8 1 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.02%) Azure
2 38 (19.69%) AWS
3 36 (18.65%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (15.54%) Serverless
5 23 (11.92%) GitHub
6 15 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.74%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.74%) Power Automate
7 13 (6.74%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.74%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (6.22%) OCI
9 11 (5.70%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.70%) PaaS
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.40%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.74%) Data Lake
3 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.18%) Power BI
5 8 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (19.17%) Git
2 19 (9.84%) JIRA
3 18 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.25%) JUnit
5 13 (6.74%) Visual Studio
6 12 (6.22%) GitLab
6 12 (6.22%) Postman
7 9 (4.66%) Selenium
8 8 (4.15%) Cucumber
8 8 (4.15%) MSTest
9 6 (3.11%) Gradle
9 6 (3.11%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.59%) MLflow
10 5 (2.59%) Mockito
10 5 (2.59%) NUnit
11 4 (2.07%) JMeter
11 4 (2.07%) Maven
11 4 (2.07%) Mocha
11 4 (2.07%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (33.16%) Finance
2 37 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.10%) Banking
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.70%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.11%) Front Office
8 4 (2.07%) Military
9 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (54.92%) Developer
2 42 (21.76%) Senior
3 22 (11.40%) C# Developer
4 21 (10.88%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.88%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.77%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.70%) Integration Specialist
6 11 (5.70%) Oracle Specialist
6 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
7 10 (5.18%) Cloud Specialist
7 10 (5.18%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (5.18%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.15%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Backend Developer
11 6 (3.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.39%) .NET
2 44 (22.80%) REST
3 34 (17.62%) RESTful
4 28 (14.51%) Spring Boot
5 27 (13.99%) .NET Framework
5 27 (13.99%) Spring
6 24 (12.44%) React
7 20 (10.36%) CSS
7 20 (10.36%) HTML
7 20 (10.36%) JSON
8 19 (9.84%) SOAP
9 18 (9.33%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.81%) Kafka
11 16 (8.29%) XML
12 15 (7.77%) OAuth
13 14 (7.25%) Web Services
14 11 (5.70%) pytest
15 10 (5.18%) HTML5 Canvas
15 10 (5.18%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (4.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.25%) Low-Code
1 14 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.07%) Derivative
8 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.55%) CMDB
9 3 (1.55%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.55%) Equities
9 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.33%) Windows
2 15 (7.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Linux
5 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.49%) CI/CD
2 75 (38.86%) DevOps
3 74 (38.34%) Agile
4 45 (23.32%) Microservices
5 36 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (18.13%) Scrum
7 32 (16.58%) AI
8 29 (15.03%) Software Engineering
8 29 (15.03%) Test Automation
9 26 (13.47%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (12.95%) Code Quality
10 25 (12.95%) Integration Testing
11 23 (11.92%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (11.40%) ERP
13 21 (10.88%) Containerisation
13 21 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (10.36%) Clean Code
14 20 (10.36%) Data Analysis
14 20 (10.36%) ETL
15 19 (9.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.90%) SQL
2 55 (28.50%) C#
3 44 (22.80%) Java
3 44 (22.80%) Python
4 36 (18.65%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.95%) T-SQL
6 21 (10.88%) PL/SQL
7 15 (7.77%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.18%) Formula Language
8 10 (5.18%) LotusScript
9 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.63%) Scala
10 4 (2.07%) Bicep
10 4 (2.07%) Swift
11 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.04%) C++
12 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.04%) X++
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 35 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.47%) Degree
2 26 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (30.57%) QA
2 7 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
5 2 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) Basel III
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (18.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 27 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 57 (29.53%) Oracle
2 34 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.81%) Citrix
4 12 (6.22%) Informatica
5 10 (5.18%) Kofax
5 10 (5.18%) Lotus
6 5 (2.59%) Avaloq
6 5 (2.59%) Databricks
6 5 (2.59%) Pega
7 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.55%) Google
8 3 (1.55%) HP
8 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.04%) Foundry
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) SAP
9 2 (1.04%) Sybase
9 2 (1.04%) Workday
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.52%) Perforce