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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 131 190
Rank change year-on-year -94 +59 -46
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 147 305 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.95% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.19% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 198 193
10th Percentile £359 £368 £453
25th Percentile £404 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -12.00% +1.83%
75th Percentile £719 £653 £725
90th Percentile £811 £741 £775
England median daily rate £475 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -14.65% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £49.93 £69.53
25th Percentile £51.75 £52.44 £81.80
Median hourly rate £56.50 £57.25 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% -36.39% +30.91%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.44 -
90th Percentile - £63.58 £91.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 12,561 13,945 18,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.18% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 8,980 13,172
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.42
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.17 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 25 £433 -27.80% 21
South London - 2 £850 -
East London - 1 £450 - 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 16 (10.88%) Confluence
2 5 (3.40%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.04%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.68%) Appian
5 1 (0.68%) Camunda
5 1 (0.68%) CICS
5 1 (0.68%) Drupal
5 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Traefik
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.40%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (3.40%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.36%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.36%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.36%) SAP VC
3 2 (1.36%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.37%) GitHub
2 26 (17.69%) Azure
3 23 (15.65%) AWS
4 17 (11.56%) GCP
5 10 (6.80%) Cloud Run
6 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.44%) Firebase
7 8 (5.44%) OCI
7 8 (5.44%) PaaS
8 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.76%) IaaS
9 6 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.72%) Figma
10 4 (2.72%) Google Play
10 4 (2.72%) SaaS
11 3 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.36%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.84%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.44%) Oracle Database
4 8 (5.44%) Power BI
5 7 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.08%) Redis
7 4 (2.72%) DB2
7 4 (2.72%) MySQL
8 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.36%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.36%) SQLite
10 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) GIS
10 1 (0.68%) KDB
10 1 (0.68%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (33.33%) Git
2 27 (18.37%) JIRA
3 22 (14.97%) Jenkins
4 17 (11.56%) JUnit
5 14 (9.52%) SpecFlow
6 13 (8.84%) Postman
7 12 (8.16%) Maven
8 11 (7.48%) Xcode
9 10 (6.80%) Mockito
10 7 (4.76%) SonarQube
11 6 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (4.08%) Bitbucket
11 6 (4.08%) Cypress.io
11 6 (4.08%) REST Assured
11 6 (4.08%) SoapUI
11 6 (4.08%) Subversion
11 6 (4.08%) XCTest
12 4 (2.72%) Selenium
12 4 (2.72%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (29.25%) Finance
2 40 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.41%) Banking
4 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.84%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.12%) Front Office
8 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) French Language
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 83 (56.46%) Developer
2 30 (20.41%) Senior
3 21 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 17 (11.56%) Angular Developer
4 17 (11.56%) Java Developer
5 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.84%) C# Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Python Developer
7 10 (6.80%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Lead
8 8 (5.44%) Agile Developer
9 7 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Android Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Python Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Agile .NET Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Agile C# Developer
11 5 (3.40%) BPM Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) .NET
2 29 (19.73%) CSS
3 27 (18.37%) HTML
3 27 (18.37%) RESTful
4 25 (17.01%) REST
5 24 (16.33%) AngularJS
5 24 (16.33%) React
6 18 (12.24%) .NET Framework
7 17 (11.56%) Web Services
8 16 (10.88%) Entity Framework
8 16 (10.88%) Node.js
8 16 (10.88%) Playwright
8 16 (10.88%) Spring
9 15 (10.20%) Spring Boot
10 14 (9.52%) NHibernate
11 13 (8.84%) FastAPI
11 13 (8.84%) pytest
11 13 (8.84%) SOAP
12 12 (8.16%) HTML5
13 11 (7.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.84%) Mobile App
2 11 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.80%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.12%) Genomics
4 9 (6.12%) Life Science
5 7 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.40%) Augmented Reality
6 5 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.40%) Virtual Reality
7 4 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.04%) Animation
8 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.04%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.52%) Android
2 13 (8.84%) Apple iOS
3 10 (6.80%) Linux
4 7 (4.76%) Unix
5 6 (4.08%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.40%) Windows
7 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.68%) tvOS
8 1 (0.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.70%) Agile
2 45 (30.61%) CI/CD
3 39 (26.53%) DevOps
3 39 (26.53%) Microservices
4 37 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (23.81%) Scrum
5 35 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 33 (22.45%) Clean Code
7 31 (21.09%) Software Engineering
8 26 (17.69%) TDD
9 23 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (13.61%) Code Quality
11 19 (12.93%) Analytics
11 19 (12.93%) SDLC
12 18 (12.24%) Containerisation
12 18 (12.24%) Design Patterns
12 18 (12.24%) Machine Learning
12 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
13 17 (11.56%) AI
13 17 (11.56%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.25%) SQL
2 41 (27.89%) Java
3 32 (21.77%) JavaScript
4 30 (20.41%) Python
5 29 (19.73%) C#
6 16 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.84%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.08%) C++
8 6 (4.08%) Groovy
8 6 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.40%) Swift
10 4 (2.72%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.36%) ABAP
12 2 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.36%) X++
13 1 (0.68%) C
13 1 (0.68%) Korn
13 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (20.41%) Degree
2 16 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.36%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.20%) QA
2 11 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) HL7
3 1 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (21.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.36%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.68%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Istio
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (17.01%) Oracle
2 19 (12.93%) Google
3 6 (4.08%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
3 6 (4.08%) Splunk
4 5 (3.40%) OpenText
5 4 (2.72%) Databricks
5 4 (2.72%) Dataiku
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.04%) Apple
6 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.04%) Workday
7 2 (1.36%) Adobe
7 2 (1.36%) Pega
7 2 (1.36%) Temenos
7 2 (1.36%) VMware
8 1 (0.68%) Citrix
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) Murex