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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 201 160
Rank change year-on-year -37 -41 +23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 200 167 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.27% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.38% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 115 205
10th Percentile £300 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.93
25th Percentile £67.63 - £52.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £57.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 38 £538 +13.16% 17
West London -16 9 £608 +10.14% 2
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 6 (3.00%) Apache
1 6 (3.00%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.00%) Confluence
1 6 (3.00%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.00%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.50%) Mendix
3 3 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.50%) HCL Notes
3 3 (1.50%) IIS
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) HFM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.50%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.00%) Azure
2 33 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.50%) AWS
4 24 (12.00%) GitHub
5 18 (9.00%) Serverless
6 12 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.00%) GCP
10 7 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.00%) OCI
11 6 (3.00%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.00%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.50%) Internet
2 7 (3.50%) HTTP
3 2 (1.00%) Intranet
4 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.50%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.50%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.50%) Power BI
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.00%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.00%) Metadata
9 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (20.00%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.50%) JIRA
4 16 (8.00%) JUnit
5 11 (5.50%) GitLab
5 11 (5.50%) Visual Studio
6 9 (4.50%) Selenium
7 8 (4.00%) MSTest
8 7 (3.50%) Gradle
9 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.00%) Postman
10 5 (2.50%) JSUnit
10 5 (2.50%) Maven
10 5 (2.50%) Mockito
10 5 (2.50%) NUnit
11 4 (2.00%) JMeter
11 4 (2.00%) Mocha
11 4 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (2.00%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.00%) Xcode
General
1 59 (29.50%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Banking
3 39 (19.50%) Social Skills
4 32 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.50%) Front Office
7 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.00%) Retail
8 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Legal
8 3 (1.50%) Military
8 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (53.00%) Developer
2 55 (27.50%) Senior
3 25 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 21 (10.50%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.50%) Java Developer
6 12 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.50%) Informatica Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Consultant
11 7 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Lead
12 6 (3.00%) Integration Specialist
12 6 (3.00%) iOS Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (3.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.50%) .NET
2 42 (21.00%) REST
3 37 (18.50%) RESTful
4 30 (15.00%) .NET Framework
5 27 (13.50%) Spring
5 27 (13.50%) Spring Boot
6 24 (12.00%) React
7 19 (9.50%) AngularJS
8 18 (9.00%) CSS
8 18 (9.00%) HTML
8 18 (9.00%) JSON
9 17 (8.50%) Kafka
9 17 (8.50%) pytest
9 17 (8.50%) SOAP
10 12 (6.00%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.00%) OAuth
10 12 (6.00%) XML
11 10 (5.00%) Node.js
11 10 (5.00%) Web Services
12 9 (4.50%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.50%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.50%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.50%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.50%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.50%) CMDB
8 3 (1.50%) Equities
8 3 (1.50%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.50%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.00%) FMCG
9 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.50%) Windows
2 14 (7.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.00%) Unix
5 4 (2.00%) Android
5 4 (2.00%) Linux
6 2 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.50%) CI/CD
2 82 (41.00%) Agile
3 77 (38.50%) DevOps
4 45 (22.50%) Microservices
5 39 (19.50%) Software Engineering
6 38 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (18.00%) AI
7 36 (18.00%) Scrum
8 28 (14.00%) Integration Testing
8 28 (14.00%) TDD
9 27 (13.50%) Clean Code
9 27 (13.50%) User Acceptance Testing
10 25 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 25 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 25 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 24 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (11.50%) OOP
12 23 (11.50%) Validation
13 21 (10.50%) Observability
14 19 (9.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 77 (38.50%) SQL
2 54 (27.00%) C#
3 43 (21.50%) Python
4 38 (19.00%) Java
5 29 (14.50%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 23 (11.50%) PL/SQL
7 23 (11.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.00%) Swift
10 7 (3.50%) Scala
11 4 (2.00%) Bicep
12 3 (1.50%) Formula Language
12 3 (1.50%) LotusScript
13 2 (1.00%) ABAP
13 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.00%) C
13 2 (1.00%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.00%) ProC
13 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.00%) Degree
4 10 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.50%) ACCA
6 1 (0.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (29.00%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) Basel III
4 2 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (19.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.00%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (21.50%) Oracle
2 37 (18.50%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.00%) Citrix
4 11 (5.50%) Informatica
5 6 (3.00%) Avaloq
5 6 (3.00%) Pega
6 5 (2.50%) SAP
7 4 (2.00%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.50%) HP
8 3 (1.50%) Kofax
8 3 (1.50%) Lotus
8 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.50%) Workday
9 2 (1.00%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) IBM
9 2 (1.00%) Sybase
10 1 (0.50%) Splunk
10 1 (0.50%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.50%) Veracode