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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 153 205
Rank change year-on-year -57 +52 -57
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 183 253 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.69% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.87% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 155 143
10th Percentile £375 £359 £450
25th Percentile £415 £500 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £713 £694 £725
90th Percentile £793 £775 £766
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £69.40
25th Percentile £51.75 - £77.13
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £91.88
90th Percentile - - £93.00
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 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -7 25 £575 -14.81% 15
South London -7 2 £850 +13.33%
West London -15 2 £552 +11.41% 3
East London - 2 £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 13 (7.10%) Confluence
2 8 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.83%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.28%) HCL Notes
5 5 (2.73%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.73%) Mendix
6 3 (1.64%) CMS
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.09%) Apache
8 1 (0.55%) CICS
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.55%) Drupal
8 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.55%) JBoss
8 1 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.55%) Traefik
8 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.09%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 36 (19.67%) AWS
2 33 (18.03%) Azure
3 25 (13.66%) GitHub
4 24 (13.11%) GCP
5 18 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.74%) OCI
6 16 (8.74%) PaaS
7 13 (7.10%) Serverless
8 12 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.01%) IaaS
10 10 (5.46%) Cloud Run
11 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.83%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.83%) Firebase
12 7 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.83%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.55%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.55%) HTTP
1 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.55%) Network Security
1 1 (0.55%) SSL
1 1 (0.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.74%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.74%) Power BI
4 13 (7.10%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.83%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.73%) Redis
8 4 (2.19%) DB2
8 4 (2.19%) MySQL
9 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.64%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.64%) Power Query
10 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.09%) SQLite
10 2 (1.09%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 54 (29.51%) Git
2 27 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 25 (13.66%) JIRA
4 22 (12.02%) Postman
5 19 (10.38%) JUnit
6 11 (6.01%) Maven
7 10 (5.46%) SpecFlow
7 10 (5.46%) Visual Studio
7 10 (5.46%) Xcode
8 9 (4.92%) Mockito
9 8 (4.37%) SoapUI
9 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.83%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.83%) MLflow
11 6 (3.28%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.73%) Android Studio
12 5 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.73%) GitLab
12 5 (2.73%) Subversion
General
1 57 (31.15%) Finance
2 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.75%) Banking
4 24 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 15 (8.20%) Front Office
7 10 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.28%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) French Language
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 104 (56.83%) Developer
2 31 (16.94%) Senior
3 24 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 23 (12.57%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) C# Developer
7 14 (7.65%) Python Developer
8 13 (7.10%) Angular Developer
8 13 (7.10%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Cloud Specialist
9 10 (5.46%) Integration Specialist
9 10 (5.46%) Oracle Specialist
10 8 (4.37%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Agile Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Lead
10 8 (4.37%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.13%) REST
2 32 (17.49%) .NET
3 28 (15.30%) React
4 26 (14.21%) CSS
5 24 (13.11%) HTML
6 23 (12.57%) Web Services
7 21 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 21 (11.48%) RESTful
8 20 (10.93%) SOAP
9 19 (10.38%) .NET Framework
10 17 (9.29%) JSON
10 17 (9.29%) Spring
11 16 (8.74%) pytest
11 16 (8.74%) Spring Boot
12 15 (8.20%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (7.10%) FastAPI
13 13 (7.10%) Node.js
13 13 (7.10%) Playwright
14 12 (6.56%) Entity Framework
15 11 (6.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.65%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.10%) Life Science
4 11 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.01%) Genomics
4 11 (6.01%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.28%) Augmented Reality
6 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.28%) Virtual Reality
7 5 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.73%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.64%) Animation
9 3 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Android
2 12 (6.56%) Apple iOS
2 12 (6.56%) Linux
3 10 (5.46%) Unix
4 9 (4.92%) Windows
4 9 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.83%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) tvOS
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (45.90%) Agile
2 59 (32.24%) DevOps
3 57 (31.15%) CI/CD
4 44 (24.04%) Test Automation
5 42 (22.95%) Microservices
6 41 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (21.86%) Software Engineering
8 35 (19.13%) Scrum
9 31 (16.94%) Analytics
10 30 (16.39%) Clean Code
11 29 (15.85%) AI
12 28 (15.30%) Containerisation
12 28 (15.30%) Machine Learning
13 26 (14.21%) Code Quality
14 25 (13.66%) TDD
15 23 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (11.48%) Integration Testing
16 21 (11.48%) Natural Language Processing
17 18 (9.84%) Design Patterns
17 18 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.15%) Java
2 56 (30.60%) SQL
3 43 (23.50%) Python
4 35 (19.13%) C#
5 32 (17.49%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.37%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.83%) C++
9 7 (3.83%) Groovy
10 6 (3.28%) Formula Language
10 6 (3.28%) LotusScript
11 5 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.73%) Swift
12 4 (2.19%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.64%) X++
14 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (18.58%) Degree
2 26 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.09%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.48%) QA
2 11 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (21.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.09%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.09%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.46%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Control-M
5 1 (0.55%) Istio
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Oracle
2 23 (12.57%) Google
3 14 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.01%) Databricks
5 7 (3.83%) Citrix
6 6 (3.28%) Lotus
7 5 (2.73%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (2.73%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.73%) Kofax
7 5 (2.73%) SAP
7 5 (2.73%) Splunk
8 4 (2.19%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.64%) Adobe
9 3 (1.64%) Apple
9 3 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.64%) Pega
9 3 (1.64%) Workday
10 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.09%) Temenos
10 2 (1.09%) VMware