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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 143 204
Rank change year-on-year -80 +61 -54
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 168 295 226
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.87% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.08% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 189 162
10th Percentile £375 £363 £451
25th Percentile £414 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £645
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -12.71% +3.20%
75th Percentile £703 £669 £750
90th Percentile £799 £748 £787
England median daily rate £498 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -14.22% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £65.72
25th Percentile £51.75 - £74.30
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £86.41
75th Percentile £61.25 - £90.94
90th Percentile - - £92.63
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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 26 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 26 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 +11 30 £525 -9.17% 6
South London -5 2 £850 +13.33% 1
East London - 2 £450 - 1
West London -21 1 £594 +20.00% 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 18 (10.71%) Confluence
2 7 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.98%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.79%) CMS
6 2 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) CICS
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Drupal
7 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.60%) Traefik
7 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.38%) OpenText MBPM
2 4 (2.38%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.19%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.26%) AWS
2 28 (16.67%) Azure
3 26 (15.48%) GitHub
4 22 (13.10%) GCP
5 12 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.95%) Cloud Run
6 10 (5.95%) OCI
6 10 (5.95%) PaaS
7 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.76%) Firebase
7 8 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.76%) IaaS
8 7 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (3.57%) Figma
10 5 (2.98%) Serverless
11 4 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.38%) Google Play
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.79%) iPaaS
12 3 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.19%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.74%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.55%) Power BI
5 10 (5.95%) Oracle Database
6 9 (5.36%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.57%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Redis
9 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.38%) DB2
9 4 (2.38%) MySQL
10 3 (1.79%) Power Query
11 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.19%) SQLite
11 2 (1.19%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.60%) Big Data
12 1 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 57 (33.93%) Git
2 27 (16.07%) JIRA
3 23 (13.69%) Jenkins
4 18 (10.71%) JUnit
5 16 (9.52%) Postman
6 11 (6.55%) Maven
6 11 (6.55%) SpecFlow
7 10 (5.95%) Xcode
8 9 (5.36%) Mockito
9 8 (4.76%) Bitbucket
9 8 (4.76%) SonarQube
10 7 (4.17%) Visual Studio
11 6 (3.57%) Android Studio
11 6 (3.57%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (2.98%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.98%) REST Assured
12 5 (2.98%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.98%) Subversion
12 5 (2.98%) XCTest
General
1 52 (30.95%) Finance
2 41 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.86%) Banking
4 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (7.74%) Front Office
7 10 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 97 (57.74%) Developer
2 33 (19.64%) Senior
3 22 (13.10%) Senior Developer
4 21 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 18 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 14 (8.33%) Angular Developer
8 12 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.95%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.36%) Lead
11 8 (4.76%) Agile Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Android Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 5 (2.98%) Agile .NET Developer
14 5 (2.98%) Integration Specialist
14 5 (2.98%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.45%) .NET
2 27 (16.07%) CSS
3 26 (15.48%) React
3 26 (15.48%) REST
4 25 (14.88%) HTML
4 25 (14.88%) RESTful
5 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
6 19 (11.31%) .NET Framework
7 17 (10.12%) Web Services
8 16 (9.52%) Node.js
8 16 (9.52%) Spring
9 15 (8.93%) pytest
9 15 (8.93%) Spring Boot
10 14 (8.33%) Playwright
10 14 (8.33%) SOAP
11 13 (7.74%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.14%) FastAPI
12 12 (7.14%) HTML5
13 11 (6.55%) JSON
13 11 (6.55%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.93%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.14%) Life Science
4 11 (6.55%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.55%) Genomics
5 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.98%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.98%) Virtual Reality
8 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.79%) Animation
9 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.79%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.52%) Android
2 13 (7.74%) Apple iOS
3 11 (6.55%) Linux
4 9 (5.36%) Unix
5 8 (4.76%) Windows
6 6 (3.57%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.57%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) tvOS
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.19%) Agile
2 50 (29.76%) CI/CD
3 48 (28.57%) DevOps
4 40 (23.81%) Microservices
4 40 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 39 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (23.21%) Scrum
6 37 (22.02%) Software Engineering
7 32 (19.05%) Clean Code
8 29 (17.26%) Analytics
9 28 (16.67%) TDD
10 24 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 24 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 22 (13.10%) Machine Learning
12 21 (12.50%) AI
13 20 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (11.31%) Integration Testing
15 18 (10.71%) Design Patterns
15 18 (10.71%) Mentoring
15 18 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.14%) Java
2 50 (29.76%) SQL
3 33 (19.64%) C#
4 32 (19.05%) Python
5 30 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.52%) Kotlin
6 16 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.17%) Groovy
7 7 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.57%) C++
9 5 (2.98%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.98%) Swift
10 4 (2.38%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.19%) X++
13 1 (0.60%) JCL
13 1 (0.60%) Korn
13 1 (0.60%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 30 (17.86%) Degree
2 20 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.19%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.69%) QA
2 13 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.19%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.19%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.55%) Terraform
3 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Control-M
5 1 (0.60%) Istio
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (19.05%) Oracle
2 23 (13.69%) Google
3 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.57%) Databricks
5 5 (2.98%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.98%) Citrix
5 5 (2.98%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.98%) SAP
5 5 (2.98%) Splunk
6 4 (2.38%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.38%) OpenText
7 3 (1.79%) Adobe
7 3 (1.79%) Apple
7 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.79%) Pega
7 3 (1.79%) Workday
8 2 (1.19%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.19%) Marketo
8 2 (1.19%) Temenos
8 2 (1.19%) VMware