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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 140 194
Rank change year-on-year -106 +54 -56
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 130 307 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.97% 1.88% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 2.11% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 204 214
10th Percentile £361 £372 £438
25th Percentile £404 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £744 £638 £693
90th Percentile £800 £738 £763
England median daily rate £472 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -14.18% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £49.93 £60.00
25th Percentile £51.75 £52.44 £60.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £57.25 £82.81
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% -30.87% +20.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.44 £90.00
90th Percentile - £63.58 -
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 12,450 14,530 19,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.51% 89.15% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,226 9,664 14,478
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 178 230
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -15 24 £408 -30.61% 11
West London -11 2 £552 +10.95% 5
South London - 2 £850 - 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.23%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) Appian
3 1 (0.77%) Camunda
3 1 (0.77%) CICS
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Drupal
3 1 (0.77%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.77%) IIS
3 1 (0.77%) JBoss
3 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.77%) SAS
3 1 (0.77%) Traefik
3 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.54%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.54%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.54%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.77%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.77%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.69%) Azure
2 18 (13.85%) AWS
3 16 (12.31%) GitHub
4 9 (6.92%) GCP
5 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.85%) Cloud Run
6 5 (3.85%) Firebase
6 5 (3.85%) OCI
6 5 (3.85%) PaaS
7 4 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (3.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.31%) Google Play
8 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.31%) SaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Serverless
9 2 (1.54%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.54%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.77%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.31%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.38%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.62%) Redis
6 4 (3.08%) DB2
7 2 (1.54%) MySQL
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.77%) Big Data
8 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.77%) Hasura
8 1 (0.77%) KDB
8 1 (0.77%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.77%) Power BI
8 1 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (30.77%) Git
2 25 (19.23%) JIRA
3 21 (16.15%) Jenkins
4 19 (14.62%) JUnit
5 11 (8.46%) Maven
5 11 (8.46%) Mockito
5 11 (8.46%) Postman
5 11 (8.46%) SpecFlow
6 9 (6.92%) Xcode
7 8 (6.15%) Subversion
8 7 (5.38%) SonarQube
9 6 (4.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (4.62%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.62%) SoapUI
9 6 (4.62%) XCTest
10 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.08%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.08%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 44 (33.85%) Finance
1 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Banking
3 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.85%) Front Office
7 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
9 1 (0.77%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.77%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 72 (55.38%) Developer
2 24 (18.46%) Senior
3 15 (11.54%) Angular Developer
3 15 (11.54%) Java Developer
3 15 (11.54%) Senior Developer
4 14 (10.77%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) C# Developer
6 10 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.15%) Lead
9 6 (4.62%) Agile Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Analyst
9 6 (4.62%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Consultant
10 5 (3.85%) Android Developer
10 5 (3.85%) BPM Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) React Developer
11 4 (3.08%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.38%) .NET
2 27 (20.77%) RESTful
3 23 (17.69%) AngularJS
3 23 (17.69%) HTML
4 22 (16.92%) CSS
5 19 (14.62%) .NET Framework
5 19 (14.62%) React
6 18 (13.85%) REST
7 17 (13.08%) Entity Framework
7 17 (13.08%) Web Services
8 16 (12.31%) Node.js
9 14 (10.77%) Spring
9 14 (10.77%) Spring Boot
10 11 (8.46%) Hibernate
10 11 (8.46%) Kafka
10 11 (8.46%) NHibernate
10 11 (8.46%) Playwright
11 10 (7.69%) Bootstrap
11 10 (7.69%) HTML5
11 10 (7.69%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Mobile App
2 8 (6.15%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.85%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (3.85%) Genomics
5 5 (3.85%) Life Science
5 5 (3.85%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.31%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.54%) Derivative
8 2 (1.54%) Equities
8 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.54%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Android
3 11 (8.46%) Apple iOS
4 9 (6.92%) Unix
5 6 (4.62%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.85%) Windows
7 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.77%) tvOS
8 1 (0.77%) VMS
8 1 (0.77%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.69%) Agile
2 36 (27.69%) Microservices
3 35 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 35 (26.92%) Scrum
4 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (24.62%) DevOps
6 30 (23.08%) Clean Code
6 30 (23.08%) TDD
7 29 (22.31%) Test Automation
8 26 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 21 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (14.62%) Integration Testing
11 17 (13.08%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.08%) SDLC
12 16 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (10.00%) API Design
14 13 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (10.00%) Front End Development
15 12 (9.23%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.08%) SQL
2 41 (31.54%) Java
3 34 (26.15%) C#
4 32 (24.62%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.23%) Python
6 15 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 8 (6.15%) C++
9 6 (4.62%) Groovy
9 6 (4.62%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.62%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.31%) Swift
12 2 (1.54%) ABAP
12 2 (1.54%) COBOL
12 2 (1.54%) JCL
12 2 (1.54%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.77%) Korn
13 1 (0.77%) PHP
13 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (23.08%) Degree
2 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.31%) MCPD
3 3 (2.31%) MCSD
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.15%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) HL7
3 1 (0.77%) IFRS
System Software
1 24 (18.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.77%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.92%) Terraform
3 2 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) Control-M
4 1 (0.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.77%) Istio
4 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.77%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 25 (19.23%) Oracle
2 10 (7.69%) Google
3 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.38%) Splunk
4 6 (4.62%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (4.62%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.62%) SAP
5 5 (3.85%) OpenText
6 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.31%) Databricks
6 3 (2.31%) IBM
7 2 (1.54%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.54%) Thunderhead
8 1 (0.77%) Apple
8 1 (0.77%) Citrix
8 1 (0.77%) Informatica
8 1 (0.77%) Pega
8 1 (0.77%) RedGate
8 1 (0.77%) Temenos
8 1 (0.77%) Xamarin