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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 154 208
Rank change year-on-year -50 +54 -57
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 182 249 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.68% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.86% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 153 147
10th Percentile £375 £357 £445
25th Percentile £415 £460 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -11.29% -4.62%
75th Percentile £713 £688 £725
90th Percentile £793 £773 £758
England median daily rate £500 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -15.79% -1.04% -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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 27 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 27 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 -4 24 £575 -13.21% 31
West London -17 3 £552 +11.41% 3
South London -1 2 £850 +13.33%
East London - 2 £450 - 3
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 8 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.85%) HCL Notes
4 6 (3.30%) Mendix
5 5 (2.75%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.65%) CMS
7 2 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.10%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.55%) Traefik
8 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.59%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.10%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.33%) AWS
2 34 (18.68%) Azure
3 25 (13.74%) GitHub
4 24 (13.19%) GCP
5 19 (10.44%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.79%) OCI
6 16 (8.79%) PaaS
7 15 (8.24%) Serverless
8 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.04%) IaaS
10 10 (5.49%) Cloud Run
11 9 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.40%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (4.40%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.40%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.85%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (3.30%) Figma
Communications & Networking
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 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.89%) Oracle Database
4 17 (9.34%) Power BI
5 13 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.75%) Redis
8 4 (2.20%) DB2
8 4 (2.20%) MySQL
9 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.65%) Power Query
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.10%) SQLite
10 2 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (29.67%) Git
2 27 (14.84%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.19%) JIRA
4 22 (12.09%) Postman
5 19 (10.44%) JUnit
6 11 (6.04%) Maven
7 10 (5.49%) Visual Studio
7 10 (5.49%) Xcode
8 9 (4.95%) Mockito
8 9 (4.95%) SpecFlow
9 8 (4.40%) SoapUI
9 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.85%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.85%) MLflow
11 5 (2.75%) Android Studio
11 5 (2.75%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.75%) GitLab
11 5 (2.75%) REST Assured
11 5 (2.75%) XCTest
General
1 56 (30.77%) Finance
2 42 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.84%) Banking
4 24 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.24%) Front Office
5 15 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) French Language
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Military
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 104 (57.14%) Developer
2 30 (16.48%) Senior
3 23 (12.64%) Java Developer
4 22 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.89%) Software Engineer
6 17 (9.34%) C# Developer
7 14 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 13 (7.14%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.59%) Angular Developer
10 10 (5.49%) Cloud Specialist
10 10 (5.49%) Integration Specialist
10 10 (5.49%) Oracle Specialist
11 8 (4.40%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Agile Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Python Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Android Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.23%) REST
2 32 (17.58%) .NET
3 27 (14.84%) React
4 26 (14.29%) CSS
5 24 (13.19%) HTML
6 23 (12.64%) Web Services
7 20 (10.99%) AngularJS
7 20 (10.99%) RESTful
7 20 (10.99%) SOAP
8 18 (9.89%) .NET Framework
9 17 (9.34%) JSON
9 17 (9.34%) pytest
10 16 (8.79%) Spring
11 15 (8.24%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (8.24%) Spring Boot
12 14 (7.69%) FastAPI
13 13 (7.14%) Playwright
14 11 (6.04%) Entity Framework
14 11 (6.04%) Kafka
14 11 (6.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.14%) Life Science
4 11 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.04%) Genomics
5 10 (5.49%) Mobile App
6 9 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.30%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (3.30%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.30%) Virtual Reality
8 5 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.65%) Animation
10 3 (1.65%) Derivative
10 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Android
1 12 (6.59%) Linux
2 11 (6.04%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.49%) Unix
4 9 (4.95%) Windows
4 9 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) tvOS
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (46.70%) Agile
2 59 (32.42%) DevOps
3 57 (31.32%) CI/CD
4 43 (23.63%) Test Automation
5 40 (21.98%) Microservices
5 40 (21.98%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.78%) Scrum
8 31 (17.03%) Analytics
9 29 (15.93%) AI
9 29 (15.93%) Containerisation
10 28 (15.38%) Clean Code
10 28 (15.38%) Machine Learning
11 27 (14.84%) Code Quality
12 25 (13.74%) TDD
13 24 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (11.54%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (10.99%) Integration Testing
16 18 (9.89%) Design Patterns
16 18 (9.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.32%) Java
2 56 (30.77%) SQL
3 44 (24.18%) Python
4 36 (19.78%) C#
5 34 (18.68%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.40%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.85%) C++
9 7 (3.85%) Formula Language
9 7 (3.85%) Groovy
9 7 (3.85%) LotusScript
10 5 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.75%) Swift
11 4 (2.20%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.65%) X++
13 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (18.13%) Degree
2 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.10%) 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 (11.54%) QA
2 10 (5.49%) 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 40 (21.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.10%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.10%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (17.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.49%) Terraform
3 4 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.10%) 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 44 (24.18%) Oracle
2 22 (12.09%) Google
3 15 (8.24%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.04%) Databricks
5 7 (3.85%) Citrix
5 7 (3.85%) Lotus
6 6 (3.30%) Kofax
7 5 (2.75%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.75%) Splunk
8 4 (2.20%) Dataiku
8 4 (2.20%) Pega
8 4 (2.20%) SAP
9 3 (1.65%) Adobe
9 3 (1.65%) Apple
9 3 (1.65%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.65%) Workday
10 2 (1.10%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.10%) Marketo
10 2 (1.10%) VMware