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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 164 199
Rank change year-on-year -27 +35 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 224 206 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.61% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.77% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 133 130
10th Percentile £384 £397 £374
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £738 £727
England median daily rate £495 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £57.20 - £54.85
25th Percentile £67.63 - £58.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £95.00 - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £88.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 14,808 11,647 16,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.77% 91.28% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 7,820 11,448
10th Percentile £351 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 341
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £76.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -20 24 £563 -13.46% 11
West London -15 6 £552 +3.57%
East London - 2 £450 -
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 12 (5.36%) Apache Spark
1 12 (5.36%) Mendix
1 12 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.91%) Confluence
2 11 (4.91%) HCL Notes
3 8 (3.57%) Apache
4 6 (2.68%) Ethereum
4 6 (2.68%) Hyperledger
5 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.79%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) IIS
9 1 (0.45%) JBoss
9 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (5.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.66%) Azure
2 43 (19.20%) AWS
3 32 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (12.95%) Serverless
5 28 (12.50%) GitHub
6 24 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 18 (8.04%) GCP
8 16 (7.14%) OCI
8 16 (7.14%) PaaS
9 14 (6.25%) Azure Functions
10 13 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.80%) Power Automate
10 13 (5.80%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.46%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.46%) IaaS
13 10 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.27%) Oracle Database
3 21 (9.38%) Power BI
4 18 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.80%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.36%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.91%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.68%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.68%) MySQL
10 5 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.34%) Power Query
12 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (24.55%) Git
2 24 (10.71%) JIRA
3 23 (10.27%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.48%) Postman
5 18 (8.04%) JUnit
6 16 (7.14%) Visual Studio
7 10 (4.46%) GitLab
8 8 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.57%) MSTest
9 7 (3.13%) Maven
9 7 (3.13%) MLflow
9 7 (3.13%) Selenium
9 7 (3.13%) SoapUI
10 6 (2.68%) Gradle
10 6 (2.68%) Mockito
11 5 (2.23%) Android Studio
11 5 (2.23%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.79%) Mocha
General
1 76 (33.93%) Finance
2 44 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.07%) Banking
4 27 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.25%) Front Office
7 11 (4.91%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.34%) Military
11 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (57.59%) Developer
2 39 (17.41%) Senior
3 28 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 24 (10.71%) C# Developer
5 23 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.36%) Cloud Specialist
8 12 (5.36%) Integration Specialist
8 12 (5.36%) Oracle Specialist
8 12 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Power Platform Developer
10 10 (4.46%) .NET Developer
10 10 (4.46%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 7 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (3.13%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.21%) REST
2 44 (19.64%) .NET
3 33 (14.73%) React
4 28 (12.50%) CSS
5 27 (12.05%) HTML
5 27 (12.05%) RESTful
6 25 (11.16%) Spring
6 25 (11.16%) Spring Boot
7 24 (10.71%) .NET Framework
8 23 (10.27%) SOAP
9 22 (9.82%) AngularJS
9 22 (9.82%) Web Services
10 19 (8.48%) JSON
11 17 (7.59%) Kafka
11 17 (7.59%) XML
12 15 (6.70%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (6.70%) pytest
13 14 (6.25%) OAuth
14 12 (5.36%) FastAPI
15 10 (4.46%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.59%) Algorithms
2 16 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.80%) Low-Code
3 13 (5.80%) Mobile App
4 12 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (4.02%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.57%) Life Science
7 8 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.68%) Genomics
9 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.79%) CMDB
10 4 (1.79%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.79%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.34%) Derivative
11 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.59%) Windows
2 15 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.13%) Unix
4 6 (2.68%) Android
5 3 (1.34%) Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (42.86%) Agile
2 81 (36.16%) CI/CD
3 80 (35.71%) DevOps
4 47 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (17.86%) Microservices
6 38 (16.96%) Test Automation
7 37 (16.52%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (16.52%) Scrum
8 36 (16.07%) AI
9 35 (15.63%) Analytics
10 34 (15.18%) Software Engineering
11 30 (13.39%) Code Quality
12 27 (12.05%) Containerisation
12 27 (12.05%) Machine Learning
13 24 (10.71%) Data Analysis
13 24 (10.71%) OOP
14 22 (9.82%) ERP
15 20 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (8.93%) TDD
16 19 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.71%) SQL
2 56 (25.00%) Java
3 53 (23.66%) C#
4 50 (22.32%) Python
5 40 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 23 (10.27%) T-SQL
7 22 (9.82%) TypeScript
8 21 (9.38%) PL/SQL
9 12 (5.36%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.91%) Formula Language
10 11 (4.91%) LotusScript
11 7 (3.13%) Scala
12 6 (2.68%) Swift
13 3 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.34%) Groovy
13 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.34%) X++
14 2 (0.89%) Bicep
15 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 34 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.29%) Degree
3 26 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.23%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (22.77%) QA
2 11 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (15.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.89%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.89%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 24 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.57%) Terraform
3 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.89%) Grafana
4 2 (0.89%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (28.57%) Oracle
2 30 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.59%) Citrix
3 17 (7.59%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) Databricks
4 11 (4.91%) Lotus
5 10 (4.46%) Kofax
6 7 (3.13%) Informatica
6 7 (3.13%) Pega
7 4 (1.79%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.79%) SAP
7 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.34%) Adobe
8 3 (1.34%) Workday
9 2 (0.89%) Apple
9 2 (0.89%) HP
9 2 (0.89%) IBM
9 2 (0.89%) Murex
9 2 (0.89%) Sybase