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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 156 207
Rank change year-on-year -37 +51 -35
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 216 217 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.63% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.79% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 138 125
10th Percentile £384 £354 £377
25th Percentile £415 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -4.76% -11.15%
75th Percentile £625 £690 £688
90th Percentile £784 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -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 14,289 12,129 16,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.26% 90.86% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,589 7,891 11,637
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 157 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.63 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.54 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -8 22 £550 -15.38% 10
West London -19 4 £552 - 2
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 14 (6.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.56%) Confluence
3 11 (5.09%) Mendix
3 11 (5.09%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.63%) HCL Notes
5 8 (3.70%) Apache
6 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (2.78%) Ethereum
7 6 (2.78%) Hyperledger
8 4 (1.85%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.93%) CMS
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.46%) IIS
10 1 (0.46%) JBoss
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.46%) Traefik
10 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.46%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.91%) AWS
2 41 (18.98%) Azure
3 26 (12.04%) Serverless
4 25 (11.57%) GitHub
5 23 (10.65%) Power Platform
6 22 (10.19%) GCP
7 21 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.80%) OCI
8 19 (8.80%) PaaS
9 13 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.56%) Azure Functions
10 12 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 12 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 11 (5.09%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (4.63%) IaaS
13 9 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.74%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.26%) Power BI
3 19 (8.80%) Oracle Database
4 18 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.09%) MongoDB
6 11 (5.09%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.24%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.78%) MySQL
9 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.39%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.39%) Power Query
10 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.93%) Redis
11 2 (0.93%) SQLite
11 2 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (26.39%) Git
2 23 (10.65%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.19%) JIRA
4 21 (9.72%) Postman
5 17 (7.87%) JUnit
6 16 (7.41%) Visual Studio
7 8 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.70%) GitLab
8 7 (3.24%) Maven
8 7 (3.24%) MLflow
8 7 (3.24%) SoapUI
8 7 (3.24%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.78%) Android Studio
9 6 (2.78%) Gradle
9 6 (2.78%) Xcode
10 5 (2.31%) Mockito
10 5 (2.31%) MSTest
10 5 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.85%) Mocha
General
1 71 (32.87%) Finance
2 43 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.81%) Banking
4 26 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.02%) Front Office
6 13 (6.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.85%) Legal
8 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) French Language
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 124 (57.41%) Developer
2 36 (16.67%) Senior
3 27 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 23 (10.65%) C# Developer
4 23 (10.65%) Senior Developer
5 15 (6.94%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.48%) Cloud Specialist
6 14 (6.48%) Integration Specialist
6 14 (6.48%) Oracle Specialist
7 13 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.02%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 10 (4.63%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.24%) Angular Developer
12 7 (3.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (3.24%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.22%) REST
2 44 (20.37%) .NET
3 32 (14.81%) React
4 28 (12.96%) RESTful
5 26 (12.04%) CSS
6 25 (11.57%) HTML
7 23 (10.65%) .NET Framework
7 23 (10.65%) JSON
7 23 (10.65%) Spring
7 23 (10.65%) Web Services
8 22 (10.19%) SOAP
8 22 (10.19%) Spring Boot
9 21 (9.72%) AngularJS
10 18 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 18 (8.33%) XML
11 17 (7.87%) pytest
12 16 (7.41%) Kafka
13 15 (6.94%) OAuth
14 14 (6.48%) FastAPI
15 12 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 14 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.02%) Mobile App
5 12 (5.56%) Low-Code
6 11 (5.09%) Life Science
7 10 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (4.17%) Genomics
9 8 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.70%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.85%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.85%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.39%) Animation
12 3 (1.39%) Derivative
12 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.94%) Windows
2 13 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.24%) Android
4 7 (3.24%) Unix
5 4 (1.85%) Linux
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (44.44%) Agile
2 81 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 74 (34.26%) DevOps
4 46 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.91%) Microservices
6 38 (17.59%) AI
6 38 (17.59%) Scrum
6 38 (17.59%) Test Automation
7 37 (17.13%) Analytics
8 35 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (16.20%) Software Engineering
9 31 (14.35%) Containerisation
9 31 (14.35%) Machine Learning
10 28 (12.96%) Code Quality
11 23 (10.65%) ERP
12 22 (10.19%) Clean Code
12 22 (10.19%) OOP
13 21 (9.72%) Data Analysis
14 20 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.80%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.48%) SQL
2 55 (25.46%) Java
3 52 (24.07%) Python
4 50 (23.15%) C#
5 37 (17.13%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 20 (9.26%) T-SQL
8 18 (8.33%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.09%) Kotlin
10 10 (4.63%) Formula Language
10 10 (4.63%) LotusScript
11 7 (3.24%) Scala
11 7 (3.24%) Swift
12 4 (1.85%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.39%) Groovy
13 3 (1.39%) X++
14 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.93%) Bicep
14 2 (0.93%) C++
Qualifications
1 33 (15.28%) Degree
2 28 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.98%) QA
2 10 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.39%) WCAG
4 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (17.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) OpenAM
2 2 (0.93%) OpenDJ
2 2 (0.93%) OpenIDM
2 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 26 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.17%) Terraform
3 4 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) Ansible
5 1 (0.46%) Istio
5 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (27.78%) Oracle
2 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.72%) Google
4 14 (6.48%) Citrix
5 11 (5.09%) Databricks
6 10 (4.63%) Lotus
7 9 (4.17%) Kofax
8 7 (3.24%) Pega
9 4 (1.85%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.39%) Adobe
10 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.39%) SAP
10 3 (1.39%) Workday
11 2 (0.93%) Apple
11 2 (0.93%) IBM
11 2 (0.93%) Informatica
11 2 (0.93%) Murex
11 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.93%) Sybase
11 2 (0.93%) VMware