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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 132 206
Rank change year-on-year -93 +74 -63
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 161 304 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.93% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.17% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 196 175
10th Percentile £370 £366 £455
25th Percentile £408 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £630
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.70% +0.80%
75th Percentile £719 £651 £746
90th Percentile £821 £738 £788
England median daily rate £495 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.91% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £67.62
25th Percentile £51.75 £48.25 £79.06
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% -45.00% +30.91%
75th Percentile £61.25 £50.75 -
90th Percentile - - £92.25
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 12,878 14,024 18,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.35% 89.20% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 9,048 13,116
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.06% -2.84%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 254
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 16 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 16 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 0 30 £525 -12.43% 50
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London - 2 £850 -
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 17 (10.56%) Confluence
2 7 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.11%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.86%) CMS
6 2 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.62%) Apache
7 1 (0.62%) Camunda
7 1 (0.62%) CICS
7 1 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.62%) Drupal
7 1 (0.62%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.62%) JBoss
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.62%) Traefik
7 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.48%) OpenText MBPM
2 4 (2.48%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.24%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.24%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.24%) SAP VC
3 2 (1.24%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.62%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.62%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.39%) Azure
2 26 (16.15%) AWS
2 26 (16.15%) GitHub
3 21 (13.04%) GCP
4 12 (7.45%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.21%) Cloud Run
6 9 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.97%) Firebase
7 8 (4.97%) OCI
7 8 (4.97%) PaaS
8 7 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.35%) IaaS
9 6 (3.73%) Figma
9 6 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.48%) Google Play
11 3 (1.86%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.86%) SaaS
11 3 (1.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.24%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.62%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.07%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.83%) Power BI
5 9 (5.59%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.59%) Oracle Database
6 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.11%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.11%) Redis
8 4 (2.48%) DB2
8 4 (2.48%) MySQL
9 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.24%) Power Query
9 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.24%) SQLite
10 1 (0.62%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.62%) Hasura
10 1 (0.62%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.62%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 55 (34.16%) Git
2 27 (16.77%) JIRA
3 20 (12.42%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.56%) JUnit
5 13 (8.07%) Postman
6 12 (7.45%) SpecFlow
7 11 (6.83%) Maven
8 10 (6.21%) Xcode
9 9 (5.59%) Mockito
10 8 (4.97%) Bitbucket
11 7 (4.35%) Cypress.io
11 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
12 6 (3.73%) Android Studio
12 6 (3.73%) Visual Studio
13 5 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (3.11%) Cucumber
13 5 (3.11%) REST Assured
13 5 (3.11%) SoapUI
13 5 (3.11%) Subversion
13 5 (3.11%) XCTest
General
1 51 (31.68%) Finance
2 38 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.25%) Banking
4 18 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (8.07%) Front Office
7 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.24%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Billing
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) French Language
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 95 (59.01%) Developer
2 31 (19.25%) Senior
3 21 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 20 (12.42%) Java Developer
5 17 (10.56%) Software Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Angular Developer
6 15 (9.32%) C# Developer
7 14 (8.70%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.21%) .NET Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Lead
10 8 (4.97%) Agile Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Android Developer
11 7 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.11%) Agile .NET Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Agile C# Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.25%) .NET
2 29 (18.01%) CSS
3 27 (16.77%) HTML
3 27 (16.77%) React
4 24 (14.91%) REST
4 24 (14.91%) RESTful
5 23 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 19 (11.80%) .NET Framework
7 17 (10.56%) Node.js
8 15 (9.32%) Playwright
8 15 (9.32%) pytest
8 15 (9.32%) Spring
8 15 (9.32%) Web Services
9 14 (8.70%) Entity Framework
9 14 (8.70%) FastAPI
9 14 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 12 (7.45%) HTML5
10 12 (7.45%) NHibernate
10 12 (7.45%) SOAP
11 10 (6.21%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.32%) Mobile App
2 14 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.07%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.45%) Life Science
5 11 (6.83%) Genomics
6 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.35%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.11%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.11%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.86%) Animation
10 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.86%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.94%) Android
2 13 (8.07%) Apple iOS
3 10 (6.21%) Linux
4 9 (5.59%) Unix
5 7 (4.35%) Windows
6 6 (3.73%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.11%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.62%) tvOS
8 1 (0.62%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.17%) Agile
2 47 (29.19%) CI/CD
3 43 (26.71%) DevOps
4 40 (24.84%) Scrum
5 38 (23.60%) Microservices
6 37 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (22.36%) Test Automation
8 34 (21.12%) Software Engineering
9 32 (19.88%) Clean Code
10 27 (16.77%) Analytics
11 26 (16.15%) TDD
12 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.66%) Code Quality
14 21 (13.04%) Containerisation
14 21 (13.04%) Machine Learning
15 20 (12.42%) AI
16 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
17 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (10.56%) SDLC
17 17 (10.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (30.43%) Java
1 49 (30.43%) SQL
2 33 (20.50%) C#
2 33 (20.50%) Python
3 31 (19.25%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.56%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.94%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.73%) C++
6 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.11%) Groovy
7 5 (3.11%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.11%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.11%) Swift
8 4 (2.48%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.24%) ABAP
9 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.24%) X++
10 1 (0.62%) Go
10 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (19.25%) Degree
2 16 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.42%) QA
2 13 (8.07%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) HL7
3 1 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (21.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.21%) Terraform
3 2 (1.24%) Ansible
3 2 (1.24%) Grafana
3 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.62%) Control-M
4 1 (0.62%) Istio
4 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.62%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Oracle
2 22 (13.66%) Google
3 7 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.73%) SAP
5 5 (3.11%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (3.11%) Databricks
5 5 (3.11%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.11%) Splunk
6 4 (2.48%) Citrix
6 4 (2.48%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.48%) OpenText
7 3 (1.86%) Adobe
7 3 (1.86%) Apple
7 3 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.86%) Workday
8 2 (1.24%) Marketo
8 2 (1.24%) Pega
8 2 (1.24%) Temenos
8 2 (1.24%) VMware
9 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow