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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 150 211
Rank change year-on-year -56 +61 -58
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 183 264 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.74% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.94% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 163 151
10th Percentile £374 £357 £450
25th Percentile £415 £493 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -9.92% -1.11%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £725
90th Percentile £790 £773 £770
England median daily rate £498 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -14.78% -2.71% -0.25%
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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 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 16 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 0 26 £550 -18.52% 6
South London -4 2 £850 +13.33%
West London -18 2 £552 +11.41% 3
East London - 2 £450 - 4
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 (9.29%) Confluence
2 8 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.28%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.73%) HCL Notes
5 5 (2.73%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.19%) Mendix
7 3 (1.64%) CMS
8 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (1.09%) Apache
9 1 (0.55%) Appian
9 1 (0.55%) Camunda
9 1 (0.55%) CICS
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.55%) Drupal
9 1 (0.55%) IIS
9 1 (0.55%) JBoss
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.09%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.09%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.03%) AWS
2 32 (17.49%) Azure
3 26 (14.21%) GitHub
4 24 (13.11%) GCP
5 17 (9.29%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.74%) OCI
6 16 (8.74%) PaaS
7 12 (6.56%) Serverless
8 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.01%) IaaS
9 10 (5.46%) Cloud Run
10 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (3.83%) Firebase
12 6 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.28%) Figma
12 6 (3.28%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.28%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Bluetooth
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 26 (14.21%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.74%) Oracle Database
4 15 (8.20%) Power BI
5 13 (7.10%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.37%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.83%) BigQuery
7 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.73%) Redis
9 4 (2.19%) DB2
9 4 (2.19%) MySQL
10 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.64%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.64%) Power Query
11 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.09%) SQLite
11 2 (1.09%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 53 (28.96%) Git
2 26 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 26 (14.21%) JIRA
3 22 (12.02%) Postman
4 19 (10.38%) JUnit
5 11 (6.01%) Maven
5 11 (6.01%) SpecFlow
6 10 (5.46%) Xcode
7 9 (4.92%) Mockito
7 9 (4.92%) Visual Studio
8 8 (4.37%) SoapUI
8 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.83%) Bitbucket
10 6 (3.28%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.28%) MLflow
11 5 (2.73%) Android Studio
11 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.73%) GitLab
11 5 (2.73%) REST Assured
11 5 (2.73%) XCTest
General
1 56 (30.60%) Finance
2 44 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.85%) Banking
4 24 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (7.65%) Front Office
7 10 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) French Language
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 103 (56.28%) Developer
2 35 (19.13%) Senior
3 24 (13.11%) Senior Developer
4 23 (12.57%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.20%) C# Developer
7 14 (7.65%) Angular Developer
7 14 (7.65%) Python Developer
8 12 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Cloud Specialist
9 10 (5.46%) Integration Specialist
9 10 (5.46%) Oracle Specialist
10 8 (4.37%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Agile Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Lead
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (3.83%) Android Developer
11 7 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.58%) REST
2 32 (17.49%) .NET
3 27 (14.75%) React
4 26 (14.21%) CSS
5 24 (13.11%) HTML
6 23 (12.57%) Web Services
7 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
7 22 (12.02%) RESTful
8 20 (10.93%) .NET Framework
8 20 (10.93%) SOAP
9 17 (9.29%) JSON
9 17 (9.29%) Spring
10 16 (8.74%) pytest
10 16 (8.74%) Spring Boot
11 15 (8.20%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (7.65%) Playwright
13 13 (7.10%) Entity Framework
13 13 (7.10%) FastAPI
13 13 (7.10%) Node.js
14 11 (6.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.10%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.10%) Life Science
3 11 (6.01%) Genomics
3 11 (6.01%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.28%) Augmented Reality
6 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.28%) Virtual Reality
7 5 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.19%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.64%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Android
2 12 (6.56%) Apple iOS
3 11 (6.01%) Linux
4 10 (5.46%) Unix
5 8 (4.37%) Windows
5 8 (4.37%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.83%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.55%) tvOS
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (47.54%) Agile
2 57 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 57 (31.15%) DevOps
3 44 (24.04%) Test Automation
4 42 (22.95%) Microservices
4 42 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (21.86%) Software Engineering
6 38 (20.77%) Scrum
7 31 (16.94%) Clean Code
8 30 (16.39%) Analytics
9 28 (15.30%) AI
9 28 (15.30%) Containerisation
9 28 (15.30%) TDD
10 27 (14.75%) Machine Learning
11 26 (14.21%) Code Quality
12 22 (12.02%) Integration Testing
13 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (10.93%) Natural Language Processing
15 19 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (10.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.15%) SQL
2 56 (30.60%) Java
3 40 (21.86%) Python
4 34 (18.58%) C#
5 32 (17.49%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.92%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.83%) C++
9 7 (3.83%) Groovy
10 5 (2.73%) Formula Language
10 5 (2.73%) LotusScript
10 5 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.73%) Swift
11 4 (2.19%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.64%) X++
13 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (18.58%) Degree
2 26 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.09%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.11%) QA
2 11 (6.01%) 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 38 (20.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.09%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.09%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.46%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.09%) 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 42 (22.95%) Oracle
2 23 (12.57%) Google
3 14 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.46%) Databricks
5 7 (3.83%) Citrix
6 5 (2.73%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.73%) Lotus
6 5 (2.73%) SAP
6 5 (2.73%) Splunk
7 4 (2.19%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.19%) Kofax
8 3 (1.64%) Adobe
8 3 (1.64%) Apple
8 3 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.64%) Pega
8 3 (1.64%) Workday
9 2 (1.09%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.09%) Marketo
9 2 (1.09%) Temenos