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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 201 161
Rank change year-on-year -44 -40 +19
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 202 174 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.29% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.40% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 121 205
10th Percentile £300 £362 £400
25th Percentile £415 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £668 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £57.20 - £49.93
25th Percentile £67.63 - £52.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £57.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £61.44
90th Percentile - - £63.58
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 0 39 £538 +27.98% 13
West London -12 10 £611 +10.60% 11
East London - 1 - -
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 6 (2.97%) Apache
1 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.97%) Confluence
1 6 (2.97%) Ethereum
1 6 (2.97%) Hyperledger
2 4 (1.98%) Mendix
3 3 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.49%) IIS
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.99%) HFM
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.50%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.24%) Azure
2 32 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (13.86%) AWS
4 25 (12.38%) GitHub
5 17 (8.42%) Serverless
6 12 (5.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.96%) GCP
10 7 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.97%) OCI
12 5 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.48%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.48%) PaaS
13 4 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.94%) Internet
2 7 (3.47%) HTTP
3 2 (0.99%) Intranet
4 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.50%) DSL
4 1 (0.50%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.30%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.45%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.98%) Power BI
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.49%) Metadata
10 2 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.99%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.99%) Db2
10 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.99%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (20.30%) Git
2 26 (12.87%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.40%) JIRA
4 17 (8.42%) JUnit
5 11 (5.45%) GitLab
6 9 (4.46%) Selenium
6 9 (4.46%) Visual Studio
7 8 (3.96%) Gradle
7 8 (3.96%) MSTest
8 6 (2.97%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.97%) Postman
9 5 (2.48%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.48%) Maven
9 5 (2.48%) Mockito
9 5 (2.48%) NUnit
10 4 (1.98%) JMeter
10 4 (1.98%) Mocha
10 4 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.98%) Xcode
General
1 57 (28.22%) Finance
2 46 (22.77%) Banking
3 40 (19.80%) Social Skills
4 33 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.47%) Front Office
7 4 (1.98%) Legal
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Military
8 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.99%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (0.99%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (51.49%) Developer
2 58 (28.71%) Senior
3 24 (11.88%) C# Developer
4 22 (10.89%) Senior Developer
5 20 (9.90%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.94%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.46%) Informatica Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Consultant
10 7 (3.47%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Lead
10 7 (3.47%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.97%) Integration Specialist
11 6 (2.97%) iOS Developer
11 6 (2.97%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.26%) .NET
2 43 (21.29%) REST
3 37 (18.32%) RESTful
4 29 (14.36%) .NET Framework
5 27 (13.37%) Spring
5 27 (13.37%) Spring Boot
6 22 (10.89%) React
7 19 (9.41%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.41%) JSON
8 18 (8.91%) pytest
9 17 (8.42%) CSS
9 17 (8.42%) HTML
9 17 (8.42%) Kafka
9 17 (8.42%) SOAP
10 13 (6.44%) XML
11 12 (5.94%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.94%) OAuth
12 10 (4.95%) Web Services
13 9 (4.46%) Next.js
13 9 (4.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.92%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.94%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.97%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.49%) CMDB
9 3 (1.49%) Equities
9 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.99%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.92%) Windows
2 13 (6.44%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.96%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.97%) Unix
5 5 (2.48%) Android
6 4 (1.98%) Linux
7 2 (0.99%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.04%) CI/CD
2 82 (40.59%) Agile
3 77 (38.12%) DevOps
4 45 (22.28%) Microservices
5 40 (19.80%) Software Engineering
6 39 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (17.82%) AI
7 36 (17.82%) Scrum
8 30 (14.85%) Integration Testing
9 29 (14.36%) Clean Code
10 28 (13.86%) TDD
10 28 (13.86%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (12.87%) Design Patterns
11 26 (12.87%) Test Automation
12 25 (12.38%) Code Quality
12 25 (12.38%) OOP
13 24 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (11.88%) Validation
14 21 (10.40%) Observability
15 20 (9.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 75 (37.13%) SQL
2 51 (25.25%) C#
3 43 (21.29%) Python
4 39 (19.31%) Java
5 27 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.88%) T-SQL
7 22 (10.89%) PL/SQL
7 22 (10.89%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.95%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.96%) Swift
10 7 (3.47%) Scala
11 4 (1.98%) Bicep
12 2 (0.99%) ABAP
12 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.99%) C
12 2 (0.99%) Formula Language
12 2 (0.99%) LotusScript
12 2 (0.99%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.99%) ProC
12 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.40%) Degree
4 10 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.48%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.99%) ACCA
6 2 (0.99%) CIMA
7 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (29.21%) QA
2 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.49%) WCAG
4 2 (0.99%) Basel III
4 2 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (18.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 33 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (20.79%) Oracle
2 36 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.43%) Citrix
4 11 (5.45%) Informatica
5 7 (3.47%) Avaloq
5 7 (3.47%) Pega
6 6 (2.97%) SAP
7 4 (1.98%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.49%) HP
8 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.49%) Workday
9 2 (0.99%) Foundry
9 2 (0.99%) Google
9 2 (0.99%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.99%) IBM
9 2 (0.99%) Kofax
9 2 (0.99%) Lotus
9 2 (0.99%) Sybase
10 1 (0.50%) Splunk