Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 178 183
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -13
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 168 248 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 1.42% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.60% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 166 262
10th Percentile £375 £378 £421
25th Percentile £413 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -9.38% +2.39%
75th Percentile £688 £635 £700
90th Percentile £794 £726 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 13
10th Percentile - £49.53 -
25th Percentile - £51.44 £50.42
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile - £65.44 £75.00
90th Percentile - £66.23 £87.00
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +2.77%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 May 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 +8 32 £545 -5.22% 9
West London +1 4 £552 +16.83% 18
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.76%) SAS
2 4 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.19%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.19%) Camunda
3 2 (1.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.79%) Shopify
3 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.19%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.19%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.60%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.36%) AWS
2 30 (17.86%) Azure
3 11 (6.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (5.95%) Amazon S3
4 10 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.95%) GitHub
4 10 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.57%) Serverless
6 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (2.98%) CloudFront
6 5 (2.98%) Route 53
7 4 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (1.79%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.79%) GCP
8 3 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) Firewall
1 2 (1.19%) LAN
1 2 (1.19%) Network Security
1 2 (1.19%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.19%) VPN
1 2 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.02%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.12%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.93%) Oracle Database
4 15 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.74%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.55%) MySQL
7 9 (5.36%) Redis
8 6 (3.57%) Power BI
9 5 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.98%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.98%) Tableau
10 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.79%) GIS
11 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (18.45%) Git
2 20 (11.90%) JUnit
3 17 (10.12%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.93%) JIRA
5 13 (7.74%) Maven
6 7 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (4.17%) GitLab
6 7 (4.17%) Mockito
6 7 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.17%) Subversion
7 6 (3.57%) Gradle
8 5 (2.98%) NUnit
8 5 (2.98%) Postman
9 4 (2.38%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.38%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.38%) Xcode
10 3 (1.79%) MLflow
10 3 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.79%) XCTest
General
1 55 (32.74%) Finance
1 55 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.88%) Banking
3 17 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.36%) Front Office
5 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.76%) Retail
6 7 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.38%) Marketing
9 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (64.29%) Developer
2 30 (17.86%) Senior
3 22 (13.10%) Senior Developer
4 18 (10.71%) C# Developer
5 16 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 12 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Lead
9 8 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.17%) Angular Developer
10 7 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) SQL Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (2.98%) Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.02%) .NET
2 24 (14.29%) HTML
2 24 (14.29%) RESTful
3 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
3 22 (13.10%) Spring
4 21 (12.50%) REST
5 19 (11.31%) .NET Framework
6 18 (10.71%) Spring Boot
6 18 (10.71%) Web Services
7 17 (10.12%) Entity Framework
8 14 (8.33%) React
9 13 (7.74%) .NET Core
9 13 (7.74%) CSS
9 13 (7.74%) JPA
9 13 (7.74%) Kafka
10 12 (7.14%) Node.js
11 10 (5.95%) Hibernate
11 10 (5.95%) HTML5
12 9 (5.36%) ASP.NET
13 8 (4.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.76%) Derivative
1 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.17%) N-Tier
3 6 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.98%) PKI
4 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) CMDB
5 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.79%) Equities
6 3 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.12%) Linux
2 9 (5.36%) Unix
3 7 (4.17%) Windows
4 6 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.38%) Android
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.95%) Agile
2 45 (26.79%) CI/CD
2 45 (26.79%) DevOps
3 37 (22.02%) Integration Testing
3 37 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (20.24%) TDD
4 34 (20.24%) Test Automation
5 33 (19.64%) Microservices
6 30 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (17.26%) Software Engineering
8 19 (11.31%) Scrum
9 15 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (8.93%) Code Quality
9 15 (8.93%) Containerisation
9 15 (8.93%) Mentoring
10 14 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 14 (8.33%) MVC
11 13 (7.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.12%) SQL
2 46 (27.38%) C#
3 43 (25.60%) Java
4 40 (23.81%) Python
5 30 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 20 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.36%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.98%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.38%) PHP
9 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.38%) Swift
10 3 (1.79%) Groovy
10 3 (1.79%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.19%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.19%) C++
11 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.19%) VB
11 2 (1.19%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.31%) Degree
4 14 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.98%) MCPD
6 5 (2.98%) MCSD
7 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.19%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.88%) QA
2 6 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.79%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) Basel II
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
System Software
1 28 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 27 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.55%) Terraform
3 3 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Control-M
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (19.05%) Oracle
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.36%) SAP
4 8 (4.76%) Splunk
5 7 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.57%) Databricks
7 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.38%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.79%) Adobe
8 3 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.79%) Murex
8 3 (1.79%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco
9 2 (1.19%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
9 2 (1.19%) OpenText
9 2 (1.19%) RedGate
9 2 (1.19%) Thunderhead
10 1 (0.60%) Ab Initio