Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 177 170
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -38
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 234 369 678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.34% 1.43% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.57% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 271 495
10th Percentile £378 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.61% +7.36%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £700
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £548 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -5.19% +5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile £54.85 - -
25th Percentile £58.38 £50.42 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -2.26%
75th Percentile £65.88 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.40 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +25.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024. 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 +30 30 £575 -8.95% 13
West London +31 15 £473 -37.00% 7
South London -3 1 - - 2
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 16 (6.84%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.85%) Confluence
3 5 (2.14%) CMS
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.28%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.28%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.28%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.28%) SAP VC
3 2 (0.85%) Advent Geneva
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.85%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.85%) SAP R/3
3 2 (0.85%) Shopify
4 1 (0.43%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.43%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.43%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.93%) AWS
2 41 (17.52%) Azure
3 27 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.11%) GCP
5 15 (6.41%) GitHub
6 14 (5.98%) Serverless
7 11 (4.70%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.70%) dbt
8 8 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.99%) PaaS
10 6 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.56%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.14%) NuGet
12 4 (1.71%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) HTTP
2 4 (1.71%) SSL
3 2 (0.85%) BGP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.85%) MPLS
3 2 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) Multicast
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 27 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.12%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (4.70%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (3.42%) Big Data
10 8 (3.42%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (2.99%) MySQL
12 6 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.56%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.14%) Apache Hive
13 5 (2.14%) HBase
14 4 (1.71%) Mixpanel
14 4 (1.71%) Redis
15 3 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 58 (24.79%) Git
2 18 (7.69%) JIRA
3 16 (6.84%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.13%) JUnit
5 10 (4.27%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.85%) Selenium
7 8 (3.42%) NUnit
8 7 (2.99%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.99%) Maven
8 7 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (2.56%) Jasmine
10 5 (2.14%) Gatling
10 5 (2.14%) GitLab
10 5 (2.14%) Subversion
10 5 (2.14%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.71%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.71%) git-flow
11 4 (1.71%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (1.71%) Mercurial
11 4 (1.71%) ScalaTest
General
1 52 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.79%) Finance
3 29 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.84%) Banking
6 7 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Retail
8 5 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.71%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Front Office
10 3 (1.28%) Law
10 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.28%) Wearables
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 153 (65.38%) Developer
2 36 (15.38%) Senior
3 25 (10.68%) C# Developer
4 22 (9.40%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.55%) Java Developer
6 17 (7.26%) Lead
7 16 (6.84%) .NET Developer
8 15 (6.41%) Angular Developer
8 15 (6.41%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (5.13%) Scala Developer
11 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (3.85%) SQL Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) React Developer
15 7 (2.99%) AWS Developer
15 7 (2.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 7 (2.99%) Python Developer
16 6 (2.56%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.94%) REST
2 46 (19.66%) .NET
3 36 (15.38%) RESTful
4 35 (14.96%) React
5 34 (14.53%) Kafka
6 32 (13.68%) AngularJS
7 30 (12.82%) Spring
8 24 (10.26%) .NET Core
8 24 (10.26%) HTML
8 24 (10.26%) Spring Boot
8 24 (10.26%) Web Services
9 18 (7.69%) CSS
9 18 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 18 (7.69%) JPA
10 15 (6.41%) .NET Framework
11 14 (5.98%) SOAP
12 13 (5.56%) Node.js
13 12 (5.13%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.13%) jQuery
14 11 (4.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.27%) Algorithms
2 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.14%) iPad
4 5 (2.14%) iPhone
4 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.28%) LIMS
6 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Wiki
7 2 (0.85%) Derivative
7 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.85%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.84%) Unix
2 14 (5.98%) Linux
3 7 (2.99%) Android
3 7 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.14%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (42.31%) Agile
2 66 (28.21%) DevOps
3 62 (26.50%) TDD
4 56 (23.93%) CI/CD
5 50 (21.37%) Test Automation
6 45 (19.23%) Microservices
7 43 (18.38%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (15.81%) Scrum
8 37 (15.81%) Software Engineering
9 33 (14.10%) OO
10 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (11.54%) Front End Development
11 27 (11.54%) High Availability
12 26 (11.11%) Design Patterns
13 24 (10.26%) Integration Testing
14 23 (9.83%) BDD
14 23 (9.83%) ETL
15 21 (8.97%) Full Stack Development
15 21 (8.97%) MVC
16 20 (8.55%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.04%) SQL
2 70 (29.91%) Java
3 54 (23.08%) Python
4 50 (21.37%) C#
5 42 (17.95%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.53%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.97%) Scala
8 18 (7.69%) C++
9 13 (5.56%) PL/SQL
10 11 (4.70%) Kotlin
11 10 (4.27%) C
12 8 (3.42%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.99%) Go
14 6 (2.56%) Perl
14 6 (2.56%) Swift
15 5 (2.14%) Bicep
15 5 (2.14%) Objective-C
15 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
15 5 (2.14%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (13.25%) SC Cleared
1 31 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.97%) Degree
3 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.70%) QA
3 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.71%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) MiFID
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (18.80%) Docker
2 5 (2.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.98%) Terraform
3 11 (4.70%) Grafana
4 5 (2.14%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.85%) Istio
5 2 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.43%) Podman
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) systemd
Vendors
1 24 (10.26%) Oracle
2 19 (8.12%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.98%) SAP
4 12 (5.13%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) Databricks
5 6 (2.56%) Typelevel
6 5 (2.14%) Adobe
6 5 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
8 3 (1.28%) IBM
8 3 (1.28%) Informatica
8 3 (1.28%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.85%) Advent
9 2 (0.85%) ESRI
9 2 (0.85%) Eze Castle Integration
9 2 (0.85%) Sybase
9 2 (0.85%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.85%) Xamarin