Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unit Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.22% - 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% - 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 - £540
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 160 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.80% 91.43% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 67 99
10th Percentile £185 £320 £345
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £600
90th Percentile £638 £678 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £474 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.28% -7.22% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Mocha
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Open Source Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat