JUnit Contracts in the North of England

JUnit
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring JUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JUnit over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 160 179
Rank change year-on-year +29 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing JUnit 35 25 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.52% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.03% 4.95% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 34
10th Percentile £360 £375 £424
25th Percentile £386 £407 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £776 £650 £625
England median daily rate £520 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -1.00% -11.02% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +14.50%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the North of England

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +21 17 £530 +1.92% 16
Yorkshire +10 13 £565 +2.72% 4
North East +4 5 £390 +25.81% 1
JUnit
England

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Slack
2 7 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) Datadog
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (31.43%) MongoDB
3 10 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 10 (28.57%) MySQL
3 10 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Cucumber
2 17 (48.57%) Gradle
2 17 (48.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (48.57%) JIRA
3 15 (42.86%) Git
4 11 (31.43%) Mockito
5 10 (28.57%) Jasmine
5 10 (28.57%) Liquibase
6 7 (20.00%) Maven
6 7 (20.00%) Selenium
7 6 (17.14%) HP UFT
7 6 (17.14%) IntelliJ
8 5 (14.29%) GitLab
9 2 (5.71%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (5.71%) NetBeans
9 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (5.71%) Subversion
General
1 18 (51.43%) Public Sector
2 10 (28.57%) Electronics
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 10 (28.57%) Marketing
2 10 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
1 16 (45.71%) Java Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
3 9 (25.71%) Java Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) React Developer
6 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
7 3 (8.57%) Tester
8 2 (5.71%) QA Tester
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Automation Tester
9 1 (2.86%) Senior SQL Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (74.29%) Spring Boot
2 23 (65.71%) Spring
3 19 (54.29%) Swagger
4 18 (51.43%) OpenAPI
5 15 (42.86%) Kafka
6 12 (34.29%) React
7 11 (31.43%) RESTful
8 9 (25.71%) Spring Security
9 8 (22.86%) Spring Batch
10 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
10 3 (8.57%) Web Services
10 3 (8.57%) WireMock
11 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
11 2 (5.71%) J2EE
11 2 (5.71%) Spring Integration
11 2 (5.71%) Spring MVC
12 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
12 1 (2.86%) HTML5
12 1 (2.86%) Node.js
12 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
1 10 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) TDD
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 24 (68.57%) Microservices
4 21 (60.00%) BDD
5 19 (54.29%) Agile
5 19 (54.29%) Containerisation
6 18 (51.43%) Software Engineering
6 18 (51.43%) Test Automation
7 14 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (40.00%) DevOps
8 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (28.57%) Migration
8 10 (28.57%) Programme Management
9 9 (25.71%) API Design
9 9 (25.71%) Kernel Tuning
9 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
9 9 (25.71%) OWASP
10 8 (22.86%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) Java
2 20 (57.14%) SQL
3 11 (31.43%) TypeScript
4 10 (28.57%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) SC Cleared
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 24 (68.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.86%) Confluent
3 1 (2.86%) New Relic