JUnit Contract Job Trends in the North of England

JUnit
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring JUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 144 165
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +59
Contract jobs citing JUnit 36 23 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.58% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.13% 4.14% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 19
10th Percentile £270 £369 £430
25th Percentile £314 £431 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £485 £600 £563
90th Percentile £575 - £600
England median daily rate £475 £550 £522
% change year-on-year -13.64% +5.36% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.25 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 872 555 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.39% 14.00% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 358 423
10th Percentile £325 £334 £350
25th Percentile £381 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 41
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.38 - -
Median hourly rate £59.20 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.19% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £70.12 £49.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.33 £66.90 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

JUnit job vacancy trend in the North of England

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JUnit

JUnit
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 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the North of England

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JUnit

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 10 November 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 +6 26 £369 -15.77% 2
Yorkshire -31 10 £423 -29.58% 3
JUnit
England

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (19.44%) JBoss
1 7 (19.44%) Tomcat
2 4 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Mule
3 1 (2.78%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) OpenShift
4 6 (16.67%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Git
1 17 (47.22%) Jenkins
2 15 (41.67%) Maven
3 14 (38.89%) GitLab
3 14 (38.89%) JIRA
4 13 (36.11%) Cucumber
5 11 (30.56%) Gradle
6 9 (25.00%) Selenium
6 9 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (22.22%) Postman
8 7 (19.44%) Mockito
9 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
9 6 (16.67%) TestNG
10 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
10 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
11 3 (8.33%) JMeter
11 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
12 2 (5.56%) Android Studio
12 2 (5.56%) Log4j
12 2 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Developer
2 22 (61.11%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
4 8 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (13.89%) AWS Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Android Developer
7 3 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Android Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Developer in Test
9 1 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Android Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) Spring
2 24 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 20 (55.56%) RESTful
4 15 (41.67%) React
5 11 (30.56%) REST
6 9 (25.00%) Kafka
7 7 (19.44%) Hibernate
7 7 (19.44%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (16.67%) JSON
8 6 (16.67%) SOAP
9 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (13.89%) jQuery
9 5 (13.89%) POJO
9 5 (13.89%) Thymeleaf
10 4 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
10 4 (11.11%) HTML
10 4 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
10 4 (11.11%) Node.js
10 4 (11.11%) Web Services
11 3 (8.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Microservices
2 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 18 (50.00%) Agile
4 14 (38.89%) TDD
5 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (33.33%) DevOps
7 10 (27.78%) Design Patterns
7 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
8 8 (22.22%) API Development
8 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 8 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (19.44%) Scrum
9 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
10 6 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (16.67%) MVC
10 6 (16.67%) SDLC
11 5 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (13.89%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 34 (94.44%) Java
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 4 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 7 (19.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Veracode
4 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk