JUnit Contracts in the North West

JUnit
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 103 124 119
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +40
Contract jobs citing JUnit 17 13 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.47% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.20% 4.32% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 32
10th Percentile £354 £375 £440
25th Percentile £399 £417 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% +16.40%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £586
90th Percentile - £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +17 13 £530 +1.92% 10
Cheshire - 4 £391 - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (11.76%) Slack
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Datadog
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (58.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Gradle
2 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
3 11 (64.71%) Mockito
4 10 (58.82%) Liquibase
5 5 (29.41%) GitLab
6 4 (23.53%) JIRA
7 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
7 3 (17.65%) Maven
8 2 (11.76%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Git
8 2 (11.76%) HP UFT
8 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
8 2 (11.76%) Jasmine
8 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
8 2 (11.76%) Selenium
8 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 12 (70.59%) Public Sector
2 10 (58.82%) Electronics
2 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 10 (58.82%) Manufacturing
2 10 (58.82%) Marketing
2 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
1 8 (47.06%) Java Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Java Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) React Developer
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 15 (88.24%) Kafka
3 14 (82.35%) Spring
4 12 (70.59%) OpenAPI
4 12 (70.59%) React
4 12 (70.59%) Swagger
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
6 2 (11.76%) J2EE
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Batch
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Security
6 2 (11.76%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) Ajax
7 1 (5.88%) CSS
7 1 (5.88%) HTML
7 1 (5.88%) HTML5
7 1 (5.88%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
1 16 (94.12%) Microservices
2 15 (88.24%) TDD
3 14 (82.35%) Agile
4 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
5 10 (58.82%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (58.82%) DevOps
5 10 (58.82%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (58.82%) Migration
5 10 (58.82%) Programme Management
5 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
6 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
7 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (29.41%) BDD
8 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
8 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
9 4 (23.53%) Scrum
10 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
11 2 (11.76%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (70.59%) SQL
3 11 (64.71%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) New Relic