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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 112 122
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 +41
Contract jobs citing JUnit 38 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.72% 0.42% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.21% 4.50% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 24
10th Percentile £268 £375 £410
25th Percentile £318 £501 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £510 - £606
90th Percentile £545 £650 £625
England median daily rate £473 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -14.09% -4.35% -0.86%
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 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 339 222 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.35% 9.39% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 147 244
10th Percentile £313 £323 £359
25th Percentile £361 £379 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £625
90th Percentile £636 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 26
10th Percentile £64.65 £27.73 £38.70
25th Percentile £70.12 £37.55 £45.96
Median hourly rate £73.75 £43.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +70.51% -6.34% -38.43%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.11 £64.69
90th Percentile £80.70 £53.82 £77.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.70%

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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 9 August 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 9 August 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
Cheshire - 18 £364 - 1
Manchester +2 15 £530 -3.64% 3
Merseyside - 5 £510 - 2
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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 8 (21.05%) JBoss
1 8 (21.05%) Tomcat
2 5 (13.16%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Mule
3 1 (2.63%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) OpenShift
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) Azure
4 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (26.32%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (71.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (55.26%) Gradle
3 17 (44.74%) JIRA
4 16 (42.11%) GitLab
5 14 (36.84%) Mockito
6 13 (34.21%) Git
6 13 (34.21%) Maven
7 10 (26.32%) Cucumber
7 10 (26.32%) Liquibase
7 10 (26.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (15.79%) Bitbucket
9 5 (13.16%) Selenium
10 4 (10.53%) Postman
10 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
11 3 (7.89%) IntelliJ
12 2 (5.26%) Android Studio
12 2 (5.26%) CA Release Automation
12 2 (5.26%) HP UFT
12 2 (5.26%) NetBeans
12 2 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
1 14 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Electronics
3 10 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 10 (26.32%) Marketing
3 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (78.95%) Developer
2 26 (68.42%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Java Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Developer
5 5 (13.16%) React Developer
5 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Developer in Test
7 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (89.47%) Spring Boot
2 33 (86.84%) Spring
3 23 (60.53%) React
4 19 (50.00%) Kafka
5 13 (34.21%) RESTful
6 12 (31.58%) REST
7 10 (26.32%) OpenAPI
7 10 (26.32%) Swagger
8 7 (18.42%) SOAP
9 6 (15.79%) Hibernate
9 6 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
10 5 (13.16%) HTML
10 5 (13.16%) jQuery
10 5 (13.16%) JSON
10 5 (13.16%) Spring MVC
11 4 (10.53%) CSS
11 4 (10.53%) J2EE
11 4 (10.53%) Node.js
11 4 (10.53%) POJO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 2 (5.26%) Android
4 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) Microservices
2 26 (68.42%) Agile
3 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
4 21 (55.26%) TDD
5 18 (47.37%) DevOps
6 15 (39.47%) Containerisation
6 15 (39.47%) Migration
7 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
9 10 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (26.32%) Programme Management
10 9 (23.68%) API Development
10 9 (23.68%) MVC
10 9 (23.68%) Scrum
11 8 (21.05%) Design Patterns
12 6 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (15.79%) SDLC
12 6 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
12 6 (15.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (57.89%) SQL
3 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
4 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) Python
7 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) SAP
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) Veracode
5 2 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk