Unit Testing Contracts in Reading

Unit Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing 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 42 42 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 18 50 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 4.19% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.65% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 19
10th Percentile £589 £392 £488
25th Percentile £600 £588 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +17.95%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £700
90th Percentile £670 - £750
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (22.22%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (5.56%) MPLS
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Developer
5 2 (11.11%) React Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
1 6 (33.33%) CSS
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) React
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) NETCONF
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) RESTCONF
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
3 1 (5.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) CentOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) SDLC
5 8 (44.44%) Integration Testing
6 7 (38.89%) System Testing
7 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (33.33%) Clean Code
7 6 (33.33%) CRUD
7 6 (33.33%) Data Migration
7 6 (33.33%) LLM
7 6 (33.33%) Migration
7 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
7 6 (33.33%) Secure Coding
8 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
9 4 (22.22%) Channel Management
9 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (22.22%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Snow