Unit Testing Contracts in Scotland

Unit Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 91 82 96
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 25 47 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 2.12% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.39% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 59
10th Percentile £274 £424 £413
25th Percentile £294 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £486 £479
Median % change year-on-year -26.75% +1.46% -4.20%
75th Percentile £473 £544 £532
90th Percentile £488 £592 £574
UK median daily rate £530 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £59.03
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -8 13 £328 -33.47% 10
Edinburgh 0 8 £471 -2.59% 12
Perthshire - 1 - -
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (36.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (20.00%) Serverless
3 4 (16.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (12.00%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (4.00%) Azure
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle Database
1 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.00%) GIS
6 1 (4.00%) DB2
6 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
2 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (36.00%) PVCS
2 9 (36.00%) Subversion
3 5 (20.00%) JUnit
4 4 (16.00%) GitLab
4 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Storybook
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Core Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) e-Learning Developer
7 1 (4.00%) ETL Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle ETL Developer
7 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Java EE
2 7 (28.00%) CSS
3 6 (24.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (24.00%) REST
3 6 (24.00%) Spring
4 5 (20.00%) React
5 4 (16.00%) Kafka
5 4 (16.00%) PostGIS
6 3 (12.00%) Playwright
7 2 (8.00%) .NET
7 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.00%) JMS
7 2 (8.00%) Middleware
7 2 (8.00%) Next.js
7 2 (8.00%) Vitest
8 1 (4.00%) HTML
8 1 (4.00%) Jest
8 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
8 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (4.00%) Equities
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Agile
1 10 (40.00%) ETL
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (36.00%) Technical Analysis
3 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) ETL Development
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (24.00%) Community of Practice
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Data Transformation
7 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) SQL
2 17 (68.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) Python
4 9 (36.00%) C
4 9 (36.00%) PL/SQL
4 9 (36.00%) ProC
5 7 (28.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) Sybase