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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 82 104
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 28 41 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 1.92% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.18% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 49
10th Percentile £274 £418 £424
25th Percentile £300 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -0.92% -5.57%
75th Percentile £471 £513 £538
90th Percentile £487 £591 £574
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.43% -8.65% +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% - +8.33%

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 1,525 1,884 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.73% 88.04% 92.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,158 1,766
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 92 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.07 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 -17 17 £328 -31.52% 23
Edinburgh +5 8 £466 -3.72% 12
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 (32.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (25.00%) Serverless
3 5 (17.86%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (17.86%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (7.14%) CloudFront
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (32.14%) MongoDB
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle Database
3 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (17.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (10.71%) GIS
7 2 (7.14%) MySQL
8 1 (3.57%) DB2
8 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) JIRA
2 9 (32.14%) JUnit
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (32.14%) PVCS
2 9 (32.14%) Subversion
3 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Gradle
4 2 (7.14%) Maven
4 2 (7.14%) Mockito
4 2 (7.14%) Storybook
General
1 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Data Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) ETL Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle ETL Developer
8 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
1 10 (35.71%) Spring
2 9 (32.14%) Java EE
3 8 (28.57%) AWS CDK
4 7 (25.00%) CSS
5 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 6 (21.43%) Kafka
5 6 (21.43%) REST
6 5 (17.86%) PostGIS
7 3 (10.71%) RESTful
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
8 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 2 (7.14%) Jest
8 2 (7.14%) JMS
8 2 (7.14%) JPA
8 2 (7.14%) Playwright
8 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
8 2 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) ETL
2 10 (35.71%) Microservices
3 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
3 9 (32.14%) Technical Analysis
4 8 (28.57%) Community of Practice
4 8 (28.57%) ETL Development
5 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
6 6 (21.43%) SDLC
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.86%) Inclusive Design
7 5 (17.86%) Micro Frontends
7 5 (17.86%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) Java
2 17 (60.71%) SQL
3 10 (35.71%) Python
4 9 (32.14%) C
4 9 (32.14%) PL/SQL
4 9 (32.14%) ProC
5 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Dynatrace
2 5 (17.86%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Sybase