Unit Testing Contracts in the South East

Unit Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 121 143 162
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 38 62 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 1.12% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.31% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 40
10th Percentile £376 £356 £412
25th Percentile £578 £525 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -2.78%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £601
90th Percentile £728 - £748
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +12 23 £625 -1.19% 16
Berkshire +1 20 £625 -3.85% 11
Surrey +21 6 £415 -17.00% 6
West Sussex +12 5 £725 +31.82% 4
Hampshire +28 3 - - 9
Oxfordshire +6 2 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +14 1 - - 2
Kent - 1 £375 - 4
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.53%) SaaS
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Stack
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) OCI
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) BGP
1 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.63%) MPLS
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle Database
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Big Data
3 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.63%) DataStage
5 1 (2.63%) Metadata
5 1 (2.63%) OLAP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Selenium
3 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 4 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.26%) Codeception
4 2 (5.26%) Moq
4 2 (5.26%) Postman
4 2 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.26%) Subversion
4 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) NUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.63%) VectorCAST
General
1 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.26%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.26%) React Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) .NET
2 10 (26.32%) CSS
2 10 (26.32%) HTML
3 6 (15.79%) React
4 5 (13.16%) YAML
5 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.53%) RESTful
6 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.89%) JSON
6 3 (7.89%) REST
6 3 (7.89%) XML
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.26%) Bootstrap
7 2 (5.26%) Laravel
7 2 (5.26%) Phalcon
7 2 (5.26%) Vue
7 2 (5.26%) Web Services
8 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
8 1 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) DevOps
2 24 (63.16%) Agile
3 17 (44.74%) Software Testing
4 11 (28.95%) SDLC
4 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
5 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.05%) Integration Testing
7 8 (21.05%) Product Backlog
7 8 (21.05%) System Testing
8 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.42%) Secure Coding
9 6 (15.79%) Clean Code
9 6 (15.79%) CRUD
9 6 (15.79%) Data Migration
9 6 (15.79%) LLM
9 6 (15.79%) Migration
9 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.79%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) SQL
2 13 (34.21%) C#
3 12 (31.58%) Python
4 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.79%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) Java
8 2 (5.26%) C
8 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
8 2 (5.26%) PHP
9 1 (2.63%) COBOL
9 1 (2.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.26%) ISO 26262
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) DO-178B
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Snow
4 2 (5.26%) Zend
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Cognos
5 1 (2.63%) IBM
5 1 (2.63%) Talend