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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 150 141
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 18 54 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.61% 0.96% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.15% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 43
10th Percentile £298 £346 £415
25th Percentile £368 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +1.38%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £631
90th Percentile £628 - £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
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 £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +2.77%

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 2,680 4,682 5,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.37% 83.41% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 2,712 3,444
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £616
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 219
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.20
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -8.83% +137.57%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 0 8 £575 -11.54% 99
Berkshire -8 7 £575 -11.61% 59
Surrey +23 4 £415 -20.95% 41
Hampshire +32 3 - - 33
West Sussex +11 3 £338 -38.64% 14
Buckinghamshire +12 1 - - 26
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 (5.56%) JBoss
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.56%) DataStage
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) OLAP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.11%) Codeception
3 2 (11.11%) Moq
3 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 2 (11.11%) Subversion
3 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (16.67%) React Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.56%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) React
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) Laravel
4 2 (11.11%) Phalcon
4 2 (11.11%) Playwright
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) YAML
5 1 (5.56%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) User Experience
3 5 (27.78%) UX Design
4 4 (22.22%) OO
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
4 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) System Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) COBOL
4 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) WCAG
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Snow
2 2 (11.11%) Zend
3 1 (5.56%) Cognos
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Talend