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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 144 159
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -32
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 56 71 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 1.25% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.41% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 76
10th Percentile £360 £414 £394
25th Percentile £497 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +20.22%
75th Percentile £688 £693 £650
90th Percentile - £750 -
England median daily rate £550 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £62.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £64.13
75th Percentile - - £68.19
90th Percentile - - £69.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.72%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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 +8 47 £625 +4.17% 21
Berkshire +3 44 £625 -1.96% 9
West Sussex +7 6 £550 +10.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +23 2 £394 -10.00% 2
Surrey +16 2 £525 +5.00% 7
Oxfordshire -8 1 - - 10
Hampshire -16 1 - - 14
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 6 (10.71%) Apache
1 6 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 16 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 16 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (23.21%) AWS
3 13 (23.21%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (23.21%) Azure Functions
3 13 (23.21%) Serverless
4 10 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (5.36%) OCI
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
8 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) BGP
1 6 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (10.71%) MPLS
1 6 (10.71%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (10.71%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.71%) NoSQL
2 18 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (25.00%) Oracle Database
4 11 (19.64%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 3 (5.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (5.36%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (5.36%) SQLPlus
8 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.79%) Big Data
9 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (46.43%) Git
2 11 (19.64%) JIRA
3 7 (12.50%) GitLab
3 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.71%) Robot Framework
4 6 (10.71%) Selenium
4 6 (10.71%) TestRail
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.79%) JMeter
6 1 (1.79%) JUnit
6 1 (1.79%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) MSTest
6 1 (1.79%) NUnit
6 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) Subversion
6 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing
4 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (71.43%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Azure Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Full Stack Developer
3 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.36%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) React
2 11 (19.64%) REST
3 7 (12.50%) SOAP
4 6 (10.71%) .NET
4 6 (10.71%) HTML
4 6 (10.71%) NETCONF
4 6 (10.71%) RESTCONF
4 6 (10.71%) YANG
5 5 (8.93%) CSS
6 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 4 (7.14%) XML
7 3 (5.36%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.57%) Node.js
8 2 (3.57%) OAuth
8 2 (3.57%) OpenID
9 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Life Science
2 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (5.36%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (62.50%) Agile
2 34 (60.71%) DevOps
3 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (33.93%) Software Engineering
5 18 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 17 (30.36%) Clean Code
7 16 (28.57%) Scrum
8 15 (26.79%) Microservices
9 14 (25.00%) Software Testing
10 13 (23.21%) Change Management
10 13 (23.21%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (23.21%) SDLC
11 12 (21.43%) Product Backlog
12 11 (19.64%) Architectural Design
12 11 (19.64%) Data Migration
12 11 (19.64%) Migration
12 11 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (19.64%) Secure Coding
13 10 (17.86%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) SQL
2 23 (41.07%) Python
3 18 (32.14%) PL/SQL
4 8 (14.29%) C#
4 8 (14.29%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.93%) Bash
6 5 (8.93%) Perl
7 4 (7.14%) C
8 3 (5.36%) C++
9 2 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (3.57%) PHP
9 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.79%) Scala
10 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Kibana
2 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.79%) Puppet
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Avaloq
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.79%) Splunk