NUnit Contract Job Trends in the South West

NUnit
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring NUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 110 148
Rank change year-on-year -30 +38 +20
Contract jobs citing NUnit 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.064% 0.41% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.51% 3.83% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £358 £500 £577
25th Percentile £369 £513 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year -25.24% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £419 £578 £606
90th Percentile £433 £624 £618
England median daily rate £435 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -17.14% -16.00% -7.41%

All Development Application Skills
South West

NUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 393 183 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.50% 10.70% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 140 211
10th Percentile £393 £385 £425
25th Percentile £450 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £613 £616 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 10 34
10th Percentile £61.25 £58.30 £38.25
25th Percentile - £63.13 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +3.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £81.60 £67.38
90th Percentile £79.68 £84.38 £76.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%

NUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NUnit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

NUnit job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing NUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing NUnit

NUnit
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing NUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing NUnit

NUnit
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NUnit within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
Bristol -23 1 £435 -17.14% 5
Dorset - 1 £350 -
NUnit
England

NUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SysML
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes