Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -34 +22 +43
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 11 55 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 2.47% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.91% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 45 29
10th Percentile £290 £518 £513
25th Percentile £356 £570 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £699
90th Percentile £603 £663 £750
South East median daily rate £458 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -26.80% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,490 1,893 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.02% 85.04% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,076 1,692
10th Percentile £293 £281 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £521
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.68% +4.25%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.31
25th Percentile £15.12 £27.56 £25.00
Median hourly rate £24.58 £58.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.98% +16.98% +153.16%
75th Percentile £40.09 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £87.46 £74.92
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.81% +9.24% +61.54%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Berkshire -31 7 £575 -8.00% 3
Buckinghamshire - 4 £350 - 1
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) NUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) MSTest
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) React Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) Playwright
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) ATL
4 1 (9.09%) Blazor
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) UX Design
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) COBOL
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) WCAG
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
1 2 (18.18%) Snow
2 1 (9.09%) Compaq
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Terracotta
2 1 (9.09%) webMethods