JUnit Contracts in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JUnit 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 230 328 357
Rank change year-on-year +98 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing JUnit 106 71 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.20% 3.13% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 39 71
10th Percentile £366 £375 £418
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £545 £563 £575
90th Percentile £575 £615 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £70.13
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JUnit 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +32 46 £485 -3.00% 14
North of England +29 35 £520 -5.50% 22
North West +21 17 £530 +1.92% 17
Midlands +36 16 £420 +2.75% 8
Yorkshire +10 13 £565 +2.72% 4
West Midlands +25 12 £425 +1.19% 4
South East +45 8 £500 - 23
North East +4 5 £390 +25.81% 1
East Midlands +13 4 £270 -32.08% 4
South West +44 1 - - 12
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (16.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.92%) AWS
2 13 (12.26%) Azure
3 10 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (8.49%) GitHub
4 9 (8.49%) Slack
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.60%) AWS KMS
6 7 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (6.60%) Route 53
7 5 (4.72%) Serverless
8 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.83%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (50.94%) Relational Database
2 45 (42.45%) MongoDB
3 33 (31.13%) DB2
4 32 (30.19%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (15.09%) RDBMS
6 13 (12.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (9.43%) MySQL
7 10 (9.43%) NoSQL
8 8 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
9 7 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 31 (29.25%) Jenkins
1 31 (29.25%) Mockito
2 26 (24.53%) Cucumber
3 22 (20.75%) Gradle
3 22 (20.75%) JIRA
4 21 (19.81%) Maven
5 20 (18.87%) Git
6 18 (16.98%) Selenium
7 10 (9.43%) GitLab
7 10 (9.43%) Jasmine
7 10 (9.43%) Liquibase
8 8 (7.55%) HP UFT
8 8 (7.55%) IntelliJ
9 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
10 4 (3.77%) Appium
10 4 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (3.77%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.77%) jMock
10 4 (3.77%) NetBeans
10 4 (3.77%) Subversion
General
1 40 (37.74%) Finance
2 39 (36.79%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
4 27 (25.47%) Public Sector
5 20 (18.87%) Front Office
6 14 (13.21%) Banking
7 11 (10.38%) Investment Banking
8 10 (9.43%) Electronics
8 10 (9.43%) Manufacturing
8 10 (9.43%) Marketing
8 10 (9.43%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.77%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (66.98%) Developer
1 71 (66.98%) Java Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Senior
3 14 (13.21%) Java Engineer
3 14 (13.21%) Senior Developer
3 14 (13.21%) Senior Java Developer
4 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) SQL Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Lead
7 7 (6.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Sybase Developer
8 5 (4.72%) React Developer
8 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.77%) QA Manager
9 4 (3.77%) QA Test Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Strategy Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Test Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (77.36%) Spring
2 51 (48.11%) Spring Boot
3 49 (46.23%) Kafka
4 24 (22.64%) JMS
5 21 (19.81%) Hibernate
6 19 (17.92%) Swagger
7 18 (16.98%) OpenAPI
7 18 (16.98%) RESTful
8 17 (16.04%) React
8 17 (16.04%) Web Services
9 14 (13.21%) REST
9 14 (13.21%) Spring Batch
10 13 (12.26%) AngularJS
11 10 (9.43%) HTML
11 10 (9.43%) Spring Integration
12 9 (8.49%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (8.49%) Bootstrap
12 9 (8.49%) JPA
12 9 (8.49%) SOAP
12 9 (8.49%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.02%) Data Structures
2 20 (18.87%) Equities
3 8 (7.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.66%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.83%) Derivative
7 3 (2.83%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 47 (44.34%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (72.64%) Agile
2 46 (43.40%) Microservices
3 45 (42.45%) CI/CD
3 45 (42.45%) TDD
4 40 (37.74%) Test Automation
5 38 (35.85%) Software Engineering
6 35 (33.02%) SDLC
7 34 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (30.19%) DevOps
9 31 (29.25%) Open Source
10 30 (28.30%) BDD
11 26 (24.53%) Multithreading
12 23 (21.70%) Containerisation
13 19 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (17.92%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (16.98%) Continuous Delivery
14 18 (16.98%) Database Tuning
14 18 (16.98%) Scrum
15 12 (11.32%) Event-Driven
16 11 (10.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 98 (92.45%) Java
2 72 (67.92%) SQL
3 34 (32.08%) Python
4 25 (23.58%) Shell Script
5 16 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 15 (14.15%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.94%) C#
8 1 (0.94%) C++
8 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.89%) Degree
3 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (33.96%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.55%) Grafana
3 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.77%) Puppet
5 2 (1.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) Sybase
2 10 (9.43%) SAP
3 6 (5.66%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.72%) Splunk
5 4 (3.77%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.77%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.83%) IBM
6 3 (2.83%) Oracle
7 2 (1.89%) Veracode
8 1 (0.94%) Confluent
8 1 (0.94%) New Relic
8 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow