JUnit Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 283 347
Rank change year-on-year +2 +64 +27
Contract jobs citing JUnit 118 73 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.46% 3.83% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 30 33
10th Percentile £317 £380 £426
25th Percentile £388 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +15.79% -1.04%
75th Percentile £543 £685 £588
90th Percentile £588 £758 £590
UK median daily rate £485 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -11.82% +15.79% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £73.05
25th Percentile - £62.50 £73.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £76.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -15.03% +5.52%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £77.88
90th Percentile - - £77.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £76.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% -15.03% +5.52%

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 2,647 1,908 2,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.47% 13.05% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,829 1,148 1,638
10th Percentile £318 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -6.38% -2.29%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 68 176
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.31 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £75.08 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JUnit job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit

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 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit

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 31 December 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
Midlands +5 44 £492 -33.29% 3
West Midlands +6 41 £492 -33.29% 2
South East +3 26 £423 - 14
Scotland +16 24 £538 +9.69% 1
North of England -51 23 £414 -5.49% 13
North West -15 14 £510 +23.26% 3
Yorkshire -49 9 £355 -52.67% 9
East Midlands - 3 £393 - 1
South West -15 1 - - 15
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (13.56%) SAS
2 10 (8.47%) JBoss
3 9 (7.63%) WebLogic
4 8 (6.78%) Apache
5 5 (4.24%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.69%) Confluence
6 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.85%) Mule
7 1 (0.85%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 64 (54.24%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) GitHub
3 31 (26.27%) OpenShift
4 28 (23.73%) Azure
5 25 (21.19%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.02%) GCP
7 11 (9.32%) Datadog
8 9 (7.63%) Azure AKS
8 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.78%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.24%) npm
10 5 (4.24%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (0.85%) Kong
11 1 (0.85%) SaaS
11 1 (0.85%) Serverless
11 1 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.81%) MongoDB
2 23 (19.49%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (15.25%) NoSQL
4 17 (14.41%) Relational Database
5 13 (11.02%) DB2
6 9 (7.63%) DynamoDB
7 8 (6.78%) HBase
8 7 (5.93%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.24%) MySQL
9 5 (4.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 4 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.54%) Aerospike
11 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.54%) Redis
11 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 1 (0.85%) Big Data
13 1 (0.85%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 53 (44.92%) Jenkins
2 46 (38.98%) Git
3 45 (38.14%) Selenium
4 40 (33.90%) GitLab
5 33 (27.97%) Cucumber
6 26 (22.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (17.80%) Gradle
8 20 (16.95%) Maven
9 16 (13.56%) Mockito
10 15 (12.71%) Cypress.io
10 15 (12.71%) Postman
11 13 (11.02%) Artifactory
12 10 (8.47%) CircleCI
12 10 (8.47%) JMeter
13 8 (6.78%) Eclipse
13 8 (6.78%) IntelliJ
13 8 (6.78%) SonarQube
14 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket
15 6 (5.08%) JIRA
15 6 (5.08%) TestNG
General
1 57 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 44 (37.29%) Finance
3 25 (21.19%) Banking
4 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.17%) Front Office
6 12 (10.17%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.54%) Electronics
9 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (56.78%) Developer
2 59 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 24 (20.34%) Senior
4 20 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 19 (16.10%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (14.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (14.41%) Java Engineer
7 16 (13.56%) Test Specialist
8 13 (11.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (9.32%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 11 (9.32%) SQL Developer
9 11 (9.32%) Sybase Developer
10 8 (6.78%) AWS Developer
10 8 (6.78%) Test Automation Specialist
11 6 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.39%) Lead
13 4 (3.39%) QA Engineer
13 4 (3.39%) Senior Java Engineer
14 3 (2.54%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (67.80%) Spring
2 48 (40.68%) Spring Boot
3 40 (33.90%) Kafka
4 38 (32.20%) REST
5 29 (24.58%) React
6 26 (22.03%) Hibernate
6 26 (22.03%) JSON
7 23 (19.49%) RESTful
8 20 (16.95%) pytest
9 18 (15.25%) HTML
10 17 (14.41%) AngularJS
11 14 (11.86%) Jest
12 12 (10.17%) JMS
12 12 (10.17%) JPA
13 11 (9.32%) Gherkin
13 11 (9.32%) J2EE
13 11 (9.32%) SOAP
14 10 (8.47%) Node.js
14 10 (8.47%) XML
15 9 (7.63%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.32%) Equities
3 8 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.24%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.85%) Derivative
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.73%) Linux
2 11 (9.32%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 75 (63.56%) Agile
3 55 (46.61%) Microservices
4 54 (45.76%) Test Automation
5 51 (43.22%) DevOps
6 42 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (33.05%) Containerisation
8 30 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (23.73%) Scrum
10 25 (21.19%) Software Engineering
11 24 (20.34%) SDLC
12 21 (17.80%) Open Source
12 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (16.10%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (16.10%) Regression Testing
14 19 (16.10%) Test Scripting
15 17 (14.41%) Observability
15 17 (14.41%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 93 (78.81%) Java
2 32 (27.12%) SQL
3 28 (23.73%) Python
4 15 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.71%) Shell Script
5 8 (6.78%) Scala
6 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.80%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) OCP
3 9 (7.63%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.39%) Degree
6 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.54%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) QA
2 14 (11.86%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (37.29%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 49 (41.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (17.80%) Ansible
3 17 (14.41%) Grafana
4 15 (12.71%) Progress Chef
5 13 (11.02%) Puppet
6 11 (9.32%) Terraform
7 6 (5.08%) Kibana
7 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) Oracle
2 12 (10.17%) Sybase
3 9 (7.63%) VMware
4 8 (6.78%) Splunk
4 8 (6.78%) webMethods
5 3 (2.54%) Databricks
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.54%) SAP
6 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.69%) Veracode
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow