Unit Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 222 164 175
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 114 267 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.29% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.52% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 173 248
10th Percentile £287 £375 £400
25th Percentile £358 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +0.96% -0.63%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £601
90th Percentile £663 £688 £682
UK median daily rate £530 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 48 26
10th Percentile £50.50 - £48.61
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £53.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £70.59
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing 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
South East +22 38 £625 - 85
Scotland -9 25 £356 -26.75% 29
North of England -28 18 £463 -6.57% 92
North West -15 15 £463 -6.57% 72
Midlands +30 14 £463 +2.78% 27
East Midlands +19 11 £463 +15.63% 14
South West +27 9 £613 -5.77% 22
East of England -16 5 £488 -18.75% 43
Wales -2 4 £205 -61.85% 9
West Midlands +13 3 £461 +2.50% 11
North East - 2 £335 - 3
Yorkshire -10 1 £600 +20.00% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 10
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
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 10 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) CMS
2 2 (1.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Appian
3 1 (0.88%) Camunda
3 1 (0.88%) CICS
3 1 (0.88%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.88%) Mule
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.63%) Exstream
3 2 (1.75%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.88%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.19%) Azure
2 23 (20.18%) AWS
2 23 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.77%) Serverless
4 6 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.39%) Azure Functions
5 5 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (4.39%) GitHub
6 4 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.51%) SaaS
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Ethernet
1 5 (4.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.88%) BGP
2 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.88%) MPLS
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.04%) Oracle Database
3 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
6 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.63%) Big Data
9 3 (2.63%) GIS
9 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.75%) DB2
10 2 (1.75%) MySQL
10 2 (1.75%) ObjectStore
10 2 (1.75%) Power BI
11 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (33.33%) Git
2 11 (9.65%) JIRA
2 11 (9.65%) Subversion
3 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.89%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (7.89%) PVCS
4 8 (7.02%) GitLab
5 7 (6.14%) Visual Studio
6 6 (5.26%) Eclipse
7 5 (4.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.39%) JUnit
7 5 (4.39%) Selenium
8 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.75%) Codeception
9 2 (1.75%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.75%) Mocha
9 2 (1.75%) Moq
9 2 (1.75%) Postman
9 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.88%) Hudson
General
1 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Finance
4 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Military
6 5 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.75%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (56.14%) Developer
2 13 (11.40%) Senior
3 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Senior Developer
5 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Azure Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Consultant
9 5 (4.39%) Android Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (3.51%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.51%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Lead
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.30%) CSS
2 18 (15.79%) .NET
3 17 (14.91%) React
4 16 (14.04%) HTML
5 14 (12.28%) RESTful
6 11 (9.65%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.65%) REST
7 10 (8.77%) Web Services
8 9 (7.89%) Java EE
8 9 (7.89%) Node.js
9 8 (7.02%) Spring
10 7 (6.14%) Kafka
11 6 (5.26%) AWS CDK
11 6 (5.26%) JSON
11 6 (5.26%) XML
12 5 (4.39%) Android Jetpack
12 5 (4.39%) Jetpack Compose
12 5 (4.39%) YAML
13 4 (3.51%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (3.51%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.51%) IoT
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.75%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.88%) EPoS
6 1 (0.88%) Equities
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Windows
3 5 (4.39%) Android
3 5 (4.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.63%) Agile
2 49 (42.98%) DevOps
3 40 (35.09%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.56%) Test Automation
5 26 (22.81%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.42%) Integration Testing
8 20 (17.54%) Software Testing
9 19 (16.67%) SDLC
10 17 (14.91%) TDD
11 16 (14.04%) ETL
11 16 (14.04%) Scrum
12 15 (13.16%) Microservices
12 15 (13.16%) Migration
13 14 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (11.40%) Data Modelling
14 13 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.40%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (10.53%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.09%) SQL
2 30 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.44%) Java
4 25 (21.93%) Python
5 21 (18.42%) C#
6 16 (14.04%) PL/SQL
7 12 (10.53%) C
7 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.89%) ProC
9 6 (5.26%) C++
10 5 (4.39%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.63%) ABAP
11 3 (2.63%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.75%) COBOL
12 2 (1.75%) PHP
12 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.88%) JCL
13 1 (0.88%) REXX
13 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) ISEB
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 9 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ISO 26262
3 2 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) HL7
4 1 (0.88%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.88%) MISRA
4 1 (0.88%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Grafana
3 3 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) OPNET
4 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Oracle
2 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.14%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.26%) SAP
5 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.63%) OpenText
6 3 (2.63%) Splunk
7 2 (1.75%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.75%) Snow
7 2 (1.75%) Sybase
7 2 (1.75%) Zend
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) IFS
8 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) Perforce
8 1 (0.88%) RedGate
8 1 (0.88%) Talend
8 1 (0.88%) Veracode