Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 244 164
Rank change year-on-year -32 -80 +10
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 174 101 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.77% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.85% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 60 167
10th Percentile £345 £279 £390
25th Percentile £393 £328 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £563 £505 £631
90th Percentile £688 £589 £688
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £529
% change year-on-year +3.16% -10.12% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 11 47
10th Percentile £60.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & 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 20,600 11,892 17,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.59% 90.43% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,273 7,363 10,325
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,198 893 2,173
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.95 £15.46
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 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
South East -19 60 £514 +12.30% 20
North of England -41 56 £450 +14.29% 29
North West -24 33 £450 +14.29% 16
North East -14 18 £481 +43.66% 9
East of England -14 18 £625 +33.33% 12
Midlands -51 17 £450 -2.70% 19
South West -22 16 £500 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -25 12 £449 -3.03% 10
Scotland -27 9 £476 +45.12% 2
Yorkshire -50 7 £500 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -56 5 £489 +6.22% 9
Wales -10 4 £700 +39.86% 1
Northern Ireland +6 2 £369 -32.95% 2
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
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 11 (6.32%) Confluence
2 4 (2.30%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) IIS
3 2 (1.15%) Mule
3 2 (1.15%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
1 4 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.72%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.57%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.26%) Azure
2 27 (15.52%) OpenShift
3 22 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.07%) AWS
5 19 (10.92%) GitHub
6 10 (5.75%) Serverless
7 8 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.02%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.87%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.30%) OCI
11 4 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.72%) GCP
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 16 (9.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.72%) Modbus
3 3 (1.72%) RS-232
3 3 (1.72%) RS-422
3 3 (1.72%) RS-485
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.17%) DynamoDB
2 9 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.87%) Aerospike
4 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.30%) Redis
5 4 (2.30%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.72%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.15%) Big Data
7 2 (1.15%) Metadata
7 2 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.15%) Power BI
7 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (23.56%) Git
2 35 (20.11%) GitLab
3 33 (18.97%) SonarQube
4 25 (14.37%) Visual Studio
5 23 (13.22%) JIRA
6 16 (9.20%) Eclipse
7 15 (8.62%) JUnit
8 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
9 8 (4.60%) NUnit
9 8 (4.60%) Selenium
10 6 (3.45%) Gradle
10 6 (3.45%) Maven
11 5 (2.87%) MSTest
12 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
12 4 (2.30%) JMeter
12 4 (2.30%) PVCS
12 4 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (2.30%) XCTest
13 3 (1.72%) fastlane
13 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.49%) Finance
3 16 (9.20%) Military
4 14 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.17%) Banking
6 9 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.02%) Electronics
8 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.72%) Retail
9 2 (1.15%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (45.40%) Developer
2 39 (22.41%) Software Engineer
3 21 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.20%) Java Engineer
5 13 (7.47%) C++ Software Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.32%) .NET Developer
7 11 (6.32%) C# Software Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Senior
8 8 (4.60%) Consultant
8 8 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (4.02%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.45%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Lead
11 5 (2.87%) Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (2.87%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.82%) AngularJS
2 28 (16.09%) .NET
3 26 (14.94%) Quarkus
4 25 (14.37%) RESTful
5 20 (11.49%) Node.js
5 20 (11.49%) REST
5 20 (11.49%) Web Services
6 18 (10.34%) React
7 13 (7.47%) .NET Framework
7 13 (7.47%) Jest
8 12 (6.90%) Spring
8 12 (6.90%) WinForms
8 12 (6.90%) YAML
9 11 (6.32%) CSS
9 11 (6.32%) Entity Framework
9 11 (6.32%) Kafka
9 11 (6.32%) SOAP
9 11 (6.32%) Swagger
10 9 (5.17%) HTML
10 9 (5.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.15%) IoT
5 2 (1.15%) NHS
5 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.52%) Windows
2 20 (11.49%) Linux
3 4 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.72%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (59.77%) Agile
2 73 (41.95%) CI/CD
3 62 (35.63%) Software Engineering
3 62 (35.63%) Test Automation
4 52 (29.89%) Scrum
5 47 (27.01%) DevOps
6 43 (24.71%) TDD
7 42 (24.14%) SDLC
8 38 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 29 (16.67%) Validation
10 28 (16.09%) Sprint Planning
11 26 (14.94%) DevSecOps
11 26 (14.94%) Sprint Review
12 23 (13.22%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (13.22%) Microservices
13 21 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
14 20 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (10.92%) Data Modelling
16 17 (9.77%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.93%) Java
2 58 (33.33%) C#
3 44 (25.29%) SQL
4 37 (21.26%) JavaScript
5 28 (16.09%) C++
6 19 (10.92%) Python
6 19 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.90%) C
8 7 (4.02%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.45%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.30%) ABAP
10 4 (2.30%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.30%) Embedded C++
10 4 (2.30%) Swift
11 3 (1.72%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) SOQL
11 3 (1.72%) SOSL
12 2 (1.15%) Bash
12 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 52 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.02%) Degree
5 4 (2.30%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.57%) ACCA
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) CIMA
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.39%) QA
2 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.15%) PSD2
5 2 (1.15%) SEPA
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.34%) Docker
2 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.94%) Argo
3 6 (3.45%) Terraform
4 2 (1.15%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.79%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.20%) Oracle
4 11 (6.32%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.60%) SAP
6 7 (4.02%) Databricks
7 6 (3.45%) Veracode
8 4 (2.30%) ANSYS
8 4 (2.30%) Avaloq
8 4 (2.30%) IBM
8 4 (2.30%) Splunk
8 4 (2.30%) VMware
9 1 (0.57%) Brio
9 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.57%) Google
9 1 (0.57%) IFS
9 1 (0.57%) NEC
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase