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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 202 144
Rank change year-on-year -89 -58 +20
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 182 175 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.14% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.28% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 98 166
10th Percentile £290 £354 £375
25th Percentile £402 £385 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -10.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £546 £612
90th Percentile £688 £638 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £540
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 43
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 22,403 13,663 15,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.00% 89.09% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,036 8,197 8,902
10th Percentile £300 £237 £250
25th Percentile £406 £365 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,491 1,407 1,411
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.85 £13.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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
North of England -60 70 £463 +3.93% 27
South East -6 68 £513 +2.50% 5
North East -9 35 £510 -7.27% 5
Midlands -58 25 £492 +6.43% 20
North West -69 22 £463 -3.75% 17
West Midlands -41 20 £500 +2.04% 11
Yorkshire -48 13 £447 +14.62% 6
Scotland -36 10 £485 -3.00% 2
South West -39 10 £500 -14.89% 25
East of England -35 9 £619 +32.00% 7
East Midlands -28 5 £430 -2.61% 9
Wales -18 3 £700 +35.27% 1
Unit Testing
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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 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) Camunda
2 1 (0.55%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) JBoss
2 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.55%) Mule
2 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
2 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.65%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.65%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.10%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.10%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.55%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.55%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.55%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.55%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.53%) OpenShift
2 39 (21.43%) Azure
3 26 (14.29%) AWS
4 25 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (9.34%) GitHub
6 16 (8.79%) Serverless
7 14 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.95%) PowerApps
9 8 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.40%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.40%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.30%) GCP
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) Ethernet
1 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.95%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.40%) Power BI
5 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.65%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.65%) MySQL
7 3 (1.65%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.65%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.10%) Big Data
8 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (26.37%) Git
2 41 (22.53%) SonarQube
3 19 (10.44%) GitLab
4 16 (8.79%) JUnit
5 14 (7.69%) Selenium
6 13 (7.14%) Visual Studio
7 12 (6.59%) Jenkins
8 10 (5.49%) JIRA
9 9 (4.95%) Maven
10 8 (4.40%) Gradle
11 7 (3.85%) Eclipse
12 6 (3.30%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.30%) NUnit
13 5 (2.75%) MSTest
14 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
14 4 (2.20%) Cypress.io
14 4 (2.20%) JMeter
15 3 (1.65%) Mockito
15 3 (1.65%) TeamCity
15 3 (1.65%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.74%) Public Sector
3 20 (10.99%) Finance
4 19 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.95%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.95%) Banking
6 6 (3.30%) Military
7 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.20%) Retail
8 3 (1.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Aviation
9 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (48.35%) Developer
2 28 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 27 (14.84%) Java Developer
4 24 (13.19%) Java Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) Consultant
6 13 (7.14%) Senior
7 12 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (6.59%) Lead
8 11 (6.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 9 (4.95%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Developer
12 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow Developer
12 6 (3.30%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.75%) Technical Consultant
14 4 (2.20%) Analyst
14 4 (2.20%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.18%) AngularJS
2 38 (20.88%) Quarkus
3 30 (16.48%) REST
4 29 (15.93%) .NET
5 22 (12.09%) Spring
6 21 (11.54%) React
7 20 (10.99%) RESTful
8 19 (10.44%) Web Services
9 17 (9.34%) Spring Boot
10 14 (7.69%) HTML
10 14 (7.69%) SOAP
11 13 (7.14%) CSS
11 13 (7.14%) Kafka
12 12 (6.59%) Node.js
12 12 (6.59%) Terraform
13 11 (6.04%) .NET Framework
13 11 (6.04%) Playwright
13 11 (6.04%) WPF
14 9 (4.95%) Middleware
14 9 (4.95%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.49%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.65%) CMDB
3 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.10%) NHS
4 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.95%) Windows
2 6 (3.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (58.24%) Agile
2 77 (42.31%) Test Automation
3 65 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 64 (35.16%) Scrum
5 59 (32.42%) Software Engineering
6 57 (31.32%) DevOps
7 49 (26.92%) SDLC
8 45 (24.73%) Sprint Planning
9 44 (24.18%) Front End Development
10 42 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 40 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (21.43%) DevSecOps
13 37 (20.33%) Sprint Review
14 31 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (16.48%) Integration Testing
16 27 (14.84%) Microservices
16 27 (14.84%) TDD
17 25 (13.74%) Code Quality
18 18 (9.89%) System Integration Testing
19 17 (9.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.36%) Java
2 54 (29.67%) SQL
3 45 (24.73%) C#
4 42 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.34%) Python
5 17 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.85%) C++
6 7 (3.85%) Scala
7 6 (3.30%) ABAP
8 5 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.20%) X++
10 3 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.10%) C
11 2 (1.10%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.10%) SOQL
11 2 (1.10%) SOSL
11 2 (1.10%) VBA
11 2 (1.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 65 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.49%) Degree
4 7 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.75%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) PhD
9 1 (0.55%) ACCA
9 1 (0.55%) CIMA
9 1 (0.55%) CISA
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (25.82%) QA
2 9 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.20%) WCAG
4 3 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) GRC
5 1 (0.55%) HL7
5 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (12.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (29.67%) Kubernetes
2 38 (20.88%) Argo
3 2 (1.10%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Istio
4 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (19.78%) Red Hat
2 21 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.79%) Oracle
4 15 (8.24%) SAP
5 9 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.75%) Splunk
7 4 (2.20%) Avaloq
7 4 (2.20%) UiPath
8 3 (1.65%) Databricks
9 2 (1.10%) Adobe
9 2 (1.10%) Google
9 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.10%) VMware
10 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.55%) IFS
10 1 (0.55%) JDA
10 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.55%) Workday