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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 155 159
Rank change year-on-year -52 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 207 241 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.46% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.73% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 146 199
10th Percentile £358 £356 £405
25th Percentile £385 £443 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -6.25% +3.70%
75th Percentile £546 £650 £648
90th Percentile £638 £669 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 57
10th Percentile £59.00 £45.40 £48.32
25th Percentile - £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.67 £65.25 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15,425 13,932 18,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.90% 84.32% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 7,974 11,803
10th Percentile £220 £246 £250
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 878 1,273
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £33.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -25.84% +50.29%
75th Percentile £44.02 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 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 20 November 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
North of England -7 70 £425 -19.05% 30
North West +9 50 £453 -4.58% 20
East of England -13 36 £488 +33.56% 30
Midlands -16 36 £463 -11.48% 23
Scotland -12 27 £431 -4.17% 24
West Midlands -20 23 £519 -15.20% 12
South East -56 22 £546 -12.72% 43
Yorkshire -30 15 £390 -35.00% 7
East Midlands -18 13 £420 -3.45% 11
Wales 0 12 £520 +145.96% 2
South West -11 7 £550 +10.00% 24
North East -8 5 £550 - 3
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 7 (3.38%) Confluence
2 6 (2.90%) Apache
2 6 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.45%) Camunda
3 3 (1.45%) Mule
4 2 (0.97%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
4 2 (0.97%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) InVision
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.97%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.97%) SAP MDG-F
2 2 (0.97%) SAP MDG-M
2 2 (0.97%) SAP MDG-S
2 2 (0.97%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.48%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.71%) Azure
2 35 (16.91%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.76%) Serverless
5 12 (5.80%) GitHub
5 12 (5.80%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.86%) GCP
8 8 (3.86%) npm
9 7 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.42%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.93%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.59%) TCP/IP
2 22 (10.63%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.97%) X.509
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.25%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.83%) Redis
4 8 (3.86%) Big Data
5 7 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.42%) MySQL
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.93%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.93%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.45%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.45%) HBase
9 3 (1.45%) Metadata
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 70 (33.82%) Git
2 27 (13.04%) JIRA
3 26 (12.56%) Visual Studio
4 22 (10.63%) Eclipse
5 21 (10.14%) Jenkins
6 18 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.25%) JUnit
8 13 (6.28%) Postman
9 12 (5.80%) Cypress.io
10 9 (4.35%) Artifactory
10 9 (4.35%) Gradle
11 8 (3.86%) Selenium
11 8 (3.86%) Xcode
12 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.90%) GitLab
12 6 (2.90%) Grunt
12 6 (2.90%) gulp
12 6 (2.90%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (2.42%) MSTest
13 5 (2.42%) NUnit
General
1 78 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.39%) Finance
3 29 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.08%) Military
5 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (10.14%) Banking
6 21 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.83%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.38%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.42%) Marketing
10 3 (1.45%) Electronics
10 3 (1.45%) Law
11 2 (0.97%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (37.68%) Developer
2 47 (22.71%) Software Engineer
3 26 (12.56%) Senior
4 23 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.63%) C++ Software Engineer
6 20 (9.66%) C# Software Engineer
7 15 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.83%) Lead
9 8 (3.86%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) iOS Developer
9 8 (3.86%) Tester
10 7 (3.38%) Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) Android Developer
10 7 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Automation Tester
11 6 (2.90%) Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) Help Desk Analyst
11 6 (2.90%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.84%) Web Services
2 36 (17.39%) React
3 34 (16.43%) Spring
4 33 (15.94%) Node.js
5 32 (15.46%) REST
5 32 (15.46%) RESTful
6 28 (13.53%) CSS
6 28 (13.53%) Spring Boot
7 26 (12.56%) AngularJS
7 26 (12.56%) HTML
8 22 (10.63%) Kafka
9 20 (9.66%) .NET
10 15 (7.25%) Jest
11 12 (5.80%) JSON
12 11 (5.31%) .NET Core
13 10 (4.83%) CSS3
13 10 (4.83%) HTML5
13 10 (4.83%) Redux
14 9 (4.35%) SOAP
15 8 (3.86%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.73%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.38%) Mobile Banking
4 7 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (2.90%) FPGA
5 6 (2.90%) PCIe
5 6 (2.90%) State Machine
6 5 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.93%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.93%) PKI
7 4 (1.93%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.74%) Linux
2 40 (19.32%) Windows
3 19 (9.18%) Android
4 12 (5.80%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.97%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (58.94%) Agile
2 113 (54.59%) CI/CD
3 66 (31.88%) DevOps
4 63 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 59 (28.50%) Test Automation
6 55 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (25.60%) TDD
8 46 (22.22%) Microservices
9 37 (17.87%) Validation
10 36 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
10 36 (17.39%) Scrum
11 32 (15.46%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (15.46%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.01%) Containerisation
12 29 (14.01%) Integration Testing
13 28 (13.53%) Front End Development
13 28 (13.53%) Visualisation
14 25 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.59%) Verification and Validation
16 22 (10.63%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 59 (28.50%) Java
3 45 (21.74%) C#
4 43 (20.77%) C++
5 42 (20.29%) SQL
6 40 (19.32%) Python
7 16 (7.73%) Scala
7 16 (7.73%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.28%) C
8 13 (6.28%) Kotlin
9 11 (5.31%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.83%) Swift
11 7 (3.38%) Objective-C
11 7 (3.38%) Ruby
12 6 (2.90%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.93%) ABAP
13 4 (1.93%) Bicep
13 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.45%) Bash
14 3 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.21%) Degree
4 11 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.93%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.98%) QA
2 20 (9.66%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.86%) SLA
5 7 (3.38%) ISO 20022
5 7 (3.38%) PSD2
5 7 (3.38%) SEPA
6 6 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.42%) WCAG
8 4 (1.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.97%) HL7
10 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.48%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 29 (14.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) HDFS
2 3 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.31%) Grafana
3 6 (2.90%) Terraform
4 5 (2.42%) Ansible
4 5 (2.42%) Kustomize
4 5 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.45%) Argo
5 3 (1.45%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.45%) Oozie
5 3 (1.45%) Podman
5 3 (1.45%) SELinux
5 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.97%) Cilium
6 2 (0.97%) Control-M
6 2 (0.97%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.97%) Rsyslog
6 2 (0.97%) SCOM
6 2 (0.97%) vRealize
7 1 (0.48%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 36 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.70%) Oracle
3 9 (4.35%) SAP
4 8 (3.86%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (3.86%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.38%) Splunk
6 6 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.90%) Google
6 6 (2.90%) Perforce
7 4 (1.93%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.93%) Databricks
7 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.93%) VMware
8 3 (1.45%) HP
8 3 (1.45%) IBM
8 3 (1.45%) Pega
9 2 (0.97%) ANSYS
9 2 (0.97%) Brio
9 2 (0.97%) NVIDIA