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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 168 183
Rank change year-on-year -62 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 127 258 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.23% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.48% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 170 208
10th Percentile £283 £412 £400
25th Percentile £350 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £530 £600 £626
90th Percentile £629 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £568
% change year-on-year -9.52% -7.57% +3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 51 28
10th Percentile £56.88 £61.25 £51.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.88 £59.76
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.29
90th Percentile £66.00 - £81.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.77%

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 12,959 17,476 20,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.77% 82.99% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,890 10,314 14,128
10th Percentile £235 £245 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 2,133 1,287
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £51.93 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Scotland -1 36 £356 -25.68% 17
North of England -34 26 £398 -20.35% 73
North West -10 21 £398 -19.55% 50
Midlands +29 19 £460 +0.82% 38
South East +5 19 £500 -14.16% 72
East Midlands +15 15 £441 -11.75% 21
East of England -13 14 £469 -14.77% 32
South West +21 10 £550 +1.38% 28
West Midlands +10 4 £460 +2.22% 18
North East - 4 £335 - 3
Wales +3 3 £501 -4.76% 14
Yorkshire -19 1 £600 +9.09% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 12
Unit Testing
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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 12 (9.45%) Confluence
2 4 (3.15%) Camunda
3 2 (1.57%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.57%) JBoss
3 2 (1.57%) Mule
4 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.26%) Azure
2 23 (18.11%) AWS
3 17 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.30%) BlazeMeter
4 8 (6.30%) GitHub
5 7 (5.51%) GCP
5 7 (5.51%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.72%) Serverless
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.15%) npm
9 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.36%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.57%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.57%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) Ethernet
1 12 (9.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.17%) MongoDB
1 18 (14.17%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.87%) Oracle Database
4 8 (6.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (5.51%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.72%) MySQL
6 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.36%) DB2
8 3 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.57%) Big Data
9 2 (1.57%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.57%) GIS
9 2 (1.57%) Power BI
9 2 (1.57%) Redis
9 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 41 (32.28%) Git
2 17 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.60%) JUnit
4 14 (11.02%) JIRA
4 14 (11.02%) Visual Studio
5 13 (10.24%) Eclipse
6 11 (8.66%) Cypress.io
7 10 (7.87%) Subversion
8 9 (7.09%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (7.09%) PVCS
9 7 (5.51%) Gradle
10 6 (4.72%) SonarQube
11 4 (3.15%) Artifactory
11 4 (3.15%) GitLab
11 4 (3.15%) Grunt
11 4 (3.15%) gulp
11 4 (3.15%) Maven
11 4 (3.15%) Xcode
12 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.36%) IntelliJ
General
1 40 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.24%) Military
5 12 (9.45%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.51%) Banking
8 3 (2.36%) Law
8 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (55.12%) Developer
2 17 (13.39%) Java Developer
3 16 (12.60%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.02%) Senior
5 11 (8.66%) C# Software Engineer
5 11 (8.66%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Oracle Developer
7 8 (6.30%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Android Developer
8 7 (5.51%) Lead
9 6 (4.72%) Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) Test Manager
11 4 (3.15%) Oracle Analyst
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.15%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.83%) CSS
2 25 (19.69%) Spring
3 24 (18.90%) React
4 21 (16.54%) HTML
4 21 (16.54%) RESTful
5 19 (14.96%) Kafka
5 19 (14.96%) Node.js
6 18 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 18 (14.17%) Web Services
7 16 (12.60%) REST
8 14 (11.02%) Spring Boot
9 9 (7.09%) .NET
9 9 (7.09%) Java EE
10 8 (6.30%) JSON
10 8 (6.30%) XML
11 7 (5.51%) Android Jetpack
11 7 (5.51%) CSS3
11 7 (5.51%) HTML5
11 7 (5.51%) Jest
11 7 (5.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Mobile App
2 10 (7.87%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.15%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.15%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.36%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) PKI
6 3 (2.36%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.96%) Linux
2 14 (11.02%) Windows
3 13 (10.24%) Android
4 6 (4.72%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.27%) Agile
2 57 (44.88%) CI/CD
3 40 (31.50%) DevOps
4 36 (28.35%) Microservices
4 36 (28.35%) TDD
5 33 (25.98%) Software Engineering
6 32 (25.20%) Test Automation
7 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (19.69%) Continuous Delivery
9 24 (18.90%) Scrum
10 22 (17.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 22 (17.32%) Visualisation
11 21 (16.54%) Front End Development
12 20 (15.75%) Integration Testing
13 17 (13.39%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
14 16 (12.60%) ETL
14 16 (12.60%) User Experience
15 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (11.81%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (42.52%) Java
2 42 (33.07%) JavaScript
3 27 (21.26%) SQL
4 21 (16.54%) C#
5 18 (14.17%) C++
6 15 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 14 (11.02%) C
7 14 (11.02%) Python
8 12 (9.45%) PL/SQL
9 11 (8.66%) Kotlin
10 9 (7.09%) ProC
11 4 (3.15%) Objective-C
11 4 (3.15%) Ruby
11 4 (3.15%) Scala
11 4 (3.15%) Swift
12 3 (2.36%) Perl
13 2 (1.57%) ABAP
13 2 (1.57%) COBOL
13 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.87%) Degree
4 7 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.57%) ISEB
5 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.24%) QA
2 9 (7.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.79%) MISRA
4 1 (0.79%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.24%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.57%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) OPNET
5 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.75%) Oracle
3 10 (7.87%) Splunk
4 9 (7.09%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.30%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.51%) SAP
7 4 (3.15%) Perforce
8 3 (2.36%) Google
8 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.57%) Snow
9 2 (1.57%) Sybase
10 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.79%) Databricks
10 1 (0.79%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.79%) IFS
10 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.79%) Solace
10 1 (0.79%) Talend
10 1 (0.79%) Veracode