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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 143 153
Rank change year-on-year -59 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 183 272 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.52% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.83% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 167 205
10th Percentile £348 £375 £413
25th Percentile £380 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% - +2.09%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £645
90th Percentile £641 £663 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 38 53
10th Percentile - £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £62.50 £59.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £71.17
90th Percentile - - £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 13,801 14,871 18,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.22% 82.99% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,308 8,574 12,398
10th Percentile £235 £240 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,437 1,212 1,246
10th Percentile £14.05 £14.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
Median % change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%
75th Percentile £43.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 64 £421 -23.41% 35
North West +14 49 £460 -5.74% 23
Midlands -7 30 £463 -24.43% 34
Scotland -8 29 £500 +5.26% 13
East of England -19 27 £488 -11.36% 17
South East -30 21 £415 -33.60% 47
East Midlands +9 18 £441 -11.75% 12
Yorkshire -29 13 £390 -29.09% 8
West Midlands -11 12 £500 -18.30% 18
Wales 0 7 £518 -1.52% 9
South West +5 6 £550 +10.00% 24
North East 0 2 £550 - 4
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 5 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.19%) Apache
2 4 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.19%) Confluence
2 4 (2.19%) Mule
3 3 (1.64%) Camunda
3 3 (1.64%) JBoss
4 2 (1.09%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.09%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.55%) CICS
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) InVision
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) Endur
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.55%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.55%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.31%) Azure
2 29 (15.85%) AWS
3 22 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.56%) GitHub
4 12 (6.56%) Serverless
5 11 (6.01%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.92%) BlazeMeter
6 9 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.37%) npm
8 7 (3.83%) GCP
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.19%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.19%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.19%) Google Play
11 3 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.09%) Datadog
12 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) Ethernet
1 18 (9.84%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.09%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.66%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.57%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.37%) Big Data
5 8 (4.37%) Redis
5 8 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.83%) MySQL
6 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.19%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.19%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.64%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.64%) HBase
9 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (37.70%) Git
2 26 (14.21%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.02%) JUnit
4 20 (10.93%) JIRA
5 18 (9.84%) Eclipse
5 18 (9.84%) Visual Studio
6 16 (8.74%) Cypress.io
7 15 (8.20%) Postman
7 15 (8.20%) SonarQube
8 11 (6.01%) Gradle
9 8 (4.37%) Artifactory
10 7 (3.83%) Xcode
11 6 (3.28%) Bitbucket
11 6 (3.28%) Grunt
11 6 (3.28%) gulp
12 4 (2.19%) CircleCI
12 4 (2.19%) GitLab
12 4 (2.19%) Maven
12 4 (2.19%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (2.19%) Selenium
General
1 68 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.57%) Finance
3 22 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.93%) Banking
6 19 (10.38%) Military
7 17 (9.29%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (4.37%) Manufacturing
10 8 (4.37%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.28%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.64%) Marketing
13 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Law
14 1 (0.55%) Billing
14 1 (0.55%) Electronics
14 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.55%) Legal
14 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (44.26%) Developer
2 38 (20.77%) Software Engineer
3 28 (15.30%) Java Developer
4 21 (11.48%) C++ Software Engineer
5 18 (9.84%) C# Software Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) Android Developer
6 11 (6.01%) Senior
7 9 (4.92%) Senior Developer
7 9 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.37%) iOS Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Lead
9 7 (3.83%) Analyst
10 6 (3.28%) Consultant
10 6 (3.28%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (3.28%) Help Desk Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) React Developer
11 5 (2.73%) Tester
11 5 (2.73%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (22.40%) React
2 39 (21.31%) Spring
3 35 (19.13%) CSS
4 34 (18.58%) RESTful
5 29 (15.85%) Node.js
6 28 (15.30%) REST
7 27 (14.75%) Web Services
8 26 (14.21%) HTML
8 26 (14.21%) Spring Boot
9 25 (13.66%) Kafka
10 24 (13.11%) AngularJS
11 16 (8.74%) .NET
12 15 (8.20%) Jest
13 13 (7.10%) JSON
14 10 (5.46%) Android Jetpack
14 10 (5.46%) CSS3
14 10 (5.46%) HTML5
14 10 (5.46%) Jetpack Compose
14 10 (5.46%) Redux
15 9 (4.92%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.93%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.46%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.83%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (3.28%) FPGA
5 6 (3.28%) PCIe
5 6 (3.28%) State Machine
6 5 (2.73%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (2.19%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.19%) PKI
7 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.77%) Linux
2 33 (18.03%) Windows
3 19 (10.38%) Android
4 12 (6.56%) Apple iOS
5 10 (5.46%) Unix
6 2 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (57.38%) Agile
2 104 (56.83%) CI/CD
3 63 (34.43%) DevOps
4 58 (31.69%) Software Engineering
5 51 (27.87%) TDD
6 49 (26.78%) Microservices
6 49 (26.78%) Test Automation
7 44 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (19.13%) Scrum
9 34 (18.58%) Front End Development
10 33 (18.03%) Continuous Delivery
11 30 (16.39%) Visualisation
12 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
13 27 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (14.75%) Validation
14 25 (13.66%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (13.11%) Containerisation
16 23 (12.57%) Performance Optimisation
17 22 (12.02%) Integration Testing
18 21 (11.48%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.97%) Java
2 56 (30.60%) JavaScript
3 36 (19.67%) C++
4 35 (19.13%) C#
5 34 (18.58%) SQL
6 31 (16.94%) Python
7 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 17 (9.29%) Kotlin
9 10 (5.46%) Scala
9 10 (5.46%) Swift
10 9 (4.92%) C
11 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
12 7 (3.83%) Objective-C
12 7 (3.83%) Ruby
13 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.64%) Bash
14 3 (1.64%) Bicep
14 3 (1.64%) Perl
15 2 (1.09%) COBOL
15 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.20%) Degree
4 12 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.57%) QA
2 19 (10.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.83%) WCAG
4 6 (3.28%) SLA
5 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.73%) ISO 20022
5 5 (2.73%) PSD2
5 5 (2.73%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.55%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) HDFS
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.74%) Grafana
3 5 (2.73%) Ansible
3 5 (2.73%) Kustomize
3 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.19%) Terraform
5 3 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.64%) Oozie
5 3 (1.64%) Podman
5 3 (1.64%) SELinux
5 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.09%) Cilium
6 2 (1.09%) Control-M
6 2 (1.09%) Rsyslog
6 2 (1.09%) SCOM
7 1 (0.55%) OPNET
Vendors
1 29 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.20%) Oracle
3 12 (6.56%) Splunk
4 10 (5.46%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.37%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (4.37%) CyberArk
5 8 (4.37%) SAP
6 6 (3.28%) Google
6 6 (3.28%) Perforce
7 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.19%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.64%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.09%) IFS
10 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.09%) Sybase
11 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.55%) Databricks
11 1 (0.55%) DocuSign
11 1 (0.55%) Snow