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 citing Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 204 141
Rank change year-on-year -98 -63 +17
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 202 200 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.23% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.38% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 100 159
10th Percentile £331 £345 £356
25th Percentile £401 £379 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £466 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -11.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £638
90th Percentile £649 £646 £663
UK median daily rate £490 £492 £550
% change year-on-year -0.41% -10.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 26
10th Percentile £41.60 - £51.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 citing process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills 23,055 14,525 14,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.92% 89.07% 83.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,670 8,761 8,060
10th Percentile £300 £225 £245
25th Percentile £406 £370 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £673 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,067 1,615 929
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.03 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.95 £18.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.27 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.20% -39.82% -12.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £39.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +39.19% -32.95% -12.28%

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 26 October 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 for jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 October 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 26 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England -48 86 £447 +6.11% 23
South East -37 52 £530 +6.00% 6
North West -64 37 £460 +0.11% 15
North East -7 34 £400 -27.27% 5
Midlands -46 34 £496 +7.27% 16
West Midlands -26 31 £496 -4.41% 7
East of England -32 18 £600 +28.00% 4
Scotland -38 17 £438 -12.50% 5
Yorkshire -34 15 £475 +21.79% 4
South West -34 11 £500 -9.09% 6
East Midlands -29 3 £568 +35.12% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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Unit Testing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Agile55.9%113
2CI/CD45.0%91
3Test Automation44.1%89
4Software Engineering33.2%67
5DevOps32.7%66
6Scrum30.7%62
7Integration Testing25.2%51
8Problem-Solving24.3%49
9SDLC22.8%46
9User Acceptance Testing22.8%46
11TDD21.3%43
12Continuous Improvement20.8%42
13Sprint Planning20.3%41
14Front End Development18.3%37
15Code Quality15.3%31
15DevSecOps15.3%31
17Sprint Review14.9%30
18Stakeholder Management13.9%28
19Microservices13.4%27
19Validation13.4%27
59 Unit Testing jobs in the UK excluding London