Unit Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 167 185
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 262 351 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.53% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.70% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 236 271
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £435 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% +11.84%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.78% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 26 17
10th Percentile - £48.61 £41.41
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.34 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - £74.59 £66.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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 +28 64 £495 -10.00% 48
East of England +21 58 £550 +83.33% 21
South East -1 55 £625 +13.64% 39
North West +25 45 £495 -1.00% 19
Scotland +15 44 £483 -0.92% 17
South West -38 29 £613 +5.65% 15
Yorkshire +14 19 £550 - 21
Wales +22 8 £526 -4.02% 4
Midlands +3 4 £450 -18.18% 45
West Midlands +10 2 £450 -24.37% 28
East Midlands +4 1 £300 -12.41% 17
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 11 (4.20%) Apache
2 9 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) Mule
5 3 (1.15%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.76%) Traefik
6 2 (0.76%) WildFly
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.91%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.53%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.53%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.15%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.76%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (18.70%) AWS
2 45 (17.18%) Azure
3 20 (7.63%) Serverless
4 15 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 13 (4.96%) Azure Functions
5 13 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.44%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.05%) GitHub
10 7 (2.67%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.67%) GCP
10 7 (2.67%) OCI
11 6 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.36%) Modbus
1 35 (13.36%) RS-422
1 35 (13.36%) RS-485
2 13 (4.96%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.20%) Ethernet
4 9 (3.44%) BGP
4 9 (3.44%) Ethernet VPN
4 9 (3.44%) MPLS
4 9 (3.44%) Radio Access Network
4 9 (3.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) DNS
5 2 (0.76%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.38%) 5G
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.54%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.40%) Oracle Database
4 19 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 16 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.73%) Oracle Database 11g
7 11 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.53%) Power BI
11 3 (1.15%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.76%) GIS
12 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (21.37%) Git
2 46 (17.56%) JIRA
3 25 (9.54%) JUnit
4 19 (7.25%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.73%) Visual Studio
6 14 (5.34%) Android Studio
6 14 (5.34%) GitLab
7 13 (4.96%) Mockito
8 11 (4.20%) Eclipse
9 9 (3.44%) Robot Framework
9 9 (3.44%) TestRail
10 7 (2.67%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (2.29%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.29%) Storybook
12 5 (1.91%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (1.53%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.53%) Log4j
13 4 (1.53%) Selenium
General
1 72 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.74%) Electronics
3 30 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.69%) Finance
5 26 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.20%) Military
8 9 (3.44%) Banking
9 6 (2.29%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Law
10 4 (1.53%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Automotive
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Retail
11 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 142 (54.20%) Developer
2 53 (20.23%) Software Engineer
3 37 (14.12%) C++ Software Engineer
4 29 (11.07%) Full Stack Developer
5 28 (10.69%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.73%) Test Engineer
7 14 (5.34%) Android Developer
7 14 (5.34%) Azure Developer
7 14 (5.34%) Lead
8 13 (4.96%) C# Software Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Consultant
8 13 (4.96%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 11 (4.20%) Senior
10 8 (3.05%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) C Software Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 7 (2.67%) Lead Developer
11 7 (2.67%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.67%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.85%) React
2 32 (12.21%) REST
2 32 (12.21%) Spring
3 26 (9.92%) Node.js
4 21 (8.02%) Spring Boot
4 21 (8.02%) Web Services
5 20 (7.63%) HTML
6 19 (7.25%) CSS
6 19 (7.25%) RESTful
7 18 (6.87%) Hibernate
8 17 (6.49%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.73%) .NET
10 14 (5.34%) JPA
11 11 (4.20%) SOAP
11 11 (4.20%) XML
12 10 (3.82%) Kafka
12 10 (3.82%) Playwright
13 9 (3.44%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.44%) Jest
13 9 (3.44%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.69%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.82%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.15%) Clustering
6 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.76%) PKI
8 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.02%) Linux
2 18 (6.87%) Windows
3 16 (6.11%) Android
4 5 (1.91%) Unix
5 3 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.76%) CentOS
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) AIX
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (64.12%) Agile
2 111 (42.37%) DevOps
3 89 (33.97%) Software Engineering
4 66 (25.19%) Software Testing
5 65 (24.81%) CI/CD
6 63 (24.05%) TDD
7 61 (23.28%) Continuous Integration
8 59 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (20.99%) Test Automation
10 54 (20.61%) Scrum
11 42 (16.03%) Pair Programming
12 40 (15.27%) Customer Requirements
13 37 (14.12%) Microservices
14 35 (13.36%) Full Stack Development
15 28 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (9.54%) Secure Coding
17 24 (9.16%) SDLC
17 24 (9.16%) User Acceptance Testing
18 23 (8.78%) Change Management
18 23 (8.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (29.39%) Java
2 64 (24.43%) C#
3 57 (21.76%) SQL
4 54 (20.61%) C++
5 53 (20.23%) C
6 47 (17.94%) Python
7 42 (16.03%) JavaScript
8 27 (10.31%) PL/SQL
9 26 (9.92%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.73%) Kotlin
11 11 (4.20%) Bash
12 5 (1.91%) Perl
13 4 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.53%) Scala
13 4 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.76%) Go
15 2 (0.76%) PHP
15 2 (0.76%) Ruby
16 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 61 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.16%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.20%) Degree
5 6 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.12%) QA
2 8 (3.05%) GDPR
3 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.29%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
System Software
1 40 (15.27%) Docker
2 13 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.58%) Grafana
3 6 (2.29%) Kibana
4 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.53%) Terraform
5 3 (1.15%) Ansible
5 3 (1.15%) Puppet
6 2 (0.76%) Consul
6 2 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.76%) Graphite
6 2 (0.76%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.76%) Istio
6 2 (0.76%) linkerd
6 2 (0.76%) Packer
6 2 (0.76%) Podman
6 2 (0.76%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 32 (12.21%) Oracle
2 31 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.34%) Avaloq
3 14 (5.34%) SAP
4 7 (2.67%) VMware
5 6 (2.29%) Splunk
6 4 (1.53%) FIS
7 3 (1.15%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.15%) Liquidlogic
7 3 (1.15%) Siemens
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) JDA
8 2 (0.76%) OpenText
8 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.38%) Ariba
9 1 (0.38%) Google
9 1 (0.38%) IFS
9 1 (0.38%) RedGate
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow