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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 174 176
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 107 262 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.27% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.52% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 168 217
10th Percentile £287 £393 £381
25th Percentile £356 £443 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% - +3.14%
75th Percentile £545 £638 £600
90th Percentile £605 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £497 £525 £573
% change year-on-year -5.33% -8.30% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 48 23
10th Percentile £52.38 - £48.53
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £52.38
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £66.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £76.63
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -3 30 £356 -26.29% 40
South East +8 21 £575 -8.00% 90
North of England -37 20 £394 -20.85% 95
Midlands +26 17 £463 +2.78% 49
North West -23 16 £413 -16.67% 72
East Midlands - 15 £463 - 23
South West +24 10 £600 -2.04% 34
East of England -18 7 £469 -14.77% 47
North East - 3 £335 - 4
West Midlands +15 2 £461 +2.50% 21
Wales -2 2 £334 -36.48% 6
Yorkshire -11 1 £600 +9.09% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 15
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 (10.28%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Camunda
2 2 (1.87%) Mule
3 1 (0.93%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Appian
3 1 (0.93%) CICS
3 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.93%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Exstream
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.17%) Azure
2 23 (21.50%) AWS
3 20 (18.69%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.41%) Serverless
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.54%) GitHub
5 7 (6.54%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (4.67%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.87%) CloudFront
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) Ethernet
1 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.02%) MongoDB
2 12 (11.21%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.35%) Oracle Database
4 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.67%) MySQL
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.74%) GIS
8 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.87%) DB2
9 2 (1.87%) ObjectStore
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.87%) Power BI
10 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 38 (35.51%) Git
2 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.21%) JIRA
3 12 (11.21%) JUnit
4 11 (10.28%) Subversion
5 10 (9.35%) GitLab
6 9 (8.41%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (8.41%) PVCS
7 8 (7.48%) Visual Studio
8 7 (6.54%) Eclipse
9 6 (5.61%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.61%) Gradle
10 4 (3.74%) Maven
11 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.80%) Postman
11 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.80%) Xcode
12 2 (1.87%) Codeception
12 2 (1.87%) Storybook
12 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.02%) Finance
3 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.54%) Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Military
6 6 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.74%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (61.68%) Developer
2 14 (13.08%) Senior
3 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
4 10 (9.35%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.41%) Oracle Developer
6 8 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Android Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Analyst
8 6 (5.61%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.67%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Consultant
10 4 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (3.74%) React Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Test Manager
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Lead
11 3 (2.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.63%) CSS
2 19 (17.76%) React
3 18 (16.82%) RESTful
4 17 (15.89%) Spring
5 15 (14.02%) HTML
6 14 (13.08%) AngularJS
7 12 (11.21%) .NET
7 12 (11.21%) Kafka
7 12 (11.21%) REST
8 11 (10.28%) Web Services
9 10 (9.35%) Node.js
10 9 (8.41%) Java EE
11 8 (7.48%) AWS CDK
11 8 (7.48%) Spring Boot
12 7 (6.54%) Android Jetpack
12 7 (6.54%) Jetpack Compose
12 7 (6.54%) XML
13 6 (5.61%) JSON
14 5 (4.67%) PostGIS
15 4 (3.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.54%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.61%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.74%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Clustering
7 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.93%) EPoS
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
8 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Linux
2 10 (9.35%) Android
3 6 (5.61%) Windows
4 4 (3.74%) Unix
5 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.81%) Agile
2 43 (40.19%) CI/CD
3 40 (37.38%) DevOps
4 25 (23.36%) TDD
4 25 (23.36%) Test Automation
5 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (19.63%) Microservices
6 21 (19.63%) Software Engineering
7 20 (18.69%) Integration Testing
7 20 (18.69%) Scrum
8 16 (14.95%) ETL
8 16 (14.95%) Front End Development
8 16 (14.95%) SDLC
8 16 (14.95%) Visualisation
9 15 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.02%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (14.02%) User Experience
10 13 (12.15%) Continuous Delivery
10 13 (12.15%) Data Modelling
11 12 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) Java
2 32 (29.91%) JavaScript
3 31 (28.97%) SQL
4 21 (19.63%) Python
5 16 (14.95%) C#
6 13 (12.15%) C
7 11 (10.28%) PL/SQL
7 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.35%) C++
8 10 (9.35%) Kotlin
9 9 (8.41%) ProC
10 3 (2.80%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.80%) Ruby
10 3 (2.80%) Scala
10 3 (2.80%) Swift
11 2 (1.87%) ABAP
11 2 (1.87%) COBOL
11 2 (1.87%) PHP
11 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) ISEB
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) QA
2 9 (8.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) HL7
5 1 (0.93%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
3 1 (0.93%) OPNET
3 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.61%) Splunk
4 5 (4.67%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.74%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.74%) SAP
6 3 (2.80%) OpenText
7 2 (1.87%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.87%) Snow
7 2 (1.87%) Sybase
7 2 (1.87%) Zend
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) IFS
8 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) RedGate
8 1 (0.93%) Solace
8 1 (0.93%) Talend
8 1 (0.93%) Veracode