JUnit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JUnit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JUnit over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 468 406
Rank change year-on-year +42 -62 -93
Contract jobs citing JUnit 172 260 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.36% 2.87% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 178 347
10th Percentile £325 £424 £420
25th Percentile £406 £466 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £617 £680 £653
90th Percentile £855 £775 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 14
10th Percentile - £70.25 £45.38
25th Percentile - £71.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - - £67.57
90th Percentile - £77.40 £80.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +36.36% -5.17%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JUnit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +54 135 £525 -11.02% 47
London +65 95 £525 -19.23% 18
UK excluding London +28 69 £500 - 34
Work from Home +80 51 £488 -2.50% 19
Scotland +43 25 £500 -1.96% 5
North of England +16 23 £550 - 6
North West -8 13 £520 -5.45% 4
Yorkshire +27 9 £550 -4.35% 2
South East +4 9 £500 +2.56% 10
East of England +19 7 - - 1
Midlands +23 3 £420 -6.67% 4
East Midlands +19 2 £419 -
South West +18 2 £425 -29.17% 6
West Midlands +29 1 £420 -6.67% 4
North East +20 1 £310 -22.50%

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (12.21%) Confluence
2 9 (5.23%) Apache
3 6 (3.49%) JBoss
4 5 (2.91%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.74%) nginx
7 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.16%) WildFly
8 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.77%) AWS
2 19 (11.05%) GitHub
3 13 (7.56%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.65%) Azure
8 7 (4.07%) Serverless
9 6 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 2 (1.16%) Datadog
13 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
14 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) SSH
2 3 (1.74%) 5G
3 2 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.35%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (18.02%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.40%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.91%) MySQL
6 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.33%) Redis
7 3 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.74%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.74%) SQLite
8 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.58%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Power BI
9 1 (0.58%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 77 (44.77%) Git
2 76 (44.19%) Cucumber
3 63 (36.63%) Jenkins
4 48 (27.91%) Selenium
5 43 (25.00%) Mockito
6 40 (23.26%) TestNG
7 35 (20.35%) JIRA
8 31 (18.02%) Postman
9 26 (15.12%) REST Assured
10 25 (14.53%) GitLab
10 25 (14.53%) Maven
11 18 (10.47%) WebDriver
12 17 (9.88%) Gradle
13 15 (8.72%) SoapUI
14 14 (8.14%) Appium
15 10 (5.81%) eggPlant
15 10 (5.81%) SOAtest
16 9 (5.23%) JMeter
17 6 (3.49%) IntelliJ
17 6 (3.49%) Subversion
General
1 37 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.77%) Finance
2 34 (19.77%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.72%) Front Office
4 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (1.16%) Electronics
6 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Billing
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (63.95%) Developer
2 86 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.35%) Senior
4 26 (15.12%) Senior Developer
5 25 (14.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (8.72%) Lead
7 11 (6.40%) Tester
8 9 (5.23%) Lead Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Automation Tester
9 8 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Android Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Junior
11 6 (3.49%) Junior Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Junior Java Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (53.49%) Spring Boot
2 84 (48.84%) Spring
3 82 (47.67%) REST
4 31 (18.02%) Hibernate
4 31 (18.02%) JPA
5 27 (15.70%) Kafka
6 23 (13.37%) React
7 21 (12.21%) J2EE
8 16 (9.30%) Web Services
9 15 (8.72%) SOAP
10 14 (8.14%) Apache Camel
10 14 (8.14%) RESTful
10 14 (8.14%) WireMock
10 14 (8.14%) XML
11 12 (6.98%) .NET
11 12 (6.98%) Android Jetpack
12 11 (6.40%) Jetpack Compose
13 10 (5.81%) JSON
14 9 (5.23%) .NET Framework
14 9 (5.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.30%) Credit Derivative
2 7 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.49%) Derivative
3 6 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.14%) Android
2 12 (6.98%) Linux
3 8 (4.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.74%) Agile
2 68 (39.53%) CI/CD
3 65 (37.79%) Microservices
4 51 (29.65%) TDD
5 50 (29.07%) Test Automation
6 48 (27.91%) DevOps
7 44 (25.58%) Scrum
8 36 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (20.35%) BDD
10 32 (18.60%) Unit Testing
11 26 (15.12%) Software Testing
12 25 (14.53%) Mentoring
12 25 (14.53%) SDLC
13 24 (13.95%) High Availability
14 22 (12.79%) Front End Development
15 21 (12.21%) End-to-End Testing
15 21 (12.21%) Software Engineering
15 21 (12.21%) Test Scripting
16 20 (11.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 19 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 146 (84.88%) Java
2 37 (21.51%) SQL
3 24 (13.95%) Python
4 23 (13.37%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.63%) C#
6 13 (7.56%) Kotlin
7 12 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.07%) Perl
8 7 (4.07%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.91%) Scala
10 4 (2.33%) C
10 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.16%) C++
11 2 (1.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) Bash
12 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 56 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.05%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.98%) Degree
5 10 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.23%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.70%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.16%) HL7
3 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (37.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (29.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.81%) Ansible
3 8 (4.65%) Terraform
4 6 (3.49%) Kibana
5 3 (1.74%) Grafana
5 3 (1.74%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.74%) Packer
6 2 (1.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (10.47%) Oracle
2 8 (4.65%) IBM
3 7 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.74%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.16%) New Relic
5 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.16%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Confluent
6 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.58%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.58%) HP
6 1 (0.58%) Murex
6 1 (0.58%) Splunk
6 1 (0.58%) VMware