JUnit Contracts

JUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JUnit over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 428 458
Rank change year-on-year +115 +30 -48
Contract jobs citing JUnit 223 174 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.44% 3.36% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 125 177
10th Percentile £372 £325 £419
25th Percentile £408 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £550 £606 £680
90th Percentile £620 £853 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £70.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +14.43%
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +36.36%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 14 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 30 April 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
England +83 159 £520 -1.00% 78
UK excluding London +91 106 £485 -3.00% 76
London +33 93 £525 - 23
Work from Home +79 82 £534 +6.70% 52
Scotland +30 46 £485 -3.00% 12
North of England +40 35 £520 -5.50% 18
North West +15 17 £530 +1.92% 14
Midlands +37 16 £420 - 8
Yorkshire +19 13 £565 +2.72% 3
West Midlands +27 12 £425 +1.19% 4
South East +42 8 £500 - 17
North East +4 5 £390 +25.81% 1
East Midlands +12 4 £270 -35.52% 4
South West +44 1 - - 9

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 29 (13.00%) Confluence
2 5 (2.24%) JBoss
3 4 (1.79%) Alfresco
3 4 (1.79%) Camunda
3 4 (1.79%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.11%) AWS
2 29 (13.00%) Azure
3 18 (8.07%) Slack
4 14 (6.28%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (6.28%) GitHub
5 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.04%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.14%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.14%) BrowserStack
9 7 (3.14%) GCP
9 7 (3.14%) Route 53
9 7 (3.14%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (2.24%) Serverless
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (45.74%) Relational Database
2 82 (36.77%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (35.87%) MongoDB
4 44 (19.73%) DB2
5 33 (14.80%) MySQL
6 22 (9.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (7.62%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.93%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.59%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.69%) Redis
12 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.35%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.90%) Big Data
15 2 (0.90%) GIS
16 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
16 1 (0.45%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 76 (34.08%) Jenkins
2 68 (30.49%) Mockito
3 61 (27.35%) Git
4 57 (25.56%) Gradle
5 41 (18.39%) JIRA
5 41 (18.39%) Maven
6 40 (17.94%) Cucumber
7 38 (17.04%) Selenium
8 32 (14.35%) Liquibase
9 22 (9.87%) GitLab
10 20 (8.97%) Jasmine
11 17 (7.62%) SonarQube
12 16 (7.17%) IntelliJ
13 13 (5.83%) Appium
13 13 (5.83%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (5.83%) TestNG
14 9 (4.04%) HP UFT
14 9 (4.04%) Postman
15 8 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (3.59%) Subversion
General
1 78 (34.98%) Finance
2 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
3 66 (29.60%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (21.52%) Public Sector
5 29 (13.00%) Banking
6 24 (10.76%) Investment Banking
7 22 (9.87%) Manufacturing
8 21 (9.42%) Electronics
8 21 (9.42%) Marketing
8 21 (9.42%) Telecoms
9 20 (8.97%) Front Office
10 7 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Military
13 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (67.71%) Developer
2 130 (58.30%) Java Developer
3 43 (19.28%) Senior
4 40 (17.94%) Senior Developer
5 37 (16.59%) Senior Java Developer
6 33 (14.80%) Lead
7 24 (10.76%) Lead Developer
7 24 (10.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 23 (10.31%) Java Engineer
9 21 (9.42%) Lead Java Developer
9 21 (9.42%) SQL Developer
10 18 (8.07%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 16 (7.17%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.73%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (5.38%) QA Engineer
13 12 (5.38%) Senior SQL Developer
14 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.93%) Linux Developer
14 11 (4.93%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 11 (4.93%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (69.06%) Spring
2 112 (50.22%) Spring Boot
3 96 (43.05%) Kafka
4 59 (26.46%) Swagger
5 56 (25.11%) OpenAPI
6 43 (19.28%) React
7 40 (17.94%) JMS
8 37 (16.59%) RESTful
9 36 (16.14%) Hibernate
10 33 (14.80%) REST
11 30 (13.45%) AngularJS
12 24 (10.76%) JPA
13 23 (10.31%) HTML
13 23 (10.31%) Spring Batch
13 23 (10.31%) Web Services
14 19 (8.52%) Spring Security
15 16 (7.17%) SOAP
16 11 (4.93%) Bootstrap
16 11 (4.93%) CSS
16 11 (4.93%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.52%) Data Structures
2 33 (14.80%) Equities
3 17 (7.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.48%) PKI
5 8 (3.59%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.69%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.24%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.35%) Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (35.87%) Linux
2 19 (8.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (6.28%) Unix
4 11 (4.93%) Android
5 5 (2.24%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.24%) Windows
6 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (61.88%) Agile
2 107 (47.98%) CI/CD
3 105 (47.09%) Microservices
4 99 (44.39%) TDD
5 77 (34.53%) Software Engineering
6 76 (34.08%) Test Automation
7 73 (32.74%) DevOps
8 65 (29.15%) Containerisation
9 61 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (26.01%) SDLC
11 46 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
12 43 (19.28%) BDD
12 43 (19.28%) Open Source
13 40 (17.94%) Multithreading
14 32 (14.35%) Migration
15 30 (13.45%) Database Tuning
15 30 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (12.56%) Mentoring
16 28 (12.56%) Unit Testing
17 27 (12.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 202 (90.58%) Java
2 130 (58.30%) SQL
3 60 (26.91%) Python
4 42 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 39 (17.49%) Shell Script
6 26 (11.66%) JavaScript
7 21 (9.42%) Bash
8 7 (3.14%) C#
9 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.35%) Groovy
11 3 (1.35%) Swift
12 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) COBOL
13 1 (0.45%) JCL
13 1 (0.45%) Korn
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 75 (33.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) Degree
3 10 (4.48%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.90%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) SEPA
4 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (39.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Postfix
3 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 51 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.83%) Grafana
3 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.24%) Kibana
4 5 (2.24%) Puppet
4 5 (2.24%) Terraform
5 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.90%) Argo
6 2 (0.90%) Istio
7 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (18.83%) Sybase
2 22 (9.87%) SAP
3 14 (6.28%) Splunk
4 10 (4.48%) Oracle
5 8 (3.59%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.14%) CA Agile Central
6 7 (3.14%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.69%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.79%) Google
10 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.90%) Veracode
11 1 (0.45%) Confluent
11 1 (0.45%) New Relic
11 1 (0.45%) Perforce
11 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.45%) WSO2