JUnit Contract Job Trends

JUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 305 413
Rank change year-on-year -105 +108 +40
Contract jobs citing JUnit 221 229 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.79% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.79% 5.53% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 133 127
10th Percentile £353 £367 £348
25th Percentile £412 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £628
90th Percentile £600 £613 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -9.84% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -19.75% +8.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% -19.75% +8.00%

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 5,826 4,141 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.20% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,828 2,767 3,440
10th Percentile £349 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 71 204
10th Percentile £36.45 £27.50 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JUnit job vacancy trend in the UK

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit

JUnit
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 15 Contract Job 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 9 May 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -68 203 £475 -8.61% 39
UK excluding London -99 111 £435 -9.84% 24
London -67 93 £525 - 15
Work from Home -49 64 £425 -20.34% 21
Midlands -23 52 £436 +3.81% 7
West Midlands -24 44 £474 +11.41% 7
North of England -73 25 £425 -18.33% 4
South East -52 21 £388 -22.50% 5
North West -37 16 £500 -5.66% 2
East of England - 9 £510 - 1
East Midlands -28 8 £393 +45.56%
Yorkshire -57 8 £350 -38.05% 2
South West -32 3 £430 - 6
North East -22 1 - -
Scotland -47 1 £588 +21.13% 1

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (13.12%) Confluence
2 6 (2.71%) Ethereum
2 6 (2.71%) Hyperledger
3 5 (2.26%) JBoss
3 5 (2.26%) SAS
4 4 (1.81%) Camunda
5 2 (0.90%) Drupal
5 2 (0.90%) Mule
5 2 (0.90%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.45%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 106 (47.96%) AWS
2 87 (39.37%) GitHub
3 61 (27.60%) Azure
4 60 (27.15%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (17.19%) GCP
6 25 (11.31%) Amazon S3
7 24 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (7.24%) OpenShift
10 14 (6.33%) AWS KMS
10 14 (6.33%) Route 53
11 13 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.98%) Serverless
13 5 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (1.81%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) DSL
3 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (34.84%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.22%) DynamoDB
3 23 (10.41%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.05%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.33%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.62%) MySQL
8 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (3.17%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.71%) Aerospike
10 6 (2.71%) Redis
11 4 (1.81%) DB2
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.36%) HBase
13 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 1 (0.45%) CockroachDB
14 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 112 (50.68%) Jenkins
2 106 (47.96%) Git
3 70 (31.67%) GitLab
4 68 (30.77%) Mockito
5 60 (27.15%) Cucumber
6 56 (25.34%) JIRA
7 52 (23.53%) Selenium
8 39 (17.65%) Maven
9 37 (16.74%) Gradle
10 30 (13.57%) JMeter
11 28 (12.67%) SonarQube
12 23 (10.41%) WebDriver
13 20 (9.05%) TestNG
14 17 (7.69%) Cypress.io
14 17 (7.69%) Postman
15 14 (6.33%) CircleCI
15 14 (6.33%) Liquibase
16 13 (5.88%) REST Assured
17 11 (4.98%) DbUnit
17 11 (4.98%) jMock
General
1 61 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.62%) Finance
3 41 (18.55%) Public Sector
4 32 (14.48%) Banking
5 24 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.26%) Law
8 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Automotive
10 2 (0.90%) Back Office
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.90%) Police
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Front Office
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (47.51%) Developer
2 74 (33.48%) Java Developer
3 40 (18.10%) Senior
4 22 (9.95%) Java Engineer
4 22 (9.95%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 20 (9.05%) Senior Java Developer
7 19 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (8.14%) Lead
9 17 (7.69%) Tester
10 10 (4.52%) Automation Tester
10 10 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (4.52%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Test Leader
11 8 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Android Developer
12 7 (3.17%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.17%) Senior Automation Tester
12 7 (3.17%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (61.99%) Spring
2 107 (48.42%) Spring Boot
3 75 (33.94%) REST
4 66 (29.86%) Kafka
5 54 (24.43%) RESTful
6 36 (16.29%) AngularJS
6 36 (16.29%) React
7 31 (14.03%) Hibernate
8 30 (13.57%) WireMock
9 27 (12.22%) JPA
9 27 (12.22%) Node.js
9 27 (12.22%) SOAP
10 22 (9.95%) Web Services
11 21 (9.50%) OpenAPI
12 20 (9.05%) Spring Batch
12 20 (9.05%) Swagger
13 19 (8.60%) Jest
13 19 (8.60%) Spring Cloud
14 17 (7.69%) HTML
15 16 (7.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.29%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (10.86%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.50%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (3.17%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.71%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.90%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.90%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.76%) Linux
2 15 (6.79%) Android
3 7 (3.17%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.17%) Windows
4 4 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.81%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (73.30%) CI/CD
2 137 (61.99%) Agile
3 113 (51.13%) Microservices
4 101 (45.70%) Test Automation
5 81 (36.65%) DevOps
6 80 (36.20%) TDD
7 67 (30.32%) Containerisation
8 53 (23.98%) Scrum
9 52 (23.53%) BDD
10 37 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (15.84%) Test Strategy
12 34 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 34 (15.38%) Unit Testing
13 33 (14.93%) Observability
14 32 (14.48%) Validation
15 31 (14.03%) Code Quality
16 30 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
17 27 (12.22%) End-to-End Testing
18 24 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
18 24 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (75.57%) Java
2 57 (25.79%) SQL
3 37 (16.74%) TypeScript
4 25 (11.31%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.31%) Python
5 13 (5.88%) C#
5 13 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.17%) Go
7 6 (2.71%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.71%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.36%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
8 3 (1.36%) Groovy
8 3 (1.36%) Korn
8 3 (1.36%) Perl
8 3 (1.36%) Scala
9 2 (0.90%) AppleScript
9 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (34.84%) Security Cleared
2 71 (32.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.07%) Degree
5 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.36%) OCP
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.55%) QA
2 18 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.62%) WCAG
4 2 (0.90%) NCSC
4 2 (0.90%) SEPA
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 91 (41.18%) Docker
2 10 (4.52%) Postfix
3 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 80 (36.20%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.29%) Grafana
3 25 (11.31%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.43%) Ansible
5 11 (4.98%) Terraform
6 5 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.36%) Kibana
8 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) Consul
9 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.45%) Podman
9 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (8.14%) Oracle
2 15 (6.79%) Google
3 14 (6.33%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (4.98%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.52%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.07%) Checkmarx
7 8 (3.62%) Splunk
8 6 (2.71%) Databricks
8 6 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.26%) IBM
10 4 (1.81%) Sybase
10 4 (1.81%) VMware
11 3 (1.36%) Citrix
11 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.90%) UiPath
13 1 (0.45%) Adobe
13 1 (0.45%) Okta
13 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.45%) Zscaler