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 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 297 413 463
Rank change year-on-year +116 +50 -67
Contract jobs citing JUnit 242 173 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.77% 3.36% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 130 153
10th Percentile £362 £359 £428
25th Percentile £405 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £700
90th Percentile £575 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 15
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% +10.03%
75th Percentile - - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £85.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% +7.14%

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 4,193 5,144 8,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.55% 12.01% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 3,468 5,710
10th Percentile £340 £352 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 219 227
10th Percentile £21.27 £27.65 £44.86
25th Percentile £46.44 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.06 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.66 £77.60 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 29 May 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 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 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
England +93 168 £500 -6.19% 419
UK excluding London +109 119 £475 -5.00% 425
Work from Home +87 98 £500 - 287
London +65 98 £500 -6.19% 60
Scotland +45 53 £485 -3.00% 28
North of England +10 31 £420 -23.64% 85
Midlands +36 26 £425 +3.98% 94
West Midlands +34 20 £480 +14.29% 56
North West +10 17 £466 -10.38% 43
Yorkshire +3 10 £520 -5.50% 33
South East +43 7 £395 -21.00% 107
East Midlands +12 6 £326 -17.99% 34
North East +2 4 £390 +25.81% 9
South West +38 1 £550 +29.41% 48
East of England +25 1 £200 - 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 14 (5.79%) Confluence
2 8 (3.31%) JBoss
3 7 (2.89%) Alfresco
3 7 (2.89%) Camunda
4 6 (2.48%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.07%) Apache
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.51%) AWS
2 36 (14.88%) Azure
3 20 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (7.44%) Amazon S3
5 17 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (6.61%) GitHub
7 14 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.96%) AWS KMS
9 12 (4.96%) Route 53
10 10 (4.13%) GCP
11 7 (2.89%) Serverless
12 5 (2.07%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.65%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.24%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.83%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (44.63%) Relational Database
2 81 (33.47%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (31.82%) MongoDB
4 50 (20.66%) DB2
5 21 (8.68%) MySQL
6 17 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (6.61%) RDBMS
8 15 (6.20%) DynamoDB
9 14 (5.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (5.79%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.72%) Redis
11 7 (2.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.89%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.65%) GIS
14 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.24%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.83%) Big Data
15 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
16 1 (0.41%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 101 (41.74%) Jenkins
2 83 (34.30%) Mockito
3 66 (27.27%) Gradle
4 61 (25.21%) Maven
5 59 (24.38%) Git
6 44 (18.18%) Selenium
7 35 (14.46%) Liquibase
8 30 (12.40%) JIRA
9 29 (11.98%) GitLab
9 29 (11.98%) SonarQube
10 28 (11.57%) Cucumber
11 17 (7.02%) IntelliJ
12 16 (6.61%) Bitbucket Server
12 16 (6.61%) Postman
12 16 (6.61%) TestNG
13 12 (4.96%) Cypress.io
13 12 (4.96%) REST Assured
14 9 (3.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (3.72%) HP UFT
14 9 (3.72%) Subversion
General
1 89 (36.78%) Finance
2 88 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 75 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (19.83%) Public Sector
5 39 (16.12%) Banking
6 29 (11.98%) Investment Banking
7 23 (9.50%) Manufacturing
8 22 (9.09%) Front Office
9 21 (8.68%) Electronics
9 21 (8.68%) Marketing
9 21 (8.68%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.72%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 169 (69.83%) Developer
2 142 (58.68%) Java Developer
3 47 (19.42%) Senior
4 43 (17.77%) Senior Developer
5 39 (16.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 30 (12.40%) Lead
7 24 (9.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 24 (9.92%) SQL Developer
8 23 (9.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 23 (9.50%) Lead Developer
9 20 (8.26%) Lead Java Developer
10 19 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (7.85%) Java Engineer
11 14 (5.79%) Linux Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Senior SQL Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Tester
12 13 (5.37%) React Developer
13 12 (4.96%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (4.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (69.42%) Spring
2 113 (46.69%) Spring Boot
3 110 (45.45%) Kafka
4 52 (21.49%) React
5 49 (20.25%) Hibernate
5 49 (20.25%) REST
5 49 (20.25%) Swagger
6 47 (19.42%) JMS
7 45 (18.60%) OpenAPI
8 44 (18.18%) AngularJS
9 37 (15.29%) JPA
10 31 (12.81%) Web Services
11 29 (11.98%) RESTful
11 29 (11.98%) SOAP
12 27 (11.16%) HTML
13 20 (8.26%) Spring Cloud
14 17 (7.02%) Bootstrap
15 16 (6.61%) ActiveMQ
16 15 (6.20%) Spring Integration
17 14 (5.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.31%) Data Structures
2 39 (16.12%) Equities
3 15 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.37%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.55%) PKI
6 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.89%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (2.07%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.65%) Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (31.40%) Linux
2 20 (8.26%) Unix
3 11 (4.55%) Android
4 6 (2.48%) Windows
5 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.83%) AIX
7 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (68.18%) Agile
2 111 (45.87%) Microservices
3 109 (45.04%) CI/CD
4 98 (40.50%) TDD
5 88 (36.36%) DevOps
6 73 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (27.69%) SDLC
7 67 (27.69%) Software Engineering
7 67 (27.69%) Test Automation
8 64 (26.45%) Containerisation
9 53 (21.90%) Open Source
10 48 (19.83%) Multithreading
11 39 (16.12%) Continuous Integration
12 38 (15.70%) Scrum
13 36 (14.88%) Unit Testing
14 35 (14.46%) Database Tuning
14 35 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
15 34 (14.05%) Migration
16 32 (13.22%) BDD
17 27 (11.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 225 (92.98%) Java
2 129 (53.31%) SQL
3 67 (27.69%) Python
4 50 (20.66%) TypeScript
5 48 (19.83%) Shell Script
6 35 (14.46%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.13%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.72%) C#
9 6 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.65%) Bash
11 4 (1.65%) Groovy
12 2 (0.83%) Korn
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
12 2 (0.83%) Swift
13 1 (0.41%) Ada
13 1 (0.41%) COBOL
13 1 (0.41%) JCL
13 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.79%) Degree
4 12 (4.96%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.22%) QA
2 6 (2.48%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.65%) WCAG
4 2 (0.83%) SEPA
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 95 (39.26%) Docker
2 8 (3.31%) Postfix
3 4 (1.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.68%) Grafana
3 14 (5.79%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.48%) Terraform
5 5 (2.07%) Kibana
5 5 (2.07%) Puppet
6 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Argo
7 2 (0.83%) Istio
8 1 (0.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (19.83%) Sybase
2 22 (9.09%) SAP
3 19 (7.85%) Splunk
4 18 (7.44%) Oracle
5 11 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.13%) CA Agile Central
7 9 (3.72%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (3.31%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.31%) Microsoft
9 6 (2.48%) IBM
10 5 (2.07%) Google
11 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.83%) Duck Creek
12 2 (0.83%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.83%) Perforce
12 2 (0.83%) Veracode
13 1 (0.41%) Pega
13 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.41%) Teradata