NUnit Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NUnit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 543 571
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +74
Contract jobs citing NUnit 26 28 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.074% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.51% 0.55% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 47
10th Percentile £304 £363 £448
25th Percentile £344 £509 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% -14.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £595 £722
90th Percentile £595 £740 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +27.32%

All Development Application Skills
UK

NUnit 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 5,109 5,080 6,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 13.39% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,462 3,163 4,478
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £513
% change year-on-year -3.75% -3.71% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 173 245
10th Percentile £16.84 £27.04 £46.18
25th Percentile £43.81 £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.95 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

NUnit job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NUnit over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NUnit in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NUnit within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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 -2 15 £350 -39.66% 12
Work from Home +27 12 £500 -4.76% 8
London +8 9 £350 -39.13% 3
UK excluding London -3 8 £550 -6.78% 9
South East +9 3 £201 -63.45% 2
Scotland -8 2 £588 +56.67%
South West +6 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £288 -
North West - 1 £550 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £288 -
North of England - 1 £550 - 6

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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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (15.38%) BrowserStack
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Boomi
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Selenium
2 9 (34.62%) MSTest
3 6 (23.08%) Appium
4 5 (19.23%) JUnit
4 5 (19.23%) Postman
4 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
4 5 (19.23%) WebDriver
5 4 (15.38%) Git
5 4 (15.38%) Ranorex
5 4 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
7 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
7 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
7 2 (7.69%) JIRA
8 1 (3.85%) Ant
8 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
8 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) .NET Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Developer
5 4 (15.38%) QA Leader
5 4 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (11.54%) QA Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Tester
7 2 (7.69%) Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
7 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Mobile Specialist
7 2 (7.69%) QA Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) .NET
2 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET
3 6 (23.08%) Playwright
3 6 (23.08%) REST
3 6 (23.08%) RESTful
4 5 (19.23%) .NET Core
4 5 (19.23%) ARM Templates
4 5 (19.23%) OAuth
4 5 (19.23%) OpenID
4 5 (19.23%) Web Services
5 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 4 (15.38%) ADO
5 4 (15.38%) WCF
6 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
7 2 (7.69%) HTML
7 2 (7.69%) XML
8 1 (3.85%) EJB
8 1 (3.85%) JDBC
8 1 (3.85%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) PDA
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Contactless
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Android
2 6 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) Agile
3 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
5 9 (34.62%) SDLC
6 8 (30.77%) User Experience
7 7 (26.92%) Unit Testing
8 6 (23.08%) BDD
8 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (23.08%) Performance Testing
8 6 (23.08%) Scrum
8 6 (23.08%) TDD
9 5 (19.23%) API Development
9 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (19.23%) Kanban
9 5 (19.23%) Microservices
9 5 (19.23%) OO
9 5 (19.23%) OWASP
9 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
10 4 (15.38%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) C#
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Korn
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
2 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Xamarin