QUnit Contract Job Trends

QUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring QUnit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QUnit 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.040% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £595 - -
25th Percentile £651 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £764 - -
75th Percentile £888 - -
90th Percentile £952 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

QUnit 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 4,999 5,103 6,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 13.25% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 3,256 4,676
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £721 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 177 245
10th Percentile £30.58 £29.14 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.25 £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.44 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.30 £73.85 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

QUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QUnit in the UK

QUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

QUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QUnit over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QUnit in the UK

QUnit
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QUnit within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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
London - 2 £764 - 4
England - 2 £764 - 6

QUnit
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) KDB
1 2 (100.00%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) KDB Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Complexity Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Flow Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Rundeck