Unit Testing Contracts in West London

Unit Testing
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 57 51
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 13 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.63% 1.05% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 1.13% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £328 - £476
25th Percentile £375 £700 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £488 £800 £638
90th Percentile £500 - -
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -2.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 533 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.71% 93.51% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 389 402
10th Percentile £225 £350 £238
25th Percentile £325 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +10.29% -0.97%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 51 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.65
25th Percentile £17.18 £47.88 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -25.03%
75th Percentile £56.88 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £43.61
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in West London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in West London.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in West London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in West London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in West London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in West London.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in West London

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the West London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Hounslow +7 10 £350 - 5
Hillingdon +29 3 £450 -40.00% 1
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) Gatling
3 4 (30.77%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (30.77%) Mockito
3 4 (30.77%) ScalaTest
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (15.38%) Jasmine
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Scala Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Angular Developer
3 3 (23.08%) React Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (15.38%) UI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Akka
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
1 4 (30.77%) JPA
1 4 (30.77%) Play Framework
1 4 (30.77%) Playwright
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
1 4 (30.77%) spray
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring MVC
1 4 (30.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
2 3 (23.08%) Next.js
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) React
2 3 (23.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (38.46%) BDD
3 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Pair Programming
3 5 (38.46%) Release Management
3 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Architectural Design
4 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Extreme Programming
4 4 (30.77%) Kanban
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
2 5 (38.46%) Scala
3 4 (30.77%) C
3 4 (30.77%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Ariba
1 1 (7.69%) SAP