JUnit Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JUnit
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 291 375
Rank change year-on-year +69 +84 -37
Contract jobs citing JUnit 82 54 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.83% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.53% 2.91% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 67
10th Percentile £364 £331 £400
25th Percentile £390 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £863 £620
90th Percentile £575 £874 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +14.47%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +8.00% +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JUnit trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JUnit.

JUnit daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JUnit over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

JUnit daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JUnit.

JUnit hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (12.20%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) JBoss
2 3 (3.66%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.63%) AWS
2 9 (10.98%) Azure
3 6 (7.32%) Slack
4 4 (4.88%) GCP
5 3 (3.66%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.66%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.22%) Firebase
7 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (58.54%) Relational Database
2 40 (48.78%) MongoDB
3 34 (41.46%) DB2
4 21 (25.61%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (10.98%) MySQL
6 6 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.10%) Redis
8 4 (4.88%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (3.66%) Neo4j
10 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Git
2 18 (21.95%) Jenkins
3 17 (20.73%) JIRA
3 17 (20.73%) Mockito
4 15 (18.29%) Gradle
5 13 (15.85%) Selenium
6 11 (13.41%) Cucumber
6 11 (13.41%) Maven
7 9 (10.98%) Liquibase
8 7 (8.54%) Postman
8 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
8 7 (8.54%) TestNG
9 6 (7.32%) IntelliJ
9 6 (7.32%) Jasmine
10 5 (6.10%) Subversion
11 4 (4.88%) Appium
11 4 (4.88%) GitLab
11 4 (4.88%) HP UFT
11 4 (4.88%) Xcode
12 3 (3.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 41 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (40.24%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (37.80%) Finance
4 23 (28.05%) Banking
5 20 (24.39%) Investment Banking
6 14 (17.07%) Front Office
7 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (76.83%) Developer
2 59 (71.95%) Java Developer
3 24 (29.27%) Senior
4 23 (28.05%) Senior Developer
4 23 (28.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 19 (23.17%) SQL Developer
6 18 (21.95%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 13 (15.85%) Lead
8 11 (13.41%) Lead Developer
8 11 (13.41%) Lead Java Developer
8 11 (13.41%) Linux Developer
8 11 (13.41%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 11 (13.41%) Senior SQL Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Sybase Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Tester
11 5 (6.10%) Automation Tester
11 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (3.66%) Digital Developer
12 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (75.61%) Spring
2 51 (62.20%) Kafka
3 37 (45.12%) Spring Boot
4 25 (30.49%) JMS
5 24 (29.27%) Swagger
6 22 (26.83%) OpenAPI
7 13 (15.85%) RESTful
8 11 (13.41%) React
9 10 (12.20%) Hibernate
10 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
11 7 (8.54%) REST
12 6 (7.32%) HTML
12 6 (7.32%) Web Services
13 5 (6.10%) CSS
13 5 (6.10%) J2EE
13 5 (6.10%) Spring Batch
13 5 (6.10%) Spring MVC
13 5 (6.10%) Spring Security
13 5 (6.10%) WireMock
14 4 (4.88%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 34 (41.46%) Data Structures
2 26 (31.71%) Equities
3 6 (7.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.88%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (3.66%) Derivative
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (52.44%) Linux
2 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (7.32%) Unix
3 4 (4.88%) Windows
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.44%) Android
5 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) Agile
2 35 (42.68%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (41.46%) SDLC
4 31 (37.80%) Microservices
5 30 (36.59%) Multithreading
6 29 (35.37%) CI/CD
7 28 (34.15%) Open Source
7 28 (34.15%) Software Engineering
8 26 (31.71%) Database Tuning
8 26 (31.71%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (30.49%) TDD
10 21 (25.61%) Test Automation
11 19 (23.17%) Containerisation
12 17 (20.73%) DevOps
13 16 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (17.07%) Mentoring
15 11 (13.41%) BDD
16 10 (12.20%) Scrum
17 9 (10.98%) API Design
17 9 (10.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (95.12%) Java
2 57 (69.51%) SQL
3 34 (41.46%) Python
4 28 (34.15%) Shell Script
5 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.32%) Bash
8 3 (3.66%) Groovy
8 3 (3.66%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.44%) C#
9 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.44%) Swift
10 1 (1.22%) COBOL
10 1 (1.22%) JCL
10 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) SC Cleared
1 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Grafana
2 4 (4.88%) Puppet
3 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Argo
4 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (41.46%) Sybase
2 5 (6.10%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) Splunk
5 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Veracode
6 1 (1.22%) WSO2