JUnit Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 305 381
Rank change year-on-year +127 +76 -56
Contract jobs citing JUnit 130 38 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.27% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.07% 2.22% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 29 47
10th Percentile £281 £384 £383
25th Percentile £375 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £638
90th Percentile £575 £828 £730
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +5.36%

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 1,611 1,712 3,407
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.79% 12.09% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,199 2,424
10th Percentile £327 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £650
90th Percentile £688 £702 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 102
10th Percentile £51.00 £15.45 £39.82
25th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £66.09
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.44% +10.15%
75th Percentile £68.58 £65.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% +13.64%

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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 18 July 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 8 (6.15%) JBoss
2 7 (5.38%) Confluence
3 5 (3.85%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.54%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.54%) Camunda
5 1 (0.77%) CICS
5 1 (0.77%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.00%) AWS
2 21 (16.15%) Azure
3 13 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 12 (9.23%) GitHub
5 10 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.62%) GCP
9 5 (3.85%) AWS KMS
9 5 (3.85%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.85%) Route 53
10 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.31%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) HTTP
1 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (47.69%) Relational Database
2 50 (38.46%) MongoDB
3 45 (34.62%) DB2
4 38 (29.23%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 10 (7.69%) Redis
6 9 (6.92%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (4.62%) MySQL
8 6 (4.62%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.31%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 44 (33.85%) Jenkins
2 35 (26.92%) Mockito
3 34 (26.15%) Maven
4 33 (25.38%) Git
5 25 (19.23%) Selenium
6 23 (17.69%) JIRA
6 23 (17.69%) SonarQube
7 21 (16.15%) Gradle
8 18 (13.85%) Cucumber
8 18 (13.85%) Postman
9 13 (10.00%) GitLab
9 13 (10.00%) Liquibase
10 11 (8.46%) Cypress.io
11 10 (7.69%) REST Assured
12 9 (6.92%) Subversion
12 9 (6.92%) TestNG
13 8 (6.15%) IntelliJ
14 7 (5.38%) JMeter
15 6 (4.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (4.62%) Xcode
General
1 61 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 53 (40.77%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (38.46%) Finance
4 48 (36.92%) Banking
5 31 (23.85%) Investment Banking
6 21 (16.15%) Front Office
7 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.77%) Aviation
10 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 100 (76.92%) Developer
2 93 (71.54%) Java Developer
3 30 (23.08%) Senior
3 30 (23.08%) SQL Developer
4 29 (22.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 29 (22.31%) Senior Developer
4 29 (22.31%) Senior Java Developer
5 23 (17.69%) Lead
6 18 (13.85%) Lead Developer
6 18 (13.85%) Lead Java Developer
7 15 (11.54%) Linux Developer
7 15 (11.54%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (11.54%) Senior SQL Developer
8 14 (10.77%) Sybase Developer
9 12 (9.23%) Tester
10 11 (8.46%) Automation Tester
11 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (6.15%) AWS Developer
12 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 4 (3.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (73.08%) Spring
2 80 (61.54%) Kafka
3 60 (46.15%) Spring Boot
4 37 (28.46%) JMS
5 29 (22.31%) REST
6 27 (20.77%) Swagger
7 26 (20.00%) Hibernate
8 22 (16.92%) JPA
9 21 (16.15%) AngularJS
9 21 (16.15%) OpenAPI
10 19 (14.62%) React
10 19 (14.62%) RESTful
11 18 (13.85%) SOAP
12 17 (13.08%) Web Services
13 16 (12.31%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (10.77%) HTML
15 13 (10.00%) Bootstrap
16 11 (8.46%) CSS
16 11 (8.46%) Playwright
17 9 (6.92%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 43 (33.08%) Data Structures
2 37 (28.46%) Equities
3 12 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.62%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (3.85%) Derivative
6 4 (3.08%) Mainframe
6 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.31%) PKI
7 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.77%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 52 (40.00%) Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (3.08%) Windows
4 3 (2.31%) Android
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (76.15%) Agile
2 57 (43.85%) Microservices
3 56 (43.08%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (42.31%) SDLC
5 49 (37.69%) TDD
6 43 (33.08%) CI/CD
6 43 (33.08%) Multithreading
6 43 (33.08%) Open Source
7 39 (30.00%) Database Tuning
7 39 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (29.23%) Test Automation
9 36 (27.69%) DevOps
10 30 (23.08%) Containerisation
11 23 (17.69%) Scrum
12 21 (16.15%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (16.15%) Software Engineering
13 15 (11.54%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.77%) Event-Driven
14 14 (10.77%) Migration
14 14 (10.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 122 (93.85%) Java
2 82 (63.08%) SQL
3 51 (39.23%) Python
4 45 (34.62%) Shell Script
5 20 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.85%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.38%) Groovy
8 4 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.31%) C#
9 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.54%) Bash
10 2 (1.54%) COBOL
10 2 (1.54%) JCL
11 1 (0.77%) Ada
11 1 (0.77%) Perl
11 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.31%) Degree
4 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.31%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.31%) WCAG
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (39.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) Postfix
3 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (14.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.69%) Grafana
3 8 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.31%) Puppet
5 2 (1.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.77%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (33.85%) Sybase
2 12 (9.23%) CA Agile Central
3 10 (7.69%) Splunk
4 9 (6.92%) Oracle
5 6 (4.62%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.08%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.31%) Google
8 3 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.31%) Veracode
9 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.77%) Duck Creek
10 1 (0.77%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.77%) IBM
10 1 (0.77%) Pega
10 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.77%) UiPath
10 1 (0.77%) WSO2