Unit Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Unit Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 150 163
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 204 430 746
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.32% 1.64% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.83% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 325 495
10th Percentile £358 £400 £385
25th Percentile £431 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £688 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 7
10th Percentile £29.40 £53.09 £48.00
25th Percentile £42.75 £64.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.80 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,612 23,510 40,771
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.80% 89.82% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,085 16,595 29,573
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 557 545
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unit Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unit Testing.

Unit Testing 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 a work from home option citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Unit Testing 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 a work from home option citing Unit Testing.

Unit Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Unit Testing hourly rate histogram 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 4 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.96%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.47%) CMS
2 3 (1.47%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.47%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.49%) Mule
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.98%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.82%) AWS
2 46 (22.55%) Azure
3 25 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.29%) Serverless
5 15 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.39%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.90%) GCP
8 9 (4.41%) dbt
9 8 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.43%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.94%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.94%) GitHub
12 5 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) FTP
2 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) NFC
2 1 (0.49%) PPP
2 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.82%) Oracle Database
4 16 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.86%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (5.39%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.90%) MySQL
9 9 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.47%) Power BI
14 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (21.57%) Git
2 26 (12.75%) JIRA
3 13 (6.37%) Mockito
4 11 (5.39%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.90%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.41%) Android Studio
7 7 (3.43%) JUnit
8 6 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (2.45%) Selenium
9 5 (2.45%) Storybook
9 5 (2.45%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.96%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.47%) git-flow
11 3 (1.47%) HP UFT
11 3 (1.47%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.47%) Vite
12 2 (0.98%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.98%) rollup.js
12 2 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 37 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.73%) Finance
3 21 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.39%) Banking
6 5 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.96%) Electronics
7 4 (1.96%) Marketing
7 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.47%) Law
8 3 (1.47%) Legal
8 3 (1.47%) Retail
9 2 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Billing
10 1 (0.49%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 130 (63.73%) Developer
2 27 (13.24%) Senior
3 21 (10.29%) C# Developer
4 18 (8.82%) .NET Developer
5 17 (8.33%) Lead
6 15 (7.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.37%) C# .NET Developer
7 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 13 (6.37%) SQL Developer
8 12 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.41%) Android Developer
9 9 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.92%) Azure Developer
11 7 (3.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (2.94%) PHP Developer
12 6 (2.94%) PL/SQL Developer
12 6 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.16%) .NET
2 29 (14.22%) React
2 29 (14.22%) RESTful
3 24 (11.76%) Node.js
4 23 (11.27%) CSS
4 23 (11.27%) HTML
5 22 (10.78%) AngularJS
5 22 (10.78%) REST
6 15 (7.35%) Spring
7 14 (6.86%) Web Services
8 13 (6.37%) .NET Framework
8 13 (6.37%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.37%) Spring Boot
8 13 (6.37%) WebSockets
9 12 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 12 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 11 (5.39%) jQuery
11 10 (4.90%) Jest
11 10 (4.90%) SOAP
12 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) Mobile App
2 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.96%) iPad
4 4 (1.96%) iPhone
4 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.47%) NHS
5 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.98%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.98%) Hackathon
6 2 (0.98%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.39%) Android
2 8 (3.92%) Linux
2 8 (3.92%) Unix
3 7 (3.43%) Windows
4 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.80%) Agile
2 62 (30.39%) DevOps
3 51 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 47 (23.04%) Test Automation
5 42 (20.59%) CI/CD
6 36 (17.65%) TDD
7 31 (15.20%) Software Testing
8 29 (14.22%) Analytics
9 26 (12.75%) Integration Testing
10 24 (11.76%) Clean Code
10 24 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (11.27%) Microservices
11 23 (11.27%) OO
12 22 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (10.29%) Scrum
14 20 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (9.31%) API Development
15 19 (9.31%) MVC
15 19 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (41.18%) SQL
2 45 (22.06%) Java
3 43 (21.08%) Python
4 42 (20.59%) C#
5 36 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 29 (14.22%) TypeScript
7 23 (11.27%) PL/SQL
8 11 (5.39%) C++
9 10 (4.90%) Kotlin
10 9 (4.41%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.92%) PHP
12 6 (2.94%) Scala
13 5 (2.45%) C
14 4 (1.96%) Bash
14 4 (1.96%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.96%) Swift
14 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.47%) Bicep
16 2 (0.98%) Perl
17 1 (0.49%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.10%) SC Cleared
1 41 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.37%) Degree
3 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.35%) Accessibility
1 15 (7.35%) QA
2 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.47%) GDPR
4 2 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.98%) SLA
4 2 (0.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.49%) HL7
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (9.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (8.82%) Terraform
2 11 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.41%) Grafana
4 2 (0.98%) BladeLogic
4 2 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (21.08%) Oracle
2 19 (9.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.41%) OpenAI
3 9 (4.41%) SAP
4 7 (3.43%) Avaloq
5 6 (2.94%) Google
6 4 (1.96%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.47%) IBM
8 2 (0.98%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.98%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.98%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) Reuters
8 2 (0.98%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.49%) Ariba
9 1 (0.49%) New Relic
9 1 (0.49%) RedGate
9 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) VMware
9 1 (0.49%) Xamarin