Unit Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Unit Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 156 152
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 104 206 425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.34% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.53% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 149 326
10th Percentile £304 £362 £400
25th Percentile £393 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £686 £688 £764
UK median daily rate £530 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £57.75 £29.40 £50.78
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.75 £64.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £85.00 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Unit Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Unit Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Unit Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Unit Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Unit Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
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 7 (6.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.96%) CICS
2 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
2 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.92%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.96%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 1 (0.96%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.96%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.96%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) AWS
2 25 (24.04%) Azure
3 13 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.65%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (6.73%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.85%) Azure API Management
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.85%) GitHub
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.88%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.88%) Firebase
9 3 (2.88%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Ethernet
1 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.46%) Oracle Database
3 8 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.77%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.85%) MySQL
7 3 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.88%) Power BI
7 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.92%) DB2
8 2 (1.92%) GIS
8 2 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Git
2 10 (9.62%) JIRA
3 8 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.73%) GitLab
5 6 (5.77%) Subversion
6 5 (4.81%) JUnit
6 5 (4.81%) Postman
6 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.85%) Eclipse
7 4 (3.85%) Mockito
7 4 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (3.85%) PVCS
8 3 (2.88%) Maven
8 3 (2.88%) PHPUnit
8 3 (2.88%) Xcode
9 2 (1.92%) Android Studio
9 2 (1.92%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.92%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) XCTest
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Finance
3 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.62%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Military
7 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Front Office
8 3 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.92%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.96%) Aviation
10 1 (0.96%) Back Office
10 1 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
2 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Consultant
3 8 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 7 (6.73%) Data Engineer
4 7 (6.73%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.77%) Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Android Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 5 (4.81%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Software Developer
6 5 (4.81%) SQL Developer
7 4 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) C# Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (2.88%) Oracle Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.38%) .NET
2 12 (11.54%) React
2 12 (11.54%) REST
2 12 (11.54%) Web Services
3 11 (10.58%) CSS
3 11 (10.58%) HTML
4 10 (9.62%) RESTful
5 9 (8.65%) Node.js
6 8 (7.69%) Kafka
7 7 (6.73%) Spring
8 6 (5.77%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.77%) AWS CDK
8 6 (5.77%) FastAPI
8 6 (5.77%) HTML5
9 5 (4.81%) CSS3
9 5 (4.81%) SOAP
9 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
9 5 (4.81%) WCF
10 4 (3.85%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.92%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.92%) Replication
5 1 (0.96%) Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) Equities
5 1 (0.96%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.96%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Android
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 5 (4.81%) Linux
4 4 (3.85%) Unix
5 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (43.27%) Agile
2 35 (33.65%) DevOps
3 31 (29.81%) CI/CD
4 20 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (17.31%) Migration
6 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
7 17 (16.35%) Integration Testing
7 17 (16.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (15.38%) TDD
9 14 (13.46%) Scrum
10 13 (12.50%) User Experience
11 12 (11.54%) Data Migration
12 11 (10.58%) Code Quality
12 11 (10.58%) ETL
12 11 (10.58%) Secure Coding
13 10 (9.62%) Architectural Design
13 10 (9.62%) Clean Code
13 10 (9.62%) Microservices
13 10 (9.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.65%) SQL
2 26 (25.00%) Python
3 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 22 (21.15%) C#
5 20 (19.23%) Java
6 12 (11.54%) PL/SQL
7 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.85%) C
9 4 (3.85%) C++
9 4 (3.85%) ProC
10 3 (2.88%) PHP
10 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.88%) Ruby
10 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.92%) Bicep
11 2 (1.92%) Groovy
11 2 (1.92%) JCL
11 2 (1.92%) Swift
11 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) Degree
4 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.96%) MCAD
7 1 (0.96%) MCPD
7 1 (0.96%) MCSD
7 1 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 7 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) HL7
4 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Terraform
3 6 (5.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Oracle
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.73%) SAP
4 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (1.92%) Ariba
5 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.92%) Databricks
5 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.92%) Snow
5 2 (1.92%) Sybase
6 1 (0.96%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) IBM
6 1 (0.96%) IFS
6 1 (0.96%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.96%) RedGate
6 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.96%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.96%) TOWER Software