Unit Testing Contracts in Central London

Unit Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 118 104
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 34 56 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.42% 1.51% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.65% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 45 64
10th Percentile £423 £438 £413
25th Percentile £469 £505 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +12.73% -
75th Percentile £624 £725 £700
90th Percentile £668 £775 £738
London median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Central London

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +23 34 £575 -7.26% 9
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (2.94%) Front Arena
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Retail
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.71%) dbt
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 2 (5.88%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
1 1 (2.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) MySQL
3 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.94%) Power BI
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) PHPUnit
3 3 (8.82%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.82%) Mercurial
3 3 (8.82%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
4 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.94%) git-flow
5 1 (2.94%) GitLab
5 1 (2.94%) Gradle
5 1 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (2.94%) Moq
5 1 (2.94%) MSTest
5 1 (2.94%) NUnit
5 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Banking
4 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
5 5 (14.71%) Retail
6 4 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (11.76%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Front Office
8 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (70.59%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) C# Developer
3 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) PHP Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Angular Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Android Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Master Data Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) RESTful
2 6 (17.65%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) Web Services
3 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
3 5 (14.71%) Kafka
3 5 (14.71%) REST
4 4 (11.76%) HTML
4 4 (11.76%) jQuery
4 4 (11.76%) Laravel
4 4 (11.76%) pytest
4 4 (11.76%) Symfony
4 4 (11.76%) Yii
5 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.82%) CSS
5 3 (8.82%) Django
5 3 (8.82%) Spring
5 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Derivative
2 1 (2.94%) Equities
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
2 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (29.41%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Design Patterns
5 6 (17.65%) ETL
5 6 (17.65%) Microservices
5 6 (17.65%) OO
5 6 (17.65%) OOP
6 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (14.71%) Data Science
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) TDD
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Wealth Management
7 4 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) PHP
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.88%) Go
6 2 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) C++
7 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.94%) Perl
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Citrix
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) Micro Focus
3 2 (5.88%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.94%) Advent
4 1 (2.94%) Eze Castle Integration
4 1 (2.94%) JDA
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Sybase