Unit Testing Contracts in the South East

Unit Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 137 163
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 55 69 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.01% 1.23% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.38% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 67
10th Percentile £343 £415 £385
25th Percentile £500 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% +10.77%
75th Percentile £688 £614 £633
90th Percentile - £750 £650
England median daily rate £548 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -6.33% +6.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £64.56
90th Percentile - - £66.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Thames Valley -6 47 £650 +18.18% 17
Berkshire -4 44 £675 +12.50% 5
West Sussex +10 6 £550 -0.27% 4
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £394 -10.00% 3
Surrey +14 1 £500 - 3
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 9
Hampshire -12 1 - - 13
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (16.36%) Apache
1 9 (16.36%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 13 (23.64%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (21.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (21.82%) Azure Functions
4 12 (21.82%) Serverless
5 10 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) BGP
1 9 (16.36%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (16.36%) MPLS
1 9 (16.36%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (16.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.82%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (29.09%) Oracle Database
4 13 (23.64%) Oracle Database 11g
5 9 (16.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.82%) Big Data
8 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.82%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Git
2 13 (23.64%) JIRA
3 10 (18.18%) GitLab
4 9 (16.36%) Robot Framework
4 9 (16.36%) TestRail
5 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
6 4 (7.27%) Selenium
7 1 (1.82%) Appium
7 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.82%) JMeter
7 1 (1.82%) JUnit
7 1 (1.82%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) MSTest
7 1 (1.82%) NUnit
7 1 (1.82%) Subversion
7 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.82%) VersionOne
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (32.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Finance
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.82%) Marketing
4 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (67.27%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Full Stack Developer
2 13 (23.64%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 12 (21.82%) Azure Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Network Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Test Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 3 (5.45%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Designer
8 2 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) React
2 11 (20.00%) REST
3 10 (18.18%) SOAP
4 9 (16.36%) NETCONF
4 9 (16.36%) RESTCONF
4 9 (16.36%) YANG
5 7 (12.73%) HTML
6 6 (10.91%) CSS
7 4 (7.27%) .NET
8 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.64%) jQuery
8 2 (3.64%) Node.js
8 2 (3.64%) OAuth
8 2 (3.64%) OpenID
9 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.82%) Kafka
9 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.82%) Life Science
2 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Windows
3 3 (5.45%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) Android
5 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) Agile
2 30 (54.55%) DevOps
3 27 (49.09%) CI/CD
4 20 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 18 (32.73%) Clean Code
5 18 (32.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (30.91%) Test Automation
7 16 (29.09%) Scrum
7 16 (29.09%) Software Testing
8 13 (23.64%) Architectural Design
8 13 (23.64%) Data Migration
8 13 (23.64%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (23.64%) Integration Testing
8 13 (23.64%) Microservices
8 13 (23.64%) Migration
8 13 (23.64%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (23.64%) Secure Coding
9 12 (21.82%) Change Management
9 12 (21.82%) SDLC
10 11 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (49.09%) SQL
2 26 (47.27%) Python
3 17 (30.91%) PL/SQL
4 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.91%) C#
6 5 (9.09%) Bash
6 5 (9.09%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) Perl
7 4 (7.27%) C
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) PHP
8 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.82%) Scala
9 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) Degree
3 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Ansible
1 1 (1.82%) Grafana
1 1 (1.82%) Kibana
1 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.82%) Puppet
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Oracle
2 1 (1.82%) Avaloq
2 1 (1.82%) Google
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.82%) Splunk