JUnit Contracts in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JUnit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JUnit over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 338 354
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 -45
Contract jobs citing JUnit 65 109 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 3.42% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 75 86
10th Percentile £375 £416 £422
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £583
90th Percentile £615 £680 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 19
10th Percentile - £70.13 £46.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +7.14% +20.69%
75th Percentile - - £77.25
90th Percentile - £77.70 £78.20
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £69.08
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.57% +12.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JUnit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,234 3,190 4,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.99% 13.88% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,250 3,176
10th Percentile £350 £338 £362
25th Percentile £413 £415 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 164 110
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.12 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.44
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.40 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +15.38%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +5 27 £550 - 4
Scotland +51 19 £500 -7.41% 2
Yorkshire +25 14 £550 -4.35%
North West -17 12 £520 -5.45% 4
East of England +13 7 - - 2
South East -8 7 £500 - 11
South West 0 3 £425 -36.33% 8
Midlands +29 2 £409 -9.17% 3
West Midlands +24 1 £420 -6.67% 3
North East +15 1 £310 -22.50%
East Midlands +13 1 £398 -
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (12.31%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) Apache
2 4 (6.15%) JBoss
3 2 (3.08%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.08%) WildFly
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) AWS
2 4 (6.15%) GitHub
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (4.62%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) Serverless
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (24.62%) Relational Database
2 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.08%) SQLite
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Power BI
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (53.85%) Git
2 17 (26.15%) Cucumber
3 16 (24.62%) Mockito
4 15 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 10 (15.38%) JIRA
6 8 (12.31%) Selenium
7 7 (10.77%) Maven
8 6 (9.23%) GitLab
8 6 (9.23%) Postman
9 5 (7.69%) Gradle
10 4 (6.15%) IntelliJ
10 4 (6.15%) REST Assured
10 4 (6.15%) Subversion
10 4 (6.15%) TestNG
11 3 (4.62%) JMeter
12 2 (3.08%) Appium
13 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
13 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
13 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (1.54%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.31%) Finance
2 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (63.08%) Developer
2 32 (49.23%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Senior
4 9 (13.85%) Lead
5 8 (12.31%) Test Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Java Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Junior
8 4 (6.15%) Junior Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Tester
9 3 (4.62%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.62%) Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 38 (58.46%) Spring
3 27 (41.54%) REST
4 15 (23.08%) Hibernate
5 14 (21.54%) JPA
5 14 (21.54%) React
6 11 (16.92%) Kafka
6 11 (16.92%) RESTful
7 8 (12.31%) Apache Camel
8 7 (10.77%) Drools
8 7 (10.77%) Gherkin
8 7 (10.77%) Quarkus
8 7 (10.77%) XML
9 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
10 5 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
11 4 (6.15%) Android Jetpack
11 4 (6.15%) Dagger
11 4 (6.15%) J2EE
11 4 (6.15%) Retrofit
11 4 (6.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Android
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
3 2 (3.08%) Linux
4 1 (1.54%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Agile
2 31 (47.69%) Microservices
3 26 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 22 (33.85%) TDD
5 21 (32.31%) Scrum
6 17 (26.15%) Test Automation
7 16 (24.62%) DevOps
8 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
9 14 (21.54%) High Availability
9 14 (21.54%) Mentoring
10 13 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (18.46%) Front End Development
12 11 (16.92%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
14 9 (13.85%) Software Testing
15 8 (12.31%) Kanban
15 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (12.31%) Test Scripting
15 8 (12.31%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 58 (89.23%) Java
2 15 (23.08%) SQL
3 12 (18.46%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.23%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) C++
8 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (44.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Kibana
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Oracle
2 2 (3.08%) IBM
2 2 (3.08%) Splunk
3 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.54%) Google
3 1 (1.54%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.54%) VMware