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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 153 156
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 206 390 757
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.58% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.77% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 307 491
10th Percentile £370 £400 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.53%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £623
90th Percentile £710 £749 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 13
10th Percentile £29.40 £48.48 £26.50
25th Percentile £42.75 £62.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +25.00%

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 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Unit Testing
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

Unit Testing
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 18 May 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

Unit Testing
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 18 May 2024.

Unit Testing hourly rate histogram 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 5 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.94%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.46%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Mule
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.97%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.07%) AWS
2 52 (25.24%) Azure
3 29 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.28%) Serverless
5 11 (5.34%) GCP
6 10 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.88%) dbt
7 8 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.40%) GitHub
9 6 (2.91%) PaaS
9 6 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.43%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.43%) OCI
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (1.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.49%) HTTP
1 1 (0.49%) Internet
1 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (11.65%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.74%) Oracle Database
4 17 (8.25%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.80%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (5.83%) MySQL
6 12 (5.83%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.94%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.97%) Big Data
13 2 (0.97%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.97%) Power BI
13 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (19.90%) Git
2 23 (11.17%) JIRA
3 13 (6.31%) Mockito
4 8 (3.88%) Android Studio
4 8 (3.88%) JUnit
5 7 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.91%) Selenium
7 5 (2.43%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.43%) Storybook
7 5 (2.43%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.94%) git-flow
9 3 (1.46%) HP UFT
9 3 (1.46%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (1.46%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.46%) Vite
10 2 (0.97%) rollup.js
10 2 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 38 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.11%) Finance
3 17 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.83%) Banking
6 6 (2.91%) Retail
7 5 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.46%) Automotive
9 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Law
9 3 (1.46%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Electronics
10 2 (0.97%) Front Office
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (62.14%) Developer
2 28 (13.59%) Senior
3 21 (10.19%) C# Developer
4 19 (9.22%) .NET Developer
5 18 (8.74%) Lead
6 15 (7.28%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (7.28%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.31%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 13 (6.31%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.31%) SQL Developer
8 10 (4.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.88%) Android Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Azure Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 8 (3.88%) React Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Software Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (2.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.90%) .NET
2 32 (15.53%) RESTful
3 26 (12.62%) React
4 22 (10.68%) Node.js
5 19 (9.22%) REST
6 18 (8.74%) Web Services
7 17 (8.25%) CSS
8 16 (7.77%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.80%) HTML
9 14 (6.80%) Spring
10 13 (6.31%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.31%) FastAPI
10 13 (6.31%) WebSockets
11 12 (5.83%) SOAP
11 12 (5.83%) Spring Boot
12 11 (5.34%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.34%) jQuery
12 11 (5.34%) Kafka
13 10 (4.85%) Jest
13 10 (4.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.80%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.43%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.94%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.94%) iPad
4 4 (1.94%) iPhone
4 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.46%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (0.97%) Hackathon
6 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.97%) NHS
6 2 (0.97%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.85%) Android
2 8 (3.88%) Linux
3 6 (2.91%) Unix
4 5 (2.43%) Windows
5 4 (1.94%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.52%) Agile
2 65 (31.55%) DevOps
3 50 (24.27%) Software Engineering
4 48 (23.30%) Test Automation
5 38 (18.45%) CI/CD
6 31 (15.05%) Software Testing
7 28 (13.59%) TDD
8 27 (13.11%) Analytics
9 25 (12.14%) OO
10 22 (10.68%) Full Stack Development
10 22 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.19%) Clean Code
11 21 (10.19%) Integration Testing
12 20 (9.71%) Microservices
13 19 (9.22%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (8.74%) API Development
14 18 (8.74%) Scrum
15 16 (7.77%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (7.77%) Migration
15 16 (7.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.86%) SQL
2 48 (23.30%) C#
3 43 (20.87%) Java
4 39 (18.93%) Python
5 29 (14.08%) TypeScript
6 25 (12.14%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.65%) PL/SQL
8 15 (7.28%) C++
9 9 (4.37%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.88%) Bicep
11 5 (2.43%) C
12 4 (1.94%) Bash
12 4 (1.94%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.94%) PHP
12 4 (1.94%) Scala
12 4 (1.94%) Swift
12 4 (1.94%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.46%) Go
14 2 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (20.39%) SC Cleared
1 42 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.31%) Degree
3 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.49%) PhD
6 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.77%) QA
2 10 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.43%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.97%) SLA
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.49%) HL7
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (10.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Terraform
2 12 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.91%) Grafana
4 2 (0.97%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (18.93%) Oracle
2 19 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.34%) SAP
4 9 (4.37%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.40%) Avaloq
6 5 (2.43%) Google
7 3 (1.46%) IBM
7 3 (1.46%) Informatica
7 3 (1.46%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.46%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.97%) Adobe
8 2 (0.97%) Ariba
8 2 (0.97%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) JDA
8 2 (0.97%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.97%) New Relic
8 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) ESRI