JUnit Contracts

JUnit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 402 459 400
Rank change year-on-year +57 -59 -92
Contract jobs citing JUnit 174 232 565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.41% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.38% 2.87% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 151 349
10th Percentile £363 £450 £420
25th Percentile £413 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £674
90th Percentile £838 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £506
% change year-on-year -6.98% +6.17% +6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 24
10th Percentile - £70.63 £45.38
25th Percentile - £71.25 £59.44
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £67.83
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +10.57% +4.36%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £76.73
90th Percentile - £84.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.14% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +31 142 £533 -11.17% 49
London +70 89 £533 -19.61% 21
UK excluding London +5 70 £500 -6.98% 33
Work from Home +85 51 £500 -13.04% 25
North of England +7 30 £550 - 5
Scotland +42 18 £500 -10.71% 2
Yorkshire +33 17 £550 -4.35%
North West -6 12 £520 -5.45% 4
East of England +8 7 - - 1
South East -11 7 £500 - 14
South West +6 6 £425 -36.33% 7
Midlands +22 2 £409 -9.17% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £420 -6.67%
East Midlands +12 1 £398 - 1
North East +8 1 £310 -22.50% 1

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (8.05%) Confluence
2 8 (4.60%) Apache
3 7 (4.02%) JBoss
4 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.72%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.15%) WildFly
7 1 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.26%) AWS
2 21 (12.07%) GitHub
3 17 (9.77%) Azure
4 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.87%) Serverless
7 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.30%) GCP
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.15%) Datadog
9 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.15%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) SSH
2 2 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (18.39%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.87%) MySQL
5 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.30%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.72%) SQLite
7 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.57%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 69 (39.66%) Git
2 68 (39.08%) Cucumber
3 49 (28.16%) Jenkins
4 45 (25.86%) Selenium
5 40 (22.99%) Mockito
6 35 (20.11%) TestNG
7 33 (18.97%) JIRA
8 26 (14.94%) Maven
9 22 (12.64%) Postman
9 22 (12.64%) REST Assured
10 21 (12.07%) GitLab
11 17 (9.77%) Gradle
11 17 (9.77%) WebDriver
12 14 (8.05%) Appium
12 14 (8.05%) SoapUI
13 10 (5.75%) eggPlant
13 10 (5.75%) JMeter
13 10 (5.75%) SOAtest
14 6 (3.45%) CircleCI
14 6 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 49 (28.16%) Finance
2 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.20%) Banking
6 15 (8.62%) Front Office
7 6 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Electronics
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (60.34%) Developer
2 82 (47.13%) Java Developer
3 33 (18.97%) Senior
4 22 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 21 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (9.77%) Lead
7 11 (6.32%) Test Engineer
8 10 (5.75%) Java Engineer
8 10 (5.75%) Lead Developer
8 10 (5.75%) Tester
9 9 (5.17%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (4.60%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.02%) Android Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Android Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Junior
12 6 (3.45%) Junior Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Junior Java Developer
13 5 (2.87%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (46.55%) Spring
1 81 (46.55%) Spring Boot
2 71 (40.80%) REST
3 35 (20.11%) Hibernate
3 35 (20.11%) JPA
4 26 (14.94%) React
5 20 (11.49%) XML
6 19 (10.92%) Web Services
7 17 (9.77%) SOAP
8 16 (9.20%) J2EE
9 14 (8.05%) Android Jetpack
9 14 (8.05%) JSON
9 14 (8.05%) Kafka
9 14 (8.05%) RESTful
10 13 (7.47%) AngularJS
10 13 (7.47%) Gherkin
10 13 (7.47%) Jetpack Compose
11 10 (5.75%) .NET
11 10 (5.75%) RxJava
11 10 (5.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Credit Derivative
2 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.02%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.87%) Derivative
6 5 (2.87%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.20%) Android
1 16 (9.20%) Linux
2 13 (7.47%) Unix
3 2 (1.15%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (59.20%) Agile
2 66 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 64 (36.78%) Microservices
4 61 (35.06%) TDD
5 53 (30.46%) Scrum
5 53 (30.46%) Test Automation
6 48 (27.59%) DevOps
7 44 (25.29%) Unit Testing
8 39 (22.41%) BDD
8 39 (22.41%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (18.97%) Software Testing
10 30 (17.24%) SDLC
11 26 (14.94%) Software Engineering
11 26 (14.94%) Test Strategy
12 25 (14.37%) High Availability
12 25 (14.37%) Mentoring
12 25 (14.37%) Test Scripting
13 22 (12.64%) Front End Development
14 21 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
14 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 146 (83.91%) Java
2 36 (20.69%) SQL
3 23 (13.22%) Python
3 23 (13.22%) TypeScript
4 17 (9.77%) C#
5 15 (8.62%) Kotlin
6 12 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.02%) Perl
8 5 (2.87%) Scala
9 4 (2.30%) C
9 4 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.15%) C++
11 2 (1.15%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 55 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 51 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 15 (8.62%) Degree
5 13 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.45%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.39%) QA
2 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.15%) HL7
3 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.57%) NCSC
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (30.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.87%) Ansible
2 5 (2.87%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Grafana
3 4 (2.30%) Kibana
4 2 (1.15%) Istio
5 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.57%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.57%) Packer
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (9.20%) Oracle
2 10 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.02%) IBM
4 3 (1.72%) Google
5 2 (1.15%) New Relic
5 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.15%) SAP
5 2 (1.15%) Splunk
6 1 (0.57%) Confluent
6 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.57%) HP
6 1 (0.57%) Murex
6 1 (0.57%) VMware