Unit Testing Contracts in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 196 170
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 -21
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 513 641 1,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.37% 1.36% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.52% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 436 804
10th Percentile £375 £400 £380
25th Percentile £456 £468 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 37 23
10th Percentile - £49.50 £39.70
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.38 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £81.42 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +36.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +29 279 £550 -8.33% 69
North of England +41 67 £500 -9.09% 52
South East 0 56 £625 +13.64% 58
East of England +20 55 £550 +57.14% 19
North West +37 43 £495 -5.71% 30
South West -44 27 £560 -2.61% 15
Yorkshire +18 24 £550 - 14
Midlands -7 3 £450 -18.18% 32
West Midlands +4 2 £450 -24.37% 25
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.14%) Apache
2 11 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.75%) CMS
3 9 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (0.78%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.78%) Mule
4 4 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.58%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.39%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.78%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.58%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.58%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.58%) SAP VC
6 2 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.39%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.39%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) Aareon QL
Cloud Services
1 122 (23.78%) Azure
2 97 (18.91%) AWS
3 57 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (7.60%) GCP
5 33 (6.43%) Serverless
6 24 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 20 (3.90%) Azure Functions
9 19 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (3.70%) GitHub
9 19 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 15 (2.92%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.73%) dbt
12 13 (2.53%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.63%) RS-485
2 33 (6.43%) Modbus
2 33 (6.43%) RS-422
3 12 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.14%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.75%) HTTP
6 8 (1.56%) BGP
6 8 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 8 (1.56%) MPLS
6 8 (1.56%) VPN
7 7 (1.36%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.78%) SSL
9 2 (0.39%) Tactical Data Link
10 1 (0.19%) DNS
10 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.19%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) Multicast
10 1 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (11.89%) NoSQL
3 54 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 42 (8.19%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.53%) Power BI
10 12 (2.34%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.34%) MySQL
11 11 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (2.14%) Big Data
11 11 (2.14%) Oracle Database 11g
12 8 (1.56%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.56%) Tableau
13 7 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 128 (24.95%) Git
2 39 (7.60%) JIRA
2 39 (7.60%) JUnit
3 32 (6.24%) Visual Studio
4 22 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 21 (4.09%) Selenium
6 17 (3.31%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.92%) Android Studio
8 13 (2.53%) GitLab
9 12 (2.34%) Eclipse
10 11 (2.14%) Maven
10 11 (2.14%) Mockito
11 10 (1.95%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.75%) Visual Studio Team System
13 8 (1.56%) NUnit
13 8 (1.56%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.56%) TestRail
14 6 (1.17%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 141 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.62%) Finance
3 64 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.82%) Electronics
6 25 (4.87%) Banking
7 24 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.14%) Military
9 9 (1.75%) Retail
10 8 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.36%) Law
11 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.17%) Marketing
12 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.78%) Front Office
14 4 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 296 (57.70%) Developer
2 71 (13.84%) Software Engineer
3 59 (11.50%) Senior
4 43 (8.38%) Java Developer
5 36 (7.02%) Full Stack Developer
5 36 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 35 (6.82%) C++ Software Engineer
7 33 (6.43%) C# Developer
7 33 (6.43%) Lead
8 25 (4.87%) .NET Developer
9 21 (4.09%) Azure Developer
10 20 (3.90%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.70%) Android Developer
11 19 (3.70%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.51%) Angular Developer
13 17 (3.31%) Consultant
13 17 (3.31%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.12%) SQL Developer
15 15 (2.92%) C# .NET Developer
15 15 (2.92%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (16.57%) REST
2 83 (16.18%) React
3 76 (14.81%) .NET
4 60 (11.70%) RESTful
5 53 (10.33%) HTML
6 51 (9.94%) Spring
7 44 (8.58%) Web Services
8 43 (8.38%) AngularJS
9 42 (8.19%) Kafka
9 42 (8.19%) Spring Boot
10 40 (7.80%) Node.js
11 37 (7.21%) CSS
12 33 (6.43%) Hibernate
13 30 (5.85%) .NET Framework
13 30 (5.85%) JPA
14 26 (5.07%) XML
15 25 (4.87%) .NET Core
15 25 (4.87%) SOAP
16 22 (4.29%) ASP.NET
17 15 (2.92%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 18 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.12%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.36%) iPad
7 7 (1.36%) iPhone
7 7 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.17%) Hedge funds
9 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.58%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.58%) Life Science
11 3 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.58%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.43%) Linux
2 24 (4.68%) Windows
3 22 (4.29%) Android
4 19 (3.70%) Unix
5 11 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (47.76%) Agile
2 192 (37.43%) DevOps
3 129 (25.15%) Software Engineering
4 126 (24.56%) TDD
5 122 (23.78%) CI/CD
6 100 (19.49%) Test Automation
7 94 (18.32%) Continuous Integration
8 93 (18.13%) Scrum
9 83 (16.18%) Microservices
10 81 (15.79%) Software Testing
11 63 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (11.70%) OO
13 46 (8.97%) Full Stack Development
13 46 (8.97%) Pair Programming
14 45 (8.77%) Design Patterns
14 45 (8.77%) Front End Development
15 44 (8.58%) Integration Testing
16 42 (8.19%) High Availability
17 41 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (28.07%) Java
2 139 (27.10%) SQL
3 128 (24.95%) C#
4 101 (19.69%) Python
5 86 (16.76%) JavaScript
6 79 (15.40%) C++
7 61 (11.89%) TypeScript
8 57 (11.11%) C
9 33 (6.43%) PL/SQL
10 25 (4.87%) Kotlin
10 25 (4.87%) Scala
11 17 (3.31%) T-SQL
12 13 (2.53%) PowerShell
13 11 (2.14%) Perl
13 11 (2.14%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.95%) Go
14 10 (1.95%) Swift
15 8 (1.56%) Objective-C
16 7 (1.36%) Bash
16 7 (1.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 91 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.21%) Degree
4 29 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.80%) QA
2 20 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.56%) GDPR
5 5 (0.97%) WCAG
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (14.81%) Docker
2 16 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) HDFS
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.90%) Terraform
3 13 (2.53%) Grafana
4 7 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.78%) Kibana
7 3 (0.58%) Istio
7 3 (0.58%) Puppet
8 2 (0.39%) Ansible
8 2 (0.39%) Podman
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) Consul
9 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.19%) Graphite
9 1 (0.19%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.19%) linkerd
9 1 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) systemd
9 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.14%) Oracle
3 32 (6.24%) SAP
4 16 (3.12%) Google
5 14 (2.73%) Databricks
6 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.17%) Typelevel
7 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.78%) Adobe
8 4 (0.78%) FIS
8 4 (0.78%) Informatica
8 4 (0.78%) Liquidlogic
8 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.78%) VMware
9 3 (0.58%) Citrix
9 3 (0.58%) IBM
9 3 (0.58%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.58%) Siemens
9 3 (0.58%) Splunk
10 2 (0.39%) Xamarin