Unit Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 173 170 167
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 259 314 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.38% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.55% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 208 304
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £448 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +15.36%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £575
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 21
10th Percentile - £49.00 £52.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £54.31 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +32.63%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £68.75
90th Percentile - £78.00 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +36 43 £483 -0.92% 17
South West -44 27 £560 -2.61% 15
Yorkshire +18 24 £550 - 14
Wales +23 8 £526 -4.02% 3
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 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 (3.09%) Apache
2 6 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.54%) Mule
4 3 (1.16%) JBoss
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.77%) WildFly
6 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.93%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.54%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.54%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.16%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.77%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.37%) Azure
2 44 (16.99%) AWS
3 23 (8.88%) Serverless
4 16 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (5.41%) Azure Functions
6 11 (4.25%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.86%) OCI
8 9 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.47%) GitHub
8 9 (3.47%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.32%) GCP
10 6 (2.32%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.13%) RS-485
2 33 (12.74%) Modbus
2 33 (12.74%) RS-422
3 12 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.25%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.32%) BGP
5 6 (2.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (2.32%) MPLS
5 6 (2.32%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.32%) VPN
6 2 (0.77%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.39%) DNS
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.72%) Oracle Database
4 18 (6.95%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.79%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.02%) Oracle Database 11g
7 9 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (3.09%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.54%) Power BI
11 3 (1.16%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.16%) Oracle Discoverer
11 3 (1.16%) SQLPlus
12 2 (0.77%) GIS
12 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (21.24%) Git
2 40 (15.44%) JIRA
3 32 (12.36%) JUnit
4 18 (6.95%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.18%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.02%) Android Studio
7 12 (4.63%) Mockito
8 11 (4.25%) Eclipse
9 10 (3.86%) Cypress.io
9 10 (3.86%) GitLab
10 9 (3.47%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.70%) Storybook
11 7 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (2.32%) Robot Framework
12 6 (2.32%) Selenium
12 6 (2.32%) TestRail
13 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.54%) Log4j
13 4 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 74 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.13%) Electronics
3 31 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.42%) Finance
5 17 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.25%) Military
7 10 (3.86%) Banking
8 6 (2.32%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Law
9 4 (1.54%) Legal
10 3 (1.16%) Automotive
10 3 (1.16%) Local Government
10 3 (1.16%) Retail
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (52.90%) Developer
2 52 (20.08%) Software Engineer
3 35 (13.51%) C++ Software Engineer
4 28 (10.81%) Java Developer
5 25 (9.65%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Azure Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Consultant
7 14 (5.41%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.02%) Android Developer
8 13 (5.02%) C# Software Engineer
8 13 (5.02%) Lead
9 11 (4.25%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 9 (3.47%) Senior
11 7 (2.70%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 7 (2.70%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.32%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.32%) Functional Consultant
12 6 (2.32%) Lead Developer
12 6 (2.32%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.37%) React
2 34 (13.13%) REST
3 28 (10.81%) Spring
4 23 (8.88%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.49%) Node.js
6 21 (8.11%) Web Services
7 18 (6.95%) Hibernate
7 18 (6.95%) RESTful
8 17 (6.56%) .NET
8 17 (6.56%) HTML
9 16 (6.18%) CSS
10 14 (5.41%) JPA
11 12 (4.63%) XML
12 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.25%) AWS CDK
12 11 (4.25%) Gherkin
13 10 (3.86%) Kafka
14 9 (3.47%) .NET Framework
15 8 (3.09%) SOAP
15 8 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.20%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.47%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.39%) Clustering
8 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Life Science
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) PKI
8 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.72%) Linux
2 18 (6.95%) Windows
3 14 (5.41%) Android
4 5 (1.93%) Unix
5 3 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (64.86%) Agile
2 109 (42.08%) DevOps
3 89 (34.36%) Software Engineering
4 68 (26.25%) Software Testing
5 66 (25.48%) CI/CD
5 66 (25.48%) TDD
6 65 (25.10%) Test Automation
7 60 (23.17%) Continuous Integration
8 58 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (20.85%) Scrum
10 43 (16.60%) Pair Programming
11 40 (15.44%) Microservices
12 37 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
13 31 (11.97%) Full Stack Development
14 25 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (8.49%) Migration
17 21 (8.11%) Clean Code
17 21 (8.11%) Front End Development
18 20 (7.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.66%) Java
2 64 (24.71%) C#
3 57 (22.01%) SQL
4 52 (20.08%) C++
5 44 (16.99%) C
6 37 (14.29%) Python
7 34 (13.13%) JavaScript
8 30 (11.58%) TypeScript
9 28 (10.81%) PL/SQL
10 14 (5.41%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.86%) Bash
12 5 (1.93%) Perl
13 4 (1.54%) Scala
14 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.77%) Groovy
15 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.77%) PHP
16 1 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 55 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.25%) Degree
5 7 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.36%) QA
2 9 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.09%) GDPR
4 6 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (13.13%) Docker
2 14 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.41%) Grafana
3 4 (1.54%) Terraform
4 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) Kibana
5 2 (0.77%) Packer
5 2 (0.77%) Puppet
6 1 (0.39%) Consul
6 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.39%) Graphite
6 1 (0.39%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) linkerd
6 1 (0.39%) Podman
6 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.39%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 35 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.36%) Oracle
3 14 (5.41%) Avaloq
3 14 (5.41%) SAP
4 5 (1.93%) Splunk
4 5 (1.93%) VMware
5 4 (1.54%) FIS
6 3 (1.16%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.16%) Liquidlogic
6 3 (1.16%) Siemens
7 2 (0.77%) Adobe
7 2 (0.77%) Google
7 2 (0.77%) JDA
7 2 (0.77%) OpenText
7 2 (0.77%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow