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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 460 397
Rank change year-on-year +49 -63 -80
Contract jobs citing JUnit 170 239 577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.42% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.32% 2.83% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 165 355
10th Percentile £351 £431 £419
25th Percentile £413 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £667
90th Percentile £838 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 22
10th Percentile - £70.38 £46.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £69.08
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +8.57% +12.33%
75th Percentile - - £76.91
90th Percentile - £78.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.14% +20.69%

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 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +54 139 £533 -9.66% 58
London +80 91 £529 -18.62% 23
UK excluding London +8 66 £500 -1.96% 44
Work from Home +71 50 £500 - 26
North of England +9 28 £550 - 5
Scotland +46 19 £500 -3.85% 4
Yorkshire +32 15 £550 -4.35%
North West -18 12 £520 -5.45% 3
East of England +14 7 - - 2
South East -3 7 £500 - 19
South West +7 3 £425 -36.33% 8
Midlands +17 2 £409 -9.17% 3
West Midlands +20 1 £420 -6.67% 3
East Midlands +17 1 £398 -
North East +13 1 £310 -22.50% 2

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 15 (8.82%) Confluence
2 8 (4.71%) Apache
3 7 (4.12%) JBoss
4 5 (2.94%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.76%) nginx
7 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.18%) WildFly
8 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.18%) AWS
2 20 (11.76%) GitHub
3 14 (8.24%) Amazon S3
4 13 (7.65%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.88%) Azure
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.94%) Serverless
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) SSH
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.76%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (18.24%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.35%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.76%) MySQL
6 3 (1.76%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.76%) SQLite
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.59%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.59%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 69 (40.59%) Git
2 68 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 50 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 47 (27.65%) Selenium
5 42 (24.71%) Mockito
6 39 (22.94%) TestNG
7 32 (18.82%) JIRA
8 25 (14.71%) Maven
8 25 (14.71%) Postman
8 25 (14.71%) REST Assured
9 24 (14.12%) GitLab
10 18 (10.59%) WebDriver
11 16 (9.41%) Gradle
12 15 (8.82%) SoapUI
13 14 (8.24%) Appium
14 13 (7.65%) JMeter
15 10 (5.88%) eggPlant
15 10 (5.88%) SOAtest
16 6 (3.53%) CircleCI
16 6 (3.53%) Subversion
General
1 44 (25.88%) Finance
2 30 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 30 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Front Office
5 13 (7.65%) Banking
6 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Billing
7 1 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 101 (59.41%) Developer
2 77 (45.29%) Java Developer
3 32 (18.82%) Senior
4 22 (12.94%) Senior Developer
5 21 (12.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.00%) Lead
7 11 (6.47%) Tester
8 10 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 10 (5.88%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.12%) Android Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Android Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Junior
12 6 (3.53%) Junior Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Junior Java Developer
13 5 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
13 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (47.65%) Spring Boot
2 77 (45.29%) Spring
3 72 (42.35%) REST
4 33 (19.41%) Hibernate
4 33 (19.41%) JPA
5 24 (14.12%) React
6 16 (9.41%) Kafka
6 16 (9.41%) XML
7 15 (8.82%) Gherkin
7 15 (8.82%) Web Services
8 14 (8.24%) Android Jetpack
8 14 (8.24%) J2EE
8 14 (8.24%) SOAP
8 14 (8.24%) WireMock
9 13 (7.65%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (7.06%) JSON
10 12 (7.06%) RESTful
11 11 (6.47%) .NET
12 10 (5.88%) RxJava
13 9 (5.29%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Credit Derivative
2 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.94%) Derivative
6 5 (2.94%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.35%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.41%) Android
2 14 (8.24%) Linux
3 11 (6.47%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Windows
5 1 (0.59%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.12%) Agile
2 65 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 61 (35.88%) Microservices
4 55 (32.35%) Test Automation
5 54 (31.76%) TDD
6 50 (29.41%) Scrum
7 45 (26.47%) DevOps
8 40 (23.53%) Unit Testing
9 36 (21.18%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (20.59%) BDD
11 30 (17.65%) Software Testing
12 27 (15.88%) SDLC
13 25 (14.71%) High Availability
13 25 (14.71%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 25 (14.71%) Test Strategy
14 23 (13.53%) Test Scripting
15 22 (12.94%) Front End Development
16 20 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 19 (11.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 142 (83.53%) Java
2 36 (21.18%) SQL
3 23 (13.53%) Python
3 23 (13.53%) TypeScript
4 17 (10.00%) C#
5 15 (8.82%) Kotlin
6 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.53%) Perl
8 5 (2.94%) Scala
9 4 (2.35%) C
9 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.18%) C++
11 2 (1.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.59%) Bash
12 1 (0.59%) Go
12 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.65%) Degree
5 11 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.53%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.82%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.18%) HL7
3 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.59%) NCSC
3 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (34.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (27.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.71%) Terraform
3 7 (4.12%) Ansible
4 4 (2.35%) Grafana
4 4 (2.35%) Kibana
5 3 (1.76%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.76%) Packer
6 2 (1.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (9.41%) Oracle
2 9 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.12%) IBM
4 4 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.18%) SAP
5 2 (1.18%) Splunk
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) HP
6 1 (0.59%) Murex
6 1 (0.59%) New Relic
6 1 (0.59%) VMware