Unit Testing Contracts in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 185 167
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 -42
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 271 362 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.54% 1.43% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.58% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 263 506
10th Percentile £400 £438 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £788 £789
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 5
10th Percentile £49.53 - -
25th Percentile £51.44 £50.42 £62.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £65.44 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.23 £87.00 £74.81
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £64.13
% change year-on-year - +1.36% +29.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,950 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 90.92% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 16,613 26,332
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +5.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +21 35 £575 -5.74% 11
West London +34 18 £495 -34.00% 2
South London +1 1 - -
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (5.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.95%) Confluence
3 7 (2.58%) CMS
4 5 (1.85%) Apache
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.11%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.11%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.74%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.11%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.11%) SAP QM
3 3 (1.11%) SAP VC
4 2 (0.74%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.74%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.74%) Shopify
5 1 (0.37%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.37%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.72%) Azure
2 62 (22.88%) AWS
3 39 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (12.55%) GCP
5 16 (5.90%) GitHub
5 16 (5.90%) Serverless
6 14 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.80%) dbt
7 13 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.69%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.21%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.21%) PaaS
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.85%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) HTTP
2 4 (1.48%) SSL
3 2 (0.74%) BGP
3 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.74%) MPLS
3 2 (0.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.37%) Multicast
4 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.65%) SQL Server
2 36 (13.28%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.86%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (3.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (3.69%) Big Data
8 9 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.32%) MySQL
8 9 (3.32%) Power BI
9 8 (2.95%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.58%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (2.21%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 6 (2.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (24.72%) Git
2 17 (6.27%) JIRA
3 14 (5.17%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 13 (4.80%) JUnit
5 11 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.06%) Selenium
6 9 (3.32%) Visual Studio Team System
7 8 (2.95%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.95%) Maven
8 7 (2.58%) NUnit
9 6 (2.21%) Jasmine
9 6 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.85%) Gatling
10 5 (1.85%) GitLab
10 5 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.85%) Subversion
11 4 (1.48%) Mercurial
11 4 (1.48%) Mockito
11 4 (1.48%) PHPUnit
General
1 60 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.56%) Finance
3 33 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.27%) Banking
6 7 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.58%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.58%) Retail
7 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.48%) Marketing
9 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Wearables
10 3 (1.11%) Front Office
10 3 (1.11%) Law
10 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 178 (65.68%) Developer
2 46 (16.97%) Senior
3 31 (11.44%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.59%) C# Developer
5 22 (8.12%) Java Developer
6 19 (7.01%) Lead
7 17 (6.27%) .NET Developer
8 16 (5.90%) Angular Developer
8 16 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Scala Developer
11 11 (4.06%) C# .NET Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.69%) SQL Developer
13 9 (3.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (3.32%) Microsoft Developer
13 9 (3.32%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) React Developer
14 8 (2.95%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.30%) .NET
2 53 (19.56%) REST
3 41 (15.13%) React
4 40 (14.76%) HTML
5 39 (14.39%) RESTful
6 35 (12.92%) Kafka
7 32 (11.81%) AngularJS
8 31 (11.44%) Spring
9 26 (9.59%) CSS
10 25 (9.23%) Spring Boot
11 24 (8.86%) Web Services
12 22 (8.12%) .NET Core
13 21 (7.75%) .NET Framework
14 19 (7.01%) ASP.NET
15 18 (6.64%) JPA
16 17 (6.27%) Hibernate
17 15 (5.54%) Node.js
17 15 (5.54%) SOAP
18 11 (4.06%) jQuery
18 11 (4.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.54%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.43%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.69%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.21%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.21%) iPad
5 6 (2.21%) iPhone
6 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.11%) LIMS
8 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Wiki
9 2 (0.74%) Derivative
9 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.90%) Unix
2 14 (5.17%) Linux
3 8 (2.95%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.58%) Android
5 6 (2.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (39.48%) Agile
2 86 (31.73%) DevOps
3 69 (25.46%) CI/CD
4 60 (22.14%) TDD
5 51 (18.82%) Test Automation
6 49 (18.08%) Microservices
7 43 (15.87%) Scrum
7 43 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 41 (15.13%) Continuous Integration
9 39 (14.39%) OO
10 35 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.07%) Front End Development
12 27 (9.96%) Design Patterns
12 27 (9.96%) High Availability
13 26 (9.59%) MVC
14 25 (9.23%) Analytics
14 25 (9.23%) ETL
15 24 (8.86%) Integration Testing
16 22 (8.12%) BDD
16 22 (8.12%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 96 (35.42%) SQL
2 74 (27.31%) Java
3 63 (23.25%) Python
4 58 (21.40%) C#
5 56 (20.66%) JavaScript
6 37 (13.65%) TypeScript
7 23 (8.49%) C++
8 22 (8.12%) Scala
9 14 (5.17%) PL/SQL
9 14 (5.17%) T-SQL
10 12 (4.43%) C
10 12 (4.43%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.69%) VB.NET
12 8 (2.95%) Go
12 8 (2.95%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.58%) Swift
14 6 (2.21%) Objective-C
14 6 (2.21%) Perl
15 5 (1.85%) Bicep
15 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (10.70%) SC Cleared
1 29 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.59%) Degree
3 10 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.43%) QA
3 4 (1.48%) WCAG
4 3 (1.11%) MiFID
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (17.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (16.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.17%) Terraform
3 11 (4.06%) Grafana
4 5 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.74%) Istio
5 2 (0.74%) Kibana
6 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.37%) Podman
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.23%) Oracle
3 19 (7.01%) SAP
4 14 (5.17%) Google
5 13 (4.80%) Databricks
6 6 (2.21%) Typelevel
7 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.48%) Adobe
8 4 (1.48%) Informatica
8 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.11%) Citrix
9 3 (1.11%) IBM
9 3 (1.11%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.74%) ESRI
10 2 (0.74%) Eze Castle Integration
10 2 (0.74%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.74%) Revolut
10 2 (0.74%) Sybase
10 2 (0.74%) TIBCO