Unit Testing Contracts in the North of England

Unit Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 117 166 160
Rank change year-on-year +49 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 66 42 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 0.77% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.85% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 33 60
10th Percentile £375 £413 £374
25th Percentile £431 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.32
25th Percentile - £37.80 £38.55
Median hourly rate - £40.59 £41.85
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -
75th Percentile - £43.39 £43.89
90th Percentile - - £44.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £64.13
% change year-on-year - +1.36% +29.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,039 4,926 6,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.02% 90.04% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,384 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 204 256
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.54 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £25.50 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +33.89% +6.69%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.55 £34.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £57.17 £63.00
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +40 43 £495 -7.91% 28
Yorkshire +19 23 £550 - 14
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (6.06%) Mule
2 1 (1.52%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.52%) nginx
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.55%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.52%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) AWS
2 10 (15.15%) Azure
2 10 (15.15%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) OCI
5 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.52%) dbt
6 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.52%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) DNS
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (19.70%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.52%) Metadata
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) JUnit
2 20 (30.30%) Git
3 13 (19.70%) Android Studio
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 6 (9.09%) Mockito
6 5 (7.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
7 4 (6.06%) Liquibase
7 4 (6.06%) Log4j
8 3 (4.55%) Mocha
9 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.03%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 17 (25.76%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Law
4 3 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (74.24%) Developer
2 17 (25.76%) Java Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Android Developer
4 6 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (7.58%) SQL BI Developer
5 5 (7.58%) SQL Developer
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) Junior
6 4 (6.06%) Junior Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Junior Java Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Systems Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) Hibernate
1 16 (24.24%) React
1 16 (24.24%) REST
2 15 (22.73%) RESTful
3 13 (19.70%) Spring Boot
4 12 (18.18%) JPA
4 12 (18.18%) Spring
5 10 (15.15%) Gherkin
6 6 (9.09%) Web Services
7 5 (7.58%) Kafka
8 4 (6.06%) .NET
9 3 (4.55%) Jest
9 3 (4.55%) Redux
10 2 (3.03%) HTML
10 2 (3.03%) Node.js
11 1 (1.52%) Akka
11 1 (1.52%) cloud-init
11 1 (1.52%) CSS
11 1 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
11 1 (1.52%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.61%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.52%) Clustering
4 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
4 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.21%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) CentOS
2 1 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.00%) Agile
2 26 (39.39%) Scrum
3 23 (34.85%) DevOps
4 16 (24.24%) Software Testing
4 16 (24.24%) Test Automation
5 13 (19.70%) Android Development
5 13 (19.70%) High Availability
5 13 (19.70%) Microservices
6 12 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 12 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.15%) Kanban
7 10 (15.15%) System Testing
7 10 (15.15%) Test Scripting
7 10 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (13.64%) Software Delivery
9 8 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
9 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.12%) TDD
10 7 (10.61%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 44 (66.67%) Java
2 13 (19.70%) Kotlin
3 12 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.09%) SQL
5 4 (6.06%) C#
6 3 (4.55%) Python
7 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.03%) Scala
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Consul
3 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Graphite
3 1 (1.52%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.52%) Istio
3 1 (1.52%) linkerd
3 1 (1.52%) Packer
3 1 (1.52%) Podman
3 1 (1.52%) Puppet
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) Siemens
5 1 (1.52%) JDA
5 1 (1.52%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) VMware