Unit Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 173 175 167
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 252 311 475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.37% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.53% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 206 305
10th Percentile £385 £400 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £575
90th Percentile £688 £703 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 20
10th Percentile - £49.00 £43.87
25th Percentile £61.25 £54.31 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £65.75
90th Percentile - £78.00 £68.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,470 20,263 27,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.91% 89.11% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,284 13,881 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £260 £244
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £583
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 2,169 1,254 1,348
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.67 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.58 £74.25 £63.08
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

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 8 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 8 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 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 of England +49 66 £500 -9.09% 50
East of England +24 56 £550 +57.14% 23
South East -14 51 £625 +13.64% 50
North West +40 43 £495 -7.91% 28
Scotland +27 42 £483 -0.92% 19
South West -30 27 £560 -2.61% 14
Yorkshire +19 23 £550 - 14
Wales +19 7 £526 +0.10% 3
Midlands -6 3 £450 -18.18% 35
West Midlands -5 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 (3.17%) Apache
2 6 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.59%) Mule
4 3 (1.19%) JBoss
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) WildFly
6 1 (0.40%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.59%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.59%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.19%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.79%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.06%) AWS
2 40 (15.87%) Azure
3 23 (9.13%) Serverless
4 16 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 14 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 14 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.17%) GitHub
10 7 (2.78%) OCI
11 6 (2.38%) GCP
11 6 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.38%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.89%) RS-485
2 34 (13.49%) Modbus
2 34 (13.49%) RS-422
3 12 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.37%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.38%) BGP
5 6 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (2.38%) MPLS
5 6 (2.38%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.79%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.40%) DNS
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.65%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.94%) Oracle Database
4 18 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.16%) Oracle Database 11g
7 9 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.59%) Power BI
10 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.79%) GIS
11 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (21.03%) Git
2 40 (15.87%) JIRA
3 30 (11.90%) JUnit
4 17 (6.75%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.35%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.16%) Android Studio
7 12 (4.76%) Mockito
8 11 (4.37%) Eclipse
9 10 (3.97%) GitLab
10 8 (3.17%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.17%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (2.38%) Robot Framework
12 6 (2.38%) Selenium
12 6 (2.38%) Storybook
12 6 (2.38%) TestRail
13 4 (1.59%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.59%) Log4j
13 4 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (1.19%) Mocha
General
1 71 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.89%) Electronics
3 31 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.71%) Finance
5 17 (6.75%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.37%) Military
7 9 (3.57%) Banking
8 6 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Law
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Automotive
10 3 (1.19%) Local Government
10 3 (1.19%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
11 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (51.98%) Developer
2 53 (21.03%) Software Engineer
3 36 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 28 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 25 (9.92%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (5.95%) Azure Developer
6 15 (5.95%) Consultant
7 14 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Android Developer
8 13 (5.16%) C# Software Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Lead
9 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 7 (2.78%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 7 (2.78%) Python Developer
10 7 (2.78%) Senior
11 6 (2.38%) C Software Engineer
11 6 (2.38%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (2.38%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (2.38%) Lead Developer
11 6 (2.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.86%) React
2 31 (12.30%) REST
3 27 (10.71%) Spring
4 22 (8.73%) Node.js
4 22 (8.73%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.33%) Web Services
6 18 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 18 (7.14%) RESTful
7 17 (6.75%) HTML
8 16 (6.35%) CSS
9 15 (5.95%) .NET
10 14 (5.56%) JPA
11 11 (4.37%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.37%) AWS CDK
12 10 (3.97%) Gherkin
12 10 (3.97%) Kafka
13 9 (3.57%) XML
14 8 (3.17%) SOAP
15 7 (2.78%) .NET Framework
15 7 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.51%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (9.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.40%) Clustering
8 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Life Science
8 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.40%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.94%) Linux
2 18 (7.14%) Windows
3 14 (5.56%) Android
4 5 (1.98%) Unix
5 3 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (64.29%) Agile
2 104 (41.27%) DevOps
3 88 (34.92%) Software Engineering
4 68 (26.98%) Software Testing
5 66 (26.19%) TDD
6 64 (25.40%) CI/CD
7 61 (24.21%) Test Automation
8 60 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
9 59 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (21.03%) Scrum
11 43 (17.06%) Pair Programming
12 39 (15.48%) Microservices
13 38 (15.08%) Customer Requirements
14 31 (12.30%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 24 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (8.73%) Migration
18 21 (8.33%) Clean Code
19 20 (7.94%) Front End Development
19 20 (7.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.75%) Java
2 63 (25.00%) C#
3 53 (21.03%) C++
4 52 (20.63%) SQL
5 45 (17.86%) C
6 37 (14.68%) Python
7 34 (13.49%) JavaScript
8 28 (11.11%) TypeScript
9 25 (9.92%) PL/SQL
10 14 (5.56%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.97%) Bash
12 5 (1.98%) Perl
13 4 (1.59%) Scala
14 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.79%) PHP
16 1 (0.40%) Groovy
16 1 (0.40%) Ruby
16 1 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 53 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.73%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.37%) Degree
5 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.30%) QA
2 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) GDPR
4 6 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (13.49%) Docker
2 14 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.56%) Grafana
3 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.19%) Terraform
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
4 2 (0.79%) Kibana
4 2 (0.79%) Puppet
5 1 (0.40%) Consul
5 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.40%) Graphite
5 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.40%) Istio
5 1 (0.40%) linkerd
5 1 (0.40%) Packer
5 1 (0.40%) Podman
5 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.40%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 34 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.51%) Oracle
3 14 (5.56%) Avaloq
3 14 (5.56%) SAP
4 5 (1.98%) Splunk
4 5 (1.98%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) FIS
6 3 (1.19%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.19%) Liquidlogic
6 3 (1.19%) Siemens
7 2 (0.79%) Adobe
7 2 (0.79%) Google
7 2 (0.79%) JDA
7 2 (0.79%) OpenText
7 2 (0.79%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow