Unit Testing Contracts in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 194 173
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 -21
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 494 652 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.34% 1.37% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.52% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 448 803
10th Percentile £375 £400 £380
25th Percentile £453 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +5.86% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £695 £751 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 36 19
10th Percentile - £49.38 £32.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.89 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.77% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £72.13 £67.50
90th Percentile - £78.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +22 256 £536 -10.63% 89
North of England +51 66 £498 -9.55% 56
East of England +20 57 £550 +69.23% 15
South East -8 53 £625 +13.64% 38
North West +38 44 £495 -10.00% 34
South West -30 32 £650 +13.04% 13
Yorkshire +23 22 £550 - 14
Midlands +1 3 £450 -18.18% 38
West Midlands +1 2 £450 -24.37% 28
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.43%) Apache
2 12 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.82%) Confluence
4 8 (1.62%) CMS
5 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.81%) Mule
6 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.61%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.40%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.40%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.40%) nginx
7 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.01%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.81%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.81%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.81%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.61%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.61%) SAP VC
6 2 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.40%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.40%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.40%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.40%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 106 (21.46%) Azure
2 100 (20.24%) AWS
3 43 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.88%) GCP
5 32 (6.48%) Serverless
6 24 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.05%) Azure Functions
8 19 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (3.64%) GitHub
10 17 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (3.44%) Power Platform
11 16 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.83%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.83%) dbt
13 13 (2.63%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.09%) RS-485
2 34 (6.88%) Modbus
2 34 (6.88%) RS-422
3 13 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.23%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.82%) BGP
5 9 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
5 9 (1.82%) MPLS
5 9 (1.82%) VPN
6 8 (1.62%) HTTP
6 8 (1.62%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.81%) SSL
8 2 (0.40%) DNS
8 2 (0.40%) Tactical Data Link
9 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) Multicast
9 1 (0.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.15%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.11%) SQL Server
4 41 (8.30%) Relational Database
5 21 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (4.05%) Oracle Database
7 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 12 (2.43%) MySQL
9 12 (2.43%) Oracle Database 11g
10 11 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.23%) Big Data
10 11 (2.23%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.23%) Power BI
11 8 (1.62%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.21%) Tableau
13 5 (1.01%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 123 (24.90%) Git
2 40 (8.10%) JIRA
3 36 (7.29%) JUnit
4 25 (5.06%) Jenkins
5 23 (4.66%) Visual Studio
6 20 (4.05%) Selenium
7 17 (3.44%) TeamCity
8 15 (3.04%) Android Studio
8 15 (3.04%) GitLab
9 11 (2.23%) Eclipse
9 11 (2.23%) Mockito
10 9 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.82%) Maven
10 9 (1.82%) Robot Framework
10 9 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (1.82%) TestRail
11 7 (1.42%) NUnit
12 6 (1.21%) Jasmine
12 6 (1.21%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.21%) Subversion
General
1 132 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.18%) Finance
3 64 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.29%) Electronics
6 24 (4.86%) Banking
7 23 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.23%) Military
9 8 (1.62%) Retail
10 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.42%) Law
10 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.21%) Marketing
11 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (57.09%) Developer
2 71 (14.37%) Software Engineer
3 47 (9.51%) Senior
4 42 (8.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 42 (8.50%) Java Developer
5 36 (7.29%) C++ Software Engineer
6 32 (6.48%) C# Developer
7 30 (6.07%) Lead
8 26 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.45%) .NET Developer
10 21 (4.25%) Azure Developer
11 20 (4.05%) Test Engineer
12 19 (3.85%) Android Developer
12 19 (3.85%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.64%) Angular Developer
13 18 (3.64%) Consultant
14 17 (3.44%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.04%) Scala Developer
15 15 (3.04%) SQL Developer
16 14 (2.83%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (17.21%) React
2 79 (15.99%) REST
3 63 (12.75%) .NET
4 57 (11.54%) Spring
5 56 (11.34%) RESTful
6 50 (10.12%) AngularJS
7 44 (8.91%) Web Services
8 42 (8.50%) Spring Boot
9 40 (8.10%) Kafka
10 39 (7.89%) HTML
10 39 (7.89%) Node.js
11 33 (6.68%) Hibernate
12 31 (6.28%) CSS
13 29 (5.87%) JPA
14 26 (5.26%) SOAP
15 24 (4.86%) .NET Core
16 21 (4.25%) .NET Framework
17 19 (3.85%) XML
18 15 (3.04%) ASP.NET
18 15 (3.04%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.68%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.44%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.43%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.42%) iPad
7 7 (1.42%) iPhone
7 7 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.21%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.61%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.61%) Life Science
11 3 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.88%) Linux
2 23 (4.66%) Windows
3 22 (4.45%) Android
4 19 (3.85%) Unix
5 10 (2.02%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (49.19%) Agile
2 182 (36.84%) DevOps
3 128 (25.91%) Software Engineering
4 127 (25.71%) TDD
5 117 (23.68%) CI/CD
6 97 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
7 95 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 90 (18.22%) Scrum
9 82 (16.60%) Software Testing
10 78 (15.79%) Microservices
11 64 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (12.55%) OO
13 61 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (10.32%) Full Stack Development
15 46 (9.31%) Integration Testing
15 46 (9.31%) Pair Programming
16 44 (8.91%) SDLC
17 42 (8.50%) High Availability
18 41 (8.30%) Front End Development
19 40 (8.10%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 145 (29.35%) Java
2 127 (25.71%) SQL
3 117 (23.68%) C#
4 107 (21.66%) Python
5 78 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 77 (15.59%) C++
7 65 (13.16%) C
8 60 (12.15%) TypeScript
9 30 (6.07%) PL/SQL
10 26 (5.26%) Kotlin
11 25 (5.06%) Scala
12 11 (2.23%) Go
12 11 (2.23%) Perl
12 11 (2.23%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.82%) Swift
13 9 (1.82%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.62%) Objective-C
15 7 (1.42%) Bash
15 7 (1.42%) Bicep
16 6 (1.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.29%) Degree
4 31 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.31%) QA
2 17 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.62%) GDPR
5 5 (1.01%) WCAG
6 4 (0.81%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) MiFID
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 75 (15.18%) Docker
2 16 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.01%) HDFS
5 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.25%) Terraform
3 13 (2.63%) Grafana
4 8 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.81%) Istio
6 4 (0.81%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Puppet
7 3 (0.61%) Ansible
7 3 (0.61%) Podman
8 2 (0.40%) Consul
8 2 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.40%) Graphite
8 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.40%) linkerd
8 2 (0.40%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.92%) Oracle
3 32 (6.48%) SAP
4 16 (3.24%) Google
5 13 (2.63%) Databricks
6 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.21%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.21%) VMware
7 5 (1.01%) Adobe
7 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.81%) FIS
8 4 (0.81%) Liquidlogic
8 4 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.81%) Splunk
9 3 (0.61%) Citrix
9 3 (0.61%) IBM
9 3 (0.61%) Informatica
9 3 (0.61%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.61%) Siemens
10 2 (0.40%) TIBCO