JUnit Contracts in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JUnit over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 325 362
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -75
Contract jobs citing JUnit 71 105 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.04% 3.51% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 64 84
10th Percentile £375 £430 £425
25th Percentile £414 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.99% +9.23%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £578
90th Percentile £603 £685 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 20
10th Percentile - £65.13 £46.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £59.44
Median hourly rate £81.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +3.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.13
90th Percentile - £78.00 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £68.17
% change year-on-year +8.00% +10.03% +4.87%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,335 2,995 4,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.95% 13.20% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,096 3,190
10th Percentile £350 £338 £360
25th Percentile £413 £414 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £588
90th Percentile £657 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 161 114
10th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £42.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £47.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
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 JUnit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +4 32 £550 - 4
Yorkshire +32 19 £550 - 1
Scotland +49 14 £500 -7.41% 3
North West -12 12 £520 -5.45% 2
South West +5 9 £425 -36.33% 6
East of England +7 7 - - 1
South East -9 7 £500 +2.56% 14
Midlands +17 2 £409 -9.17% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £420 -6.67%
East Midlands +7 1 £398 - 1
North East +5 1 £310 -22.50% 1
JUnit
UK

JUnit
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 4 (5.63%) JBoss
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.82%) WildFly
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
3 5 (7.04%) Serverless
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.63%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (22.54%) Relational Database
3 9 (12.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.82%) SQLite
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.41%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.41%) MySQL
5 1 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (46.48%) Git
2 18 (25.35%) Cucumber
3 16 (22.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (22.54%) Mockito
4 13 (18.31%) Maven
5 12 (16.90%) Selenium
6 8 (11.27%) Gradle
7 6 (8.45%) GitLab
8 4 (5.63%) JIRA
8 4 (5.63%) REST Assured
8 4 (5.63%) Subversion
8 4 (5.63%) TestNG
9 3 (4.23%) JMeter
10 2 (2.82%) Appium
10 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.41%) NUnit
11 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.41%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (21.13%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.68%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Billing
5 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (56.34%) Developer
2 31 (43.66%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.68%) Lead
3 9 (12.68%) Test Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Lead Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Tester
7 4 (5.63%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.63%) Junior
7 4 (5.63%) Junior Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Junior Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Lead Java Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) Spring
2 37 (52.11%) Spring Boot
3 25 (35.21%) REST
4 15 (21.13%) Hibernate
5 14 (19.72%) JPA
5 14 (19.72%) React
6 12 (16.90%) Gherkin
7 11 (15.49%) RESTful
8 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
9 7 (9.86%) Drools
9 7 (9.86%) Quarkus
9 7 (9.86%) XML
10 5 (7.04%) Jetpack Compose
10 5 (7.04%) Kafka
10 5 (7.04%) Web Services
11 4 (5.63%) Android Jetpack
11 4 (5.63%) Dagger
11 4 (5.63%) Java EE
11 4 (5.63%) Retrofit
11 4 (5.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Android
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
4 1 (1.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (70.42%) Agile
2 32 (45.07%) Unit Testing
3 31 (43.66%) Microservices
4 25 (35.21%) Scrum
5 22 (30.99%) TDD
5 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
6 17 (23.94%) CI/CD
6 17 (23.94%) DevOps
7 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
8 14 (19.72%) High Availability
8 14 (19.72%) Mentoring
8 14 (19.72%) Software Testing
9 13 (18.31%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 13 (18.31%) Test Scripting
10 12 (16.90%) Front End Development
10 12 (16.90%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
11 11 (15.49%) System Testing
12 10 (14.08%) Kanban
13 9 (12.68%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 64 (90.14%) Java
2 13 (18.31%) TypeScript
3 9 (12.68%) SQL
4 6 (8.45%) Python
5 5 (7.04%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.23%) C
8 2 (2.82%) Rust
8 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.41%) C#
9 1 (1.41%) C++
9 1 (1.41%) Groovy
9 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.13%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) Degree
5 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (38.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Kibana
2 2 (2.82%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (8.45%) Oracle
2 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.82%) IBM
3 2 (2.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) VMware