JUnit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JUnit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JUnit over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 449 388
Rank change year-on-year +35 -61 -79
Contract jobs citing JUnit 169 241 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.29% 2.86% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 166 355
10th Percentile £344 £433 £419
25th Percentile £413 £466 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +12.36%
75th Percentile £606 £686 £653
90th Percentile £838 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 24
10th Percentile - £70.38 £47.38
25th Percentile - £71.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +7.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - £78.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.14% +20.69%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JUnit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JUnit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Daily rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JUnit.

Hourly rate trend for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +52 135 £529 -10.34% 45
London +76 89 £533 -15.40% 15
UK excluding London +12 67 £500 - 35
Work from Home +77 49 £500 - 22
North of England +4 26 £550 +2.33% 4
Scotland +44 22 £500 -7.41% 2
Yorkshire +25 13 £550 -4.35%
North West -14 12 £520 -3.26% 4
East of England +13 7 - - 2
South East -14 7 £500 +2.56% 11
South West +8 3 £425 -36.33% 8
Midlands +26 2 £409 -9.17% 4
West Midlands +25 1 £420 -6.67% 4
East Midlands +13 1 £398 -
North East +11 1 £310 -22.50%

JUnit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (10.06%) Confluence
2 9 (5.33%) Apache
3 7 (4.14%) JBoss
4 5 (2.96%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.37%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.78%) nginx
7 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (1.18%) WildFly
8 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.30%) AWS
2 18 (10.65%) GitHub
3 14 (8.28%) Amazon S3
4 13 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.92%) Azure
6 9 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.96%) Serverless
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.59%) GCP
11 1 (0.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) SSH
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.89%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (18.34%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.37%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.78%) MySQL
6 3 (1.78%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.78%) SQLite
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.59%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.59%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (42.01%) Cucumber
1 71 (42.01%) Git
2 52 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 47 (27.81%) Selenium
4 42 (24.85%) Mockito
5 39 (23.08%) TestNG
6 34 (20.12%) JIRA
7 27 (15.98%) Postman
8 25 (14.79%) Maven
8 25 (14.79%) REST Assured
9 24 (14.20%) GitLab
10 18 (10.65%) WebDriver
11 15 (8.88%) Gradle
11 15 (8.88%) SoapUI
12 14 (8.28%) Appium
13 13 (7.69%) JMeter
14 10 (5.92%) eggPlant
14 10 (5.92%) SOAtest
15 6 (3.55%) Subversion
16 5 (2.96%) IntelliJ
General
1 42 (24.85%) Finance
2 33 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.75%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Front Office
6 13 (7.69%) Banking
7 4 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Billing
8 1 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 103 (60.95%) Developer
2 80 (47.34%) Java Developer
3 33 (19.53%) Senior
4 24 (14.20%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.61%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.06%) Lead
7 10 (5.92%) Lead Developer
7 10 (5.92%) Tester
8 9 (5.33%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Lead Java Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Automation Tester
10 6 (3.55%) Android Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Junior
10 6 (3.55%) Junior Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Junior Java Developer
11 5 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (2.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (49.11%) Spring Boot
2 80 (47.34%) Spring
3 74 (43.79%) REST
4 33 (19.53%) Hibernate
4 33 (19.53%) JPA
5 24 (14.20%) React
6 19 (11.24%) Kafka
7 17 (10.06%) J2EE
8 16 (9.47%) XML
9 15 (8.88%) Web Services
10 14 (8.28%) SOAP
10 14 (8.28%) WireMock
11 13 (7.69%) Gherkin
12 12 (7.10%) Android Jetpack
12 12 (7.10%) JSON
12 12 (7.10%) RESTful
13 11 (6.51%) .NET
13 11 (6.51%) Jetpack Compose
14 10 (5.92%) Apache Camel
15 9 (5.33%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) Credit Derivative
2 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.55%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.96%) Derivative
7 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.37%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.28%) Android
1 14 (8.28%) Linux
2 11 (6.51%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.59%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (55.03%) Agile
2 65 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 61 (36.09%) Microservices
4 55 (32.54%) TDD
5 53 (31.36%) Test Automation
6 48 (28.40%) Scrum
7 45 (26.63%) DevOps
8 38 (22.49%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (22.49%) Unit Testing
9 35 (20.71%) BDD
10 28 (16.57%) Software Testing
11 27 (15.98%) SDLC
12 25 (14.79%) High Availability
12 25 (14.79%) Mentoring
12 25 (14.79%) Software Engineering
12 25 (14.79%) Test Strategy
13 22 (13.02%) Front End Development
14 21 (12.43%) Test Scripting
15 20 (11.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 19 (11.24%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (84.62%) Java
2 39 (23.08%) SQL
3 23 (13.61%) Python
3 23 (13.61%) TypeScript
4 17 (10.06%) C#
5 13 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.55%) Perl
8 5 (2.96%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.96%) Scala
9 4 (2.37%) C
9 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.18%) C++
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) Go
11 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.24%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.10%) Degree
5 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.55%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.34%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.18%) HL7
3 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.59%) NCSC
3 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (34.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (27.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.73%) Terraform
3 7 (4.14%) Ansible
4 5 (2.96%) Kibana
5 4 (2.37%) Grafana
6 3 (1.78%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.78%) Packer
7 2 (1.18%) Istio
8 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Oracle
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.14%) IBM
4 4 (2.37%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.18%) SAP
5 2 (1.18%) Splunk
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) HP
6 1 (0.59%) Murex
6 1 (0.59%) New Relic
6 1 (0.59%) VMware