Unit Testing Jobs

Unit Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 243 186 119
Rank change year-on-year -57 -67 +17
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,233 1,875 5,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.98% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.07% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 795 1,252 2,014
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,457 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 1,022 £57,500 -4.17% 256
UK excluding London -58 868 £55,000 -4.35% 176
Work from Home -39 603 £57,500 -4.17% 141
London -71 288 £70,000 -12.50% 87
North of England +4 254 £52,500 -8.70% 56
South East -65 206 £57,500 +4.55% 37
North West +22 187 £52,500 -4.55% 34
Scotland -14 113 £57,500 - 17
Midlands -52 108 £52,500 -8.70% 38
South West -54 107 £60,000 +5.03% 13
Yorkshire -11 62 £51,250 -10.87% 14
East Midlands -35 58 £52,500 -11.02% 10
West Midlands -42 49 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -44 42 £55,000 - 15
Wales +8 27 £47,500 -7.05% 2
Northern Ireland -19 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -22 5 £56,250 -2.17% 8

Unit Testing
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 47 (3.81%) CMS
2 45 (3.65%) FileNet
3 38 (3.08%) IIS
4 9 (0.73%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.65%) Confluence
6 7 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.57%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.24%) Apache
9 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) JBoss
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.081%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.081%) TYPO3
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.081%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.081%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.081%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 36 (2.92%) SDL Web 8
2 30 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.57%) BPCS
3 7 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.081%) Endur
5 1 (0.081%) Magento
5 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.081%) Shopify
5 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 409 (33.17%) Azure
2 365 (29.60%) AWS
3 164 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (9.81%) GitHub
5 92 (7.46%) SaaS
6 82 (6.65%) Serverless
7 69 (5.60%) Power Platform
8 58 (4.70%) Amazon S3
9 57 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
11 31 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.19%) Power Automate
14 26 (2.11%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
15 19 (1.54%) NuGet
16 18 (1.46%) Azure Pipelines
17 16 (1.30%) GCP
17 16 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.65%) HTTP
2 7 (0.57%) Bluetooth
3 6 (0.49%) Wireless
4 4 (0.32%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.24%) Modbus
5 3 (0.24%) MQTT
5 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.16%) DNS
6 2 (0.16%) Firewall
6 2 (0.16%) Internet
6 2 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.16%) RS-485
6 2 (0.16%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.081%) 4G
7 1 (0.081%) 5G
7 1 (0.081%) RS-232
7 1 (0.081%) RS-422
7 1 (0.081%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.081%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (20.44%) SQL Server
2 175 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (12.57%) NoSQL
4 91 (7.38%) Oracle Database
4 91 (7.38%) Oracle Database 11g
5 64 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 63 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
7 58 (4.70%) DynamoDB
8 54 (4.38%) MongoDB
9 51 (4.14%) MySQL
10 46 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 44 (3.57%) Redis
12 35 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (2.60%) Power BI
14 26 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
18 11 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
19 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 243 (19.71%) Git
2 105 (8.52%) Visual Studio
3 101 (8.19%) JUnit
4 97 (7.87%) Jenkins
5 89 (7.22%) JIRA
6 85 (6.89%) Jasmine
7 80 (6.49%) NUnit
8 60 (4.87%) Moq
9 55 (4.46%) Mockito
10 43 (3.49%) TeamCity
11 36 (2.92%) Octopus Deploy
12 33 (2.68%) Karma Test Runner
13 28 (2.27%) GitLab
14 26 (2.11%) MSTest
15 24 (1.95%) Postman
16 22 (1.78%) PHPUnit
16 22 (1.78%) SpecFlow
17 21 (1.70%) Sourcetree
18 20 (1.62%) Gatling
19 19 (1.54%) git-flow
General
1 309 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 235 (19.06%) Finance
3 107 (8.68%) Marketing
4 89 (7.22%) Law
5 78 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.76%) Legal
7 69 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
8 45 (3.65%) Banking
9 41 (3.33%) Electronics
9 41 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.35%) Retail
11 23 (1.87%) Billing
12 21 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.54%) Private Banking
14 17 (1.38%) Tech for Good
15 16 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.05%) Front Office
17 12 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 772 (62.61%) Developer
2 377 (30.58%) Senior
3 278 (22.55%) Senior Developer
4 254 (20.60%) Software Engineer
5 155 (12.57%) .NET Developer
6 149 (12.08%) C# Developer
7 133 (10.79%) Software Developer
8 128 (10.38%) Lead
9 104 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
10 92 (7.46%) Database Developer
11 91 (7.38%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 79 (6.41%) Senior Database Developer
13 63 (5.11%) PHP Developer
14 62 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (4.54%) Senior C# Developer
16 52 (4.22%) C# .NET Developer
16 52 (4.22%) Lead Developer
16 52 (4.22%) Senior .NET Developer
17 44 (3.57%) Java Engineer
18 42 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (38.44%) .NET
2 278 (22.55%) AngularJS
3 258 (20.92%) React
4 203 (16.46%) CSS
5 178 (14.44%) REST
6 174 (14.11%) HTML
7 157 (12.73%) .NET Framework
8 155 (12.57%) ASP.NET
8 155 (12.57%) Web Services
9 141 (11.44%) .NET Core
10 137 (11.11%) RESTful
11 118 (9.57%) GraphQL
12 116 (9.41%) SOAP
13 106 (8.60%) jQuery
14 104 (8.43%) Spring
15 102 (8.27%) XML
16 101 (8.19%) Entity Framework
17 90 (7.30%) Vue
18 87 (7.06%) Laravel
19 85 (6.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 80 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
4 37 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.00%) Legacy Code
5 34 (2.76%) Data Structures
6 32 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.43%) Blog
7 30 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (2.43%) Media Streaming
8 22 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.30%) IoT
12 15 (1.22%) Digital Media
12 15 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 15 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.30%) Linux
2 52 (4.22%) Windows
3 22 (1.78%) Android
4 21 (1.70%) Unix
5 15 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.24%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.081%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (51.26%) Agile
2 421 (34.14%) DevOps
3 362 (29.36%) Software Engineering
4 256 (20.76%) CI/CD
5 253 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
6 250 (20.28%) Microservices
6 250 (20.28%) TDD
7 249 (20.19%) Computer Science
8 229 (18.57%) Full Stack Development
9 199 (16.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 187 (15.17%) Test Automation
11 174 (14.11%) MVC
12 169 (13.71%) Design Patterns
13 157 (12.73%) Mentoring
14 154 (12.49%) Scrum
15 151 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
16 133 (10.79%) Secure Coding
17 131 (10.62%) Performance Tuning
18 129 (10.46%) Clean Code
19 127 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 550 (44.61%) C#
2 483 (39.17%) SQL
3 431 (34.96%) JavaScript
4 288 (23.36%) Java
5 177 (14.36%) TypeScript
6 114 (9.25%) Python
7 103 (8.35%) PL/SQL
8 97 (7.87%) PHP
9 85 (6.89%) T-SQL
10 76 (6.16%) VB.NET
11 75 (6.08%) C++
12 59 (4.79%) C
13 39 (3.16%) Scala
14 35 (2.84%) PowerShell
15 28 (2.27%) VB
15 28 (2.27%) VB6
16 20 (1.62%) XPath
17 13 (1.05%) Ada
18 11 (0.89%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.73%) RPG
Qualifications
1 262 (21.25%) Degree
2 134 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (10.38%) QA
2 14 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.65%) GDPR
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.41%) TickIT
6 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.24%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.16%) HL7
7 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.16%) WAI
8 1 (0.081%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.081%) MiFID
8 1 (0.081%) MISRA
8 1 (0.081%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.081%) SLA
8 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (8.11%) Docker
2 19 (1.54%) Firmware
3 16 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.081%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 125 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.95%) Terraform
3 22 (1.78%) Ansible
4 21 (1.70%) Grafana
5 5 (0.41%) Packer
6 3 (0.24%) Consul
7 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.16%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) Podman
7 2 (0.16%) Puppet
8 1 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.081%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 231 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 184 (14.92%) Oracle
3 24 (1.95%) SAP
4 23 (1.87%) Adobe
5 21 (1.70%) Splunk
6 19 (1.54%) Cognizant
6 19 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.46%) IBM
8 12 (0.97%) Google
9 9 (0.73%) Apple
10 8 (0.65%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.57%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.49%) Cognos
12 6 (0.49%) Facebook
13 5 (0.41%) PayPal
13 5 (0.41%) Siebel
13 5 (0.41%) WorldPay
13 5 (0.41%) Zoho
14 4 (0.32%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.32%) ServiceNow