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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 189 120
Rank change year-on-year -48 -69 +15
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,235 1,923 5,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.98% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 2.07% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 787 1,263 2,025
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -60 1,014 £57,500 -4.17% 262
UK excluding London -42 872 £55,000 -4.35% 186
Work from Home -18 625 £57,500 -4.17% 144
London -71 285 £70,000 -12.50% 83
North of England +10 252 £52,500 -8.70% 51
South East -53 206 £57,500 +4.55% 39
North West +46 186 £52,500 -4.55% 26
Scotland -7 117 £57,500 - 17
South West -45 107 £60,000 +5.03% 20
Midlands -48 106 £52,500 -8.70% 43
Yorkshire -2 61 £51,250 -10.87% 18
East Midlands -33 57 £52,500 -11.02% 15
West Midlands -25 48 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -45 42 £55,000 - 17
Wales +10 29 £47,500 -7.05% 2
Northern Ireland -16 14 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -17 5 £56,250 -2.17% 7

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 46 (3.72%) CMS
2 45 (3.64%) FileNet
3 38 (3.08%) IIS
4 9 (0.73%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.57%) Confluence
5 7 (0.57%) WordPress
6 5 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.24%) Apache
8 3 (0.24%) Drupal
8 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.081%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.081%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.081%) TYPO3
Applications
1 17 (1.38%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.081%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.081%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 34 (2.75%) SDL Web 8
2 31 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.57%) BPCS
3 7 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.081%) Endur
4 1 (0.081%) Magento
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
4 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 408 (33.04%) Azure
2 358 (28.99%) AWS
3 164 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (9.80%) GitHub
5 106 (8.58%) Serverless
6 92 (7.45%) SaaS
7 70 (5.67%) Power Platform
8 58 (4.70%) Amazon S3
8 58 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (2.59%) PowerApps
10 31 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 29 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.19%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.11%) Azure Functions
14 20 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
15 18 (1.46%) Azure Pipelines
16 17 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 17 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (1.38%) NuGet
17 15 (1.21%) GCP
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%) 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%) Modbus
6 2 (0.16%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.081%) 4G
7 1 (0.081%) 5G
7 1 (0.081%) Broadband
7 1 (0.081%) RS-232
7 1 (0.081%) RS-485
7 1 (0.081%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.081%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (20.08%) SQL Server
2 170 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
3 151 (12.23%) NoSQL
4 115 (9.31%) Oracle Database
5 91 (7.37%) Oracle Database 11g
6 70 (5.67%) Relational Database
7 64 (5.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 62 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (4.37%) DynamoDB
9 54 (4.37%) MongoDB
10 51 (4.13%) MySQL
11 41 (3.32%) Redis
12 32 (2.59%) Power BI
13 31 (2.51%) RDBMS
14 30 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 23 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 13 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
19 10 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 263 (21.30%) Git
2 104 (8.42%) Visual Studio
3 99 (8.02%) JUnit
4 96 (7.77%) Jenkins
5 85 (6.88%) Jasmine
5 85 (6.88%) JIRA
6 78 (6.32%) NUnit
7 58 (4.70%) Moq
8 54 (4.37%) Mockito
9 41 (3.32%) TeamCity
10 34 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 33 (2.67%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (2.27%) GitLab
13 26 (2.11%) MSTest
14 24 (1.94%) JDeveloper
15 23 (1.86%) Postman
16 22 (1.78%) PHPUnit
17 20 (1.62%) SpecFlow
18 19 (1.54%) Sourcetree
19 17 (1.38%) Storybook
General
1 296 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 234 (18.95%) Finance
3 106 (8.58%) Marketing
4 90 (7.29%) Law
5 79 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.75%) Legal
7 68 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (3.72%) Banking
9 39 (3.16%) Public Sector
10 37 (3.00%) Electronics
11 29 (2.35%) Retail
12 28 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.62%) Billing
14 20 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.62%) Private Banking
15 17 (1.38%) Tech for Good
16 16 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.05%) Front Office
18 11 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 763 (61.78%) Developer
2 367 (29.72%) Senior
3 274 (22.19%) Software Engineer
4 272 (22.02%) Senior Developer
5 154 (12.47%) .NET Developer
6 145 (11.74%) C# Developer
7 133 (10.77%) Software Developer
8 124 (10.04%) Lead
9 102 (8.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 91 (7.37%) Database Developer
10 91 (7.37%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 79 (6.40%) Senior Database Developer
12 63 (5.10%) PHP Developer
13 62 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (4.29%) Senior C# Developer
15 51 (4.13%) C# .NET Developer
15 51 (4.13%) Senior .NET Developer
16 50 (4.05%) Lead Developer
17 42 (3.40%) Java Engineer
18 41 (3.32%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (38.14%) .NET
2 280 (22.67%) React
3 278 (22.51%) AngularJS
4 203 (16.44%) CSS
5 172 (13.93%) REST
6 170 (13.77%) HTML
7 155 (12.55%) .NET Framework
8 153 (12.39%) ASP.NET
9 147 (11.90%) Web Services
10 140 (11.34%) .NET Core
11 133 (10.77%) RESTful
12 114 (9.23%) GraphQL
13 112 (9.07%) SOAP
14 105 (8.50%) jQuery
15 103 (8.34%) Spring
16 99 (8.02%) Entity Framework
16 99 (8.02%) Node.js
16 99 (8.02%) XML
17 89 (7.21%) Vue
18 86 (6.96%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.64%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 68 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.83%) Legacy Code
5 34 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 32 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (2.11%) Blog
8 26 (2.11%) Media Streaming
9 22 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.30%) IoT
12 16 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.21%) Digital Media
13 15 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
16 8 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.29%) Linux
1 53 (4.29%) Windows
2 22 (1.78%) Android
3 21 (1.70%) Unix
4 15 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.24%) FreeBSD
7 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.081%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (50.53%) Agile
2 438 (35.47%) DevOps
3 382 (30.93%) Software Engineering
4 274 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (22.11%) Microservices
6 256 (20.73%) CI/CD
7 248 (20.08%) TDD
8 244 (19.76%) Computer Science
9 227 (18.38%) Full Stack Development
10 200 (16.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 193 (15.63%) Design Patterns
12 184 (14.90%) Test Automation
13 172 (13.93%) MVC
14 171 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
15 153 (12.39%) Actionable Insight
15 153 (12.39%) Clean Code
16 152 (12.31%) Scrum
17 149 (12.06%) Mentoring
18 133 (10.77%) Secure Coding
19 129 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 545 (44.13%) C#
2 478 (38.70%) SQL
3 452 (36.60%) JavaScript
4 308 (24.94%) Java
5 178 (14.41%) TypeScript
6 135 (10.93%) Python
7 102 (8.26%) PL/SQL
8 96 (7.77%) PHP
9 84 (6.80%) T-SQL
10 75 (6.07%) VB.NET
11 70 (5.67%) C++
12 57 (4.62%) C
13 35 (2.83%) PowerShell
13 35 (2.83%) Scala
14 31 (2.51%) Go
15 29 (2.35%) Ruby
16 28 (2.27%) Bash
16 28 (2.27%) Perl
16 28 (2.27%) VB
16 28 (2.27%) VB6
Qualifications
1 256 (20.73%) Degree
2 130 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (12.23%) QA
2 14 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.65%) GDPR
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.40%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.40%) TickIT
6 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.16%) HL7
6 2 (0.16%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.16%) WAI
7 1 (0.081%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.081%) MiFID
7 1 (0.081%) MISRA
7 1 (0.081%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.081%) SLA
7 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (7.94%) 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
1 124 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.86%) Terraform
3 22 (1.78%) Grafana
4 21 (1.70%) Ansible
5 4 (0.32%) Packer
6 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.24%) Consul
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
Vendors
1 230 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 209 (16.92%) Oracle
3 22 (1.78%) SAP
3 22 (1.78%) Splunk
4 21 (1.70%) Adobe
5 20 (1.62%) Dynatrace
6 18 (1.46%) IBM
7 17 (1.38%) Cognizant
8 11 (0.89%) Google
9 9 (0.73%) Apple
10 8 (0.65%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.57%) Facebook
11 7 (0.57%) Siebel
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.49%) Cognos
13 5 (0.40%) PayPal
13 5 (0.40%) WorldPay
13 5 (0.40%) Zoho
14 4 (0.32%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.32%) Hortonworks