Unit Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 189 136
Rank change year-on-year -47 -53 -10
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 836 1,118 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.86% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.94% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 552 761 1,028
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,493 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -2 223 £51,000 -11.30% 47
South East -53 203 £57,500 +4.55% 41
North West +21 158 £51,000 -9.33% 22
Scotland -11 119 £57,500 - 27
South West -43 111 £60,000 - 18
Midlands -75 99 £52,500 -8.70% 39
Yorkshire +16 62 £50,000 -13.04% 19
East Midlands -45 56 £52,500 -9.48% 18
West Midlands -36 42 £58,750 +6.82% 21
East of England -24 39 £55,000 - 24
Wales +13 29 £47,500 -7.05% 5
Northern Ireland -6 14 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North East -18 3 £67,500 +17.39% 6
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
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 45 (5.38%) FileNet
2 34 (4.07%) IIS
3 13 (1.56%) CMS
4 11 (1.32%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.96%) WordPress
6 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.24%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) Drupal
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.12%) Apache
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.12%) PrestaShop
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.12%) TYPO3
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.12%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.96%) Siebel CRM
3 7 (0.84%) BPCS
3 7 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.48%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 270 (32.30%) Azure
2 235 (28.11%) AWS
3 110 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (12.56%) GitHub
5 76 (9.09%) SaaS
6 65 (7.78%) Serverless
7 54 (6.46%) Amazon S3
8 43 (5.14%) Power Platform
9 32 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.51%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.67%) Azure Functions
13 13 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.56%) npm
13 13 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.44%) GCP
15 10 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
16 9 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) Bluetooth
2 6 (0.72%) Wireless
3 5 (0.60%) HTTP
4 4 (0.48%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.36%) MQTT
5 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) Firewall
6 2 (0.24%) Internet
6 2 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.24%) Modbus
6 2 (0.24%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) 5G
7 1 (0.12%) Broadband
7 1 (0.12%) RS-232
7 1 (0.12%) RS-485
7 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (18.54%) SQL Server
2 105 (12.56%) Oracle Database
3 101 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (11.00%) NoSQL
5 75 (8.97%) Oracle Database 11g
6 63 (7.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 62 (7.42%) Relational Database
8 56 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.26%) MySQL
10 38 (4.55%) MongoDB
11 33 (3.95%) RDBMS
12 23 (2.75%) Power BI
13 20 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.79%) Redis
15 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (1.32%) DynamoDB
17 10 (1.20%) MariaDB
18 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 8 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
19 8 (0.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 158 (18.90%) Git
2 79 (9.45%) Jasmine
3 76 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 75 (8.97%) JUnit
5 73 (8.73%) Visual Studio
6 49 (5.86%) Mockito
7 41 (4.90%) JIRA
7 41 (4.90%) NUnit
8 30 (3.59%) JDeveloper
9 29 (3.47%) Karma Test Runner
10 22 (2.63%) PHPUnit
11 20 (2.39%) Moq
11 20 (2.39%) Postman
12 16 (1.91%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 15 (1.79%) Storybook
14 14 (1.67%) MSTest
15 12 (1.44%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.44%) LabVIEW
16 11 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 170 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 152 (18.18%) Finance
3 89 (10.65%) Law
4 75 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (7.54%) Legal
6 54 (6.46%) Marketing
7 38 (4.55%) Banking
8 29 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (2.51%) Private Banking
9 21 (2.51%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.27%) Retail
12 14 (1.67%) Electronics
13 10 (1.20%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 8 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 507 (60.65%) Developer
2 248 (29.67%) Senior
3 234 (27.99%) Software Engineer
4 181 (21.65%) Senior Developer
5 107 (12.80%) .NET Developer
6 96 (11.48%) Software Developer
7 81 (9.69%) C# Developer
8 75 (8.97%) Database Developer
8 75 (8.97%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 65 (7.78%) Senior Database Developer
10 53 (6.34%) Full Stack Developer
11 51 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (5.98%) Lead
13 48 (5.74%) PHP Developer
14 42 (5.02%) Java Engineer
15 41 (4.90%) Java Software Engineer
16 35 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
17 34 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
18 30 (3.59%) Ruby Engineer
19 28 (3.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (37.68%) .NET
2 210 (25.12%) AngularJS
3 208 (24.88%) React
4 122 (14.59%) CSS
5 116 (13.88%) .NET Core
6 110 (13.16%) HTML
7 103 (12.32%) REST
8 90 (10.77%) Spring
9 85 (10.17%) .NET Framework
10 84 (10.05%) Vue
11 83 (9.93%) Node.js
12 82 (9.81%) ASP.NET
13 81 (9.69%) SOAP
14 75 (8.97%) Kafka
15 74 (8.85%) RESTful
16 71 (8.49%) Laravel
17 70 (8.37%) GraphQL
18 69 (8.25%) jQuery
18 69 (8.25%) Sass
19 61 (7.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.79%) Digital Media
7 15 (1.79%) IoT
8 13 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.84%) iSeries
13 7 (0.84%) PMI
13 7 (0.84%) SCADA
14 6 (0.72%) Legacy Code
15 5 (0.60%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.74%) Windows
2 36 (4.31%) Linux
3 18 (2.15%) Android
4 11 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.08%) Unix
6 7 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.36%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.36%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (47.37%) Agile
2 298 (35.65%) Software Engineering
3 288 (34.45%) DevOps
4 202 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 187 (22.37%) Microservices
6 183 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (20.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 154 (18.42%) Design Patterns
9 149 (17.82%) Full Stack Development
10 146 (17.46%) TDD
11 143 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
12 124 (14.83%) Computer Science
13 117 (14.00%) MVC
14 115 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
15 103 (12.32%) Clean Code
16 100 (11.96%) Scrum
16 100 (11.96%) Secure Coding
17 92 (11.00%) Machine Learning
17 92 (11.00%) SDLC
18 84 (10.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 363 (43.42%) C#
2 335 (40.07%) SQL
3 321 (38.40%) JavaScript
4 207 (24.76%) Java
5 115 (13.76%) TypeScript
6 94 (11.24%) Python
7 78 (9.33%) PL/SQL
8 76 (9.09%) PHP
9 75 (8.97%) VB.NET
10 54 (6.46%) T-SQL
11 53 (6.34%) C++
12 46 (5.50%) C
13 35 (4.19%) Bash
14 34 (4.07%) Perl
15 32 (3.83%) Go
15 32 (3.83%) Ruby
16 28 (3.35%) VB
16 28 (3.35%) VB6
17 22 (2.63%) PowerShell
18 12 (1.44%) Ada
Qualifications
1 132 (15.79%) Degree
2 66 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 35 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (14.95%) QA
2 8 (0.96%) GDPR
3 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.60%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.60%) TickIT
5 3 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.24%) HL7
6 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.24%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.12%) MISRA
7 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (5.74%) Docker
2 14 (1.67%) Firmware
3 4 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 84 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.19%) Terraform
3 23 (2.75%) Grafana
4 7 (0.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.24%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.24%) Podman
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Packer
6 1 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 181 (21.65%) Oracle
2 158 (18.90%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.63%) Splunk
4 21 (2.51%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.91%) IBM
6 14 (1.67%) SAP
7 9 (1.08%) Apple
7 9 (1.08%) Google
8 8 (0.96%) Siebel
8 8 (0.96%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.84%) Zoho
10 6 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.72%) Cognos
11 5 (0.60%) PayPal
11 5 (0.60%) WorldPay
12 4 (0.48%) Adobe
12 4 (0.48%) Facebook
12 4 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.36%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.36%) Telerik