Unit Testing Job Trends in the East of England

Unit Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 151 154
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 4 27 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.78% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.88% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 24
10th Percentile £58,250 £57,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £69,825 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,470 - -
England median annual salary £65,508 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,260 3,068 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.09% 88.14% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,925 1,207 2,501
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the East of England

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire 0 2 £61,250 -5.77% 5
Essex -8 2 £75,900 -
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Connection
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Event Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) OLAP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Software Team Leader
1 2 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Report Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) SysML
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos
1 1 (25.00%) IBM