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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 169 151
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 -18
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 28 8 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.34% 0.24% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.27% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 25
10th Percentile £26,250 £52,175 £41,700
25th Percentile £28,500 £52,438 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.28% -14.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £64,750 £59,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,625 £60,725 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 5,729 2,910 3,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.90% 86.30% 75.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,197 1,540 1,708
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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
Cambridgeshire -14 17 £45,000 - 10
Norfolk -23 5 £27,500 -49.07% 1
Hertfordshire -28 3 £53,750 - 19
Bedfordshire -10 2 £62,500 +8.70% 1
Essex - 1 £44,000 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Bluetooth
1 8 (28.57%) Modbus
1 8 (28.57%) Profibus
1 8 (28.57%) RS-232
1 8 (28.57%) RS-485
1 8 (28.57%) Wireless
1 8 (28.57%) ZigBee
2 6 (21.43%) SNMP
3 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) SQLite
4 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Claude Code
1 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (53.57%) Manufacturing
3 10 (35.71%) Electronics
4 8 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (21.43%) Aviation
6 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Advertising
7 2 (7.14%) Automotive
7 2 (7.14%) Law
7 2 (7.14%) Military
8 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (3.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Developer
4 8 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (21.43%) Software Test Engineer
5 6 (21.43%) Test Engineer
6 5 (17.86%) C# Developer
7 4 (14.29%) Graduate
8 3 (10.71%) Graduate C# Developer
8 3 (10.71%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (10.71%) Junior
8 3 (10.71%) Junior Software Test Engineer
8 3 (10.71%) Junior Test Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) .NET
2 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
3 8 (28.57%) HTML
4 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.14%) PySpark
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (3.57%) CSS
7 1 (3.57%) jQuery
7 1 (3.57%) LESS
7 1 (3.57%) Middleware
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.57%) FPGA
4 1 (3.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) FreeRTOS
2 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 10 (35.71%) TDD
3 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
5 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (14.29%) MVC
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) API Development
8 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.71%) DevOps
8 3 (10.71%) Mathematics
8 3 (10.71%) OO
8 3 (10.71%) OOP
8 3 (10.71%) UML
8 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) C++
2 16 (57.14%) C
3 13 (46.43%) C#
4 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 9 (32.14%) SQL
5 8 (28.57%) Python
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.57%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 26262
2 1 (3.57%) MISRA
2 1 (3.57%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (28.57%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Infor
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) RedGate
3 1 (3.57%) SAP