Unit Testing Job Trends in England

Unit Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 227 239
Rank change year-on-year -207 +12 -58
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 195 600 773
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 1.28% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.40% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 123 326 614
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £124,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,020 42,905 54,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.22% 91.64% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 27,200 20,892 43,493
10th Percentile £28,803 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,031 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in England

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in England over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in England

Unit Testing
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London -93 73 £103,750 +38.33% 41
South East -27 47 £50,000 -13.04% 30
North of England -50 31 £65,000 +23.81% 26
North West +3 25 £65,000 +23.81% 15
Midlands -53 15 £51,250 -24.07% 16
South West -34 10 £50,000 -16.67% 12
West Midlands -9 9 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Yorkshire -19 6 £75,000 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -39 6 £51,000 -15.00% 11
East of England +4 4 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 16 (8.21%) Confluence
2 6 (3.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Windchill
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.05%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.05%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.05%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.51%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.41%) Azure
2 36 (18.46%) AWS
3 33 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (16.92%) GitHub
4 26 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 17 (8.72%) Serverless
6 12 (6.15%) GCP
7 9 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 9 (4.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.10%) PaaS
9 7 (3.59%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.08%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.15%) Multicast
2 4 (2.05%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.64%) DB2
5 9 (4.62%) Power BI
6 7 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.08%) MySQL
8 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.03%) Metadata
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (0.51%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.51%) KDB
11 1 (0.51%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 40 (20.51%) Git
2 25 (12.82%) JIRA
3 15 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 15 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.18%) JUnit
5 13 (6.67%) Selenium
6 12 (6.15%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.64%) TeamCity
8 6 (3.08%) GitLab
8 6 (3.08%) Maven
8 6 (3.08%) Mockito
9 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.03%) JMeter
9 2 (1.03%) MSTest
9 2 (1.03%) webpack
10 1 (0.51%) CMake
10 1 (0.51%) NUnit
10 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (33.85%) Finance
2 42 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.23%) Banking
5 17 (8.72%) Marketing
6 13 (6.67%) Front Office
7 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.59%) Retail
9 6 (3.08%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.54%) Law
12 2 (1.03%) Automotive
12 2 (1.03%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Games
13 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (61.03%) Developer
2 50 (25.64%) Senior
3 32 (16.41%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.79%) Lead
5 22 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (11.28%) Senior Developer
6 20 (10.26%) Java Developer
7 16 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.67%) C++ Developer
10 11 (5.64%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Senior Salesforce Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.10%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.33%) .NET
2 64 (32.82%) React
3 55 (28.21%) CSS
4 54 (27.69%) HTML
5 34 (17.44%) REST
6 33 (16.92%) RESTful
7 20 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 19 (9.74%) .NET Core
9 16 (8.21%) SOAP
10 13 (6.67%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (6.67%) React Native
10 13 (6.67%) Spring
11 12 (6.15%) .NET Framework
11 12 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (5.64%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.64%) Gherkin
12 11 (5.64%) Vue
13 10 (5.13%) Kafka
13 10 (5.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Derivative
1 16 (8.21%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.64%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.59%) Blog
6 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.54%) Genomics
9 3 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.03%) CMDB
10 2 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 12 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (64.10%) Agile
2 85 (43.59%) CI/CD
3 62 (31.79%) DevOps
4 57 (29.23%) Scrum
5 54 (27.69%) Mentoring
5 54 (27.69%) Software Engineering
6 49 (25.13%) Microservices
7 40 (20.51%) Test Automation
8 37 (18.97%) Clean Code
8 37 (18.97%) Integration Testing
9 36 (18.46%) Front End Development
9 36 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 30 (15.38%) Design Patterns
13 29 (14.87%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (14.87%) User Experience
14 28 (14.36%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (13.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.69%) SQL
2 48 (24.62%) Java
2 48 (24.62%) JavaScript
3 39 (20.00%) C#
4 31 (15.90%) Python
5 25 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.26%) C++
7 11 (5.64%) C
8 10 (5.13%) Bash
9 9 (4.62%) Apex Code
9 9 (4.62%) SOQL
10 7 (3.59%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.59%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.05%) ABAP
11 4 (2.05%) R
12 3 (1.54%) Erlang
12 3 (1.54%) RPG
13 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.03%) VB6
13 2 (1.03%) X++
Qualifications
1 36 (18.46%) Degree
2 15 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.05%) PhD
7 4 (2.05%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.51%) OCA
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.28%) QA
2 18 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.05%) WCAG
4 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 9000
5 2 (1.03%) JTAG
6 1 (0.51%) PSD2
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (19.49%) Docker
2 8 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 25 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.64%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.15%) Atlassian
2 12 (6.15%) Oracle
2 12 (6.15%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.13%) SAP
4 5 (2.56%) Databricks
4 5 (2.56%) IBM
5 4 (2.05%) Google
5 4 (2.05%) Telerik
6 2 (1.03%) Adobe
6 2 (1.03%) Cognos
6 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.03%) Foundry
6 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.03%) Zend
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) Marketo
7 1 (0.51%) Splunk