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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 412 229
Rank change year-on-year -106 -183 -41
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 236 229 815
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.53% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.60% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 155 137 408
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,050 £39,588
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £112,500 £89,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 73,454 38,135 55,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.76% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 21,803 32,273
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,571 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,040
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 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
London -72 61 £82,500 +15.38% 224
North of England -66 41 £57,500 +17.95% 60
South West -70 35 £55,000 -4.35% 30
Midlands -43 34 £62,500 +8.70% 41
East of England -9 27 £48,750 -12.56% 36
South East -42 27 £51,250 -14.58% 48
West Midlands -33 24 £52,500 -8.70% 22
North West -43 17 £67,500 +35.00% 41
Yorkshire -35 15 £55,000 -26.67% 7
East Midlands -28 10 £66,000 +16.30% 19
North East -57 9 £57,500 +24.32% 12
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 14 (5.93%) IIS
2 5 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Simulink
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (6.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.85%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 75 (31.78%) Azure
2 44 (18.64%) AWS
3 31 (13.14%) GitHub
4 30 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 15 (6.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (6.36%) Serverless
7 13 (5.51%) GCP
7 13 (5.51%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.24%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.97%) Cloud Functions
11 7 (2.97%) Cloud Run
11 7 (2.97%) Figma
11 7 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.81%) Bluetooth
1 9 (3.81%) Modbus
1 9 (3.81%) Profibus
1 9 (3.81%) RS-232
1 9 (3.81%) RS-485
1 9 (3.81%) Wireless
1 9 (3.81%) ZigBee
2 7 (2.97%) Broadband
3 6 (2.54%) SNMP
4 3 (1.27%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.19%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.98%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.59%) MySQL
4 14 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.93%) Power BI
5 12 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.66%) Redis
7 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.12%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.69%) SQLite
11 3 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.27%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (24.15%) Git
2 16 (6.78%) JIRA
3 15 (6.36%) Claude Code
4 14 (5.93%) Cypress.io
5 12 (5.08%) GitLab
5 12 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (4.66%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (4.24%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.24%) JUnit
7 10 (4.24%) NUnit
8 9 (3.81%) Visual Studio
9 8 (3.39%) Maven
10 7 (2.97%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.97%) Mockito
11 5 (2.12%) Postman
11 5 (2.12%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (1.27%) TestRail
14 2 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.76%) Finance
3 43 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.47%) Law
5 19 (8.05%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.20%) Legal
7 16 (6.78%) Marketing
8 14 (5.93%) Electronics
9 10 (4.24%) Retail
10 9 (3.81%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.81%) Aviation
10 9 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.81%) Military
10 9 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.39%) Banking
12 7 (2.97%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.54%) Automotive
14 5 (2.12%) Advertising
14 5 (2.12%) Social Housing
15 4 (1.69%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 133 (56.36%) Developer
2 64 (27.12%) Senior
3 53 (22.46%) Software Engineer
4 30 (12.71%) Senior Developer
5 28 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (11.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (9.32%) Lead
7 19 (8.05%) .NET Developer
8 18 (7.63%) Salesforce Developer
9 15 (6.36%) Senior Salesforce Developer
10 12 (5.08%) Cloud Developer
11 11 (4.66%) Consultant
12 9 (3.81%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) SAP Developer
12 9 (3.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) VB.NET Developer
13 8 (3.39%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.39%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.85%) .NET
2 60 (25.42%) REST
3 46 (19.49%) HTML
4 39 (16.53%) React
5 35 (14.83%) CSS
6 33 (13.98%) SOAP
7 31 (13.14%) AngularJS
8 29 (12.29%) ASP.NET
8 29 (12.29%) RESTful
9 28 (11.86%) Node.js
10 25 (10.59%) Spring
11 18 (7.63%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (7.20%) .NET Framework
13 16 (6.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (6.78%) jQuery
13 16 (6.78%) Terraform
14 15 (6.36%) Vue
15 14 (5.93%) SAP Fiori
16 13 (5.51%) ASP.NET Web Forms
16 13 (5.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 19 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.20%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.54%) Robotics
8 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.12%) Blog
8 5 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.69%) CMDB
9 4 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.27%) PKI
10 3 (1.27%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.44%) Linux
2 12 (5.08%) Windows
3 11 (4.66%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.54%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.69%) Android
5 4 (1.69%) Unix
6 3 (1.27%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (44.92%) Agile
2 101 (42.80%) CI/CD
3 85 (36.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (33.47%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (30.93%) Software Engineering
6 54 (22.88%) DevOps
7 48 (20.34%) Scrum
7 48 (20.34%) Test Automation
8 45 (19.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (17.37%) TDD
10 37 (15.68%) AI
11 35 (14.83%) Code Quality
11 35 (14.83%) User Experience
12 34 (14.41%) Mentoring
13 33 (13.98%) Microservices
13 33 (13.98%) Sprint Planning
14 32 (13.56%) SDLC
15 30 (12.71%) Integration Testing
16 27 (11.44%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.66%) JavaScript
2 63 (26.69%) SQL
3 60 (25.42%) C#
4 52 (22.03%) Java
5 40 (16.95%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.83%) Python
7 34 (14.41%) C++
8 26 (11.02%) C
9 18 (7.63%) Apex Code
10 15 (6.36%) SOQL
11 11 (4.66%) VB.NET
12 10 (4.24%) ABAP
13 9 (3.81%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.97%) Kotlin
15 6 (2.54%) Bash
15 6 (2.54%) T-SQL
16 5 (2.12%) PHP
16 5 (2.12%) PowerShell
17 3 (1.27%) Ada 95
17 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (16.10%) Degree
2 21 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) HND
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.90%) QA
2 9 (3.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.12%) GDPR
4 4 (1.69%) WCAG
5 3 (1.27%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) Basel III
7 1 (0.42%) GAAP
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.42%) MISRA
7 1 (0.42%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (18.22%) Docker
2 13 (5.51%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.97%) Podman
3 4 (1.69%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) logstash
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.17%) Oracle
3 20 (8.47%) Salesforce
4 18 (7.63%) SAP
5 12 (5.08%) Google
6 9 (3.81%) iManage
7 6 (2.54%) Intel
7 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.69%) Temenos
9 3 (1.27%) IBM
9 3 (1.27%) Infor
9 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.85%) Databricks
10 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.85%) YouTube
11 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.42%) RedGate
11 1 (0.42%) Workday
11 1 (0.42%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.42%) Zoho