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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 223 204
Rank change year-on-year -152 -19 -75
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 249 734 800
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.19% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.42% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 150 354 626
10th Percentile £45,675 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £122,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Process and 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 39,369 51,858 43,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.22% 84.32% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,574 27,331 33,414
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -94 91 £90,000 +19.21% 41
North of England -62 48 £58,750 +11.90% 27
South East -9 43 £52,500 -10.64% 35
North West -22 35 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Midlands -4 30 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South West +6 20 £57,500 -4.17% 15
West Midlands +21 18 £57,500 -14.81% 8
East Midlands -2 12 £54,250 +8.50% 6
Yorkshire -1 10 £75,000 +57.89% 5
East of England +12 7 £58,750 -16.07% 21
North East -4 3 £45,000 -5.26% 3
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 22 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.62%) Appian
3 13 (5.22%) Confluence
4 9 (3.61%) Headless CMS
5 6 (2.41%) Apache
6 5 (2.01%) CMS
7 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.61%) Camunda
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.80%) SAS
9 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.40%) JBoss
10 1 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.61%) Shopify
3 4 (1.61%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.92%) Azure
2 65 (26.10%) AWS
3 29 (11.65%) Amazon S3
4 28 (11.24%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.44%) Serverless
6 23 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.23%) Amazon ELB
8 18 (7.23%) GCP
8 18 (7.23%) GitHub
9 11 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.61%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.61%) Figma
12 8 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.21%) PaaS
12 8 (3.21%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) Multicast
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.80%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) UWB
4 1 (0.40%) Wideband
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (19.68%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.24%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.84%) Metadata
4 21 (8.43%) Spark SQL
5 19 (7.63%) MongoDB
6 18 (7.23%) Delta Lake
6 18 (7.23%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.82%) MySQL
7 12 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.42%) Power BI
9 10 (4.02%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.41%) DB2
12 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.01%) Redis
13 4 (1.61%) Big Data
13 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.20%) Neo4j
14 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (20.08%) Git
2 29 (11.65%) JIRA
3 21 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.63%) MLflow
5 15 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.62%) GitLab
7 12 (4.82%) JUnit
8 10 (4.02%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.02%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.21%) Selenium
10 7 (2.81%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.81%) NUnit
10 7 (2.81%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.41%) MSTest
12 5 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (1.20%) eCATT
14 3 (1.20%) Mockito
14 3 (1.20%) YouTrack
General
1 72 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 69 (27.71%) Finance
3 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.23%) Banking
5 16 (6.43%) Marketing
6 15 (6.02%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.82%) Front Office
7 12 (4.82%) Law
8 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.81%) Retail
9 5 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.61%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.20%) Automotive
11 3 (1.20%) Electronics
11 3 (1.20%) Games
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 145 (58.23%) Developer
2 65 (26.10%) Senior
3 36 (14.46%) Senior Developer
4 35 (14.06%) Software Engineer
5 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.44%) .NET Developer
7 23 (9.24%) Lead
8 18 (7.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (7.23%) Operations Engineer
9 16 (6.43%) Java Developer
9 16 (6.43%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.62%) Appian Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (4.02%) C++ Developer
12 10 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.21%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.21%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.21%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.81%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.52%) .NET
2 64 (25.70%) React
3 58 (23.29%) CSS
4 55 (22.09%) HTML
5 48 (19.28%) RESTful
6 29 (11.65%) REST
7 28 (11.24%) .NET Core
8 26 (10.44%) .NET Framework
8 26 (10.44%) AngularJS
9 25 (10.04%) PySpark
10 24 (9.64%) PyTorch
11 23 (9.24%) NumPy
11 23 (9.24%) Pandas
11 23 (9.24%) scikit-learn
12 22 (8.84%) YAML
13 20 (8.03%) TensorFlow
14 19 (7.63%) GraphQL
14 19 (7.63%) Keras
15 18 (7.23%) Lambda Expressions
15 18 (7.23%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.42%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.02%) Derivative
4 10 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.01%) Blog
7 5 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.20%) Genomics
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.43%) Unix
2 17 (6.83%) Linux
3 7 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.61%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) Windows
6 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (57.83%) Agile
2 104 (41.77%) CI/CD
3 68 (27.31%) DevOps
4 61 (24.50%) Software Engineering
5 56 (22.49%) Mentoring
6 51 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (20.48%) Scrum
7 49 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (19.68%) Test Automation
8 48 (19.28%) Integration Testing
9 46 (18.47%) Microservices
10 45 (18.07%) Containerisation
11 39 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (15.26%) SDLC
13 37 (14.86%) AI
13 37 (14.86%) OO
14 36 (14.46%) Machine Learning
15 33 (13.25%) User Experience
16 32 (12.85%) Clean Code
17 31 (12.45%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.93%) SQL
2 67 (26.91%) C#
3 66 (26.51%) JavaScript
4 55 (22.09%) Python
5 48 (19.28%) Java
6 41 (16.47%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.43%) C++
8 9 (3.61%) C
9 6 (2.41%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.01%) Bash
11 4 (1.61%) ABAP
11 4 (1.61%) X++
12 3 (1.20%) Bicep
12 3 (1.20%) Erlang
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
12 3 (1.20%) R
13 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.80%) PROC SQL
13 2 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (17.27%) Degree
2 22 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.61%) PhD
9 4 (1.61%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.65%) QA
2 26 (10.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) WCAG
4 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.80%) JTAG
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (22.89%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.25%) Terraform
3 18 (7.23%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.21%) Kibana
5 3 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (1.20%) Puppet
5 3 (1.20%) Salt
6 2 (0.80%) logstash
6 2 (0.80%) Oozie
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.04%) Databricks
3 15 (6.02%) SAP
4 13 (5.22%) Oracle
5 12 (4.82%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.21%) Apple
7 7 (2.81%) Google
7 7 (2.81%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.61%) IBM
8 4 (1.61%) Telerik
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.20%) Splunk
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe
10 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.80%) Cognos
10 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.80%) Sybase
10 2 (0.80%) Xamarin