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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 338 256
Rank change year-on-year -178 -82 -61
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 205 361 916
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.83% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.92% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 140 244 632
10th Percentile £46,125 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,200 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year - +2.64% -2.57%

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 65,293 39,112 69,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.12% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46,254 22,446 49,410
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -109 55 £83,750 +24.07% 23
North of England -61 36 £57,500 +4.55% 24
South West -78 30 £53,000 -7.83% 11
Midlands -45 28 £60,000 - 15
South East -61 25 £52,500 -6.67% 17
East of England -15 20 £61,500 +7.89% 11
West Midlands -27 19 £52,500 -12.50% 8
North West -39 15 £67,500 +28.57% 14
Yorkshire -31 14 £55,000 -35.49% 5
East Midlands -21 9 £68,000 +15.74% 7
North East -48 7 £57,500 +21.05% 6
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 5 (2.44%) IIS
2 3 (1.46%) CMS
2 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 2 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.95%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.46%) Shopify
4 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.98%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.76%) Azure
2 40 (19.51%) AWS
3 37 (18.05%) GitHub
4 29 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (11.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 23 (11.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (7.32%) GCP
7 13 (6.34%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.85%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (5.85%) Cloud Run
9 10 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.90%) Serverless
11 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.93%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.44%) Figma
12 5 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.95%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.85%) Broadband
2 9 (4.39%) Bluetooth
2 9 (4.39%) Modbus
2 9 (4.39%) Profibus
2 9 (4.39%) RS-232
2 9 (4.39%) RS-485
2 9 (4.39%) Wireless
2 9 (4.39%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.61%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.22%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.78%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.85%) MySQL
5 10 (4.88%) Redis
6 9 (4.39%) Power BI
6 9 (4.39%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.44%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.46%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (26.34%) Git
2 20 (9.76%) JIRA
3 14 (6.83%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.85%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.39%) GitLab
6 8 (3.90%) JUnit
7 7 (3.41%) Maven
7 7 (3.41%) Mockito
8 4 (1.95%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.95%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.95%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.46%) NUnit
9 3 (1.46%) Postman
9 3 (1.46%) TestRail
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) Toad
General
1 54 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.98%) Finance
3 31 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.76%) Marketing
5 17 (8.29%) Banking
5 17 (8.29%) Law
6 16 (7.80%) Legal
6 16 (7.80%) Manufacturing
7 14 (6.83%) Electronics
8 9 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.41%) Automotive
10 6 (2.93%) Advertising
10 6 (2.93%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.44%) Agriculture
11 5 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.44%) Retail
11 5 (2.44%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.95%) Front Office
13 3 (1.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 120 (58.54%) Developer
2 60 (29.27%) Senior
3 41 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.61%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (11.71%) Salesforce Developer
7 23 (11.22%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 23 (11.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (9.76%) Cloud Developer
9 19 (9.27%) Lead
10 12 (5.85%) Consultant
11 10 (4.88%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) SAP Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) .NET Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Web Developer
14 6 (2.93%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (27.32%) REST
2 47 (22.93%) React
3 42 (20.49%) .NET
4 36 (17.56%) SOAP
5 33 (16.10%) Node.js
6 32 (15.61%) HTML
7 26 (12.68%) AngularJS
8 24 (11.71%) CSS
8 24 (11.71%) Lightning Web Components
9 19 (9.27%) RESTful
10 18 (8.78%) Playwright
11 14 (6.83%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.83%) OAuth
11 14 (6.83%) Spring
12 12 (5.85%) Leaflet
12 12 (5.85%) React Native
12 12 (5.85%) SAP Fiori
13 11 (5.37%) Kafka
13 11 (5.37%) Vue
14 10 (4.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.34%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.95%) CMDB
8 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) IoT
9 3 (1.46%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.46%) PKI
9 3 (1.46%) Robotics
10 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.27%) Linux
2 11 (5.37%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (3.41%) Windows
4 4 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.95%) Unix
5 3 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (57.07%) Agile
2 99 (48.29%) CI/CD
3 82 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (26.34%) Software Engineering
5 52 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (23.41%) Scrum
7 46 (22.44%) DevOps
8 43 (20.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (19.02%) TDD
10 36 (17.56%) Clean Code
11 35 (17.07%) Mentoring
11 35 (17.07%) Test Automation
12 32 (15.61%) Sprint Planning
13 30 (14.63%) Microservices
14 27 (13.17%) System Testing
15 25 (12.20%) Code Quality
16 24 (11.71%) Containerisation
16 24 (11.71%) Integration Testing
16 24 (11.71%) SDLC
17 23 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.22%) SQL
2 55 (26.83%) JavaScript
3 44 (21.46%) C#
4 42 (20.49%) Java
5 33 (16.10%) Python
6 29 (14.15%) C++
7 24 (11.71%) Apex Code
8 23 (11.22%) SOQL
9 20 (9.76%) TypeScript
10 15 (7.32%) C
11 11 (5.37%) ABAP
12 9 (4.39%) PL/SQL
13 7 (3.41%) Bash
14 5 (2.44%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.95%) Rust
16 3 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (1.46%) SOSL
17 2 (0.98%) Perl
17 2 (0.98%) RPG
Qualifications
1 31 (15.12%) Degree
2 16 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) HND
6 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.83%) QA
2 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.44%) GDPR
3 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.46%) WCAG
5 2 (0.98%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (0.98%) GAAP
5 2 (0.98%) IFRS
5 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) MISRA
6 1 (0.49%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (17.56%) Docker
2 12 (5.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (5.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.85%) Podman
3 10 (4.88%) Terraform
4 2 (0.98%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.98%) Grafana
4 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (12.68%) Salesforce
2 20 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.78%) SAP
4 16 (7.80%) Google
5 15 (7.32%) Oracle
6 9 (4.39%) iManage
7 6 (2.93%) Databricks
7 6 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.44%) Intel
9 4 (1.95%) Temenos
10 3 (1.46%) Infor
10 3 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.98%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.98%) Workday
12 1 (0.49%) Apple
12 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.49%) Informatica
12 1 (0.49%) Zoho