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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 328 255
Rank change year-on-year -175 -73 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 192 357 968
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.90% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.97% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 128 258 711
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £103,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 60,463 36,660 75,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 92.89% 82.69%
Number of salaries quoted 41,486 19,882 55,668
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -69 63 £85,000 +30.77% 23
North of England -63 35 £65,000 +18.18% 24
South East -58 27 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Midlands -49 24 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North West -24 19 £67,500 +28.57% 12
South West -81 19 £46,875 -18.48% 9
West Midlands -38 16 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East of England -34 14 £61,500 +7.89% 13
Yorkshire -34 12 £55,000 -35.49% 5
East Midlands -41 8 £65,500 +9.17% 9
North East -43 4 £57,500 +4.55% 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 5 (2.60%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.52%) Simulink
3 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.04%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.38%) Azure
2 45 (23.44%) AWS
3 44 (22.92%) GitHub
4 32 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (13.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 26 (13.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.77%) GCP
8 12 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.25%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (3.13%) Serverless
12 5 (2.60%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.60%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
15 2 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.25%) Broadband
2 7 (3.65%) Bluetooth
2 7 (3.65%) Modbus
2 7 (3.65%) Profibus
2 7 (3.65%) RS-232
2 7 (3.65%) RS-485
2 7 (3.65%) Wireless
2 7 (3.65%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.98%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.21%) MySQL
5 9 (4.69%) Power BI
6 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.60%) Redis
9 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.60%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.56%) Db2
10 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.56%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (23.96%) Git
2 17 (8.85%) JIRA
3 14 (7.29%) Cypress.io
4 13 (6.77%) JUnit
5 12 (6.25%) CircleCI
6 11 (5.73%) Maven
6 11 (5.73%) Mockito
7 5 (2.60%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.56%) Selenium
9 3 (1.56%) TestRail
10 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.52%) Appium
11 1 (0.52%) GitLab
11 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.52%) utPLSQL
11 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 51 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.92%) Finance
3 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.98%) Marketing
5 20 (10.42%) Banking
6 12 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.69%) Electronics
7 9 (4.69%) Law
7 9 (4.69%) Legal
8 8 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Automotive
11 5 (2.60%) Advertising
11 5 (2.60%) Agriculture
11 5 (2.60%) Front Office
11 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.60%) Retail
11 5 (2.60%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (61.98%) Developer
2 65 (33.85%) Senior
3 38 (19.79%) Senior Developer
4 30 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (14.06%) Salesforce Developer
6 26 (13.54%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 23 (11.98%) Cloud Developer
8 21 (10.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (9.90%) Lead
10 16 (8.33%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.25%) Consultant
11 12 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.65%) Embedded Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.65%) React
2 51 (26.56%) REST
3 43 (22.40%) .NET
4 39 (20.31%) HTML
5 32 (16.67%) CSS
5 32 (16.67%) SOAP
6 28 (14.58%) AngularJS
7 27 (14.06%) Lightning Web Components
8 21 (10.94%) Node.js
9 19 (9.90%) RESTful
10 18 (9.38%) Playwright
11 17 (8.85%) React Native
12 15 (7.81%) Spring
13 13 (6.77%) Bootstrap
14 12 (6.25%) Leaflet
14 12 (6.25%) Vue
15 10 (5.21%) Kafka
16 9 (4.69%) Middleware
17 8 (4.17%) Web Services
18 7 (3.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.23%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.85%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.65%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.60%) CMDB
7 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.56%) Derivative
9 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.56%) PKI
10 2 (1.04%) AS400
10 2 (1.04%) Blog
10 2 (1.04%) Equities
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.42%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (65.10%) Agile
2 97 (50.52%) CI/CD
3 64 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (27.08%) Scrum
5 47 (24.48%) DevOps
5 47 (24.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (23.44%) Clean Code
7 43 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (20.31%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.31%) Sprint Planning
9 37 (19.27%) TDD
10 35 (18.23%) Mentoring
11 34 (17.71%) Microservices
12 30 (15.63%) System Testing
12 30 (15.63%) Test Automation
13 29 (15.10%) Containerisation
14 26 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (11.98%) Data Architecture
15 23 (11.98%) SDLC
16 22 (11.46%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.85%) SQL
2 53 (27.60%) JavaScript
3 41 (21.35%) Java
4 35 (18.23%) C#
5 27 (14.06%) Apex Code
5 27 (14.06%) Python
6 26 (13.54%) SOQL
7 21 (10.94%) C++
8 19 (9.90%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.29%) PL/SQL
10 12 (6.25%) C
11 10 (5.21%) Bash
12 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.08%) ABAP
13 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.08%) R
13 4 (2.08%) Rust
14 3 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.54%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.81%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) HND
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) OCA
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.33%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.60%) GDPR
4 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) GAAP
5 2 (1.04%) IFRS
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (20.83%) Docker
2 7 (3.65%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (3.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 21 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.25%) Podman
3 8 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.06%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.38%) Oracle
3 13 (6.77%) Google
4 10 (5.21%) SAP
5 6 (3.13%) Databricks
5 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.04%) Apple
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
7 2 (1.04%) iManage
7 2 (1.04%) Infor
7 2 (1.04%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.04%) Temenos
7 2 (1.04%) Workday
8 1 (0.52%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) Siemens