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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 258 258
Rank change year-on-year -204 0 -63
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 201 441 835
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 1.21% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.29% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 133 345 687
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,642 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £58,457
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.64% -2.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £94,511 £80,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 54,669 34,077 68,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.51% 93.17% 86.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34,477 20,466 52,607
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -68 78 £86,250 +20.63% 30
South East -76 43 £50,000 -13.04% 29
North of England -89 28 £67,500 +22.73% 36
South West -55 19 £45,000 -21.70% 13
North West -44 15 £67,500 +22.73% 18
Yorkshire -52 13 £55,000 -2.22% 8
Midlands -96 12 £57,250 -4.58% 19
East of England -36 7 £62,500 +9.65% 2
West Midlands -55 6 - - 9
East Midlands -57 6 £57,250 -4.58% 10
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 (6.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) IIS
3 2 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) Windchill
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.99%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.99%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.99%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.00%) Infor M3
3 2 (1.00%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.00%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.84%) Azure
2 47 (23.38%) GitHub
3 45 (22.39%) AWS
4 34 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.45%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.96%) Serverless
7 16 (7.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 16 (7.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 13 (6.47%) GCP
9 9 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.98%) Cloud Run
11 7 (3.48%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.99%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (2.99%) PaaS
13 5 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.99%) Azure App Service
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) Multicast
2 6 (2.99%) Broadband
3 3 (1.49%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) Modbus
4 1 (0.50%) Profibus
4 1 (0.50%) RS-232
4 1 (0.50%) RS-485
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
4 1 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.45%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.47%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.97%) MySQL
6 9 (4.48%) DB2
6 9 (4.48%) Power BI
7 6 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.00%) Metadata
10 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.50%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (0.50%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (26.37%) Git
2 30 (14.93%) JIRA
3 13 (6.47%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.47%) JUnit
5 11 (5.47%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.98%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.98%) Selenium
7 6 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.99%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.49%) GitLab
8 5 (2.49%) Maven
8 5 (2.49%) Mockito
9 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.00%) webpack
9 2 (1.00%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.50%) MLflow
10 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.50%) utPLSQL
General
1 57 (28.36%) Finance
2 43 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.43%) Banking
5 16 (7.96%) Front Office
5 16 (7.96%) Marketing
6 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.49%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.99%) Advertising
7 4 (1.99%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.99%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.00%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.00%) Automotive
9 2 (1.00%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 133 (66.17%) Developer
2 51 (25.37%) Senior
3 34 (16.92%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (15.42%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.94%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 16 (7.96%) Cloud Developer
7 16 (7.96%) Salesforce Developer
7 16 (7.96%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 14 (6.97%) Lead
8 14 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.47%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.47%) C++ Developer
10 12 (5.97%) Applications Developer
10 12 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (4.48%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Consultant
14 7 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (31.84%) React
2 60 (29.85%) HTML
3 59 (29.35%) CSS
4 56 (27.86%) .NET
5 39 (19.40%) REST
6 30 (14.93%) RESTful
7 24 (11.94%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.45%) SOAP
9 17 (8.46%) Bootstrap
9 17 (8.46%) React Native
9 17 (8.46%) Vue
10 16 (7.96%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (7.96%) Node.js
11 14 (6.97%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.97%) Spring
12 12 (5.97%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (5.47%) .NET Core
14 10 (4.98%) Middleware
14 10 (4.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.44%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.45%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.47%) Derivative
4 10 (4.98%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.99%) Blog
8 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.49%) PKI
11 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.00%) Genomics
11 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.42%) Linux
2 12 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (70.65%) Agile
2 91 (45.27%) CI/CD
3 65 (32.34%) DevOps
4 58 (28.86%) Scrum
5 50 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (23.88%) Clean Code
7 47 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (21.89%) Test Automation
9 43 (21.39%) Mentoring
10 41 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (20.40%) Software Engineering
11 38 (18.91%) Microservices
12 35 (17.41%) Front End Development
13 33 (16.42%) Sprint Planning
14 31 (15.42%) Design Patterns
15 30 (14.93%) System Testing
15 30 (14.93%) TDD
16 29 (14.43%) Integration Testing
17 28 (13.93%) API Integration
18 25 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (36.32%) SQL
2 58 (28.86%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.37%) Java
4 41 (20.40%) Python
5 38 (18.91%) C#
6 25 (12.44%) C++
7 23 (11.44%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.96%) Apex Code
8 16 (7.96%) SOQL
9 10 (4.98%) C
10 9 (4.48%) Bash
11 8 (3.98%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.99%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.49%) ABAP
14 4 (1.99%) Perl
14 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.99%) R
14 4 (1.99%) Rust
15 3 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (14.93%) Degree
2 14 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.48%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.99%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) OCA
8 1 (0.50%) OCP
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) QA
2 10 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) GAAP
4 2 (1.00%) IFRS
4 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (18.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.96%) Terraform
3 6 (2.99%) Podman
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.96%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.47%) Oracle
4 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.98%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.98%) Google
6 8 (3.98%) SAP
7 7 (3.48%) Databricks
8 4 (1.99%) IBM
8 4 (1.99%) Telerik
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Apple
9 2 (1.00%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) Infor
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) Temenos
9 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 2 (1.00%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) OpenAI