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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 429 234
Rank change year-on-year -88 -195 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 240 222 806
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.51% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.58% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 154 135 367
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,344 £51,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,925 £118,500 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 76,043 38,474 55,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.78% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53,667 22,007 30,452
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 27 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 -81 57 £82,500 +3.13% 122
North of England -65 41 £57,500 +9.52% 50
Midlands -41 38 £65,000 +13.04% 34
South West -69 36 £55,000 -4.35% 28
South East -47 30 £55,000 -8.33% 37
East of England -12 27 £45,000 -19.28% 28
West Midlands -31 27 £52,500 -8.70% 18
North West -52 17 £67,500 +28.57% 34
North East -53 14 £57,500 +21.05% 9
East Midlands -36 11 £65,500 +15.42% 16
Yorkshire -29 10 £55,000 -26.67% 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 16 (6.67%) IIS
2 5 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.25%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) 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 3 (1.25%) Simulink
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.83%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.08%) Azure
2 44 (18.33%) AWS
3 31 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (12.08%) GitHub
5 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.42%) Power Automate
6 13 (5.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 13 (5.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 13 (5.42%) Serverless
7 12 (5.00%) GCP
8 10 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.92%) Figma
12 6 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (2.50%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Bluetooth
1 8 (3.33%) Modbus
1 8 (3.33%) Profibus
1 8 (3.33%) RS-232
1 8 (3.33%) RS-485
1 8 (3.33%) Wireless
1 8 (3.33%) ZigBee
2 6 (2.50%) Broadband
2 6 (2.50%) SNMP
3 4 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.25%) SQL Server
2 36 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 29 (12.08%) MySQL
4 16 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.42%) Power BI
6 12 (5.00%) Redis
7 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.67%) SQLite
11 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.83%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (24.17%) Git
2 17 (7.08%) Claude Code
2 17 (7.08%) GitLab
3 14 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.83%) JIRA
3 14 (5.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (5.42%) Cypress.io
4 13 (5.42%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (4.58%) JUnit
5 11 (4.58%) NUnit
5 11 (4.58%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.33%) Maven
7 7 (2.92%) Mockito
8 6 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.50%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.08%) Postman
9 5 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.67%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.25%) TestRail
General
1 77 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.42%) Finance
3 45 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.75%) Law
5 19 (7.92%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.08%) Legal
7 15 (6.25%) Marketing
8 13 (5.42%) Electronics
9 11 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.58%) Military
9 11 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.75%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.75%) Aviation
10 9 (3.75%) Retail
11 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.08%) Automotive
12 5 (2.08%) Banking
12 5 (2.08%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.25%) Advertising
13 3 (1.25%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 133 (55.42%) Developer
2 61 (25.42%) Senior
3 52 (21.67%) Software Engineer
4 28 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 26 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.58%) Lead
8 22 (9.17%) .NET Developer
9 16 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
10 13 (5.42%) Consultant
10 13 (5.42%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 10 (4.17%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
11 10 (4.17%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.75%) SAP Developer
12 9 (3.75%) VB.NET Developer
13 8 (3.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (3.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (27.50%) .NET
2 59 (24.58%) REST
3 46 (19.17%) HTML
4 36 (15.00%) CSS
4 36 (15.00%) React
5 32 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 31 (12.92%) ASP.NET
7 30 (12.50%) Node.js
7 30 (12.50%) SOAP
8 28 (11.67%) RESTful
9 26 (10.83%) Spring
10 20 (8.33%) .NET Framework
11 19 (7.92%) jQuery
12 18 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (6.25%) .NET Core
14 15 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 15 (6.25%) Kafka
14 15 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
15 14 (5.83%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.50%) Blog
8 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.50%) Robotics
9 5 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.67%) CMDB
10 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.25%) FPGA
11 3 (1.25%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.50%) Linux
2 13 (5.42%) Windows
3 10 (4.17%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.67%) Android
5 4 (1.67%) Unix
6 3 (1.25%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (43.33%) Agile
2 103 (42.92%) CI/CD
3 84 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 82 (34.17%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 59 (24.58%) DevOps
7 51 (21.25%) Test Automation
8 48 (20.00%) Scrum
9 41 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (16.67%) TDD
11 38 (15.83%) AI
12 37 (15.42%) Code Quality
12 37 (15.42%) User Experience
13 34 (14.17%) SDLC
14 33 (13.75%) Sprint Planning
15 32 (13.33%) Integration Testing
15 32 (13.33%) Mentoring
15 32 (13.33%) Microservices
16 27 (11.25%) Validation
17 25 (10.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.33%) JavaScript
2 65 (27.08%) C#
3 55 (22.92%) SQL
4 53 (22.08%) Java
5 44 (18.33%) TypeScript
6 34 (14.17%) C++
7 30 (12.50%) Python
8 26 (10.83%) C
9 16 (6.67%) Apex Code
10 13 (5.42%) SOQL
10 13 (5.42%) VB.NET
11 10 (4.17%) ABAP
12 8 (3.33%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.92%) Kotlin
13 7 (2.92%) PHP
14 6 (2.50%) Bash
15 5 (2.08%) PowerShell
15 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.25%) Ada 95
16 3 (1.25%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 36 (15.00%) Degree
2 28 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.42%) HND
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.83%) QA
2 9 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) WCAG
5 3 (1.25%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.83%) 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 (17.92%) Docker
2 12 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.50%) Podman
3 4 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Argo
4 2 (0.83%) 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 33 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.25%) Oracle
3 18 (7.50%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.50%) SAP
4 11 (4.58%) Google
5 9 (3.75%) iManage
6 7 (2.92%) Intel
7 6 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.25%) IBM
8 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Databricks
9 2 (0.83%) Infor
9 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
9 2 (0.83%) Temenos
9 2 (0.83%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.83%) YouTube
10 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.42%) Workday