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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 312 257
Rank change year-on-year -195 -55 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 198 355 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.96% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 131 252 715
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,625 £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 £84,375 £74,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,400 £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 61,307 36,819 78,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 92.52% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,146 20,189 56,768
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,497
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -81 61 £82,500 +26.92% 19
North of England -48 35 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Midlands -40 28 £62,500 +4.17% 9
South East -55 25 £50,000 -13.04% 14
South West -83 23 £50,000 -13.04% 10
North West -18 19 £67,500 +28.57% 8
West Midlands -25 18 £52,500 -12.50% 4
East of England -15 16 £61,500 +7.89% 5
Yorkshire -37 11 £55,000 -35.49% 3
East Midlands -39 10 £66,000 +10.00% 5
North East -52 5 £57,500 +12.20% 5
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 4 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.02%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.01%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.32%) Azure
2 44 (22.22%) AWS
3 41 (20.71%) GitHub
4 30 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (13.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 27 (13.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.07%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.57%) GCP
8 12 (6.06%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.06%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (2.53%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.53%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.53%) Serverless
13 4 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.02%) Figma
13 4 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.06%) Broadband
2 8 (4.04%) Bluetooth
2 8 (4.04%) Modbus
2 8 (4.04%) Profibus
2 8 (4.04%) RS-232
2 8 (4.04%) RS-485
2 8 (4.04%) Wireless
2 8 (4.04%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 25 (12.63%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.08%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.05%) MySQL
5 9 (4.55%) Power BI
6 7 (3.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.53%) Redis
8 5 (2.53%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.52%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 49 (24.75%) Git
2 16 (8.08%) JIRA
3 14 (7.07%) Cypress.io
4 13 (6.57%) JUnit
5 12 (6.06%) CircleCI
6 11 (5.56%) Maven
6 11 (5.56%) Mockito
7 3 (1.52%) NUnit
7 3 (1.52%) TestRail
8 2 (1.01%) GitLab
8 2 (1.01%) Postman
8 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.51%) Toad
9 1 (0.51%) utPLSQL
9 1 (0.51%) XCUITest
General
1 52 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.23%) Finance
3 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.12%) Marketing
5 18 (9.09%) Banking
6 13 (6.57%) Law
6 13 (6.57%) Legal
6 13 (6.57%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.56%) Electronics
8 8 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.54%) Automotive
10 6 (3.03%) Advertising
10 6 (3.03%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.53%) Agriculture
11 5 (2.53%) Retail
11 5 (2.53%) Social Housing
12 4 (2.02%) Front Office
13 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (61.11%) Developer
2 67 (33.84%) Senior
3 40 (20.20%) Senior Developer
4 33 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 28 (14.14%) Salesforce Developer
6 27 (13.64%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 26 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (12.12%) Cloud Developer
9 21 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (9.60%) Lead
11 14 (7.07%) Java Developer
12 12 (6.06%) Consultant
13 10 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (4.04%) Embedded Engineer
14 8 (4.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 8 (4.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 8 (4.04%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 7 (3.54%) Web Developer
16 6 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (29.29%) REST
2 48 (24.24%) React
3 43 (21.72%) .NET
4 37 (18.69%) SOAP
5 31 (15.66%) HTML
6 28 (14.14%) AngularJS
6 28 (14.14%) Lightning Web Components
7 24 (12.12%) CSS
8 23 (11.62%) Node.js
9 18 (9.09%) Playwright
10 16 (8.08%) React Native
10 16 (8.08%) RESTful
11 15 (7.58%) Spring
12 12 (6.06%) Leaflet
13 11 (5.56%) Kafka
13 11 (5.56%) OAuth
13 11 (5.56%) Vue
14 10 (5.05%) Bootstrap
14 10 (5.05%) Middleware
15 9 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.57%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.04%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.53%) CMDB
8 4 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.52%) PKI
10 2 (1.01%) AS400
10 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.01%) Derivative
10 2 (1.01%) Equities
10 2 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.10%) Linux
2 8 (4.04%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 2 (1.01%) Android
4 2 (1.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (63.13%) Agile
2 98 (49.49%) CI/CD
3 74 (37.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (26.26%) Scrum
5 47 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (23.23%) DevOps
6 46 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (21.21%) Clean Code
7 42 (21.21%) Software Engineering
7 42 (21.21%) TDD
8 40 (20.20%) Sprint Planning
9 36 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 35 (17.68%) Microservices
11 31 (15.66%) System Testing
12 30 (15.15%) Test Automation
13 29 (14.65%) Containerisation
14 26 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (12.12%) Data Architecture
15 24 (12.12%) SDLC
16 23 (11.62%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.83%) SQL
2 48 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 43 (21.72%) Java
4 40 (20.20%) C#
5 28 (14.14%) Apex Code
6 27 (13.64%) Python
6 27 (13.64%) SOQL
7 23 (11.62%) C++
8 18 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.07%) C
9 14 (7.07%) PL/SQL
10 10 (5.05%) Bash
11 8 (4.04%) ABAP
12 6 (3.03%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.02%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.02%) R
13 4 (2.02%) Rust
14 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.52%) SOSL
15 2 (1.01%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (12.12%) Degree
2 16 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) HND
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.60%) QA
2 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.01%) GAAP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
5 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) MISRA
6 1 (0.51%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (18.18%) Docker
2 8 (4.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (4.04%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 18 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.06%) Podman
3 7 (3.54%) Terraform
4 2 (1.01%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (14.65%) Salesforce
2 20 (10.10%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.59%) Oracle
4 14 (7.07%) SAP
5 13 (6.57%) Google
6 6 (3.03%) Databricks
6 6 (3.03%) iManage
6 6 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.02%) Temenos
8 3 (1.52%) Infor
9 2 (1.01%) Foundry
9 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.01%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.01%) Workday
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.51%) Zoho