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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 329 248
Rank change year-on-year -182 -81 -60
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 204 372 984
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.86% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.95% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 139 251 688
10th Percentile £47,375 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 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 9 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 -87 59 £83,750 +24.07% 52
North of England -64 35 £57,500 +4.55% 24
Midlands -43 29 £62,500 +4.17% 20
South West -78 27 £50,000 -13.04% 30
South East -70 25 £51,250 -10.87% 15
West Midlands -31 19 £52,500 -12.50% 10
East of England -18 18 £61,500 +7.89% 13
North West -30 16 £67,500 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -34 12 £55,000 -35.49% 5
East Midlands -34 10 £66,000 +12.34% 10
North East -45 7 £57,500 +21.05% 4
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 3 (1.47%) Confluence
2 2 (0.98%) IIS
2 2 (0.98%) JBoss
3 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 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 14 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.96%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.98%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.88%) Azure
2 43 (21.08%) AWS
3 40 (19.61%) GitHub
4 31 (15.20%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (12.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 25 (12.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (6.86%) GCP
7 13 (6.37%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (5.88%) Cloud Run
9 10 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.43%) Serverless
12 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (2.94%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.96%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.96%) Figma
15 3 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.88%) Broadband
2 9 (4.41%) Bluetooth
2 9 (4.41%) Modbus
2 9 (4.41%) Profibus
2 9 (4.41%) RS-232
2 9 (4.41%) RS-485
2 9 (4.41%) Wireless
2 9 (4.41%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.90%) MySQL
5 9 (4.41%) Power BI
6 7 (3.43%) Redis
6 7 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.45%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.47%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.47%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 52 (25.49%) Git
2 19 (9.31%) JIRA
3 14 (6.86%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.88%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.41%) JUnit
6 8 (3.92%) Maven
6 8 (3.92%) Mockito
7 6 (2.94%) GitLab
8 4 (1.96%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.47%) NUnit
9 3 (1.47%) TestRail
10 2 (0.98%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.98%) Postman
10 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.49%) Appium
11 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) utPLSQL
11 1 (0.49%) XCUITest
General
1 52 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.06%) Finance
3 30 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.78%) Marketing
5 18 (8.82%) Banking
6 16 (7.84%) Law
7 15 (7.35%) Legal
7 15 (7.35%) Manufacturing
8 14 (6.86%) Electronics
9 9 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.43%) Automotive
11 6 (2.94%) Advertising
11 6 (2.94%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.45%) Agriculture
12 5 (2.45%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.45%) Retail
12 5 (2.45%) Social Housing
13 4 (1.96%) Front Office
14 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 118 (57.84%) Developer
2 65 (31.86%) Senior
3 42 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 35 (17.16%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.75%) Salesforce Developer
6 25 (12.25%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 24 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (10.78%) Cloud Developer
10 19 (9.31%) Lead
11 12 (5.88%) Consultant
12 11 (5.39%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.41%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) SAP Developer
14 8 (3.92%) Web Developer
15 7 (3.43%) .NET Developer
15 7 (3.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.94%) REST
2 48 (23.53%) React
3 42 (20.59%) .NET
4 37 (18.14%) SOAP
5 30 (14.71%) HTML
6 29 (14.22%) Node.js
7 28 (13.73%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.75%) Lightning Web Components
9 23 (11.27%) CSS
10 18 (8.82%) Playwright
11 17 (8.33%) RESTful
12 14 (6.86%) React Native
12 14 (6.86%) Spring
13 13 (6.37%) OAuth
14 12 (5.88%) Leaflet
15 11 (5.39%) SAP Fiori
15 11 (5.39%) Vue
16 10 (4.90%) Kafka
16 10 (4.90%) Middleware
17 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.20%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.37%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (6.37%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.96%) CMDB
6 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.47%) IoT
7 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.47%) PKI
7 3 (1.47%) Robotics
7 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.82%) Linux
2 11 (5.39%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.96%) Unix
3 4 (1.96%) Windows
4 3 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (59.31%) Agile
2 102 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (25.98%) Software Engineering
5 49 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (23.53%) DevOps
6 48 (23.53%) Scrum
7 42 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 41 (20.10%) TDD
9 40 (19.61%) Clean Code
10 36 (17.65%) Mentoring
11 34 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
11 34 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 33 (16.18%) Microservices
13 29 (14.22%) System Testing
14 26 (12.75%) Containerisation
15 25 (12.25%) SDLC
16 24 (11.76%) Integration Testing
16 24 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (11.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.88%) SQL
2 50 (24.51%) JavaScript
3 42 (20.59%) C#
4 41 (20.10%) Java
5 31 (15.20%) Python
6 29 (14.22%) C++
7 26 (12.75%) Apex Code
8 25 (12.25%) SOQL
9 18 (8.82%) TypeScript
10 15 (7.35%) C
11 11 (5.39%) PL/SQL
12 10 (4.90%) ABAP
13 8 (3.92%) Bash
14 6 (2.94%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.96%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.96%) Rust
16 3 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (1.47%) SOSL
17 2 (0.98%) Perl
17 2 (0.98%) RPG
Qualifications
1 30 (14.71%) Degree
2 17 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) HND
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.35%) QA
2 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.98%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.98%) GAAP
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.49%) MISRA
7 1 (0.49%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (17.65%) Docker
2 12 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.88%) Podman
3 9 (4.41%) Terraform
4 2 (0.98%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (13.73%) Salesforce
2 20 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.33%) SAP
4 15 (7.35%) Google
5 14 (6.86%) Oracle
6 8 (3.92%) iManage
7 6 (2.94%) Databricks
7 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.96%) Temenos
9 3 (1.47%) Infor
9 3 (1.47%) Intel
9 3 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.98%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.98%) Workday
11 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.49%) Informatica
11 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.49%) Zoho