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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 318 261
Rank change year-on-year -181 -57 -75
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 192 371 896
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.94% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.01% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 126 280 693
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,900 £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 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -70 67 £85,000 +30.77% 23
North of England -55 36 £65,000 +18.18% 16
South East -65 28 £50,000 -13.04% 16
North West -10 21 £67,500 +22.73% 11
South West -78 21 £46,875 -18.44% 8
Midlands -56 19 £65,250 +8.75% 18
Yorkshire -38 12 £55,000 -24.27% 3
West Midlands -58 12 £52,500 -12.50% 8
East of England -23 10 £61,500 +7.89% 10
East Midlands -33 7 £65,500 +9.17% 10
North East -46 3 £57,500 +4.55% 2
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 8 (4.17%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.04%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
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 65 (33.85%) Azure
2 48 (25.00%) AWS
3 46 (23.96%) GitHub
4 32 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (13.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 25 (13.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.29%) GCP
7 12 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
7 12 (6.25%) Cloud Run
7 12 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.17%) Serverless
9 7 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.25%) Broadband
2 5 (2.60%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.60%) Modbus
2 5 (2.60%) Multicast
2 5 (2.60%) Profibus
2 5 (2.60%) RS-232
2 5 (2.60%) RS-485
2 5 (2.60%) Wireless
2 5 (2.60%) ZigBee
3 3 (1.56%) HTTP
4 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.02%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.98%) SQL Server
3 19 (9.90%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.73%) MySQL
5 10 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.65%) Power BI
7 5 (2.60%) DB2
7 5 (2.60%) Redis
7 5 (2.60%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.56%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 50 (26.04%) Git
2 23 (11.98%) JIRA
3 15 (7.81%) JUnit
4 14 (7.29%) Cypress.io
5 12 (6.25%) CircleCI
6 10 (5.21%) Maven
6 10 (5.21%) Mockito
7 8 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.17%) Jenkins
8 7 (3.65%) TeamCity
9 6 (3.13%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.13%) Selenium
10 4 (2.08%) GitLab
11 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.04%) TestRail
11 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.04%) webpack
11 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
12 1 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 49 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.00%) Finance
3 37 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.46%) Banking
4 22 (11.46%) Marketing
5 10 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.69%) Front Office
7 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.60%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.60%) Automotive
8 5 (2.60%) Electronics
8 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.60%) Law
8 5 (2.60%) Legal
8 5 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Retail
9 4 (2.08%) Advertising
9 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.56%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 119 (61.98%) Developer
2 63 (32.81%) Senior
3 37 (19.27%) Senior Developer
4 31 (16.15%) Software Engineer
5 28 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (13.54%) Salesforce Developer
7 25 (13.02%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 22 (11.46%) Cloud Developer
9 20 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (9.38%) Java Developer
11 17 (8.85%) Lead
12 14 (7.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (5.73%) Consultant
14 10 (5.21%) Applications Developer
15 8 (4.17%) Lead Developer
16 7 (3.65%) C++ Developer
16 7 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (3.65%) Web Developer
17 6 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 6 (3.13%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.21%) React
2 47 (24.48%) REST
3 44 (22.92%) HTML
4 42 (21.88%) .NET
5 38 (19.79%) CSS
6 29 (15.10%) SOAP
7 27 (14.06%) AngularJS
8 26 (13.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 25 (13.02%) RESTful
10 20 (10.42%) Node.js
11 19 (9.90%) Playwright
12 18 (9.38%) React Native
13 16 (8.33%) Spring
14 15 (7.81%) Bootstrap
15 12 (6.25%) Kafka
15 12 (6.25%) Leaflet
15 12 (6.25%) Vue
16 9 (4.69%) Middleware
16 9 (4.69%) Spring Boot
17 6 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.13%) Derivative
6 6 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.08%) CMDB
8 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.56%) Blog
9 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.56%) PKI
10 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) FreeRTOS
2 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (66.67%) Agile
2 100 (52.08%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (29.69%) Scrum
5 49 (25.52%) DevOps
6 48 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (24.48%) Clean Code
8 41 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 39 (20.31%) Sprint Planning
11 37 (19.27%) Mentoring
11 37 (19.27%) Microservices
12 35 (18.23%) TDD
13 31 (16.15%) Test Automation
14 30 (15.63%) Containerisation
15 29 (15.10%) System Testing
16 26 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (13.02%) Front End Development
18 23 (11.98%) SDLC
19 22 (11.46%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.85%) SQL
2 55 (28.65%) JavaScript
3 45 (23.44%) Java
4 33 (17.19%) C#
5 30 (15.63%) Python
6 26 (13.54%) Apex Code
7 25 (13.02%) SOQL
8 23 (11.98%) TypeScript
9 22 (11.46%) C++
10 13 (6.77%) PL/SQL
11 11 (5.73%) Bash
12 9 (4.69%) C
13 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
14 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
14 4 (2.08%) R
14 4 (2.08%) Rust
15 3 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.56%) RPG
15 3 (1.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (11.98%) Degree
2 14 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) HND
6 1 (0.52%) OCA
6 1 (0.52%) OCP
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.56%) GDPR
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%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (21.88%) Docker
2 5 (2.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.60%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.25%) Podman
3 10 (5.21%) Terraform
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (13.54%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.38%) Oracle
3 17 (8.85%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.77%) Google
5 8 (4.17%) SAP
6 6 (3.13%) Databricks
7 5 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.04%) Apple
8 2 (1.04%) Foundry
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) Infor
8 2 (1.04%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.04%) Temenos
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.52%) Zoho