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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 398 232
Rank change year-on-year -122 -166 -49
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 246 262 842
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.60% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.67% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 162 162 484
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,188 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £97,400 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 71,233 38,821 57,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.35% 88.70% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,689 22,542 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 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 1 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 -79 66 £83,750 +24.07% 159
North of England -63 42 £57,500 +9.52% 53
South West -66 37 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -43 33 £60,000 +4.35% 32
South East -45 30 £50,000 -16.67% 20
East of England -1 27 £48,750 -12.56% 20
West Midlands -22 24 £52,500 -8.70% 19
North West -46 17 £67,500 +29.19% 37
Yorkshire -31 16 £55,000 -35.49% 6
East Midlands -21 9 £68,000 +18.26% 13
North East -56 9 £57,500 +24.32% 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 13 (5.28%) IIS
2 5 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (5.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.63%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.22%) Shopify
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.71%) Azure
2 47 (19.11%) AWS
3 33 (13.41%) GitHub
4 31 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.32%) GCP
6 17 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 17 (6.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 17 (6.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 14 (5.69%) Serverless
8 12 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (4.88%) Cloud Run
8 12 (4.88%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.85%) Figma
11 7 (2.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.88%) Broadband
2 9 (3.66%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.66%) Modbus
2 9 (3.66%) Profibus
2 9 (3.66%) RS-232
2 9 (3.66%) RS-485
2 9 (3.66%) Wireless
2 9 (3.66%) ZigBee
3 6 (2.44%) SNMP
4 3 (1.22%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.73%) SQL Server
2 32 (13.01%) Relational Database
3 27 (10.98%) MySQL
4 19 (7.72%) MongoDB
5 18 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.28%) Power BI
7 9 (3.66%) Redis
8 7 (2.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.03%) SAP HANA
10 5 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.63%) SQLite
12 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.22%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
14 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 62 (25.20%) Git
2 19 (7.72%) Cypress.io
2 19 (7.72%) JIRA
3 14 (5.69%) Claude Code
4 12 (4.88%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.47%) GitLab
5 11 (4.47%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (4.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (4.07%) JUnit
7 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
7 9 (3.66%) NUnit
8 8 (3.25%) Maven
9 7 (2.85%) Mockito
9 7 (2.85%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.03%) Postman
10 5 (2.03%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (1.22%) TestRail
13 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.73%) Finance
3 45 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.72%) Law
4 19 (7.72%) Manufacturing
5 17 (6.91%) Marketing
6 16 (6.50%) Legal
7 14 (5.69%) Electronics
8 10 (4.07%) Banking
8 10 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.66%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.66%) Aviation
9 9 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.66%) Retail
10 8 (3.25%) Military
11 7 (2.85%) Automotive
12 6 (2.44%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.03%) Advertising
13 5 (2.03%) Agriculture
13 5 (2.03%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 141 (57.32%) Developer
2 69 (28.05%) Senior
3 55 (22.36%) Software Engineer
4 34 (13.82%) Senior Developer
5 29 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (11.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 21 (8.54%) Lead
7 20 (8.13%) .NET Developer
7 20 (8.13%) Salesforce Developer
8 17 (6.91%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 14 (5.69%) Cloud Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Consultant
11 9 (3.66%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) SAP Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) VB.NET Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Web Developer
12 7 (2.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.61%) .NET
2 62 (25.20%) REST
3 48 (19.51%) HTML
3 48 (19.51%) React
4 36 (14.63%) CSS
5 35 (14.23%) SOAP
6 33 (13.41%) Node.js
7 32 (13.01%) ASP.NET
8 29 (11.79%) AngularJS
8 29 (11.79%) RESTful
9 25 (10.16%) Spring
10 20 (8.13%) Lightning Web Components
11 18 (7.32%) .NET Framework
12 17 (6.91%) Playwright
13 16 (6.50%) Kafka
13 16 (6.50%) Terraform
14 15 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
14 15 (6.10%) Vue
15 13 (5.28%) OAuth
15 13 (5.28%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.41%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (6.91%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.66%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.85%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.44%) Robotics
8 5 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.63%) Blog
9 4 (1.63%) CMDB
9 4 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.22%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.98%) Linux
2 12 (4.88%) Windows
3 11 (4.47%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.03%) Unix
6 4 (1.63%) Android
7 3 (1.22%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (48.78%) Agile
2 106 (43.09%) CI/CD
3 93 (37.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (32.11%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (30.49%) Software Engineering
6 56 (22.76%) DevOps
7 54 (21.95%) Scrum
8 50 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (19.11%) Test Automation
10 42 (17.07%) TDD
11 36 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
12 35 (14.23%) AI
12 35 (14.23%) Mentoring
13 34 (13.82%) SDLC
14 33 (13.41%) User Experience
15 32 (13.01%) Code Quality
15 32 (13.01%) Integration Testing
15 32 (13.01%) Microservices
16 30 (12.20%) Clean Code
16 30 (12.20%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 79 (32.11%) JavaScript
2 73 (29.67%) SQL
3 64 (26.02%) C#
4 54 (21.95%) Java
5 39 (15.85%) Python
6 38 (15.45%) TypeScript
7 35 (14.23%) C++
8 25 (10.16%) C
9 20 (8.13%) Apex Code
10 17 (6.91%) SOQL
11 10 (4.07%) ABAP
11 10 (4.07%) PL/SQL
11 10 (4.07%) VB.NET
12 8 (3.25%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.85%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.44%) Bash
15 5 (2.03%) PHP
16 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.63%) Rust
17 3 (1.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 37 (15.04%) Degree
2 19 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.94%) QA
2 9 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.03%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) WCAG
6 3 (1.22%) MIL-STD-1553
7 2 (0.81%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.81%) GAAP
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) Basel III
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.41%) MISRA
8 1 (0.41%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (18.70%) Docker
2 13 (5.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.88%) Podman
3 4 (1.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.81%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.81%) Grafana
4 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.16%) Oracle
3 22 (8.94%) Salesforce
4 17 (6.91%) SAP
5 16 (6.50%) Google
6 9 (3.66%) iManage
7 6 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.03%) Intel
9 4 (1.63%) Temenos
10 3 (1.22%) Databricks
10 3 (1.22%) IBM
10 3 (1.22%) Infor
10 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.81%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.81%) Workday
11 2 (0.81%) YouTube
12 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.41%) RedGate
12 1 (0.41%) Zoho