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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 238 226
Rank change year-on-year -168 -12 -83
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 201 598 663
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 1.21% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.34% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 123 324 525
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £124,500 £100,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

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 42,739 44,524 41,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.01% 90.25% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 25,502 22,147 32,376
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,295
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -94 77 £102,500 +35.76% 36
South East -22 44 £50,000 -13.04% 31
North of England -25 36 £65,000 +23.81% 38
North West +20 29 £65,000 +23.81% 23
Midlands -42 16 £57,500 -9.80% 18
South West -20 12 £47,500 -20.83% 21
West Midlands -4 11 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Yorkshire -16 7 £66,250 +47.22% 10
East Midlands -49 5 £49,500 -13.91% 13
East of England +1 3 £67,950 -2.93% 11
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 (7.96%) Confluence
2 6 (2.99%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.49%) Apache
4 4 (1.99%) Camunda
4 4 (1.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.00%) Windchill
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.99%) Shopify
3 4 (1.99%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.99%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.99%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.00%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.84%) Azure
2 36 (17.91%) AWS
3 29 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 26 (12.94%) GitHub
6 24 (11.94%) Serverless
7 12 (5.97%) GCP
8 11 (5.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.98%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.48%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.48%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.48%) PaaS
12 6 (2.99%) Azure App Service
12 6 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.99%) Figma
12 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) Multicast
2 4 (1.99%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.50%) Internet
3 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.50%) UWB
3 1 (0.50%) Wideband
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.47%) DB2
4 11 (5.47%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.48%) Power BI
6 8 (3.98%) MySQL
7 7 (3.48%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.49%) Redis
11 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.00%) Metadata
12 1 (0.50%) Big Data
12 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.50%) KDB
12 1 (0.50%) OLAP
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (19.90%) Git
2 24 (11.94%) JIRA
3 21 (10.45%) Bitbucket
4 20 (9.95%) Jenkins
5 13 (6.47%) GitLab
5 13 (6.47%) JUnit
5 13 (6.47%) Selenium
6 12 (5.97%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.47%) TeamCity
8 7 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.48%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.49%) MSTest
9 5 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.99%) Maven
10 4 (1.99%) Mockito
10 4 (1.99%) NUnit
11 2 (1.00%) JMeter
11 2 (1.00%) Moq
11 2 (1.00%) NSubstitute
11 2 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 61 (30.35%) Finance
2 50 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.96%) Banking
5 13 (6.47%) Front Office
5 13 (6.47%) Marketing
6 11 (5.47%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.98%) Retail
8 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.49%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.49%) Law
12 2 (1.00%) Automotive
12 2 (1.00%) Billing
12 2 (1.00%) Electronics
12 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 121 (60.20%) Developer
2 49 (24.38%) Senior
3 33 (16.42%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (11.44%) Lead
6 21 (10.45%) Senior Developer
7 18 (8.96%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.46%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.97%) Software Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) C++ Developer
12 11 (5.47%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.48%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.48%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.33%) React
2 64 (31.84%) .NET
3 59 (29.35%) CSS
4 58 (28.86%) HTML
5 42 (20.90%) RESTful
6 31 (15.42%) REST
7 24 (11.94%) .NET Core
8 22 (10.95%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.46%) .NET Framework
10 15 (7.46%) Node.js
11 13 (6.47%) ASP.NET
11 13 (6.47%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (5.97%) GraphQL
12 12 (5.97%) Jest
12 12 (5.97%) Kafka
12 12 (5.97%) Spring
12 12 (5.97%) Vue
13 11 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (5.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.46%) Derivative
2 13 (6.47%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.98%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.48%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.48%) Blog
6 7 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.49%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.49%) Genomics
11 2 (1.00%) CMDB
11 2 (1.00%) IoT
11 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.94%) Linux
2 12 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (59.70%) Agile
2 79 (39.30%) CI/CD
3 62 (30.85%) DevOps
4 56 (27.86%) Scrum
5 52 (25.87%) Mentoring
5 52 (25.87%) Software Engineering
6 47 (23.38%) Test Automation
7 45 (22.39%) Microservices
8 44 (21.89%) Integration Testing
9 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (16.92%) Front End Development
13 33 (16.42%) User Experience
14 32 (15.92%) Clean Code
15 29 (14.43%) Design Patterns
16 28 (13.93%) Containerisation
17 27 (13.43%) Sprint Planning
18 25 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
19 24 (11.94%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.85%) SQL
2 58 (28.86%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.37%) Java
4 46 (22.89%) C#
5 35 (17.41%) TypeScript
6 33 (16.42%) Python
7 20 (9.95%) C++
8 11 (5.47%) C
9 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.99%) Bash
11 5 (2.49%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.49%) SOQL
12 4 (1.99%) ABAP
12 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.49%) Erlang
13 3 (1.49%) RPG
14 2 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (1.00%) PHP
14 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (19.90%) Degree
2 14 (6.97%) Master's Degree
2 14 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (1.99%) PhD
5 4 (1.99%) SAP Certification
6 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) OCA
8 1 (0.50%) OCP
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.95%) Accessibility
2 21 (10.45%) QA
3 4 (1.99%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.00%) JTAG
4 2 (1.00%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (18.91%) Docker
2 8 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.47%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Atlassian
3 12 (5.97%) Oracle
3 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.98%) SAP
5 6 (2.99%) Apple
5 6 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.49%) Databricks
6 5 (2.49%) IBM
7 4 (1.99%) Google
7 4 (1.99%) Telerik
8 3 (1.49%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Cognos
9 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.50%) Informatica
10 1 (0.50%) Siemens