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 3 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 218 205
Rank change year-on-year -110 -13 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 115 353 316
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.31% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.44% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 74 157 248
10th Percentile £46,625 £43,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £82,997
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and 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 20,906 24,472 19,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.96% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12,702 10,760 15,099
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -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 3 months to 19 November 2025.

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 3 months to 19 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -65 38 £107,500 +38.71% 118
South East +10 32 £52,500 -8.70% 44
North of England -13 22 £65,000 +30.00% 31
North West +15 17 £62,500 +19.05% 20
Midlands -1 8 £50,000 -28.57% 24
West Midlands +13 5 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Yorkshire -14 5 £75,000 +76.47% 8
East of England +28 3 £67,950 +4.54% 29
South West -7 3 - - 27
East Midlands -12 3 £49,500 -17.50% 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 22 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.56%) Appian
3 12 (4.76%) Confluence
4 9 (3.57%) Headless CMS
5 6 (2.38%) Apache
6 5 (1.98%) CMS
7 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.59%) Camunda
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.79%) SAS
9 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.40%) JBoss
10 1 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.57%) Shopify
3 4 (1.59%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.59%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (28.97%) Azure
2 65 (25.79%) AWS
3 29 (11.51%) Amazon S3
3 29 (11.51%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.32%) Serverless
5 24 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.54%) GitHub
8 18 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
8 18 (7.14%) GCP
9 12 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (3.57%) Figma
13 8 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.17%) PaaS
13 8 (3.17%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) Multicast
2 5 (1.98%) DNS
2 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.79%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) UWB
4 1 (0.40%) Wideband
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.73%) Metadata
4 21 (8.33%) Spark SQL
5 20 (7.94%) MongoDB
6 18 (7.14%) Delta Lake
6 18 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.76%) Power BI
7 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 11 (4.37%) MySQL
8 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.98%) DB2
11 5 (1.98%) Redis
11 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.59%) Big Data
12 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (20.24%) Git
2 28 (11.11%) JIRA
3 21 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.54%) MLflow
5 14 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.56%) GitLab
6 12 (4.76%) JUnit
7 10 (3.97%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.97%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.78%) NUnit
8 7 (2.78%) Selenium
9 6 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.38%) MSTest
9 6 (2.38%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.59%) Spinnaker
11 4 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.59%) YouTrack
12 3 (1.19%) eCATT
General
1 72 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 70 (27.78%) Finance
3 28 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.54%) Banking
5 17 (6.75%) Marketing
6 15 (5.95%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.56%) Law
8 13 (5.16%) Front Office
9 8 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.78%) Retail
11 6 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.19%) Automotive
13 3 (1.19%) Electronics
13 3 (1.19%) Games
13 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 147 (58.33%) Developer
2 67 (26.59%) Senior
3 38 (15.08%) Senior Developer
4 36 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 28 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (10.71%) .NET Developer
7 24 (9.52%) Lead
8 18 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Java Developer
11 14 (5.56%) Appian Developer
12 12 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 11 (4.37%) C++ Developer
14 10 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (3.57%) Backend Developer
15 9 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (3.17%) C# Developer
16 8 (3.17%) Lead Developer
17 7 (2.78%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (30.95%) .NET
2 64 (25.40%) React
3 58 (23.02%) CSS
4 55 (21.83%) HTML
5 47 (18.65%) RESTful
6 29 (11.51%) .NET Core
6 29 (11.51%) REST
7 27 (10.71%) .NET Framework
8 26 (10.32%) AngularJS
9 25 (9.92%) PySpark
10 24 (9.52%) PyTorch
11 23 (9.13%) NumPy
11 23 (9.13%) Pandas
11 23 (9.13%) scikit-learn
12 22 (8.73%) YAML
13 20 (7.94%) TensorFlow
14 19 (7.54%) GraphQL
14 19 (7.54%) Keras
15 18 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
15 18 (7.14%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.37%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.97%) Derivative
5 9 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.98%) Blog
7 5 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.19%) Genomics
9 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.33%) Unix
2 17 (6.75%) Linux
3 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.59%) Android
5 3 (1.19%) Windows
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (57.54%) Agile
2 105 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 71 (28.17%) DevOps
4 62 (24.60%) Software Engineering
5 56 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 52 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (20.24%) Scrum
8 49 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (19.44%) Test Automation
9 47 (18.65%) Integration Testing
10 45 (17.86%) Containerisation
10 45 (17.86%) Microservices
11 39 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (15.48%) SDLC
12 37 (14.68%) AI
12 37 (14.68%) OO
13 36 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 32 (12.70%) Clean Code
14 32 (12.70%) User Experience
15 31 (12.30%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 83 (32.94%) SQL
2 69 (27.38%) C#
3 66 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 57 (22.62%) Python
5 48 (19.05%) Java
6 40 (15.87%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.75%) C++
8 9 (3.57%) C
9 6 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.98%) Bash
11 4 (1.59%) ABAP
11 4 (1.59%) X++
12 3 (1.19%) Bicep
12 3 (1.19%) Erlang
12 3 (1.19%) R
12 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.79%) PHP
13 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (17.86%) Degree
2 22 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.97%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.59%) PhD
9 4 (1.59%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.49%) QA
2 26 (10.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) WCAG
4 4 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.79%) JTAG
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (22.22%) Docker
2 12 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.49%) Terraform
3 18 (7.14%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.17%) Kibana
5 4 (1.59%) Ansible
5 4 (1.59%) Puppet
5 4 (1.59%) Salt
6 2 (0.79%) logstash
6 2 (0.79%) Oozie
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.92%) Databricks
3 15 (5.95%) SAP
4 13 (5.16%) Oracle
5 11 (4.37%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.17%) Apple
6 8 (3.17%) Google
7 7 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.98%) IBM
9 4 (1.59%) Splunk
9 4 (1.59%) Telerik
10 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.19%) Informatica
10 3 (1.19%) Moogsoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Adobe
11 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.79%) Cognos
11 2 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.79%) Sybase