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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 329 257
Rank change year-on-year -182 -72 -63
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 195 342 899
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.96% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 127 250 693
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £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 61,148 35,802 72,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.84% 93.41% 84.38%
Number of salaries quoted 40,513 19,133 54,000
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
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 £73,367
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 24 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 24 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 -76 66 £85,000 +30.77% 24
North of England -47 36 £65,000 +18.18% 18
South East -67 28 £50,000 -13.04% 11
North West -12 21 £67,500 +22.73% 13
Midlands -46 21 £65,250 +8.75% 14
South West -80 21 £46,875 -18.40% 9
West Midlands -41 14 £56,250 -6.25% 5
Yorkshire -41 12 £55,000 -35.49% 2
East of England -27 11 £61,500 +7.89% 7
East Midlands -37 7 £65,750 +9.58% 9
North East -44 3 £57,500 +4.55% 3
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 (4.10%) Confluence
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.51%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.03%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.82%) Azure
2 47 (24.10%) AWS
3 46 (23.59%) GitHub
4 32 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (12.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 25 (12.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 13 (6.67%) GCP
7 12 (6.15%) Cloud Functions
7 12 (6.15%) Cloud Run
7 12 (6.15%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.10%) Serverless
9 7 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.54%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.15%) Broadband
2 6 (3.08%) Bluetooth
2 6 (3.08%) Modbus
2 6 (3.08%) Profibus
2 6 (3.08%) RS-232
2 6 (3.08%) RS-485
2 6 (3.08%) Wireless
2 6 (3.08%) ZigBee
3 4 (2.05%) Multicast
4 3 (1.54%) HTTP
5 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.82%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.79%) SQL Server
3 19 (9.74%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.13%) MySQL
4 10 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.59%) Power BI
6 5 (2.56%) DB2
6 5 (2.56%) Redis
6 5 (2.56%) SAP HANA
6 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.54%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 49 (25.13%) Git
2 22 (11.28%) JIRA
3 15 (7.69%) JUnit
4 14 (7.18%) Cypress.io
5 12 (6.15%) CircleCI
6 10 (5.13%) Maven
6 10 (5.13%) Mockito
7 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.10%) Jenkins
8 7 (3.59%) TeamCity
9 6 (3.08%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.08%) Selenium
10 4 (2.05%) GitLab
11 3 (1.54%) TestRail
12 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (1.03%) webpack
12 2 (1.03%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.51%) Locust
13 1 (0.51%) Serenity BDD
General
1 52 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.13%) Finance
3 38 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.28%) Banking
4 22 (11.28%) Marketing
5 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.10%) Front Office
6 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.59%) Electronics
7 7 (3.59%) Law
7 7 (3.59%) Legal
8 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.56%) Agriculture
9 5 (2.56%) Automotive
9 5 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.56%) Retail
10 4 (2.05%) Advertising
10 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.54%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 119 (61.03%) Developer
2 63 (32.31%) Senior
3 36 (18.46%) Senior Developer
4 32 (16.41%) Software Engineer
5 28 (14.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
7 25 (12.82%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 22 (11.28%) Cloud Developer
9 21 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (9.23%) Java Developer
10 18 (9.23%) Lead
11 14 (7.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (6.15%) Consultant
13 10 (5.13%) Applications Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Web Developer
16 6 (3.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 6 (3.08%) SAP Consultant
16 6 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (29.74%) React
2 50 (25.64%) REST
3 44 (22.56%) HTML
4 42 (21.54%) .NET
5 38 (19.49%) CSS
6 31 (15.90%) SOAP
7 27 (13.85%) AngularJS
8 26 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
9 24 (12.31%) RESTful
10 22 (11.28%) Node.js
11 19 (9.74%) Playwright
12 18 (9.23%) React Native
13 16 (8.21%) Spring
14 15 (7.69%) Bootstrap
15 12 (6.15%) Kafka
15 12 (6.15%) Leaflet
15 12 (6.15%) Vue
16 9 (4.62%) Middleware
16 9 (4.62%) Spring Boot
17 8 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.46%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.74%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.10%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.56%) CMDB
7 5 (2.56%) Derivative
7 5 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.54%) Blog
9 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.54%) PKI
10 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.82%) Linux
2 6 (3.08%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (65.13%) Agile
2 100 (51.28%) CI/CD
3 65 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (28.72%) Scrum
5 49 (25.13%) DevOps
6 48 (24.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (24.10%) Clean Code
8 44 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (21.03%) Software Engineering
10 39 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
11 37 (18.97%) Mentoring
11 37 (18.97%) Microservices
12 36 (18.46%) TDD
13 32 (16.41%) Test Automation
14 31 (15.90%) Containerisation
15 29 (14.87%) System Testing
16 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (12.82%) Front End Development
18 23 (11.79%) SDLC
19 22 (11.28%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.33%) SQL
2 55 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 47 (24.10%) Java
4 33 (16.92%) C#
5 30 (15.38%) Python
6 26 (13.33%) Apex Code
7 25 (12.82%) SOQL
8 22 (11.28%) C++
8 22 (11.28%) TypeScript
9 13 (6.67%) PL/SQL
10 11 (5.64%) Bash
11 10 (5.13%) C
12 6 (3.08%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.05%) ABAP
13 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.05%) R
13 4 (2.05%) Rust
14 3 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.31%) Degree
2 15 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) HND
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) OCA
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.72%) QA
2 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) GAAP
5 2 (1.03%) IFRS
5 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.03%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (22.05%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (3.08%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.15%) Podman
3 10 (5.13%) Terraform
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.23%) Oracle
3 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.67%) Google
5 10 (5.13%) SAP
6 6 (3.08%) Databricks
6 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.03%) Apple
9 2 (1.03%) Foundry
9 2 (1.03%) IBM
9 2 (1.03%) iManage
9 2 (1.03%) Infor
9 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.03%) Temenos
9 2 (1.03%) Workday
10 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity