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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 229 188
Rank change year-on-year -185 -41 -67
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 229 815 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 1.19% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.47% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 137 408 838
10th Percentile £44,050 £39,588 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £89,125 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 38,123 55,583 52,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.74% 81.32% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 21,792 32,261 39,094
10th Percentile £28,571 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing 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 15 September 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 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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 -84 85 £71,500 -4.67% 72
North of England -101 51 £48,750 -8.45% 44
North West -88 40 £50,000 -16.67% 30
Midlands -8 28 £57,500 +15.00% 53
South East -58 28 £60,000 +4.35% 58
South West +45 25 £57,500 +15.00% 29
West Midlands +36 18 £57,500 +21.05% 27
East Midlands -14 10 £56,750 +13.50% 21
East of England -30 8 £55,750 -14.23% 24
Yorkshire -15 6 £75,000 +57.89% 10
North East +3 5 £46,250 +2.78% 4
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (9.61%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.11%) Appian
3 8 (3.49%) Headless CMS
4 6 (2.62%) Confluence
5 4 (1.75%) Apache
5 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.75%) Camunda
5 4 (1.75%) CMS
5 4 (1.75%) nginx
6 3 (1.31%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.31%) SAS
6 3 (1.31%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.87%) JBoss
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Shopify
2 3 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Magento
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.82%) AWS
2 55 (24.02%) Azure
3 27 (11.79%) Amazon S3
4 19 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.86%) Amazon ELB
5 18 (7.86%) GCP
6 17 (7.42%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.68%) Serverless
8 11 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (4.80%) GitHub
9 9 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.49%) Figma
10 8 (3.49%) Google Analytics
10 8 (3.49%) Vercel
11 6 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.49%) HTTP
2 5 (2.18%) DNS
3 4 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.31%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.87%) FTP
6 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.44%) Firewall
6 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) MQTT
6 1 (0.44%) UWB
6 1 (0.44%) Wideband
6 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.41%) NoSQL
1 33 (14.41%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.92%) MongoDB
3 24 (10.48%) Metadata
4 22 (9.61%) Spark SQL
5 20 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (7.86%) Delta Lake
6 18 (7.86%) DynamoDB
7 14 (6.11%) Relational Database
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.93%) Redis
11 8 (3.49%) Power BI
12 5 (2.18%) Big Data
12 5 (2.18%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.75%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 51 (22.27%) Git
2 27 (11.79%) JIRA
3 26 (11.35%) Jenkins
4 21 (9.17%) GitLab
4 21 (9.17%) JUnit
5 18 (7.86%) MLflow
6 14 (6.11%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.80%) Bitbucket
7 11 (4.80%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.49%) Mockito
8 8 (3.49%) NUnit
8 8 (3.49%) Postman
9 6 (2.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.62%) MSTest
9 6 (2.62%) Selenium
9 6 (2.62%) Subversion
10 5 (2.18%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.18%) Maven
10 5 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.75%) Spinnaker
General
1 74 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.45%) Finance
3 33 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.86%) Banking
5 13 (5.68%) Law
5 13 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.80%) Marketing
7 10 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.37%) Retail
8 8 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.06%) Electronics
10 6 (2.62%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.62%) Front Office
10 6 (2.62%) Games
11 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Automotive
12 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (50.22%) Developer
2 65 (28.38%) Senior
3 36 (15.72%) Senior Developer
4 32 (13.97%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (7.86%) .NET Developer
6 18 (7.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 18 (7.86%) Operations Engineer
7 16 (6.99%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.55%) C# Developer
8 15 (6.55%) Lead
8 15 (6.55%) Software Developer
9 14 (6.11%) Appian Developer
10 11 (4.80%) Backend Developer
11 9 (3.93%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (3.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.06%) Principal Developer
13 7 (3.06%) React Developer
14 6 (2.62%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.76%) .NET
2 56 (24.45%) RESTful
3 47 (20.52%) HTML
4 46 (20.09%) CSS
4 46 (20.09%) React
5 36 (15.72%) REST
6 29 (12.66%) Kafka
6 29 (12.66%) Spring
6 29 (12.66%) Spring Boot
7 28 (12.23%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.35%) PySpark
9 23 (10.04%) .NET Core
9 23 (10.04%) NumPy
9 23 (10.04%) Pandas
9 23 (10.04%) PyTorch
9 23 (10.04%) scikit-learn
10 22 (9.61%) .NET Framework
10 22 (9.61%) YAML
11 19 (8.30%) GraphQL
11 19 (8.30%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.86%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.80%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.75%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.31%) IoT
8 3 (1.31%) Life Science
9 2 (0.87%) CMDB
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Derivative
9 2 (0.87%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.04%) Unix
2 9 (3.93%) Linux
3 5 (2.18%) Android
4 4 (1.75%) Windows
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (49.78%) Agile
2 97 (42.36%) CI/CD
3 60 (26.20%) DevOps
4 59 (25.76%) Software Engineering
5 58 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (21.83%) Microservices
7 44 (19.21%) Containerisation
8 41 (17.90%) Mentoring
9 40 (17.47%) Code Quality
10 39 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (17.03%) Test Automation
11 37 (16.16%) SDLC
12 36 (15.72%) TDD
13 35 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (14.85%) OO
15 32 (13.97%) Artificial Intelligence
15 32 (13.97%) Integration Testing
15 32 (13.97%) OOP
15 32 (13.97%) Scrum
15 32 (13.97%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.43%) SQL
2 62 (27.07%) JavaScript
3 58 (25.33%) C#
4 57 (24.89%) Java
5 55 (24.02%) Python
6 39 (17.03%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.68%) C++
8 8 (3.49%) C
9 5 (2.18%) Bash
9 5 (2.18%) R
10 4 (1.75%) X++
11 3 (1.31%) Bicep
11 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.31%) PROC SQL
11 3 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.87%) Go
12 2 (0.87%) Groovy
12 2 (0.87%) RPG IV
12 2 (0.87%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (13.97%) Degree
2 22 (9.61%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.37%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (1.75%) PhD
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.10%) QA
2 12 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.87%) JTAG
4 2 (0.87%) SLA
4 2 (0.87%) WCAG
5 1 (0.44%) HL7
5 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (24.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.31%) Firmware
3 3 (1.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.85%) Terraform
3 18 (7.86%) Kubeflow
4 9 (3.93%) Ansible
4 9 (3.93%) Kibana
5 4 (1.75%) Puppet
5 4 (1.75%) Salt
6 3 (1.31%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.31%) logstash
6 3 (1.31%) Oozie
6 3 (1.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.44%) Grafana
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.48%) Databricks
3 13 (5.68%) Oracle
4 8 (3.49%) Apple
4 8 (3.49%) IBM
5 7 (3.06%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.06%) SAP
5 7 (3.06%) Splunk
6 6 (2.62%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.18%) Google
7 5 (2.18%) Informatica
8 4 (1.75%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.75%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.31%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.87%) Pega
10 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.87%) Sybase
10 2 (0.87%) Xamarin