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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 242 229
Rank change year-on-year -177 -13 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 195 591 667
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.22% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.35% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 120 317 524
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £52,500 £48,750
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 £125,000 £96,000 £85,000
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 42,771 43,733 43,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.37% 90.61% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25,631 21,503 33,434
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £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 9 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 9 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 -83 71 £102,500 +36.67% 33
South East -20 45 £50,000 -14.89% 92
North of England -34 36 £65,000 +23.81% 60
North West +8 29 £65,000 +23.81% 25
Midlands -38 16 £55,000 -8.33% 49
West Midlands -6 11 £57,500 -17.86% 11
South West -31 11 £50,000 -16.67% 49
Yorkshire -17 7 £66,250 +47.22% 26
East Midlands -40 5 £49,500 -17.50% 37
East of England -7 3 £67,950 -2.93% 50
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 (8.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) Apache
2 5 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.05%) Camunda
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Windchill
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.05%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.05%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.05%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.51%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.33%) Azure
2 31 (15.90%) AWS
3 27 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (13.33%) GitHub
4 26 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 19 (9.74%) Serverless
6 12 (6.15%) GCP
7 10 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.62%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.59%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.59%) PaaS
10 6 (3.08%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.15%) Multicast
2 4 (2.05%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) UWB
3 1 (0.51%) Wideband
3 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.64%) DB2
5 9 (4.62%) Power BI
6 8 (4.10%) MySQL
7 7 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.54%) Redis
12 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.03%) Metadata
13 1 (0.51%) Big Data
13 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.51%) KDB
13 1 (0.51%) OLAP
13 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (20.00%) Git
2 24 (12.31%) JIRA
3 21 (10.77%) Bitbucket
4 20 (10.26%) Jenkins
5 14 (7.18%) JUnit
6 13 (6.67%) GitLab
6 13 (6.67%) Selenium
7 12 (6.15%) Cucumber
8 11 (5.64%) TeamCity
9 6 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.56%) Maven
10 5 (2.56%) Mockito
10 5 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.05%) MSTest
12 3 (1.54%) NUnit
13 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.03%) JMeter
13 2 (1.03%) webpack
14 1 (0.51%) NSubstitute
14 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (31.28%) Finance
2 46 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.21%) Banking
5 13 (6.67%) Front Office
5 13 (6.67%) Marketing
6 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.10%) Retail
8 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.56%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.54%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.54%) Law
12 2 (1.03%) Automotive
12 2 (1.03%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Games
13 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 117 (60.00%) Developer
2 44 (22.56%) Senior
3 32 (16.41%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.79%) Lead
5 21 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (9.23%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.72%) .NET Developer
7 17 (8.72%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.18%) Software Developer
9 13 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) C++ Developer
11 11 (5.64%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Senior Java Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.79%) .NET
1 62 (31.79%) React
2 53 (27.18%) CSS
3 52 (26.67%) HTML
4 36 (18.46%) RESTful
5 33 (16.92%) REST
6 23 (11.79%) .NET Core
7 20 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 15 (7.69%) .NET Framework
9 13 (6.67%) ASP.NET
9 13 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (6.15%) Kafka
10 12 (6.15%) SOAP
10 12 (6.15%) Spring
10 12 (6.15%) Vue
11 11 (5.64%) Gherkin
12 10 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (5.13%) Node.js
13 9 (4.62%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.69%) Derivative
2 13 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.59%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.59%) Blog
7 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.05%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.54%) CMDB
11 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.54%) Genomics
12 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.03%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.85%) Linux
2 12 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (59.49%) Agile
2 78 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 60 (30.77%) DevOps
4 57 (29.23%) Scrum
5 51 (26.15%) Mentoring
5 51 (26.15%) Software Engineering
6 45 (23.08%) Microservices
7 41 (21.03%) Test Automation
8 39 (20.00%) Integration Testing
9 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (17.44%) Front End Development
12 32 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (15.90%) Clean Code
14 29 (14.87%) Design Patterns
14 29 (14.87%) User Experience
15 28 (14.36%) Containerisation
16 26 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (12.31%) SDLC
17 24 (12.31%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.21%) SQL
2 54 (27.69%) Java
3 52 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 44 (22.56%) C#
5 32 (16.41%) Python
6 29 (14.87%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.74%) C++
8 11 (5.64%) C
9 7 (3.59%) Bash
9 7 (3.59%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.56%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.56%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.56%) SOQL
11 4 (2.05%) ABAP
12 3 (1.54%) Erlang
12 3 (1.54%) R
12 3 (1.54%) RPG
13 2 (1.03%) Perl
13 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.03%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (20.00%) Degree
2 16 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.05%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (2.05%) PhD
7 4 (2.05%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) OCA
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.77%) QA
2 17 (8.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.05%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.03%) JTAG
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (19.49%) Docker
2 8 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 25 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.64%) Terraform
3 5 (2.56%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) Atlassian
3 13 (6.67%) Oracle
4 12 (6.15%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.13%) SAP
6 6 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.56%) Databricks
7 5 (2.56%) IBM
8 4 (2.05%) Google
8 4 (2.05%) Telerik
9 3 (1.54%) Foundry
9 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.03%) Adobe
10 2 (1.03%) Cognos
10 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.03%) Zend
11 1 (0.51%) Apple
11 1 (0.51%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.51%) Informatica
11 1 (0.51%) Siemens