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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 258 266
Rank change year-on-year -193 +8 -80
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 207 445 818
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 1.21% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.30% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 132 344 677
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,544 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,778 £82,519
UK median annual salary £65,758 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.21% +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 53,002 34,266 66,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.33% 93.54% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 32,961 20,243 51,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £74,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -56 77 £86,250 +16.95% 30
South East -62 49 £50,000 -13.04% 29
North of England -81 29 £65,000 +18.18% 36
South West -54 19 £45,000 -21.66% 13
North West -44 16 £65,000 +20.93% 18
Yorkshire -43 13 £55,000 -2.22% 8
Midlands -93 12 £49,500 -17.50% 19
West Midlands -46 7 - - 9
East of England -31 6 £62,500 +9.65% 2
East Midlands -56 5 £49,500 -17.50% 10
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 15 (7.25%) Confluence
2 6 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) IIS
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.97%) Windchill
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.93%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.93%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.93%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.97%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.97%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.48%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.88%) Azure
2 47 (22.71%) GitHub
3 44 (21.26%) AWS
4 33 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.66%) Power Platform
6 19 (9.18%) Serverless
7 15 (7.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 15 (7.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 14 (6.76%) GCP
9 9 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.35%) Cloud Run
10 7 (3.38%) PaaS
11 6 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.90%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.42%) Azure App Service
12 5 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.42%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.80%) Multicast
2 6 (2.90%) Broadband
3 3 (1.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.48%) Modbus
4 1 (0.48%) Profibus
4 1 (0.48%) RS-232
4 1 (0.48%) RS-485
4 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Wireless
4 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.87%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.73%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.31%) MySQL
6 9 (4.35%) DB2
7 8 (3.86%) Power BI
8 5 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.45%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.97%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.48%) OLAP
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (25.12%) Git
2 29 (14.01%) JIRA
3 14 (6.76%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.28%) JUnit
5 11 (5.31%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.31%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.83%) Selenium
7 9 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.90%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.90%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.90%) Maven
8 6 (2.90%) Mockito
9 5 (2.42%) GitLab
10 2 (0.97%) webpack
11 1 (0.48%) CMake
11 1 (0.48%) MSTest
11 1 (0.48%) NUnit
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (30.43%) Finance
2 42 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.59%) Banking
5 22 (10.63%) Marketing
6 16 (7.73%) Front Office
7 9 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.90%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.93%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.93%) Retail
10 3 (1.45%) Advertising
11 2 (0.97%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.97%) Automotive
11 2 (0.97%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.97%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (65.22%) Developer
2 52 (25.12%) Senior
3 34 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (14.49%) Senior Developer
5 28 (13.53%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.14%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.66%) Lead
8 15 (7.25%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.25%) Cloud Developer
8 15 (7.25%) Salesforce Developer
8 15 (7.25%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 15 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) C++ Developer
10 12 (5.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (5.31%) Applications Developer
11 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (4.35%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.38%) Development Manager
14 7 (3.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (32.85%) React
2 61 (29.47%) .NET
2 61 (29.47%) HTML
3 60 (28.99%) CSS
4 36 (17.39%) REST
5 27 (13.04%) RESTful
6 21 (10.14%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.66%) SOAP
8 17 (8.21%) Bootstrap
8 17 (8.21%) React Native
8 17 (8.21%) Vue
9 16 (7.73%) Node.js
10 15 (7.25%) .NET Framework
10 15 (7.25%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (6.76%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.76%) ASP.NET
12 13 (6.28%) Spring
13 12 (5.80%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (4.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.76%) Derivative
4 11 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.38%) Blog
7 5 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.45%) Genomics
9 3 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.45%) PKI
10 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.46%) Linux
2 12 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (71.01%) Agile
2 89 (43.00%) CI/CD
3 65 (31.40%) DevOps
4 57 (27.54%) Scrum
5 48 (23.19%) Clean Code
5 48 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (22.71%) Mentoring
7 46 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 43 (20.77%) Software Engineering
10 40 (19.32%) Microservices
10 40 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (17.39%) Front End Development
12 35 (16.91%) Integration Testing
13 33 (15.94%) Sprint Planning
14 31 (14.98%) Design Patterns
15 30 (14.49%) System Testing
16 29 (14.01%) TDD
17 26 (12.56%) API Integration
18 24 (11.59%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (34.30%) SQL
2 60 (28.99%) JavaScript
3 52 (25.12%) Java
4 41 (19.81%) C#
5 40 (19.32%) Python
6 26 (12.56%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.08%) C++
8 15 (7.25%) Apex Code
8 15 (7.25%) SOQL
9 10 (4.83%) Bash
9 10 (4.83%) C
10 9 (4.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.38%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.42%) ABAP
13 4 (1.93%) R
13 4 (1.93%) Rust
13 4 (1.93%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.45%) Perl
14 3 (1.45%) PHP
14 3 (1.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 31 (14.98%) Degree
2 14 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.83%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.86%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.93%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.48%) OCA
9 1 (0.48%) OCP
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.18%) QA
2 12 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) GAAP
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (18.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.48%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.48%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.73%) Terraform
3 6 (2.90%) Podman
4 3 (1.45%) Kibana
5 2 (0.97%) Grafana
5 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.25%) Oracle
2 15 (7.25%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.28%) SAP
4 12 (5.80%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.31%) Google
6 10 (4.83%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.38%) Databricks
8 4 (1.93%) IBM
8 4 (1.93%) Telerik
9 2 (0.97%) Adobe
9 2 (0.97%) Foundry
9 2 (0.97%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.97%) Temenos
9 2 (0.97%) Zend
10 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.48%) Marketo
10 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity