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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 249 267
Rank change year-on-year -208 +18 -88
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 200 494 793
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 1.26% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.34% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 130 350 652
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,508 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £82,661
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 50,827 36,748 64,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.13% 93.68% 87.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31,403 20,173 50,460
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 12 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 12 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 71 £87,500 +16.67% 38
South East -55 54 £50,000 -13.04% 31
North of England -75 27 £65,000 +18.18% 29
North West -31 20 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -55 17 £45,000 -21.74% 19
Midlands -76 12 £49,500 -17.50% 24
West Midlands -39 7 - - 11
Yorkshire -52 7 £75,000 +33.33% 9
East Midlands -52 5 £49,500 -17.50% 11
East of England -15 4 £62,500 +9.65% 9
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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) IIS
4 2 (1.00%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) Windchill
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.00%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.00%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.00%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.00%) Azure
2 42 (21.00%) GitHub
3 36 (18.00%) AWS
4 32 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.50%) Serverless
7 13 (6.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 13 (6.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.50%) GCP
9 8 (4.00%) PaaS
10 7 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.50%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.00%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) Multicast
2 3 (1.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
3 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.50%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.00%) DB2
5 10 (5.00%) MySQL
6 7 (3.50%) Power BI
7 5 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.50%) Cognos Connection
10 1 (0.50%) Cognos Event Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Cognos Framework Manager
10 1 (0.50%) OLAP
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (25.50%) Git
2 27 (13.50%) JIRA
3 15 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.50%) JUnit
5 12 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 12 (6.00%) TeamCity
6 11 (5.50%) Selenium
7 10 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.00%) Maven
8 6 (3.00%) Mockito
9 5 (2.50%) GitLab
10 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.00%) webpack
11 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.50%) Locust
11 1 (0.50%) MLflow
11 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.50%) Storybook
11 1 (0.50%) utPLSQL
General
1 66 (33.00%) Finance
2 37 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Banking
5 20 (10.00%) Marketing
6 16 (8.00%) Front Office
7 8 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.00%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.00%) Retail
11 2 (1.00%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (66.50%) Developer
2 47 (23.50%) Senior
3 28 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (14.00%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.00%) Lead
6 21 (10.50%) Java Developer
7 19 (9.50%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.50%) C++ Developer
8 13 (6.50%) Cloud Developer
8 13 (6.50%) Salesforce Developer
8 13 (6.50%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 12 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) Applications Developer
10 11 (5.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 11 (5.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (5.00%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.50%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Application Development Manager
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.50%) .NET
2 65 (32.50%) React
3 60 (30.00%) CSS
3 60 (30.00%) HTML
4 34 (17.00%) REST
5 30 (15.00%) RESTful
6 17 (8.50%) .NET Core
6 17 (8.50%) AngularJS
6 17 (8.50%) Bootstrap
6 17 (8.50%) React Native
6 17 (8.50%) SOAP
7 16 (8.00%) .NET Framework
8 13 (6.50%) ASP.NET
8 13 (6.50%) Lightning Web Components
9 12 (6.00%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (6.00%) Node.js
9 12 (6.00%) Spring
10 11 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (5.50%) Kafka
10 11 (5.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Mobile App
1 19 (9.50%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.00%) Derivative
3 11 (5.50%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.50%) Blog
7 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.50%) Genomics
10 3 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.00%) Linux
2 12 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (69.50%) Agile
2 83 (41.50%) CI/CD
3 67 (33.50%) DevOps
4 54 (27.00%) Scrum
5 48 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 47 (23.50%) Clean Code
7 45 (22.50%) Test Automation
8 44 (22.00%) Software Engineering
9 42 (21.00%) Microservices
10 40 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (18.50%) Front End Development
11 37 (18.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (18.00%) Integration Testing
13 35 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
14 28 (14.00%) Design Patterns
14 28 (14.00%) System Testing
15 26 (13.00%) TDD
15 26 (13.00%) User Experience
16 25 (12.50%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.50%) SQL
2 52 (26.00%) JavaScript
3 50 (25.00%) Java
4 43 (21.50%) C#
5 35 (17.50%) Python
6 27 (13.50%) TypeScript
7 24 (12.00%) C++
8 13 (6.50%) Apex Code
8 13 (6.50%) SOQL
9 10 (5.00%) Bash
10 9 (4.50%) C
11 8 (4.00%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.50%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.50%) ABAP
14 4 (2.00%) R
14 4 (2.00%) Rust
15 3 (1.50%) Erlang
15 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.50%) RPG
15 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.00%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.50%) OCA
7 1 (0.50%) OCP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.50%) QA
2 17 (8.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GAAP
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Docker
2 8 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Podman
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Oracle
3 13 (6.50%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.00%) SAP
5 11 (5.50%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.50%) Databricks
7 6 (3.00%) Google
8 4 (2.00%) IBM
8 4 (2.00%) Telerik
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.00%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) Apple
10 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.50%) Cognos
10 1 (0.50%) Marketo
10 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.50%) Siemens