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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 236 254
Rank change year-on-year -190 +18 -76
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 194 594 778
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 1.30% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.41% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 126 329 622
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £41,300
25th Percentile £49,063 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,508 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £123,750 £95,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -

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 45,994 42,048 58,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.88% 92.01% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27,932 20,551 46,192
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,967 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,750
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% -12.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -87 70 £102,500 +36.67% 46
South East -43 49 £50,000 -9.09% 34
North of England -55 32 £65,000 +23.81% 33
North West +4 26 £65,000 +23.81% 20
Midlands -54 15 £51,250 -14.58% 16
West Midlands -18 9 £55,000 -21.43% 6
South West -31 9 - - 16
Yorkshire -39 6 £75,000 +50.00% 8
East Midlands -48 6 £51,000 -15.00% 10
East of England +3 4 £62,500 -3.85% 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 (8.25%) Confluence
2 6 (3.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (4.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Windchill
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.06%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.06%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (35.57%) Azure
2 34 (17.53%) AWS
2 34 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (17.53%) GitHub
3 25 (12.89%) Power Platform
4 17 (8.76%) Serverless
5 9 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (4.64%) GCP
5 9 (4.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 9 (4.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 8 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.12%) PaaS
7 7 (3.61%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.09%) Azure App Service
8 6 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) Multicast
2 4 (2.06%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.70%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.67%) DB2
4 8 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.12%) Power BI
5 6 (3.09%) MySQL
6 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) Cognos Connection
8 1 (0.52%) Cognos Event Studio
8 1 (0.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) KDB
Development Applications
1 42 (21.65%) Git
2 25 (12.89%) JIRA
3 15 (7.73%) Bitbucket
3 15 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.73%) JUnit
4 13 (6.70%) Selenium
5 12 (6.19%) Cucumber
6 11 (5.67%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.09%) GitLab
7 6 (3.09%) Maven
7 6 (3.09%) Mockito
8 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.03%) JMeter
8 2 (1.03%) MSTest
8 2 (1.03%) webpack
9 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.52%) Locust
9 1 (0.52%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 67 (34.54%) Finance
2 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.31%) Banking
5 17 (8.76%) Marketing
6 13 (6.70%) Front Office
7 9 (4.64%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.09%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.58%) Retail
10 4 (2.06%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.55%) 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 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (62.37%) Developer
2 48 (24.74%) Senior
3 31 (15.98%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (11.86%) Lead
5 22 (11.34%) Java Developer
5 22 (11.34%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (7.73%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.70%) C++ Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Applications Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Salesforce Developer
11 9 (4.64%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 9 (4.64%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Cloud Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.02%) React
2 65 (33.51%) .NET
3 56 (28.87%) CSS
4 55 (28.35%) HTML
5 34 (17.53%) REST
6 33 (17.01%) RESTful
7 21 (10.82%) AngularJS
8 18 (9.28%) .NET Core
9 15 (7.73%) SOAP
10 14 (7.22%) Bootstrap
10 14 (7.22%) React Native
10 14 (7.22%) Spring
11 13 (6.70%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (6.19%) .NET Framework
12 12 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (6.19%) Vue
13 11 (5.67%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.67%) Gherkin
14 10 (5.15%) Node.js
14 10 (5.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Mobile App
2 16 (8.25%) Derivative
3 15 (7.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (5.67%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.61%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.61%) Blog
7 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.58%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.55%) Genomics
10 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.03%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.03%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.03%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.43%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (65.98%) Agile
2 83 (42.78%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.47%) DevOps
4 56 (28.87%) Scrum
5 53 (27.32%) Software Engineering
6 52 (26.80%) Mentoring
7 51 (26.29%) Microservices
8 42 (21.65%) Test Automation
9 38 (19.59%) Clean Code
10 37 (19.07%) Front End Development
11 36 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (18.04%) Integration Testing
13 34 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (15.46%) Design Patterns
15 30 (15.46%) Sprint Planning
16 29 (14.95%) User Experience
17 28 (14.43%) Continuous Integration
18 27 (13.92%) SDLC
18 27 (13.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.80%) SQL
2 51 (26.29%) Java
3 48 (24.74%) JavaScript
4 38 (19.59%) C#
5 28 (14.43%) Python
6 25 (12.89%) TypeScript
7 20 (10.31%) C++
8 11 (5.67%) C
9 10 (5.15%) Bash
10 9 (4.64%) Apex Code
10 9 (4.64%) SOQL
11 7 (3.61%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.61%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.06%) ABAP
12 4 (2.06%) R
13 3 (1.55%) Erlang
13 3 (1.55%) RPG
14 2 (1.03%) Embedded C
14 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.03%) VB6
Qualifications
1 33 (17.01%) Degree
2 14 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.19%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.12%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.06%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) PhD
9 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.52%) OCA
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.34%) QA
2 18 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.06%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.03%) JTAG
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.19%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.19%) Atlassian
2 12 (6.19%) Oracle
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.15%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.15%) SAP
4 5 (2.58%) IBM
5 4 (2.06%) Databricks
5 4 (2.06%) Google
5 4 (2.06%) Telerik
6 2 (1.03%) Adobe
6 2 (1.03%) Cognos
6 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.03%) Foundry
6 2 (1.03%) Zend
7 1 (0.52%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.52%) Informatica
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Siemens
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk