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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 419 235
Rank change year-on-year -97 -184 -48
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 243 230 830
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.53% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.60% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 158 138 422
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,100 £39,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,938
90th Percentile £90,375 £112,500 £87,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 73,420 38,536 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.29% 88.67% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 52,272 22,193 32,991
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -77 64 £82,500 +15.38% 73
North of England -48 42 £57,500 +17.95% 32
South West -64 37 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Midlands -42 33 £60,000 +4.35% 23
South East -41 30 £50,000 -16.67% 21
East of England -10 27 £48,750 -12.56% 21
West Midlands -25 24 £52,500 -8.70% 15
North West -44 17 £67,500 +35.00% 18
Yorkshire -36 16 £55,000 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -34 9 £68,000 +19.82% 8
North East -52 9 £57,500 +24.32% 8
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 14 (5.76%) IIS
2 5 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) CMS
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (6.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.23%) Shopify
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.82%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.10%) Azure
2 48 (19.75%) AWS
3 31 (12.76%) GitHub
4 30 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.41%) GCP
6 17 (7.00%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.58%) Serverless
8 15 (6.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 15 (6.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 12 (4.94%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (4.94%) Cloud Run
9 12 (4.94%) Power Automate
10 10 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.70%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (2.88%) Figma
13 7 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.94%) Broadband
2 9 (3.70%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.70%) Modbus
2 9 (3.70%) Profibus
2 9 (3.70%) RS-232
2 9 (3.70%) RS-485
2 9 (3.70%) Wireless
2 9 (3.70%) ZigBee
3 6 (2.47%) SNMP
4 3 (1.23%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.58%) Relational Database
3 27 (11.11%) MySQL
4 19 (7.82%) MongoDB
5 17 (7.00%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.35%) Power BI
7 10 (4.12%) Redis
8 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (2.06%) SAP HANA
11 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.65%) SQLite
12 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.23%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (24.69%) Git
2 19 (7.82%) Cypress.io
3 17 (7.00%) JIRA
4 15 (6.17%) Claude Code
5 12 (4.94%) CircleCI
5 12 (4.94%) GitLab
5 12 (4.94%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (4.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (4.12%) JUnit
7 9 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 9 (3.70%) NUnit
8 8 (3.29%) Maven
8 8 (3.29%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.88%) Mockito
10 5 (2.06%) Postman
10 5 (2.06%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (1.23%) TestRail
13 2 (0.82%) Mocha
General
1 82 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.99%) Finance
3 44 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.82%) Law
4 19 (7.82%) Manufacturing
5 17 (7.00%) Legal
6 16 (6.58%) Marketing
7 14 (5.76%) Electronics
8 10 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.12%) Retail
9 9 (3.70%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.70%) Aviation
9 9 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.29%) Banking
10 8 (3.29%) Military
11 7 (2.88%) Automotive
12 6 (2.47%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.06%) Advertising
13 5 (2.06%) Agriculture
13 5 (2.06%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 136 (55.97%) Developer
2 66 (27.16%) Senior
3 56 (23.05%) Software Engineer
4 31 (12.76%) Senior Developer
5 29 (11.93%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (8.64%) Lead
8 20 (8.23%) .NET Developer
9 18 (7.41%) Salesforce Developer
10 15 (6.17%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 12 (4.94%) Cloud Developer
12 11 (4.53%) Consultant
13 9 (3.70%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) SAP Developer
13 9 (3.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) VB.NET Developer
14 8 (3.29%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.10%) .NET
2 60 (24.69%) REST
3 47 (19.34%) HTML
4 46 (18.93%) React
5 36 (14.81%) CSS
6 33 (13.58%) Node.js
6 33 (13.58%) SOAP
7 31 (12.76%) ASP.NET
8 30 (12.35%) AngularJS
9 29 (11.93%) RESTful
10 25 (10.29%) Spring
11 18 (7.41%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (7.00%) .NET Framework
12 17 (7.00%) Terraform
13 16 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (6.58%) Playwright
13 16 (6.58%) Vue
14 15 (6.17%) jQuery
15 14 (5.76%) Kafka
15 14 (5.76%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.76%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.00%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.29%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.29%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.47%) Robotics
9 5 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.65%) Blog
10 4 (1.65%) CMDB
10 4 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.23%) PKI
11 3 (1.23%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.70%) Linux
2 12 (4.94%) Windows
3 11 (4.53%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.65%) Android
5 4 (1.65%) Unix
6 3 (1.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (47.74%) Agile
2 106 (43.62%) CI/CD
3 91 (37.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (32.51%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (31.28%) Software Engineering
6 56 (23.05%) DevOps
7 54 (22.22%) Scrum
8 49 (20.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (19.75%) Test Automation
10 41 (16.87%) TDD
11 36 (14.81%) AI
12 35 (14.40%) User Experience
13 34 (13.99%) Mentoring
13 34 (13.99%) SDLC
13 34 (13.99%) Sprint Planning
14 33 (13.58%) Code Quality
14 33 (13.58%) Integration Testing
15 32 (13.17%) Microservices
16 30 (12.35%) OOP
17 27 (11.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.10%) JavaScript
2 68 (27.98%) SQL
3 62 (25.51%) C#
4 53 (21.81%) Java
5 41 (16.87%) TypeScript
6 38 (15.64%) Python
7 34 (13.99%) C++
8 25 (10.29%) C
9 18 (7.41%) Apex Code
10 15 (6.17%) SOQL
11 11 (4.53%) VB.NET
12 10 (4.12%) ABAP
12 10 (4.12%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.88%) Kotlin
13 7 (2.88%) T-SQL
14 6 (2.47%) Bash
14 6 (2.47%) PHP
15 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
16 3 (1.23%) Rust
16 3 (1.23%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.05%) Degree
2 19 (7.82%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.94%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.05%) QA
2 9 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.06%) GDPR
4 4 (1.65%) WCAG
5 3 (1.23%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.82%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.82%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (19.34%) Docker
2 13 (5.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.94%) Podman
3 4 (1.65%) Ansible
4 2 (0.82%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.82%) Grafana
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.70%) Oracle
3 20 (8.23%) Salesforce
4 18 (7.41%) SAP
5 17 (7.00%) Google
6 9 (3.70%) iManage
7 6 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.06%) Intel
9 4 (1.65%) Temenos
10 3 (1.23%) IBM
10 3 (1.23%) Infor
10 3 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.82%) Databricks
11 2 (0.82%) YouTube
12 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.41%) RedGate
12 1 (0.41%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.41%) Workday
12 1 (0.41%) Zoho