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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 262 269
Rank change year-on-year -216 +7 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 201 440 841
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 1.20% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 132 341 684
10th Percentile £46,313 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £109,750 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -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 57,058 34,237 69,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.78% 93.09% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 35,951 20,515 53,211
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -73 82 £86,250 +20.63% 28
South East -90 38 £50,000 -13.04% 25
North of England -81 26 £66,250 +20.45% 32
South West -65 22 £45,000 -21.66% 9
North West -46 14 £67,500 +22.73% 18
Yorkshire -60 12 £52,500 -6.67% 5
Midlands -89 11 £65,000 +8.33% 17
East of England -42 8 £62,500 +9.65% 6
West Midlands -53 6 - - 6
East Midlands -67 5 £65,000 +8.33% 11
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 (6.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) IIS
3 2 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.48%) 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 7 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.49%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.49%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.00%) Infor M3
3 2 (1.00%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.00%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.85%) Azure
2 49 (24.38%) AWS
3 46 (22.89%) GitHub
4 33 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.45%) GCP
6 17 (8.46%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 17 (8.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 14 (6.97%) Cloud Run
8 13 (6.47%) Serverless
9 12 (5.97%) Cloud Functions
10 7 (3.48%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.49%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) Broadband
2 11 (5.47%) Multicast
3 3 (1.49%) HTTP
4 2 (1.00%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.00%) Modbus
4 2 (1.00%) Profibus
4 2 (1.00%) RS-232
4 2 (1.00%) RS-485
4 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.00%) Wireless
4 2 (1.00%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.92%) SQL Server
2 25 (12.44%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.96%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.97%) MySQL
6 9 (4.48%) DB2
7 8 (3.98%) Power BI
8 6 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.00%) Metadata
11 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.50%) Redis
12 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (25.37%) Git
2 30 (14.93%) JIRA
3 13 (6.47%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.97%) CircleCI
4 12 (5.97%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.47%) JUnit
5 11 (5.47%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.98%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.98%) Selenium
7 5 (2.49%) GitLab
7 5 (2.49%) Maven
7 5 (2.49%) Mockito
8 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.00%) webpack
8 2 (1.00%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.50%) Locust
9 1 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 52 (25.87%) Finance
2 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.43%) Banking
5 17 (8.46%) Marketing
6 15 (7.46%) Front Office
7 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.49%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.99%) Advertising
8 4 (1.99%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.99%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.49%) Automotive
9 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.00%) Electronics
10 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (63.68%) Developer
2 53 (26.37%) Senior
3 35 (17.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (15.42%) Senior Developer
5 30 (14.93%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Cloud Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Salesforce Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 16 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.97%) Applications Developer
9 12 (5.97%) C++ Developer
9 12 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Lead
11 9 (4.48%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Consultant
13 7 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.84%) React
2 55 (27.36%) HTML
3 54 (26.87%) CSS
4 50 (24.88%) .NET
5 40 (19.90%) REST
6 30 (14.93%) RESTful
7 25 (12.44%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.95%) Node.js
8 22 (10.95%) SOAP
9 17 (8.46%) Bootstrap
9 17 (8.46%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (8.46%) React Native
10 16 (7.96%) Playwright
10 16 (7.96%) Vue
11 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.97%) Spring
12 12 (5.97%) Leaflet
13 11 (5.47%) .NET Framework
13 11 (5.47%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (4.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.94%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.95%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.97%) Derivative
4 10 (4.98%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.99%) Blog
7 6 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.49%) PKI
11 2 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.00%) Genomics
11 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.93%) Linux
2 11 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 2 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (70.65%) Agile
2 95 (47.26%) CI/CD
3 62 (30.85%) Scrum
4 60 (29.85%) DevOps
5 53 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (26.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (24.38%) Clean Code
7 44 (21.89%) Software Engineering
8 43 (21.39%) Test Automation
9 41 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (18.91%) Mentoring
11 37 (18.41%) Microservices
12 34 (16.92%) Sprint Planning
13 33 (16.42%) Front End Development
14 30 (14.93%) Design Patterns
14 30 (14.93%) TDD
15 29 (14.43%) Integration Testing
15 29 (14.43%) System Testing
16 28 (13.93%) API Integration
17 27 (13.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (35.32%) SQL
2 61 (30.35%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.37%) Java
4 39 (19.40%) Python
5 35 (17.41%) C#
6 24 (11.94%) C++
6 24 (11.94%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.46%) Apex Code
7 17 (8.46%) SOQL
8 9 (4.48%) Bash
8 9 (4.48%) C
9 8 (3.98%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.99%) ABAP
13 4 (1.99%) Perl
13 4 (1.99%) R
13 4 (1.99%) Rust
14 3 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Degree
2 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.48%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.49%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) OCA
8 1 (0.50%) OCP
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) GAAP
4 2 (1.00%) IFRS
4 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (20.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.97%) Terraform
3 12 (5.97%) Podman
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.46%) Salesforce
2 16 (7.96%) Google
3 13 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.47%) Oracle
4 11 (5.47%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.98%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.98%) SAP
7 7 (3.48%) Databricks
8 4 (1.99%) IBM
8 4 (1.99%) Telerik
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Apple
9 2 (1.00%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) Infor
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) Temenos
9 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 2 (1.00%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity