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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 234 261
Rank change year-on-year -205 +27 -82
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 191 585 747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 1.34% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.45% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 122 340 601
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £121,500 £95,000 £86,250
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 48,128 40,388 58,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.10% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29,549 20,191 46,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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% -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 22 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 22 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 -76 71 £102,500 +36.67% 43
South East -56 47 £50,000 -9.09% 30
North of England -65 29 £65,000 +23.81% 28
North West -19 23 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Midlands -62 14 £50,000 -24.53% 15
South West -57 12 £45,000 -21.66% 26
West Midlands -20 8 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Yorkshire -39 6 £75,000 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -50 6 £51,000 -15.00% 9
East of England -3 4 £62,500 +4.17% 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 16 (8.38%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) 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 10 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Windchill
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.09%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.09%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.09%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (33.51%) Azure
2 35 (18.32%) GitHub
3 32 (16.75%) AWS
3 32 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (11.52%) Power Platform
5 16 (8.38%) Serverless
6 10 (5.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 10 (5.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 8 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (4.19%) PaaS
8 7 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.66%) GCP
9 6 (3.14%) Azure App Service
9 6 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.14%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Multicast
2 4 (2.09%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.80%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.81%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.76%) DB2
4 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.66%) MySQL
5 7 (3.66%) Power BI
6 3 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Cognos Connection
8 1 (0.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) KDB
8 1 (0.52%) OLAP
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (22.51%) Git
2 25 (13.09%) JIRA
3 15 (7.85%) Bitbucket
3 15 (7.85%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.85%) JUnit
4 13 (6.81%) Selenium
5 12 (6.28%) Cucumber
6 11 (5.76%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.14%) GitLab
7 6 (3.14%) Maven
7 6 (3.14%) Mockito
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.05%) webpack
9 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.52%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) MSTest
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (34.55%) Finance
2 36 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.52%) Banking
5 17 (8.90%) Marketing
6 15 (7.85%) Front Office
7 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.14%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.57%) Retail
11 2 (1.05%) Billing
11 2 (1.05%) Law
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (63.87%) Developer
2 43 (22.51%) Senior
3 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 24 (12.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (12.04%) Java Developer
6 22 (11.52%) Lead
6 22 (11.52%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.38%) .NET Developer
8 14 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) C++ Developer
10 11 (5.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Cloud Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Java Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Salesforce Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Senior Salesforce Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.55%) React
2 63 (32.98%) .NET
3 57 (29.84%) CSS
4 56 (29.32%) HTML
5 34 (17.80%) REST
6 32 (16.75%) RESTful
7 20 (10.47%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.38%) .NET Core
8 16 (8.38%) SOAP
9 14 (7.33%) Bootstrap
9 14 (7.33%) React Native
9 14 (7.33%) Spring
10 13 (6.81%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (6.28%) .NET Framework
11 12 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.28%) Vue
12 11 (5.76%) Gherkin
12 11 (5.76%) Kafka
13 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET
13 10 (5.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Mobile App
1 17 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.85%) Derivative
3 11 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.76%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.66%) Blog
6 6 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.57%) Genomics
9 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.71%) Linux
2 12 (6.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (68.59%) Agile
2 81 (42.41%) CI/CD
3 61 (31.94%) DevOps
4 55 (28.80%) Scrum
5 51 (26.70%) Software Engineering
6 50 (26.18%) Mentoring
7 49 (25.65%) Microservices
8 45 (23.56%) Test Automation
9 40 (20.94%) Clean Code
10 37 (19.37%) Front End Development
11 36 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (18.32%) Integration Testing
13 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (16.75%) Sprint Planning
15 29 (15.18%) User Experience
16 28 (14.66%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (14.66%) Design Patterns
17 27 (14.14%) TDD
18 25 (13.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.23%) Java
2 51 (26.70%) SQL
3 49 (25.65%) JavaScript
4 38 (19.90%) C#
5 27 (14.14%) Python
5 27 (14.14%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.52%) C++
7 10 (5.24%) Apex Code
7 10 (5.24%) Bash
7 10 (5.24%) SOQL
8 9 (4.71%) C
9 7 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.66%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.09%) ABAP
10 4 (2.09%) R
11 3 (1.57%) Erlang
11 3 (1.57%) RPG
12 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.05%) VB
12 2 (1.05%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (15.18%) Degree
2 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.24%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.09%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
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 (11.52%) QA
2 18 (9.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.09%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 32 (16.75%) Docker
2 8 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Atlassian
2 12 (6.28%) Oracle
2 12 (6.28%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.76%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.24%) SAP
5 5 (2.62%) Databricks
6 4 (2.09%) Google
6 4 (2.09%) IBM
6 4 (2.09%) Telerik
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe
7 2 (1.05%) Cognos
7 2 (1.05%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.05%) Foundry
7 2 (1.05%) Zend
8 1 (0.52%) Apple
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) Marketo
8 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow