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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 237 233
Rank change year-on-year -172 -4 -73
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 199 594 674
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.24% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.36% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 122 320 533
10th Percentile £46,375 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £124,750 £95,250 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

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 42,676 43,550 44,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.20% 90.77% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25,628 21,301 34,459
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -83 72 £102,500 +36.67% 32
South East -24 45 £50,000 -14.89% 55
North of England -17 37 £65,000 +23.81% 42
North West +16 30 £65,000 +23.81% 22
Midlands -39 18 £57,500 -4.17% 27
West Midlands -6 12 £57,500 -17.86% 7
South West -27 11 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Yorkshire -18 7 £66,250 +47.22% 15
East Midlands -43 6 £51,000 -15.00% 20
East of England -5 3 £67,950 -2.93% 17
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 (8.04%) Confluence
2 6 (3.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.51%) Apache
4 4 (2.01%) Camunda
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Windchill
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.01%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.01%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.01%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.01%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.17%) Azure
2 34 (17.09%) AWS
3 29 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (13.57%) GitHub
5 26 (13.07%) Power Platform
6 19 (9.55%) Serverless
7 12 (6.03%) GCP
8 10 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.52%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.52%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.52%) PaaS
11 6 (3.02%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (3.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.03%) Multicast
2 4 (2.01%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.50%) UWB
3 1 (0.50%) Wideband
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.59%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.54%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.53%) DB2
5 9 (4.52%) Power BI
6 8 (4.02%) MySQL
7 7 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.51%) Redis
11 2 (1.01%) Metadata
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.50%) Big Data
12 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.50%) KDB
12 1 (0.50%) OLAP
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (20.10%) Git
2 24 (12.06%) JIRA
3 21 (10.55%) Bitbucket
4 20 (10.05%) Jenkins
5 15 (7.54%) JUnit
6 13 (6.53%) GitLab
6 13 (6.53%) Selenium
7 12 (6.03%) Cucumber
8 11 (5.53%) TeamCity
9 6 (3.02%) Maven
9 6 (3.02%) Mockito
9 6 (3.02%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.01%) MSTest
12 3 (1.51%) NUnit
13 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.01%) JMeter
13 2 (1.01%) webpack
14 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.50%) NSubstitute
General
1 62 (31.16%) Finance
2 47 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.54%) Banking
5 14 (7.04%) Marketing
6 13 (6.53%) Front Office
7 11 (5.53%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.02%) Retail
9 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.51%) Tech for Good
11 4 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.51%) Law
13 2 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (1.01%) Billing
13 2 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Local Government
14 1 (0.50%) Games
14 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 119 (59.80%) Developer
2 48 (24.12%) Senior
3 34 (17.09%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.56%) Lead
5 22 (11.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (9.55%) Java Developer
6 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.54%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (7.04%) Software Developer
10 12 (6.03%) C++ Developer
11 11 (5.53%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.03%) Applications Developer
12 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (4.52%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
15 7 (3.52%) Senior Java Engineer
15 7 (3.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 7 (3.52%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.66%) .NET
2 64 (32.16%) React
3 54 (27.14%) CSS
4 53 (26.63%) HTML
5 36 (18.09%) RESTful
6 35 (17.59%) REST
7 23 (11.56%) .NET Core
8 22 (11.06%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.54%) .NET Framework
10 13 (6.53%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.53%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (6.53%) SOAP
11 12 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.03%) Kafka
11 12 (6.03%) Spring
11 12 (6.03%) Vue
12 11 (5.53%) Gherkin
13 10 (5.03%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (5.03%) Bootstrap
13 10 (5.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.54%) Derivative
2 14 (7.04%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.52%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.52%) Blog
7 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.51%) CMDB
10 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.51%) Genomics
10 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.01%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.07%) Linux
2 12 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (60.30%) Agile
2 81 (40.70%) CI/CD
3 62 (31.16%) DevOps
4 58 (29.15%) Scrum
5 53 (26.63%) Mentoring
5 53 (26.63%) Software Engineering
6 48 (24.12%) Microservices
7 40 (20.10%) Test Automation
8 39 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (19.10%) Integration Testing
10 37 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.59%) Front End Development
11 35 (17.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (16.08%) Clean Code
13 31 (15.58%) Containerisation
14 29 (14.57%) Design Patterns
14 29 (14.57%) User Experience
15 27 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (13.57%) SDLC
16 26 (13.07%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.15%) SQL
2 55 (27.64%) Java
3 52 (26.13%) JavaScript
4 45 (22.61%) C#
5 31 (15.58%) Python
6 29 (14.57%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.55%) C++
8 12 (6.03%) C
9 8 (4.02%) Bash
10 7 (3.52%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.52%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.02%) Apex Code
11 6 (3.02%) SOQL
12 4 (2.01%) ABAP
12 4 (2.01%) R
13 3 (1.51%) Erlang
13 3 (1.51%) RPG
13 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.01%) Perl
14 2 (1.01%) X++
Qualifications
1 38 (19.10%) Degree
2 17 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.03%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.01%) PhD
7 4 (2.01%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.51%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.50%) OCA
10 1 (0.50%) OCP
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.06%) QA
2 17 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.01%) WCAG
4 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.01%) ISO 9000
5 2 (1.01%) JTAG
5 2 (1.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (19.10%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.53%) Terraform
3 5 (2.51%) Kibana
4 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Atlassian
2 14 (7.04%) Oracle
3 12 (6.03%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.03%) SAP
5 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.51%) Databricks
6 5 (2.51%) IBM
7 4 (2.01%) Google
7 4 (2.01%) Telerik
8 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.01%) Adobe
9 2 (1.01%) Cognos
9 2 (1.01%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.01%) Foundry
9 2 (1.01%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) Apple
10 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.50%) Informatica
10 1 (0.50%) Siemens