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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 317 264
Rank change year-on-year -177 -53 -65
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 193 358 976
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.98% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 128 257 711
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 60,030 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 42,034 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 60 £82,500 +24.53% 29
North of England -50 35 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Midlands -34 27 £65,000 +8.33% 12
South East -53 26 £50,000 -13.04% 18
South West -74 21 £49,375 -14.13% 12
North West -12 19 £67,500 +28.57% 16
West Midlands -28 17 £52,500 -12.50% 6
East of England -22 14 £61,500 +7.89% 9
Yorkshire -39 12 £55,000 -35.49% 5
East Midlands -30 10 £65,750 +9.58% 6
North East -46 4 £57,500 +4.55% 5
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 4 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.52%) Simulink
2 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (5.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.04%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.20%) Azure
2 45 (23.32%) AWS
3 43 (22.28%) GitHub
4 32 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (13.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 26 (13.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.74%) GCP
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (3.11%) Serverless
12 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.59%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Broadband
2 7 (3.63%) Bluetooth
2 7 (3.63%) Modbus
2 7 (3.63%) Profibus
2 7 (3.63%) RS-232
2 7 (3.63%) RS-485
2 7 (3.63%) Wireless
2 7 (3.63%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.44%) NoSQL
1 24 (12.44%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.29%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.18%) MySQL
4 9 (4.66%) Power BI
5 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.59%) Redis
7 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.59%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.55%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (23.83%) Git
2 15 (7.77%) JIRA
3 14 (7.25%) Cypress.io
4 13 (6.74%) JUnit
5 12 (6.22%) CircleCI
6 11 (5.70%) Maven
6 11 (5.70%) Mockito
7 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.55%) TestRail
8 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.04%) NUnit
8 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.52%) Postman
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) utPLSQL
General
1 50 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.80%) Finance
3 33 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.92%) Marketing
5 18 (9.33%) Banking
6 12 (6.22%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.70%) Law
7 11 (5.70%) Legal
8 9 (4.66%) Electronics
9 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.11%) Automotive
12 5 (2.59%) Advertising
12 5 (2.59%) Agriculture
12 5 (2.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.59%) Social Housing
13 4 (2.07%) Front Office
13 4 (2.07%) Retail
14 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
15 2 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 120 (62.18%) Developer
2 65 (33.68%) Senior
3 39 (20.21%) Senior Developer
4 30 (15.54%) Software Engineer
5 27 (13.99%) Salesforce Developer
6 26 (13.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (13.47%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 23 (11.92%) Cloud Developer
8 20 (10.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (9.33%) Lead
10 15 (7.77%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.22%) Consultant
12 11 (5.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (3.63%) Applications Developer
13 7 (3.63%) Embedded Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (27.46%) REST
2 52 (26.94%) React
3 43 (22.28%) .NET
4 36 (18.65%) HTML
5 34 (17.62%) SOAP
6 29 (15.03%) CSS
7 28 (14.51%) AngularJS
8 27 (13.99%) Lightning Web Components
9 22 (11.40%) Node.js
10 18 (9.33%) Playwright
10 18 (9.33%) RESTful
11 17 (8.81%) React Native
12 15 (7.77%) Spring
13 12 (6.22%) Bootstrap
13 12 (6.22%) Leaflet
13 12 (6.22%) Vue
14 10 (5.18%) Kafka
15 9 (4.66%) Middleware
15 9 (4.66%) OAuth
15 9 (4.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.13%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.29%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.63%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.59%) CMDB
7 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.55%) PKI
10 2 (1.04%) AS400
10 2 (1.04%) Derivative
10 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.04%) Equities
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.84%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (64.77%) Agile
2 97 (50.26%) CI/CD
3 68 (35.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (26.94%) Scrum
5 47 (24.35%) DevOps
6 46 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (22.28%) Clean Code
9 39 (20.21%) Software Engineering
9 39 (20.21%) Sprint Planning
9 39 (20.21%) TDD
10 35 (18.13%) Mentoring
11 34 (17.62%) Microservices
12 30 (15.54%) System Testing
13 29 (15.03%) Containerisation
13 29 (15.03%) Test Automation
14 25 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (11.92%) Data Architecture
16 22 (11.40%) SDLC
16 22 (11.40%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.68%) SQL
2 51 (26.42%) JavaScript
3 42 (21.76%) Java
4 37 (19.17%) C#
5 27 (13.99%) Apex Code
5 27 (13.99%) Python
6 26 (13.47%) SOQL
7 21 (10.88%) C++
8 18 (9.33%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.25%) PL/SQL
10 12 (6.22%) C
11 10 (5.18%) Bash
12 6 (3.11%) ABAP
12 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.07%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.07%) R
13 4 (2.07%) Rust
14 3 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.55%) Perl
14 3 (1.55%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (12.95%) Degree
2 16 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.77%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) HND
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) OCA
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.81%) QA
2 6 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) GAAP
5 2 (1.04%) IFRS
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.69%) Docker
2 7 (3.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (3.63%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 19 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.22%) Podman
3 8 (4.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.99%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.33%) Oracle
3 13 (6.74%) Google
4 12 (6.22%) SAP
5 6 (3.11%) Databricks
5 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.07%) iManage
7 3 (1.55%) Temenos
8 2 (1.04%) Apple
8 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.04%) Foundry
8 2 (1.04%) Infor
8 2 (1.04%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.52%) Zoho