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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 239 200
Rank change year-on-year -147 -39 -66
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 220 618 704
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.21% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.35% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 123 327 554
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £124,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Process and 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 42,755 45,713 40,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.32% 89.63% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,458 23,249 31,363
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 83 £103,750 +37.42% 45
South East -5 46 £51,250 -10.87% 33
North of England -35 38 £60,000 +14.29% 41
North West -6 28 £60,000 +14.29% 29
Midlands -36 22 £57,500 -14.81% 8
West Midlands +8 13 £57,500 -17.86% 3
South West -12 13 £47,500 -17.39% 12
Yorkshire -16 9 £66,250 +47.22% 8
East Midlands -34 9 £49,500 -10.00% 5
East of England +7 5 £67,950 -2.93% 7
North East -17 1 - - 4
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 20 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.82%) Confluence
3 9 (4.09%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.27%) Apache
5 4 (1.82%) Camunda
5 4 (1.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) Windchill
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (5.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.09%) Shopify
3 4 (1.82%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.82%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.82%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.91%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.45%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.64%) Azure
2 55 (25.00%) AWS
3 31 (14.09%) Amazon S3
4 28 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.82%) Power Platform
5 26 (11.82%) Serverless
6 22 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (9.55%) GitHub
8 18 (8.18%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.45%) GCP
10 11 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.09%) Azure Functions
12 9 (4.09%) Figma
13 8 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.64%) Google Analytics
13 8 (3.64%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.45%) Multicast
2 3 (1.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.45%) UWB
3 1 (0.45%) Wideband
3 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.64%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.09%) Metadata
3 19 (8.64%) Spark SQL
4 18 (8.18%) Delta Lake
4 18 (8.18%) DynamoDB
5 16 (7.27%) NoSQL
6 15 (6.82%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.55%) DB2
9 9 (4.09%) Power BI
10 8 (3.64%) MySQL
11 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.36%) Redis
15 2 (0.91%) Big Data
15 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 1 (0.45%) OLAP
16 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (17.27%) Git
2 26 (11.82%) JIRA
3 21 (9.55%) Jenkins
4 20 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 19 (8.64%) MLflow
6 13 (5.91%) GitLab
6 13 (5.91%) Selenium
7 11 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.00%) JUnit
8 10 (4.55%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.55%) TeamCity
9 9 (4.09%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.27%) MSTest
10 5 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.82%) NUnit
12 3 (1.36%) eCATT
12 3 (1.36%) JMeter
12 3 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.91%) Moq
13 2 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.73%) Finance
3 34 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.82%) Banking
5 14 (6.36%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.36%) Marketing
6 13 (5.91%) Front Office
7 8 (3.64%) Law
7 8 (3.64%) Retail
8 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.82%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 121 (55.00%) Developer
2 52 (23.64%) Senior
3 33 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 26 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (10.00%) Lead
6 21 (9.55%) .NET Developer
6 21 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 18 (8.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (8.18%) Operations Engineer
8 17 (7.73%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.36%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) C++ Developer
12 11 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.09%) Java Engineer
13 9 (4.09%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (3.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (30.00%) React
2 64 (29.09%) .NET
3 59 (26.82%) CSS
4 58 (26.36%) HTML
5 48 (21.82%) RESTful
6 28 (12.73%) REST
7 25 (11.36%) .NET Core
8 23 (10.45%) PySpark
8 23 (10.45%) PyTorch
9 22 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.00%) NumPy
9 22 (10.00%) Pandas
9 22 (10.00%) scikit-learn
9 22 (10.00%) YAML
10 19 (8.64%) .NET Framework
10 19 (8.64%) TensorFlow
11 18 (8.18%) Keras
11 18 (8.18%) Lambda Expressions
11 18 (8.18%) Metaflow
12 17 (7.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.18%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (6.82%) Derivative
3 12 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.18%) Blog
6 5 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.36%) Genomics
9 2 (0.91%) IoT
9 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.91%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.45%) Linux
2 18 (8.18%) Unix
3 12 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (55.00%) Agile
2 99 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 66 (30.00%) DevOps
4 54 (24.55%) Scrum
5 51 (23.18%) Software Engineering
5 51 (23.18%) Test Automation
6 50 (22.73%) Mentoring
7 47 (21.36%) Integration Testing
8 46 (20.91%) Microservices
9 45 (20.45%) Containerisation
10 41 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (16.36%) Machine Learning
13 35 (15.91%) AI
13 35 (15.91%) User Experience
14 34 (15.45%) OO
15 32 (14.55%) Clean Code
16 30 (13.64%) Front End Development
17 29 (13.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 79 (35.91%) SQL
2 60 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 52 (23.64%) Java
4 49 (22.27%) C#
4 49 (22.27%) Python
5 37 (16.82%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.64%) C++
7 9 (4.09%) C
8 7 (3.18%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.82%) ABAP
9 4 (1.82%) Bash
9 4 (1.82%) X++
10 3 (1.36%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.36%) Erlang
10 3 (1.36%) RPG
10 3 (1.36%) SOQL
11 2 (0.91%) Perl
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Degree
2 14 (6.36%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.18%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (1.82%) PhD
6 4 (1.82%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) OCA
9 1 (0.45%) OCP
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 19 (8.64%) QA
3 4 (1.82%) WCAG
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.91%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.91%) JTAG
4 2 (0.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (25.45%) Docker
2 8 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.73%) Terraform
3 18 (8.18%) Kubeflow
4 5 (2.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) Argo
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.45%) Databricks
3 13 (5.91%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.91%) SAP
4 12 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.00%) Oracle
6 9 (4.09%) Apple
7 5 (2.27%) IBM
8 4 (1.82%) Google
8 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.82%) Telerik
9 2 (0.91%) Adobe
9 2 (0.91%) Cognos
9 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.91%) Zend
10 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.45%) Foundry
10 1 (0.45%) Marketo
10 1 (0.45%) Splunk