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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 421 232
Rank change year-on-year -89 -189 -49
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 241 231 828
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.53% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.60% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 158 139 403
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,150 £39,700
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £114,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 74,604 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52,829 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 18 September 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 -79 62 £82,500 +3.13% 170
North of England -77 42 £57,500 +15.00% 51
Midlands -37 35 £62,500 +8.70% 37
South West -76 35 £55,000 -4.35% 30
South East -42 29 £55,000 -8.33% 51
East of England -9 28 £45,000 -19.28% 39
West Midlands -37 25 £52,500 -8.70% 22
North West -38 18 £67,500 +31.71% 33
Yorkshire -38 14 £55,000 -26.67% 7
East Midlands -42 10 £66,000 +16.30% 15
North East -63 10 £57,500 +24.32% 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 15 (6.22%) IIS
2 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Simulink
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (6.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.66%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.83%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.95%) Azure
2 44 (18.26%) AWS
3 31 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (12.86%) GitHub
4 18 (7.47%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.64%) Serverless
6 14 (5.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 14 (5.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 13 (5.39%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.98%) GCP
9 10 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (4.15%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.90%) Figma
12 6 (2.49%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (2.49%) Cloud Run
13 5 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.73%) Bluetooth
1 9 (3.73%) Modbus
1 9 (3.73%) Profibus
1 9 (3.73%) RS-232
1 9 (3.73%) RS-485
1 9 (3.73%) Wireless
1 9 (3.73%) ZigBee
2 6 (2.49%) Broadband
2 6 (2.49%) SNMP
3 3 (1.24%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.16%) SQL Server
2 35 (14.52%) Relational Database
3 29 (12.03%) MySQL
4 14 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.81%) Power BI
5 13 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.56%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.56%) Redis
7 7 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.07%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.66%) SQLite
11 3 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (24.90%) Git
2 16 (6.64%) Claude Code
2 16 (6.64%) JIRA
3 14 (5.81%) GitLab
4 13 (5.39%) Cypress.io
4 13 (5.39%) Team Foundation Server
5 12 (4.98%) Jenkins
5 12 (4.98%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (4.56%) JUnit
7 10 (4.15%) NUnit
8 9 (3.73%) Visual Studio
9 8 (3.32%) Maven
10 7 (2.90%) Mockito
11 6 (2.49%) CircleCI
12 5 (2.07%) Postman
12 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
12 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.24%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 79 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.16%) Finance
3 44 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.30%) Law
4 20 (8.30%) Manufacturing
5 17 (7.05%) Legal
6 16 (6.64%) Marketing
7 14 (5.81%) Electronics
8 10 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.73%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.73%) Aviation
9 9 (3.73%) Military
9 9 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.73%) Retail
10 8 (3.32%) Banking
10 8 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.49%) Automotive
12 5 (2.07%) Advertising
12 5 (2.07%) Social Housing
13 4 (1.66%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 136 (56.43%) Developer
2 65 (26.97%) Senior
3 53 (21.99%) Software Engineer
4 30 (12.45%) Senior Developer
5 28 (11.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (11.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (9.13%) Lead
7 20 (8.30%) .NET Developer
8 17 (7.05%) Salesforce Developer
9 14 (5.81%) Senior Salesforce Developer
10 13 (5.39%) Consultant
11 11 (4.56%) Cloud Developer
12 9 (3.73%) C# Developer
12 9 (3.73%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) SAP Developer
12 9 (3.73%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) VB.NET Developer
13 8 (3.32%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (26.14%) .NET
2 60 (24.90%) REST
3 49 (20.33%) HTML
4 39 (16.18%) CSS
4 39 (16.18%) React
5 32 (13.28%) AngularJS
5 32 (13.28%) SOAP
6 30 (12.45%) ASP.NET
6 30 (12.45%) RESTful
7 28 (11.62%) Node.js
8 27 (11.20%) Spring
9 18 (7.47%) .NET Framework
10 17 (7.05%) ASP.NET Web API
10 17 (7.05%) jQuery
10 17 (7.05%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (7.05%) Terraform
10 17 (7.05%) Vue
11 15 (6.22%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (5.81%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 14 (5.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.45%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.30%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.05%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.49%) Robotics
8 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.07%) Blog
8 5 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.66%) CMDB
9 4 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.24%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.62%) Linux
2 12 (4.98%) Windows
3 11 (4.56%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.66%) Android
5 4 (1.66%) Unix
6 3 (1.24%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (44.40%) Agile
2 103 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 87 (36.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 83 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (30.29%) Software Engineering
6 58 (24.07%) DevOps
7 52 (21.58%) Test Automation
8 49 (20.33%) Scrum
9 45 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (17.43%) TDD
11 38 (15.77%) AI
12 36 (14.94%) Code Quality
12 36 (14.94%) User Experience
13 34 (14.11%) Mentoring
13 34 (14.11%) Microservices
13 34 (14.11%) SDLC
14 32 (13.28%) Sprint Planning
15 31 (12.86%) Integration Testing
16 27 (11.20%) Computer Science
17 26 (10.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (29.88%) JavaScript
2 63 (26.14%) C#
2 63 (26.14%) SQL
3 54 (22.41%) Java
4 43 (17.84%) TypeScript
5 35 (14.52%) Python
6 34 (14.11%) C++
7 26 (10.79%) C
8 17 (7.05%) Apex Code
9 14 (5.81%) SOQL
10 12 (4.98%) VB.NET
11 10 (4.15%) ABAP
12 9 (3.73%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.90%) Kotlin
13 7 (2.90%) PHP
14 6 (2.49%) Bash
14 6 (2.49%) T-SQL
15 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
16 3 (1.24%) Ada 95
16 3 (1.24%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 38 (15.77%) Degree
2 22 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.54%) QA
2 9 (3.73%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.07%) GDPR
4 4 (1.66%) WCAG
5 3 (1.24%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.83%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (18.26%) Docker
2 13 (5.39%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.49%) Podman
3 4 (1.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) logstash
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.37%) Oracle
3 19 (7.88%) Salesforce
3 19 (7.88%) SAP
4 11 (4.56%) Google
5 9 (3.73%) iManage
6 7 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.49%) Intel
8 4 (1.66%) Temenos
9 3 (1.24%) IBM
9 3 (1.24%) Infor
9 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.83%) Databricks
10 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.83%) YouTube
11 1 (0.41%) Apple
11 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.41%) Informatica
11 1 (0.41%) RedGate
11 1 (0.41%) Zoho