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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 224 196
Rank change year-on-year -150 -28 -66
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 260 734 824
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.21% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.45% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 151 335 646
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £104,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £63,150 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 39,764 50,778 44,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.35% 83.38% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,288 26,528 33,753
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,358 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -96 92 £89,500 +11.88% 131
North of England -54 59 £56,250 +7.14% 36
North West -22 45 £57,500 -6.12% 26
South East -31 43 £52,500 -10.64% 43
Midlands -1 29 £57,500 -11.54% 19
South West +15 21 £57,500 +17.54% 23
West Midlands +13 18 £57,500 -11.54% 10
East Midlands -10 11 £56,000 +12.00% 9
Yorkshire -8 10 £75,000 +57.89% 7
East of England +3 7 £58,750 -16.07% 26
North East -7 4 £47,500 +5.56% 3
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 23 (8.85%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.38%) Appian
3 11 (4.23%) Confluence
4 9 (3.46%) Headless CMS
5 6 (2.31%) Apache
6 5 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.92%) CMS
7 4 (1.54%) Camunda
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (1.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.38%) JBoss
10 1 (0.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.46%) Shopify
3 4 (1.54%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.54%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.38%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (27.69%) Azure
2 67 (25.77%) AWS
3 29 (11.15%) Amazon S3
4 28 (10.77%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.00%) Serverless
6 22 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (7.69%) GCP
8 20 (7.69%) GitHub
9 18 (6.92%) Amazon ELB
10 11 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.46%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.46%) Figma
13 8 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.08%) Google Analytics
13 8 (3.08%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.31%) Multicast
2 5 (1.92%) DNS
2 5 (1.92%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.15%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.38%) Internet
5 1 (0.38%) UWB
5 1 (0.38%) Wideband
5 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.85%) Metadata
4 22 (8.46%) Spark SQL
5 21 (8.08%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.92%) Delta Lake
6 18 (6.92%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.00%) Power BI
7 13 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.62%) MySQL
8 12 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.92%) Big Data
11 5 (1.92%) DB2
11 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.92%) Redis
11 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.54%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (20.77%) Git
2 28 (10.77%) JIRA
3 21 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.31%) MLflow
5 14 (5.38%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.38%) GitLab
6 13 (5.00%) JUnit
7 11 (4.23%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.69%) NUnit
9 7 (2.69%) Selenium
10 6 (2.31%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.31%) MSTest
10 6 (2.31%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.54%) Spinnaker
12 4 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.54%) YouTrack
13 3 (1.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 75 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 70 (26.92%) Finance
3 29 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.31%) Banking
5 17 (6.54%) Marketing
6 15 (5.77%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.38%) Law
8 12 (4.62%) Front Office
9 8 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.69%) Retail
11 6 (2.31%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.15%) Automotive
13 3 (1.15%) Electronics
13 3 (1.15%) Games
13 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 148 (56.92%) Developer
2 69 (26.54%) Senior
3 39 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 36 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 28 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (10.38%) .NET Developer
7 24 (9.23%) Lead
8 18 (6.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (6.92%) Operations Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.77%) Software Developer
11 14 (5.38%) Appian Developer
12 12 (4.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.85%) C++ Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.08%) C# Developer
15 8 (3.08%) Lead Developer
16 7 (2.69%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.62%) .NET
2 65 (25.00%) React
3 60 (23.08%) CSS
4 57 (21.92%) HTML
5 55 (21.15%) RESTful
6 29 (11.15%) .NET Core
6 29 (11.15%) REST
7 27 (10.38%) .NET Framework
7 27 (10.38%) AngularJS
8 26 (10.00%) PySpark
9 24 (9.23%) PyTorch
10 23 (8.85%) NumPy
10 23 (8.85%) Pandas
10 23 (8.85%) scikit-learn
10 23 (8.85%) Spring
11 22 (8.46%) YAML
12 20 (7.69%) TensorFlow
13 19 (7.31%) GraphQL
13 19 (7.31%) Keras
13 19 (7.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.92%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.46%) Derivative
4 9 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.31%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.31%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Blog
7 4 (1.54%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.15%) Genomics
8 3 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.46%) Unix
2 16 (6.15%) Linux
3 6 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.54%) Android
5 3 (1.15%) Windows
6 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (56.15%) Agile
2 107 (41.15%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.31%) DevOps
4 65 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 55 (21.15%) Mentoring
6 53 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (20.00%) Microservices
7 52 (20.00%) Scrum
8 50 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 49 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (17.69%) Containerisation
10 46 (17.69%) Integration Testing
11 40 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 39 (15.00%) SDLC
13 38 (14.62%) AI
14 37 (14.23%) OO
15 36 (13.85%) Machine Learning
16 35 (13.46%) Code Quality
16 35 (13.46%) User Experience
17 32 (12.31%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 86 (33.08%) SQL
2 69 (26.54%) C#
2 69 (26.54%) JavaScript
3 59 (22.69%) Python
4 56 (21.54%) Java
5 42 (16.15%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.15%) C++
7 9 (3.46%) C
8 6 (2.31%) Bash
9 5 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.54%) ABAP
10 4 (1.54%) R
10 4 (1.54%) X++
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
11 3 (1.15%) Erlang
11 3 (1.15%) PROC SQL
11 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 43 (16.54%) Degree
2 22 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.54%) PhD
9 4 (1.54%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.46%) QA
2 25 (9.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.92%) WCAG
4 2 (0.77%) GDPR
4 2 (0.77%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.77%) JTAG
4 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (21.92%) Docker
2 12 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.15%) Firmware
3 3 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.08%) Terraform
3 18 (6.92%) Kubeflow
4 9 (3.46%) Kibana
5 4 (1.54%) Ansible
5 4 (1.54%) Puppet
5 4 (1.54%) Salt
6 3 (1.15%) logstash
6 3 (1.15%) Oozie
7 1 (0.38%) Grafana
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.00%) Databricks
3 16 (6.15%) SAP
4 13 (5.00%) Oracle
5 11 (4.23%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.08%) Apple
6 8 (3.08%) Google
7 7 (2.69%) IBM
8 6 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.92%) Splunk
10 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.54%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.54%) Informatica
10 4 (1.54%) Moogsoft
10 4 (1.54%) Telerik
11 3 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.77%) Adobe
12 2 (0.77%) Cognos
12 2 (0.77%) Sybase