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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 252 262
Rank change year-on-year -193 +10 -78
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 194 500 792
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 1.27% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.35% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 125 351 651
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £82,674
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 50,229 36,970 64,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.08% 93.72% 87.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30,936 20,206 50,456
10th Percentile £29,800 £32,500 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -72 71 £86,250 +15.00% 59
South East -56 50 £50,000 -11.11% 37
North of England -75 28 £65,000 +18.18% 23
North West -29 21 £65,000 +23.81% 12
South West -61 15 £45,000 -21.74% 31
Midlands -75 12 £49,500 -17.50% 15
West Midlands -43 7 - - 6
Yorkshire -54 7 £75,000 +33.33% 6
East Midlands -44 5 £49,500 -17.50% 9
East of England -12 4 £62,500 +9.65% 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 (7.73%) Confluence
2 6 (3.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Windchill
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.06%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.06%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.51%) Azure
2 41 (21.13%) GitHub
3 33 (17.01%) AWS
4 31 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.34%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.25%) Serverless
7 13 (6.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 13 (6.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (4.12%) GCP
8 8 (4.12%) PaaS
9 7 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.09%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) Multicast
2 3 (1.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.15%) DB2
5 7 (3.61%) MySQL
5 7 (3.61%) Power BI
6 4 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Connection
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Event Studio
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 1 (0.52%) OLAP
9 1 (0.52%) Redis
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (24.23%) Git
2 25 (12.89%) JIRA
3 14 (7.22%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.70%) JUnit
5 12 (6.19%) Jenkins
6 11 (5.67%) Selenium
6 11 (5.67%) TeamCity
7 10 (5.15%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.09%) Maven
8 6 (3.09%) Mockito
9 5 (2.58%) GitLab
10 2 (1.03%) webpack
11 1 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.52%) Locust
11 1 (0.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.52%) Storybook
11 1 (0.52%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (32.99%) Finance
2 36 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (18.04%) Social Skills
4 22 (11.34%) Banking
5 20 (10.31%) Marketing
6 16 (8.25%) Front Office
7 8 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.09%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.06%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.06%) Retail
11 2 (1.03%) Billing
11 2 (1.03%) Law
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (65.46%) Developer
2 44 (22.68%) Senior
3 26 (13.40%) Full-Stack Developer
3 26 (13.40%) Senior Developer
3 26 (13.40%) Software Engineer
4 22 (11.34%) Lead
5 21 (10.82%) Java Developer
6 17 (8.76%) .NET Developer
7 13 (6.70%) C++ Developer
7 13 (6.70%) Cloud Developer
7 13 (6.70%) Salesforce Developer
7 13 (6.70%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 12 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) Applications Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.64%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Application Development Manager
12 7 (3.61%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.51%) .NET
2 64 (32.99%) React
3 58 (29.90%) CSS
3 58 (29.90%) HTML
4 33 (17.01%) REST
5 30 (15.46%) RESTful
6 17 (8.76%) .NET Core
6 17 (8.76%) AngularJS
6 17 (8.76%) SOAP
7 16 (8.25%) Bootstrap
7 16 (8.25%) React Native
8 14 (7.22%) .NET Framework
9 13 (6.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (6.70%) Spring
10 12 (6.19%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (5.67%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (5.67%) Kafka
11 11 (5.67%) Vue
12 10 (5.15%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.28%) Mobile App
3 14 (7.22%) Derivative
4 11 (5.67%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.61%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.61%) Blog
8 6 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.55%) Genomics
11 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.52%) CMDB
13 1 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.49%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.06%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (70.10%) Agile
2 80 (41.24%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.47%) DevOps
4 53 (27.32%) Scrum
5 49 (25.26%) Mentoring
6 46 (23.71%) Clean Code
7 45 (23.20%) Software Engineering
7 45 (23.20%) Test Automation
8 43 (22.16%) Microservices
9 39 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (18.56%) Front End Development
12 34 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
12 34 (17.53%) Integration Testing
12 34 (17.53%) Sprint Planning
13 28 (14.43%) System Testing
14 27 (13.92%) Design Patterns
15 26 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (13.40%) TDD
15 26 (13.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.87%) SQL
2 50 (25.77%) Java
3 49 (25.26%) JavaScript
4 41 (21.13%) C#
5 31 (15.98%) Python
6 26 (13.40%) TypeScript
7 24 (12.37%) C++
8 13 (6.70%) Apex Code
8 13 (6.70%) SOQL
9 10 (5.15%) Bash
10 9 (4.64%) C
11 7 (3.61%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.61%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.58%) ABAP
13 4 (2.06%) R
13 4 (2.06%) Rust
14 3 (1.55%) Erlang
14 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.55%) RPG
15 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.43%) Degree
2 13 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.15%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.06%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.52%) OCA
7 1 (0.52%) OCP
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.34%) QA
2 17 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (15.98%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.19%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 1 (0.52%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.22%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.19%) Oracle
3 12 (6.19%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.19%) SAP
4 11 (5.67%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.61%) Databricks
6 5 (2.58%) Google
7 4 (2.06%) IBM
7 4 (2.06%) Telerik
8 2 (1.03%) Adobe
8 2 (1.03%) Foundry
8 2 (1.03%) Zend
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.52%) Marketo
9 1 (0.52%) Okta
9 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.52%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow