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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 235 269
Rank change year-on-year -221 +34 -89
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 193 569 735
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 1.34% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.44% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 123 345 592
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £112,250 £95,000 £87,375
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 48,558 39,642 58,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.92% 93.04% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,771 20,090 46,517
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,075 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -83 70 £98,750 +31.67% 32
South East -56 48 £50,000 -11.11% 19
North of England -55 30 £65,000 +23.81% 23
North West -17 23 £65,000 +23.81% 14
Midlands -64 14 £50,000 -20.00% 10
South West -44 13 £45,000 -21.66% 20
West Midlands -25 8 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Yorkshire -45 7 £75,000 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -49 6 £51,000 -15.00% 6
East of England -13 4 £62,500 +6.84% 7
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 16 (8.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
3 3 (1.55%) JBoss
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
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 10 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.66%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Windchill
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (5.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.07%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.07%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.07%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.04%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (33.16%) Azure
2 35 (18.13%) GitHub
3 33 (17.10%) AWS
4 32 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.40%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.29%) Serverless
7 10 (5.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 10 (5.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (4.15%) PaaS
9 7 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.63%) GCP
10 6 (3.11%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.11%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Multicast
2 4 (2.07%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.70%) DB2
4 11 (5.70%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.63%) Power BI
6 6 (3.11%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Connection
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Event Studio
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.52%) KDB
9 1 (0.52%) OLAP
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (22.28%) Git
2 25 (12.95%) JIRA
3 15 (7.77%) Bitbucket
3 15 (7.77%) JUnit
4 14 (7.25%) Jenkins
5 13 (6.74%) Selenium
6 12 (6.22%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.70%) TeamCity
8 6 (3.11%) Maven
8 6 (3.11%) Mockito
9 5 (2.59%) GitLab
10 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.04%) JMeter
10 2 (1.04%) webpack
11 1 (0.52%) CMake
11 1 (0.52%) MSTest
11 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (34.72%) Finance
2 37 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.40%) Banking
5 17 (8.81%) Marketing
6 16 (8.29%) Front Office
7 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.11%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Billing
11 2 (1.04%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (64.25%) Developer
2 43 (22.28%) Senior
3 28 (14.51%) Software Engineer
4 25 (12.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (12.44%) Java Developer
6 23 (11.92%) Lead
7 22 (11.40%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.81%) .NET Developer
9 14 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.74%) C++ Developer
11 11 (5.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Applications Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Cloud Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Salesforce Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Senior Salesforce Developer
13 9 (4.66%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.15%) Software Developer
15 7 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.20%) React
2 64 (33.16%) .NET
3 57 (29.53%) CSS
4 56 (29.02%) HTML
5 34 (17.62%) REST
6 32 (16.58%) RESTful
7 21 (10.88%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.81%) .NET Core
9 14 (7.25%) Bootstrap
9 14 (7.25%) React Native
9 14 (7.25%) SOAP
9 14 (7.25%) Spring
10 13 (6.74%) .NET Framework
10 13 (6.74%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.22%) Kafka
11 12 (6.22%) Vue
12 11 (5.70%) Gherkin
13 10 (5.18%) ASP.NET
13 10 (5.18%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Mobile App
1 17 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.77%) Derivative
3 11 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.70%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.63%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.63%) Blog
6 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.55%) Genomics
9 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.52%) CMDB
11 1 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.06%) Linux
2 12 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (68.91%) Agile
2 81 (41.97%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.12%) DevOps
4 55 (28.50%) Scrum
5 50 (25.91%) Mentoring
5 50 (25.91%) Microservices
6 49 (25.39%) Software Engineering
7 47 (24.35%) Test Automation
8 39 (20.21%) Clean Code
9 37 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (18.65%) Front End Development
10 36 (18.65%) Integration Testing
11 35 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (16.58%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (15.03%) User Experience
14 28 (14.51%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (14.51%) Design Patterns
14 28 (14.51%) TDD
15 24 (12.44%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.46%) Java
2 52 (26.94%) SQL
3 47 (24.35%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.73%) C#
5 28 (14.51%) Python
6 27 (13.99%) TypeScript
7 23 (11.92%) C++
8 10 (5.18%) Apex Code
8 10 (5.18%) Bash
8 10 (5.18%) SOQL
9 9 (4.66%) C
10 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.63%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.59%) ABAP
12 4 (2.07%) R
13 3 (1.55%) Erlang
13 3 (1.55%) RPG
13 3 (1.55%) Rust
14 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.04%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (14.51%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.18%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.07%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.52%) OCA
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.40%) QA
2 18 (9.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (16.58%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.70%) 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 21 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.74%) Oracle
3 12 (6.22%) Atlassian
3 12 (6.22%) Red Hat
4 11 (5.70%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.70%) SAP
5 6 (3.11%) Databricks
6 4 (2.07%) Google
6 4 (2.07%) IBM
6 4 (2.07%) Telerik
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
7 2 (1.04%) Cognos
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
7 2 (1.04%) Zend
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.52%) Marketo
8 1 (0.52%) Okta
8 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow