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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 311 271
Rank change year-on-year -195 -40 -83
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 187 378 887
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.96% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.02% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 124 285 693
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,125 £94,511 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +8.33% +2.64% -2.57%

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 60,212 36,881 71,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 93.36% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,696 20,356 53,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 May 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 May 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 -59 67 £85,000 +30.77% 19
North of England -63 35 £65,000 +18.18% 13
South East -59 28 £50,000 -13.04% 14
North West -8 21 £67,500 +25.58% 8
South West -81 21 £46,875 -18.48% 10
Midlands -64 16 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Yorkshire -40 12 £55,000 -24.27% 2
West Midlands -42 10 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East of England -31 9 £61,500 +7.89% 12
East Midlands -44 6 £65,250 +8.75% 10
North East -45 2 £57,500 +4.55% 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 10 (5.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.07%) IIS
3 2 (1.07%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.14%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.53%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.07%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.07%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.16%) Azure
2 46 (24.60%) AWS
3 45 (24.06%) GitHub
4 32 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (13.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 25 (13.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.49%) GCP
7 13 (6.95%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.42%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.42%) Cloud Run
9 8 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.28%) Serverless
10 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.42%) Broadband
2 5 (2.67%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.67%) Modbus
2 5 (2.67%) Multicast
2 5 (2.67%) Profibus
2 5 (2.67%) RS-232
2 5 (2.67%) RS-485
2 5 (2.67%) Wireless
2 5 (2.67%) ZigBee
3 3 (1.60%) HTTP
4 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.37%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.30%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.63%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.35%) MySQL
6 7 (3.74%) Power BI
7 6 (3.21%) DB2
8 5 (2.67%) SAP HANA
8 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.60%) Redis
10 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.60%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 50 (26.74%) Git
2 25 (13.37%) JIRA
3 13 (6.95%) Cypress.io
3 13 (6.95%) JUnit
4 12 (6.42%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.81%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.81%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.28%) Maven
6 8 (4.28%) Mockito
6 8 (4.28%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.74%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.74%) Selenium
8 4 (2.14%) GitLab
9 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.07%) TestRail
9 2 (1.07%) webpack
9 2 (1.07%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 50 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.67%) Finance
3 37 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.83%) Banking
5 22 (11.76%) Marketing
6 10 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.81%) Front Office
8 7 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.67%) Agriculture
9 5 (2.67%) Automotive
9 5 (2.67%) Electronics
9 5 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.67%) Law
9 5 (2.67%) Legal
9 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.67%) Retail
10 4 (2.14%) Advertising
10 4 (2.14%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.60%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.07%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (63.10%) Developer
2 62 (33.16%) Senior
3 37 (19.79%) Senior Developer
4 30 (16.04%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (13.90%) Salesforce Developer
7 25 (13.37%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 22 (11.76%) Cloud Developer
9 19 (10.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (9.63%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.49%) Lead
12 13 (6.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (5.88%) Consultant
14 10 (5.35%) Applications Developer
15 7 (3.74%) C++ Developer
15 7 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) Lead Developer
16 6 (3.21%) SAP Consultant
16 6 (3.21%) Web Developer
17 5 (2.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.48%) React
2 46 (24.60%) REST
3 44 (23.53%) HTML
4 40 (21.39%) .NET
5 39 (20.86%) CSS
6 30 (16.04%) SOAP
7 26 (13.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 24 (12.83%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.83%) RESTful
9 20 (10.70%) Node.js
10 18 (9.63%) Playwright
11 17 (9.09%) React Native
12 15 (8.02%) Bootstrap
13 14 (7.49%) Spring
14 12 (6.42%) Leaflet
14 12 (6.42%) Vue
15 11 (5.88%) Kafka
16 9 (4.81%) Middleware
16 9 (4.81%) Spring Boot
17 7 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.72%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.63%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.28%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.21%) Derivative
5 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.14%) CMDB
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.60%) Blog
8 3 (1.60%) PKI
9 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.37%) Linux
2 5 (2.67%) FreeRTOS
2 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.14%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (67.91%) Agile
2 96 (51.34%) CI/CD
3 61 (32.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (29.95%) Scrum
5 49 (26.20%) DevOps
6 47 (25.13%) Clean Code
6 47 (25.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (20.86%) Software Engineering
9 38 (20.32%) Sprint Planning
10 35 (18.72%) Mentoring
10 35 (18.72%) Microservices
11 34 (18.18%) TDD
12 32 (17.11%) Test Automation
13 29 (15.51%) System Testing
14 28 (14.97%) Containerisation
15 26 (13.90%) Front End Development
15 26 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (11.76%) Data Architecture
16 22 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.22%) SQL
2 54 (28.88%) JavaScript
3 44 (23.53%) Java
4 30 (16.04%) C#
4 30 (16.04%) Python
5 26 (13.90%) Apex Code
6 25 (13.37%) SOQL
7 21 (11.23%) C++
7 21 (11.23%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.88%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.35%) Bash
10 9 (4.81%) C
11 6 (3.21%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.67%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.14%) R
13 4 (2.14%) Rust
14 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.60%) Perl
14 3 (1.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 21 (11.23%) Degree
2 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) OCA
6 1 (0.53%) OCP
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.09%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.07%) GAAP
4 2 (1.07%) IFRS
4 2 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.32%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.53%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 21 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.42%) Podman
3 10 (5.35%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (13.90%) Salesforce
2 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.56%) Oracle
4 13 (6.95%) Google
5 8 (4.28%) SAP
6 6 (3.21%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.21%) Databricks
7 5 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.07%) Apple
8 2 (1.07%) Foundry
8 2 (1.07%) IBM
8 2 (1.07%) Infor
8 2 (1.07%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.07%) Temenos
8 2 (1.07%) Workday
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.53%) Zoho