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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 410 239
Rank change year-on-year -123 -171 -54
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 235 227 792
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.52% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.59% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 150 135 357
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,775 £112,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 76,510 38,541 55,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.60% 89.13% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 53,897 21,791 29,983
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -81 56 £80,000 -3.03% 179
Midlands -39 39 £65,000 +13.04% 43
North of England -82 39 £57,500 +9.52% 61
South West -57 35 £55,000 -4.35% 32
South East -53 29 £55,000 -8.33% 53
West Midlands -33 28 £56,250 -2.17% 24
East of England -22 26 £45,000 -19.28% 23
North West -63 15 £71,250 +35.71% 42
North East -52 14 £57,500 +21.05% 11
East Midlands -38 11 £65,000 +14.54% 19
Yorkshire -28 10 £55,000 -26.67% 9
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 (6.81%) IIS
2 5 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.28%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Simulink
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (6.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.28%) Shopify
3 2 (0.85%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 75 (31.91%) Azure
2 42 (17.87%) AWS
3 30 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (12.34%) GitHub
5 15 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.53%) Power Automate
7 12 (5.11%) GCP
7 12 (5.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 12 (5.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 12 (5.11%) Serverless
8 11 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (4.26%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.98%) Figma
12 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (2.55%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (2.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) Bluetooth
1 8 (3.40%) Modbus
1 8 (3.40%) Profibus
1 8 (3.40%) RS-232
1 8 (3.40%) RS-485
1 8 (3.40%) Wireless
1 8 (3.40%) ZigBee
2 6 (2.55%) Broadband
2 6 (2.55%) SNMP
3 4 (1.70%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.70%) SQL Server
2 36 (15.32%) Relational Database
3 28 (11.91%) MySQL
4 16 (6.81%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.11%) Redis
6 11 (4.68%) Power BI
7 8 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.13%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.70%) SQLite
11 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.43%) Db2
13 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (23.83%) Git
2 17 (7.23%) Claude Code
2 17 (7.23%) GitLab
3 14 (5.96%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (5.53%) Cypress.io
4 13 (5.53%) JIRA
4 13 (5.53%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (4.68%) JUnit
5 11 (4.68%) NUnit
5 11 (4.68%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.40%) Maven
7 7 (2.98%) Mockito
8 6 (2.55%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.55%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.13%) Postman
9 5 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.70%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.00%) Finance
3 44 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.94%) Law
5 19 (8.09%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.23%) Legal
7 14 (5.96%) Marketing
8 13 (5.53%) Electronics
9 11 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.68%) Military
9 11 (4.68%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.26%) Aerospace
10 10 (4.26%) Retail
11 9 (3.83%) Aviation
12 8 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.13%) Automotive
13 5 (2.13%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.28%) Agriculture
14 3 (1.28%) Avionics
14 3 (1.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (55.32%) Developer
2 58 (24.68%) Senior
3 51 (21.70%) Software Engineer
4 26 (11.06%) Senior Developer
4 26 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (9.36%) .NET Developer
6 22 (9.36%) Lead
7 15 (6.38%) Salesforce Developer
8 12 (5.11%) Consultant
8 12 (5.11%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 10 (4.26%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.83%) Cloud Developer
10 9 (3.83%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.83%) SAP Developer
10 9 (3.83%) VB.NET Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.09%) .NET
2 56 (23.83%) REST
3 46 (19.57%) HTML
4 36 (15.32%) CSS
5 35 (14.89%) React
6 31 (13.19%) ASP.NET
7 30 (12.77%) AngularJS
7 30 (12.77%) Node.js
8 29 (12.34%) SOAP
9 26 (11.06%) RESTful
10 24 (10.21%) Spring
11 20 (8.51%) .NET Framework
12 19 (8.09%) jQuery
13 18 (7.66%) ASP.NET Web API
14 15 (6.38%) .NET Core
14 15 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 15 (6.38%) Kafka
14 15 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (6.38%) SAP Fiori
15 14 (5.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.94%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.23%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.40%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.55%) Blog
7 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.55%) Robotics
8 5 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.70%) CMDB
9 4 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.28%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.34%) Linux
2 13 (5.53%) Windows
3 10 (4.26%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.70%) Android
4 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.70%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (42.55%) CI/CD
2 99 (42.13%) Agile
3 85 (36.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 80 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (30.21%) Software Engineering
6 57 (24.26%) DevOps
7 50 (21.28%) Test Automation
8 45 (19.15%) Scrum
9 39 (16.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (16.60%) TDD
10 38 (16.17%) AI
11 37 (15.74%) User Experience
12 36 (15.32%) Code Quality
13 34 (14.47%) Integration Testing
13 34 (14.47%) SDLC
14 33 (14.04%) Sprint Planning
15 31 (13.19%) Mentoring
16 30 (12.77%) Microservices
17 27 (11.49%) Validation
18 26 (11.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.94%) JavaScript
2 65 (27.66%) C#
3 53 (22.55%) SQL
4 52 (22.13%) Java
5 44 (18.72%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.89%) C++
7 28 (11.91%) Python
8 27 (11.49%) C
9 15 (6.38%) Apex Code
10 13 (5.53%) VB.NET
11 12 (5.11%) SOQL
12 10 (4.26%) ABAP
13 8 (3.40%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.98%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.98%) PHP
15 6 (2.55%) Bash
16 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
17 3 (1.28%) Ada 95
17 3 (1.28%) Rust
17 3 (1.28%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 36 (15.32%) Degree
2 29 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) HND
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.49%) QA
2 9 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.70%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) Basel III
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.43%) MISRA
7 1 (0.43%) MISRA C
System Software
1 43 (18.30%) Docker
2 13 (5.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.55%) Podman
3 3 (1.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Argo
4 2 (0.85%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
5 1 (0.43%) logstash
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.91%) Oracle
3 19 (8.09%) SAP
4 17 (7.23%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.68%) Google
6 9 (3.83%) iManage
7 7 (2.98%) Intel
8 6 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.28%) IBM
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.85%) Talend
10 2 (0.85%) Temenos
10 2 (0.85%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.85%) YouTube
11 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.43%) Infor
11 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.43%) RedGate