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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 295 266
Rank change year-on-year -191 -29 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 188 400 862
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 1.05% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.13% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 128 310 684
10th Percentile £47,313 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,978
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.49% -3.37%

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 59,784 35,266 71,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.90% 93.00% 85.60%
Number of salaries quoted 37,838 20,560 53,783
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,792 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -51 79 £85,000 +30.77% 19
South East -77 33 £50,000 -13.04% 15
North of England -90 27 £65,000 +18.18% 25
South West -71 20 £45,000 -21.66% 9
North West -45 16 £67,500 +28.57% 12
Yorkshire -62 11 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Midlands -78 9 £65,250 +8.75% 12
East of England -38 8 £61,500 +7.89% 9
West Midlands -51 5 - - 6
East Midlands -62 4 £65,250 +8.75% 6
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 13 (6.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.06%) IIS
3 2 (1.06%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.53%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.06%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.38%) Azure
2 46 (24.47%) AWS
3 45 (23.94%) GitHub
4 33 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 20 (10.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (7.98%) GCP
7 14 (7.45%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.38%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.38%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.79%) Serverless
10 6 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (1.06%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.38%) Broadband
2 8 (4.26%) Multicast
3 4 (2.13%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.13%) Modbus
3 4 (2.13%) Profibus
3 4 (2.13%) RS-232
3 4 (2.13%) RS-485
3 4 (2.13%) Wireless
3 4 (2.13%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.60%) HTTP
5 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.36%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.30%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.04%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.32%) MySQL
6 9 (4.79%) DB2
7 6 (3.19%) Power BI
8 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.13%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.06%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (23.94%) Git
2 28 (14.89%) JIRA
3 12 (6.38%) Bitbucket
3 12 (6.38%) CircleCI
3 12 (6.38%) Cypress.io
3 12 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.85%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.32%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.32%) JUnit
5 10 (5.32%) Selenium
6 5 (2.66%) Maven
6 5 (2.66%) Mockito
7 4 (2.13%) GitLab
8 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.06%) TestRail
8 2 (1.06%) webpack
8 2 (1.06%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.53%) utPLSQL
General
1 50 (26.60%) Finance
2 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.89%) Banking
5 20 (10.64%) Marketing
6 12 (6.38%) Front Office
7 9 (4.79%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Advertising
9 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.13%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.13%) Automotive
9 4 (2.13%) Electronics
9 4 (2.13%) Law
9 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.13%) Retail
9 4 (2.13%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.60%) Legal
11 2 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 120 (63.83%) Developer
2 57 (30.32%) Senior
3 32 (17.02%) Senior Developer
4 31 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (15.43%) Software Engineer
6 21 (11.17%) Java Developer
7 20 (10.64%) Cloud Developer
7 20 (10.64%) Salesforce Developer
7 20 (10.64%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 18 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.38%) Applications Developer
9 12 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (5.32%) C++ Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Lead
11 8 (4.26%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.26%) Consultant
11 8 (4.26%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (3.19%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (32.45%) React
2 49 (26.06%) HTML
3 47 (25.00%) CSS
4 45 (23.94%) .NET
5 42 (22.34%) REST
6 26 (13.83%) RESTful
7 25 (13.30%) SOAP
8 23 (12.23%) AngularJS
9 22 (11.70%) Node.js
10 20 (10.64%) Lightning Web Components
11 17 (9.04%) Bootstrap
11 17 (9.04%) Playwright
11 17 (9.04%) React Native
12 14 (7.45%) Spring
13 13 (6.91%) Vue
14 12 (6.38%) Leaflet
15 10 (5.32%) ASP.NET
15 10 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (5.32%) Kafka
15 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.43%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.64%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.79%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.79%) Derivative
3 9 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.66%) Blog
6 5 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.60%) PKI
9 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.36%) Linux
2 8 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.13%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (70.21%) Agile
2 93 (49.47%) CI/CD
3 58 (30.85%) Scrum
4 56 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (28.72%) DevOps
6 50 (26.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (26.06%) Clean Code
8 41 (21.81%) Software Engineering
9 40 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (21.28%) Test Automation
10 37 (19.68%) Sprint Planning
11 36 (19.15%) Microservices
12 32 (17.02%) Front End Development
12 32 (17.02%) Mentoring
12 32 (17.02%) TDD
13 29 (15.43%) System Testing
14 28 (14.89%) Design Patterns
15 27 (14.36%) Integration Testing
16 25 (13.30%) Containerisation
16 25 (13.30%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.11%) SQL
2 55 (29.26%) JavaScript
3 50 (26.60%) Java
4 33 (17.55%) Python
5 31 (16.49%) C#
6 23 (12.23%) C++
7 21 (11.17%) TypeScript
8 20 (10.64%) Apex Code
8 20 (10.64%) SOQL
9 9 (4.79%) Bash
9 9 (4.79%) C
10 8 (4.26%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.19%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.19%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.13%) R
13 4 (2.13%) Rust
14 3 (1.60%) Perl
14 3 (1.60%) RPG
15 2 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (11.17%) Degree
2 11 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.53%) OCA
8 1 (0.53%) OCP
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.11%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.06%) GAAP
4 2 (1.06%) IFRS
4 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (20.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.13%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.53%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 21 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.38%) Podman
3 11 (5.85%) Terraform
4 2 (1.06%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) 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 20 (10.64%) Salesforce
2 13 (6.91%) Google
2 13 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.38%) Oracle
4 9 (4.79%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.26%) SAP
6 7 (3.72%) Databricks
7 3 (1.60%) IBM
7 3 (1.60%) Telerik
8 2 (1.06%) Adobe
8 2 (1.06%) Apple
8 2 (1.06%) Foundry
8 2 (1.06%) Infor
8 2 (1.06%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.06%) Temenos
8 2 (1.06%) Workday
9 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.53%) Marketo