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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 300 267
Rank change year-on-year -192 -33 -70
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 184 393 867
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 1.03% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.11% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 124 305 686
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,438 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,515 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.19% +4.35% -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 60,123 35,337 71,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.78% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38,109 20,607 53,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +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 3 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 3 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 -51 77 £85,000 +30.77% 28
South East -72 31 £50,000 -13.04% 19
North of England -82 27 £65,000 +18.18% 31
South West -78 20 £45,000 -21.70% 12
North West -31 16 £67,500 +28.57% 13
Yorkshire -57 11 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Midlands -76 10 £65,000 +8.33% 15
East of England -33 8 £61,500 +7.89% 18
West Midlands -47 6 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East Midlands -53 4 £65,250 +8.75% 8
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 12 (6.52%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.09%) IIS
3 2 (1.09%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.09%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.54%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.54%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 58 (31.52%) Azure
2 46 (25.00%) AWS
3 44 (23.91%) GitHub
4 32 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 20 (10.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (8.15%) GCP
7 14 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.52%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.52%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.89%) Serverless
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.52%) Broadband
2 7 (3.80%) Multicast
3 4 (2.17%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.17%) Modbus
3 4 (2.17%) Profibus
3 4 (2.17%) RS-232
3 4 (2.17%) RS-485
3 4 (2.17%) Wireless
3 4 (2.17%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.63%) HTTP
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.59%) NoSQL
1 25 (13.59%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.24%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.43%) MySQL
5 8 (4.35%) DB2
6 6 (3.26%) Power BI
7 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.17%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.63%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.09%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (24.46%) Git
2 27 (14.67%) JIRA
3 12 (6.52%) CircleCI
3 12 (6.52%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.98%) Bitbucket
4 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.43%) JUnit
5 10 (5.43%) TeamCity
6 9 (4.89%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.89%) Selenium
7 5 (2.72%) Maven
7 5 (2.72%) Mockito
8 4 (2.17%) GitLab
9 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.09%) TestRail
9 2 (1.09%) webpack
9 2 (1.09%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.54%) MLflow
10 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 49 (26.63%) Finance
2 47 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.67%) Banking
5 20 (10.87%) Marketing
6 11 (5.98%) Front Office
7 9 (4.89%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.17%) Advertising
9 4 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.17%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.17%) Automotive
9 4 (2.17%) Electronics
9 4 (2.17%) Law
9 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (2.17%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.63%) Legal
11 2 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 116 (63.04%) Developer
2 57 (30.98%) Senior
3 32 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 29 (15.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (15.76%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.87%) Cloud Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Salesforce Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 18 (9.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 11 (5.98%) Applications Developer
9 10 (5.43%) Lead
10 9 (4.89%) C++ Developer
11 8 (4.35%) Consultant
11 8 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.52%) React
2 47 (25.54%) HTML
3 45 (24.46%) CSS
4 43 (23.37%) .NET
5 41 (22.28%) REST
6 25 (13.59%) RESTful
6 25 (13.59%) SOAP
7 22 (11.96%) AngularJS
8 21 (11.41%) Node.js
9 20 (10.87%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (9.24%) Playwright
11 16 (8.70%) Bootstrap
11 16 (8.70%) React Native
12 13 (7.07%) Spring
12 13 (7.07%) Vue
13 12 (6.52%) Leaflet
14 10 (5.43%) Kafka
14 10 (5.43%) Spring Boot
15 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET
15 9 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.76%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.89%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.35%) Derivative
4 8 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.72%) Blog
7 5 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.63%) PKI
10 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.13%) Linux
2 7 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.17%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (69.57%) Agile
2 91 (49.46%) CI/CD
3 56 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (30.43%) Scrum
4 51 (27.72%) DevOps
5 48 (26.09%) Clean Code
5 48 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 39 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.20%) Test Automation
8 36 (19.57%) Sprint Planning
9 35 (19.02%) Microservices
10 32 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 32 (17.39%) TDD
11 30 (16.30%) Front End Development
12 29 (15.76%) System Testing
13 27 (14.67%) Design Patterns
14 26 (14.13%) Integration Testing
15 25 (13.59%) Containerisation
16 24 (13.04%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.33%) SQL
2 54 (29.35%) JavaScript
3 48 (26.09%) Java
4 32 (17.39%) Python
5 30 (16.30%) C#
6 22 (11.96%) C++
7 20 (10.87%) Apex Code
7 20 (10.87%) SOQL
7 20 (10.87%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.89%) Bash
9 8 (4.35%) C
9 8 (4.35%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.26%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.17%) R
12 4 (2.17%) Rust
13 3 (1.63%) Perl
13 3 (1.63%) RPG
14 2 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (11.41%) Degree
2 10 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.54%) OCA
7 1 (0.54%) OCP
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) QA
2 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) GAAP
4 2 (1.09%) IFRS
4 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (20.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.17%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.54%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.54%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 20 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.52%) Podman
3 11 (5.98%) Terraform
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Salesforce
2 13 (7.07%) Google
2 13 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.52%) Oracle
4 8 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.35%) SAP
5 7 (3.80%) Databricks
5 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 2 (1.09%) Apple
6 2 (1.09%) Foundry
6 2 (1.09%) IBM
6 2 (1.09%) Infor
6 2 (1.09%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.09%) Telerik
6 2 (1.09%) Temenos
6 2 (1.09%) Workday
7 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.54%) Ping Identity