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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 233 266
Rank change year-on-year -227 +33 -85
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 198 535 744
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 1.30% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.39% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 127 342 604
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,438 £70,438
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £86,250
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 50,059 38,488 61,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.51% 93.43% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 30,809 20,039 48,115
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -79 70 £95,000 +26.67% 38
South East -58 52 £50,000 -11.11% 29
North of England -72 30 £65,000 +23.81% 22
North West -22 23 £65,000 +23.81% 11
South West -55 14 £45,000 -21.74% 26
Midlands -69 13 £51,000 -15.00% 14
West Midlands -38 7 - - 6
Yorkshire -48 7 £75,000 +42.86% 7
East Midlands -48 6 £51,000 -15.00% 8
East of England -15 4 £62,500 +9.65% 5
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 15 (7.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) JBoss
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.04%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.01%) Windchill
4 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.02%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.02%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.02%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.01%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.51%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.33%) Azure
2 39 (19.70%) GitHub
3 34 (17.17%) AWS
4 32 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.08%) Serverless
7 11 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 11 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (4.04%) GCP
8 8 (4.04%) PaaS
9 7 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.54%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.03%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.03%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.06%) Multicast
2 4 (2.02%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.05%) DB2
4 7 (3.54%) MySQL
4 7 (3.54%) Power BI
5 4 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.51%) Cognos Framework Manager
8 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.51%) KDB
8 1 (0.51%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) OLAP
8 1 (0.51%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (23.23%) Git
2 25 (12.63%) JIRA
3 14 (7.07%) Bitbucket
3 14 (7.07%) JUnit
4 12 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.56%) Selenium
5 11 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 10 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.03%) Maven
7 6 (3.03%) Mockito
8 5 (2.53%) GitLab
9 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.01%) webpack
10 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.51%) Locust
10 1 (0.51%) MLflow
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.51%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.51%) Storybook
10 1 (0.51%) XCUITest
General
1 67 (33.84%) Finance
2 37 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.11%) Banking
4 18 (9.09%) Marketing
5 17 (8.59%) Front Office
6 9 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.03%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.02%) Retail
10 2 (1.01%) Billing
10 2 (1.01%) Law
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (65.15%) Developer
2 44 (22.22%) Senior
3 27 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 26 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 23 (11.62%) Java Developer
7 22 (11.11%) Lead
8 17 (8.59%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.57%) C++ Developer
9 13 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) Applications Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 10 (5.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 10 (5.05%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.54%) Application Development Manager
13 7 (3.54%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.83%) .NET
1 65 (32.83%) React
2 60 (30.30%) CSS
3 59 (29.80%) HTML
4 34 (17.17%) REST
5 31 (15.66%) RESTful
6 19 (9.60%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.59%) .NET Core
8 16 (8.08%) Bootstrap
8 16 (8.08%) React Native
9 15 (7.58%) SOAP
10 14 (7.07%) .NET Framework
10 14 (7.07%) Spring
11 13 (6.57%) FIX Protocol
11 13 (6.57%) Kafka
12 12 (6.06%) Vue
13 11 (5.56%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (5.05%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 18 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.58%) Derivative
3 11 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.54%) Blog
7 6 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.52%) Genomics
10 3 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.51%) CMDB
12 1 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.16%) Linux
2 12 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (68.69%) Agile
2 80 (40.40%) CI/CD
3 64 (32.32%) DevOps
4 54 (27.27%) Scrum
5 50 (25.25%) Mentoring
6 47 (23.74%) Microservices
7 46 (23.23%) Software Engineering
7 46 (23.23%) Test Automation
8 43 (21.72%) Clean Code
9 38 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (18.69%) Front End Development
10 37 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (18.18%) Integration Testing
12 32 (16.16%) Sprint Planning
13 28 (14.14%) User Experience
14 27 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (13.64%) Design Patterns
14 27 (13.64%) TDD
15 26 (13.13%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (28.79%) SQL
2 53 (26.77%) Java
3 49 (24.75%) JavaScript
4 41 (20.71%) C#
5 31 (15.66%) Python
6 27 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 24 (12.12%) C++
8 11 (5.56%) Apex Code
8 11 (5.56%) SOQL
9 10 (5.05%) Bash
10 9 (4.55%) C
11 7 (3.54%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.54%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.53%) ABAP
13 4 (2.02%) R
13 4 (2.02%) Rust
14 3 (1.52%) Erlang
14 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.52%) RPG
15 2 (1.01%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (14.65%) Degree
2 14 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.02%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.51%) OCA
8 1 (0.51%) OCP
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.11%) QA
2 18 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.02%) WCAG
4 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (15.66%) Docker
2 8 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.06%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Argo
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.57%) Oracle
3 12 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.06%) SAP
4 11 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.54%) Databricks
6 5 (2.53%) Google
7 4 (2.02%) IBM
7 4 (2.02%) Telerik
8 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 2 (1.01%) Cognos
8 2 (1.01%) Foundry
8 2 (1.01%) Zend
9 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.51%) Marketo
9 1 (0.51%) Okta
9 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow