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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 421 229
Rank change year-on-year -99 -192 -41
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 239 231 828
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.53% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.60% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 154 138 420
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,100 £39,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £90,875 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 73,230 38,473 56,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 88.68% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52,112 22,159 32,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,229 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -68 63 £82,500 +15.38% 115
North of England -63 42 £57,500 +17.95% 37
South West -68 37 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Midlands -33 33 £60,000 +4.35% 24
East of England -8 27 £48,750 -12.56% 26
South East -35 27 £51,250 -14.58% 29
West Midlands -34 24 £52,500 -8.70% 15
North West -42 17 £67,500 +35.00% 21
Yorkshire -39 16 £55,000 -26.67% 7
East Midlands -36 9 £68,000 +19.82% 9
North East -58 9 £57,500 +24.32% 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 14 (5.86%) IIS
2 5 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.26%) CMS
4 2 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (6.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.67%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.26%) Shopify
4 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.84%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.80%) Azure
2 47 (19.67%) AWS
3 30 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (12.55%) GitHub
4 17 (7.11%) GCP
4 17 (7.11%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 15 (6.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 15 (6.28%) Serverless
6 12 (5.02%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.60%) Cloud Functions
7 11 (4.60%) Cloud Run
8 9 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.77%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (2.93%) Figma
10 7 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.60%) Broadband
2 9 (3.77%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.77%) Modbus
2 9 (3.77%) Profibus
2 9 (3.77%) RS-232
2 9 (3.77%) RS-485
2 9 (3.77%) Wireless
2 9 (3.77%) ZigBee
3 6 (2.51%) SNMP
4 3 (1.26%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.34%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.81%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.46%) MySQL
4 17 (7.11%) MongoDB
5 16 (6.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.44%) Power BI
7 11 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.18%) Redis
9 7 (2.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (2.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.09%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.67%) SQLite
13 3 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.26%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.42%) GIS
14 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
14 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 56 (23.43%) Git
2 18 (7.53%) Cypress.io
3 15 (6.28%) Claude Code
3 15 (6.28%) JIRA
4 12 (5.02%) GitLab
4 12 (5.02%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (4.60%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.60%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.18%) JUnit
6 10 (4.18%) NUnit
7 9 (3.77%) Jenkins
7 9 (3.77%) Visual Studio
8 8 (3.35%) Maven
9 7 (2.93%) Mockito
10 5 (2.09%) Postman
10 5 (2.09%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (1.26%) TestRail
13 2 (0.84%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.50%) Finance
3 43 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.95%) Law
4 19 (7.95%) Manufacturing
5 17 (7.11%) Legal
6 16 (6.69%) Marketing
7 14 (5.86%) Electronics
8 10 (4.18%) Retail
9 9 (3.77%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.77%) Aviation
9 9 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.35%) Banking
10 8 (3.35%) Military
11 7 (2.93%) Automotive
11 7 (2.93%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.09%) Advertising
12 5 (2.09%) Agriculture
12 5 (2.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 134 (56.07%) Developer
2 65 (27.20%) Senior
3 55 (23.01%) Software Engineer
4 30 (12.55%) Senior Developer
5 29 (12.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (12.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 21 (8.79%) Lead
7 19 (7.95%) .NET Developer
8 18 (7.53%) Salesforce Developer
9 15 (6.28%) Senior Salesforce Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Cloud Developer
11 11 (4.60%) Consultant
12 9 (3.77%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) SAP Developer
12 9 (3.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) VB.NET Developer
13 8 (3.35%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.52%) .NET
2 59 (24.69%) REST
3 47 (19.67%) HTML
4 44 (18.41%) React
5 36 (15.06%) CSS
6 33 (13.81%) SOAP
7 32 (13.39%) AngularJS
8 31 (12.97%) Node.js
9 30 (12.55%) ASP.NET
10 29 (12.13%) RESTful
11 25 (10.46%) Spring
12 18 (7.53%) Lightning Web Components
13 17 (7.11%) .NET Framework
14 16 (6.69%) ASP.NET Web API
14 16 (6.69%) jQuery
14 16 (6.69%) Terraform
14 16 (6.69%) Vue
15 15 (6.28%) Playwright
16 14 (5.86%) SAP Fiori
17 13 (5.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.97%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.11%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.18%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.35%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.93%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.51%) Robotics
9 5 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.67%) Blog
10 4 (1.67%) CMDB
10 4 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.26%) Learning Management System
11 3 (1.26%) PKI
11 3 (1.26%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.88%) Linux
2 12 (5.02%) Windows
3 11 (4.60%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.51%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.67%) Android
5 4 (1.67%) Unix
6 3 (1.26%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.86%) Agile
2 105 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 89 (37.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (33.05%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (31.38%) Software Engineering
6 54 (22.59%) DevOps
7 53 (22.18%) Scrum
8 49 (20.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (19.67%) Test Automation
10 41 (17.15%) TDD
11 36 (15.06%) AI
12 35 (14.64%) Mentoring
12 35 (14.64%) User Experience
13 34 (14.23%) Code Quality
14 33 (13.81%) SDLC
14 33 (13.81%) Sprint Planning
15 32 (13.39%) Microservices
16 31 (12.97%) Integration Testing
17 29 (12.13%) OOP
18 27 (11.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.80%) JavaScript
2 64 (26.78%) SQL
3 62 (25.94%) C#
4 52 (21.76%) Java
5 41 (17.15%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.64%) Python
7 34 (14.23%) C++
8 25 (10.46%) C
9 18 (7.53%) Apex Code
10 15 (6.28%) SOQL
11 11 (4.60%) VB.NET
12 10 (4.18%) ABAP
13 9 (3.77%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.93%) Kotlin
15 6 (2.51%) Bash
15 6 (2.51%) T-SQL
16 5 (2.09%) PHP
16 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
17 3 (1.26%) Ada
17 3 (1.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Degree
2 19 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) HND
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.21%) QA
2 9 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) WCAG
5 3 (1.26%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.84%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) Basel III
7 1 (0.42%) GAAP
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.42%) MISRA
7 1 (0.42%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (19.25%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.60%) Podman
3 4 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (0.84%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) logstash
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.04%) Oracle
3 20 (8.37%) Salesforce
4 18 (7.53%) SAP
5 16 (6.69%) Google
6 9 (3.77%) iManage
7 6 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.09%) Intel
9 4 (1.67%) Temenos
10 3 (1.26%) IBM
10 3 (1.26%) Infor
10 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.84%) Databricks
11 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.84%) YouTube
12 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.42%) RedGate
12 1 (0.42%) Workday
12 1 (0.42%) Zoho