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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 310 253
Rank change year-on-year -194 -57 -58
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 193 364 929
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.94% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.01% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 128 266 704
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £37,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 61,553 36,113 73,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.02% 93.35% 83.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,006 19,403 54,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 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 30 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 -86 63 £85,000 +30.77% 29
North of England -72 36 £65,000 +18.18% 19
South East -55 28 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Midlands -53 24 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North West -18 20 £67,500 +28.57% 14
South West -82 19 £46,875 -18.48% 9
West Midlands -41 16 £52,500 -12.50% 5
East of England -25 12 £61,500 +7.89% 5
Yorkshire -43 12 £55,000 -35.49% 3
East Midlands -31 8 £65,500 +9.17% 9
North East -45 4 £57,500 +4.55% 2
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 6 (3.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.04%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (34.72%) Azure
2 45 (23.32%) AWS
3 44 (22.80%) GitHub
4 32 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (12.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 25 (12.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.74%) GCP
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (3.11%) Serverless
12 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.59%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
15 2 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Broadband
2 6 (3.11%) Bluetooth
2 6 (3.11%) Modbus
2 6 (3.11%) Profibus
2 6 (3.11%) RS-232
2 6 (3.11%) RS-485
2 6 (3.11%) Wireless
2 6 (3.11%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (1.04%) Multicast
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.44%) NoSQL
1 24 (12.44%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.81%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.18%) MySQL
4 9 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.66%) Power BI
5 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.59%) Redis
7 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.59%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.07%) DB2
9 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.55%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (24.35%) Git
2 19 (9.84%) JIRA
3 14 (7.25%) Cypress.io
3 14 (7.25%) JUnit
4 12 (6.22%) CircleCI
5 11 (5.70%) Maven
5 11 (5.70%) Mockito
6 6 (3.11%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.07%) Selenium
9 3 (1.55%) TestRail
10 2 (1.04%) GitLab
10 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.52%) Storybook
11 1 (0.52%) utPLSQL
11 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 52 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.87%) Finance
3 35 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.40%) Marketing
5 21 (10.88%) Banking
6 11 (5.70%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.66%) Law
7 9 (4.66%) Legal
8 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.63%) Electronics
10 6 (3.11%) Front Office
10 6 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.59%) Agriculture
11 5 (2.59%) Automotive
11 5 (2.59%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.59%) Retail
11 5 (2.59%) Social Housing
12 4 (2.07%) Advertising
13 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (62.69%) Developer
2 63 (32.64%) Senior
3 37 (19.17%) Senior Developer
4 29 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 27 (13.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (13.47%) Salesforce Developer
7 25 (12.95%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 22 (11.40%) Cloud Developer
9 20 (10.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (9.84%) Lead
11 17 (8.81%) Java Developer
12 13 (6.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (6.22%) Consultant
14 9 (4.66%) Applications Developer
15 8 (4.15%) Lead Developer
16 7 (3.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 7 (3.63%) Web Developer
17 6 (3.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 6 (3.11%) SAP Consultant
17 6 (3.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.05%) React
2 50 (25.91%) REST
3 43 (22.28%) .NET
3 43 (22.28%) HTML
4 35 (18.13%) CSS
5 31 (16.06%) SOAP
6 28 (14.51%) AngularJS
7 26 (13.47%) Lightning Web Components
8 22 (11.40%) Node.js
8 22 (11.40%) RESTful
9 18 (9.33%) Playwright
9 18 (9.33%) React Native
10 16 (8.29%) Spring
11 14 (7.25%) Bootstrap
12 12 (6.22%) Leaflet
12 12 (6.22%) Vue
13 11 (5.70%) Kafka
14 8 (4.15%) Middleware
14 8 (4.15%) OAuth
14 8 (4.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.13%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.11%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.59%) CMDB
6 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.07%) Derivative
7 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
9 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.04%) AS400
9 2 (1.04%) Blog
9 2 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.88%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Android
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (65.80%) Agile
2 96 (49.74%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (28.50%) Scrum
5 48 (24.87%) DevOps
5 48 (24.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (23.32%) Clean Code
7 43 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (20.21%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.21%) Sprint Planning
9 37 (19.17%) TDD
10 35 (18.13%) Mentoring
10 35 (18.13%) Microservices
11 30 (15.54%) Containerisation
11 30 (15.54%) Test Automation
12 29 (15.03%) System Testing
13 25 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (11.92%) Front End Development
14 23 (11.92%) SDLC
15 22 (11.40%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.72%) SQL
2 55 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 43 (22.28%) Java
4 34 (17.62%) C#
5 27 (13.99%) Python
6 26 (13.47%) Apex Code
7 25 (12.95%) SOQL
8 20 (10.36%) C++
8 20 (10.36%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.25%) PL/SQL
10 10 (5.18%) Bash
10 10 (5.18%) C
11 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.07%) ABAP
12 4 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.07%) R
12 4 (2.07%) Rust
13 3 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.55%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.47%) Degree
2 16 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.77%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) HND
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) OCA
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) QA
2 6 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) GAAP
5 2 (1.04%) IFRS
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (21.24%) Docker
2 6 (3.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (3.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.22%) Podman
3 8 (4.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (13.47%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.33%) Oracle
3 13 (6.74%) Google
4 10 (5.18%) SAP
5 6 (3.11%) Databricks
5 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.04%) Apple
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
7 2 (1.04%) iManage
7 2 (1.04%) Infor
7 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.04%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.04%) Temenos
7 2 (1.04%) Workday
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Siemens