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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 360 250
Rank change year-on-year -154 -110 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 232 322 807
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.74% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.83% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 154 208 525
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,800 £84,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 68,438 39,016 59,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.74% 89.57% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48,346 22,579 39,414
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 August 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 August 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 -103 60 £85,000 +30.77% 70
North of England -60 40 £57,500 +6.98% 37
South West -68 35 £53,500 -6.96% 11
Midlands -44 32 £60,000 - 21
South East -53 29 £51,250 -14.58% 23
East of England -14 25 £52,500 -7.89% 11
West Midlands -32 23 £52,500 -12.50% 10
North West -32 17 £67,500 +29.19% 25
Yorkshire -21 15 £55,000 -35.49% 6
East Midlands -19 9 £68,000 +13.33% 11
North East -50 8 £57,500 +21.05% 7
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 9 (3.88%) IIS
2 3 (1.29%) CMS
2 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.86%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.29%) Shopify
4 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.86%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 71 (30.60%) Azure
2 43 (18.53%) AWS
3 38 (16.38%) GitHub
4 31 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 21 (9.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 17 (7.33%) GCP
7 13 (5.60%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.60%) Serverless
8 12 (5.17%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (5.17%) Cloud Run
9 9 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.45%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.59%) Figma
12 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (2.16%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) Broadband
2 9 (3.88%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.88%) Modbus
2 9 (3.88%) Profibus
2 9 (3.88%) RS-232
2 9 (3.88%) RS-485
2 9 (3.88%) Wireless
2 9 (3.88%) ZigBee
3 5 (2.16%) SNMP
4 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.86%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.34%) MySQL
3 23 (9.91%) Relational Database
4 21 (9.05%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.19%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.31%) Redis
7 9 (3.88%) Power BI
8 6 (2.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.16%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.72%) SQLite
11 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 61 (26.29%) Git
2 18 (7.76%) JIRA
3 17 (7.33%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.17%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.31%) Claude Code
6 9 (3.88%) GitLab
6 9 (3.88%) JUnit
7 7 (3.02%) Maven
7 7 (3.02%) Mockito
7 7 (3.02%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (2.59%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.59%) NUnit
9 4 (1.72%) Postman
9 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.29%) TestRail
11 2 (0.86%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.12%) Finance
3 41 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.62%) Manufacturing
4 20 (8.62%) Marketing
5 19 (8.19%) Law
6 16 (6.90%) Legal
7 14 (6.03%) Banking
7 14 (6.03%) Electronics
8 9 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.45%) Military
10 7 (3.02%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.02%) Automotive
10 7 (3.02%) Aviation
11 6 (2.59%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.59%) Retail
12 5 (2.16%) Advertising
12 5 (2.16%) Agriculture
12 5 (2.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 138 (59.48%) Developer
2 62 (26.72%) Senior
3 46 (19.83%) Software Engineer
4 32 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 27 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.34%) Salesforce Developer
8 21 (9.05%) Lead
8 21 (9.05%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 18 (7.76%) Cloud Developer
10 17 (7.33%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.17%) Consultant
12 9 (3.88%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) SAP Developer
12 9 (3.88%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Web Developer
13 7 (3.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (3.02%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.29%) REST
2 55 (23.71%) .NET
3 47 (20.26%) React
4 41 (17.67%) HTML
5 38 (16.38%) SOAP
6 34 (14.66%) Node.js
7 30 (12.93%) CSS
8 27 (11.64%) AngularJS
9 25 (10.78%) ASP.NET
10 24 (10.34%) Lightning Web Components
10 24 (10.34%) RESTful
11 18 (7.76%) Playwright
11 18 (7.76%) Spring
12 15 (6.47%) .NET Framework
12 15 (6.47%) Kafka
13 14 (6.03%) Vue
14 13 (5.60%) OAuth
15 12 (5.17%) Entity Framework
15 12 (5.17%) Leaflet
15 12 (5.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.47%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.02%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.16%) Robotics
9 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.72%) CMDB
10 3 (1.29%) Blog
10 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.29%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.29%) PKI
11 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.64%) Linux
2 11 (4.74%) FreeRTOS
2 11 (4.74%) Windows
3 6 (2.59%) Unix
4 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.29%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (50.00%) Agile
2 100 (43.10%) CI/CD
3 90 (38.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (27.16%) Software Engineering
6 50 (21.55%) DevOps
7 49 (21.12%) Scrum
8 44 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (16.38%) Test Automation
10 37 (15.95%) TDD
11 35 (15.09%) Clean Code
11 35 (15.09%) Sprint Planning
12 33 (14.22%) Mentoring
13 30 (12.93%) Code Quality
13 30 (12.93%) SDLC
14 29 (12.50%) AI
14 29 (12.50%) Microservices
14 29 (12.50%) OOP
15 28 (12.07%) Integration Testing
16 26 (11.21%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (31.03%) SQL
2 71 (30.60%) JavaScript
3 61 (26.29%) C#
4 47 (20.26%) Java
5 38 (16.38%) Python
6 35 (15.09%) C++
7 30 (12.93%) TypeScript
8 24 (10.34%) Apex Code
9 21 (9.05%) C
9 21 (9.05%) SOQL
10 11 (4.74%) ABAP
11 9 (3.88%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.45%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.59%) Bash
13 6 (2.59%) Rust
13 6 (2.59%) VB.NET
14 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.72%) PHP
16 3 (1.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (15.95%) Degree
2 17 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.47%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) HND
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.05%) QA
2 7 (3.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.16%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) WCAG
5 2 (0.86%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (0.86%) GAAP
5 2 (0.86%) IFRS
5 2 (0.86%) MIL-STD-1553
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) MISRA
6 1 (0.43%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (17.24%) Docker
2 12 (5.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (5.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.17%) Podman
3 11 (4.74%) Terraform
4 2 (0.86%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
5 1 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.21%) Salesforce
3 20 (8.62%) Oracle
4 18 (7.76%) SAP
5 17 (7.33%) Google
6 9 (3.88%) iManage
7 6 (2.59%) Databricks
7 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.16%) Intel
9 4 (1.72%) Temenos
10 3 (1.29%) Infor
10 3 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.86%) Workday
12 1 (0.43%) Apple
12 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.43%) IBM
12 1 (0.43%) Informatica
12 1 (0.43%) Zoho