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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 241 195
Rank change year-on-year -139 -46 -65
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 249 701 786
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.18% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.38% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 148 340 614
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Process and 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 39,773 50,774 42,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.63% 85.55% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,866 26,512 32,958
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -72 94 £95,000 +26.67% 44
North of England -36 46 £60,000 +14.29% 25
South East -11 44 £52,500 -8.70% 50
North West -4 33 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Midlands -5 29 £57,500 -11.54% 11
South West 0 20 £63,750 +6.25% 15
West Midlands +25 17 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East Midlands -5 12 £54,250 +8.50% 6
Yorkshire -13 10 £75,000 +57.89% 5
East of England +13 5 £67,950 -2.93% 23
North East -4 3 £45,000 -5.26% 3
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 22 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.62%) Confluence
3 12 (4.82%) Appian
4 9 (3.61%) Headless CMS
5 6 (2.41%) Apache
6 5 (2.01%) CMS
7 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.61%) Camunda
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.80%) SAS
9 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.40%) JBoss
10 1 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.61%) Shopify
3 4 (1.61%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.32%) Azure
2 66 (26.51%) AWS
3 31 (12.45%) Amazon S3
4 28 (11.24%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.84%) Serverless
6 24 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (8.43%) GitHub
9 18 (7.23%) Amazon ELB
10 17 (6.83%) GCP
11 12 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.61%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.61%) Figma
14 8 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.21%) Google Analytics
14 8 (3.21%) PaaS
14 8 (3.21%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.02%) Multicast
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.80%) HTTP
3 2 (0.80%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) UWB
4 1 (0.40%) Wideband
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.88%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.24%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.84%) Metadata
4 21 (8.43%) Spark SQL
5 19 (7.63%) MongoDB
6 18 (7.23%) Delta Lake
6 18 (7.23%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.82%) MySQL
9 11 (4.42%) Power BI
10 9 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.81%) DB2
11 7 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.01%) Redis
13 4 (1.61%) Big Data
13 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.20%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (18.88%) Git
2 30 (12.05%) JIRA
3 24 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.63%) MLflow
5 17 (6.83%) Bitbucket
6 15 (6.02%) GitLab
7 12 (4.82%) JUnit
8 11 (4.42%) SonarQube
9 10 (4.02%) Cypress.io
9 10 (4.02%) Selenium
10 8 (3.21%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.21%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.41%) MSTest
11 6 (2.41%) NUnit
12 5 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (1.20%) eCATT
14 3 (1.20%) Mockito
14 3 (1.20%) YouTrack
General
1 71 (28.51%) Finance
2 69 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.63%) Banking
5 17 (6.83%) Marketing
6 15 (6.02%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.62%) Front Office
8 12 (4.82%) Law
9 8 (3.21%) Retail
10 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.41%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.01%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.61%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.20%) Electronics
14 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.80%) Automotive
15 2 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 141 (56.63%) Developer
2 63 (25.30%) Senior
3 37 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.25%) Senior Developer
5 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.44%) .NET Developer
7 24 (9.64%) Lead
8 18 (7.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (7.23%) Operations Engineer
9 16 (6.43%) Java Developer
9 16 (6.43%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.22%) C++ Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Appian Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.21%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.81%) Backend Developer
15 7 (2.81%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.81%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (29.72%) .NET
2 64 (25.70%) React
3 59 (23.69%) CSS
4 56 (22.49%) HTML
5 47 (18.88%) RESTful
6 31 (12.45%) REST
7 28 (11.24%) .NET Core
8 27 (10.84%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.44%) .NET Framework
10 25 (10.04%) PySpark
11 23 (9.24%) PyTorch
12 22 (8.84%) NumPy
12 22 (8.84%) Pandas
12 22 (8.84%) scikit-learn
12 22 (8.84%) YAML
13 19 (7.63%) TensorFlow
14 18 (7.23%) GraphQL
14 18 (7.23%) Keras
14 18 (7.23%) Lambda Expressions
14 18 (7.23%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.22%) Derivative
3 11 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.42%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.01%) Blog
7 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.20%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.84%) Linux
2 21 (8.43%) Unix
3 10 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Android
4 3 (1.20%) Windows
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (57.03%) Agile
2 108 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 70 (28.11%) DevOps
4 60 (24.10%) Software Engineering
5 58 (23.29%) Mentoring
6 54 (21.69%) Scrum
7 50 (20.08%) Test Automation
8 49 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (19.28%) Integration Testing
9 48 (19.28%) Microservices
10 46 (18.47%) Containerisation
11 39 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (15.26%) AI
13 37 (14.86%) SDLC
14 36 (14.46%) Machine Learning
14 36 (14.46%) OO
15 33 (13.25%) User Experience
16 32 (12.85%) Clean Code
17 31 (12.45%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.93%) SQL
2 64 (25.70%) C#
2 64 (25.70%) JavaScript
3 57 (22.89%) Python
4 51 (20.48%) Java
5 40 (16.06%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.63%) C++
7 9 (3.61%) C
8 6 (2.41%) Bash
8 6 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.61%) ABAP
9 4 (1.61%) X++
10 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.20%) Bicep
10 3 (1.20%) Erlang
10 3 (1.20%) PHP
10 3 (1.20%) SOQL
11 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.80%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (16.47%) Degree
2 20 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.42%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.61%) PhD
9 4 (1.61%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.25%) QA
2 26 (10.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) WCAG
4 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.80%) JTAG
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 59 (23.69%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.80%) Firmware
3 2 (0.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.65%) Terraform
3 18 (7.23%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.21%) Kibana
5 3 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (1.20%) Puppet
5 3 (1.20%) Salt
6 2 (0.80%) Grafana
6 2 (0.80%) logstash
6 2 (0.80%) Oozie
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.04%) Databricks
3 15 (6.02%) SAP
4 13 (5.22%) Oracle
5 12 (4.82%) Atlassian
6 10 (4.02%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.21%) Apple
8 7 (2.81%) Google
9 5 (2.01%) IBM
10 4 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.61%) Telerik
11 3 (1.20%) Informatica
11 3 (1.20%) Splunk
12 2 (0.80%) Adobe
12 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.80%) Cognos
12 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.80%) Sybase
12 2 (0.80%) Xamarin