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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 384 244
Rank change year-on-year -124 -140 -65
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 242 282 821
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.64% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.72% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 161 179 516
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,250 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,778 £85,000
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 69,973 39,019 58,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.54% 89.23% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49,427 22,481 38,080
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 20 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 20 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 -89 60 £85,000 +30.77% 115
North of England -54 43 £57,500 +9.52% 45
South West -63 38 £53,500 -6.96% 20
Midlands -32 32 £60,000 - 29
South East -40 31 £50,000 -16.67% 18
East of England -3 27 £48,750 -14.47% 17
West Midlands -32 23 £52,500 -12.50% 17
North West -41 18 £67,500 +29.19% 29
Yorkshire -28 16 £55,000 -35.49% 6
East Midlands -28 9 £68,000 +15.74% 12
North East -55 9 £57,500 +24.32% 11
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 11 (4.55%) IIS
2 3 (1.24%) CMS
2 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Confluence
3 2 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (6.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.41%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.40%) Azure
2 48 (19.83%) AWS
3 36 (14.88%) GitHub
4 32 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.85%) GCP
5 19 (7.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 19 (7.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (6.20%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.37%) Serverless
8 12 (4.96%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (4.96%) Cloud Run
9 10 (4.13%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (2.89%) Figma
12 7 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.89%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.96%) Broadband
2 9 (3.72%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.72%) Modbus
2 9 (3.72%) Profibus
2 9 (3.72%) RS-232
2 9 (3.72%) RS-485
2 9 (3.72%) Wireless
2 9 (3.72%) ZigBee
3 6 (2.48%) SNMP
4 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.24%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.40%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.33%) MySQL
4 19 (7.85%) MongoDB
4 19 (7.85%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.55%) Power BI
7 9 (3.72%) Redis
8 6 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.07%) SAP HANA
9 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.65%) SQLite
11 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 62 (25.62%) Git
2 19 (7.85%) Cypress.io
3 17 (7.02%) JIRA
4 12 (4.96%) CircleCI
4 12 (4.96%) Claude Code
5 10 (4.13%) GitLab
6 9 (3.72%) JUnit
6 9 (3.72%) NUnit
6 9 (3.72%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (3.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (3.31%) Maven
8 7 (2.89%) Jenkins
8 7 (2.89%) Mockito
8 7 (2.89%) Visual Studio
9 5 (2.07%) Postman
9 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (1.24%) TestRail
12 2 (0.83%) Mocha
General
1 80 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.66%) Finance
3 44 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.68%) Manufacturing
5 19 (7.85%) Law
5 19 (7.85%) Marketing
6 16 (6.61%) Legal
7 14 (5.79%) Electronics
8 11 (4.55%) Banking
9 10 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.72%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.72%) Aviation
10 9 (3.72%) Military
10 9 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.31%) Retail
12 7 (2.89%) Automotive
13 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
14 5 (2.07%) Advertising
14 5 (2.07%) Agriculture
14 5 (2.07%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 141 (58.26%) Developer
2 66 (27.27%) Senior
3 51 (21.07%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 30 (12.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (11.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
8 21 (8.68%) Lead
9 19 (7.85%) Senior Salesforce Developer
10 18 (7.44%) .NET Developer
11 16 (6.61%) Cloud Developer
12 12 (4.96%) Consultant
13 9 (3.72%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) SAP Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) Web Developer
14 8 (3.31%) VB.NET Developer
15 7 (2.89%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.21%) REST
2 59 (24.38%) .NET
3 48 (19.83%) React
4 47 (19.42%) HTML
5 36 (14.88%) SOAP
6 35 (14.46%) CSS
7 34 (14.05%) Node.js
8 30 (12.40%) AngularJS
9 28 (11.57%) ASP.NET
10 25 (10.33%) RESTful
11 22 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
12 20 (8.26%) Spring
13 17 (7.02%) .NET Framework
13 17 (7.02%) Playwright
14 15 (6.20%) Terraform
15 14 (5.79%) Entity Framework
15 14 (5.79%) Kafka
15 14 (5.79%) Vue
16 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
16 13 (5.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.81%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.61%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.72%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.31%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.48%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.48%) Robotics
8 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.65%) Blog
8 4 (1.65%) CMDB
8 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.24%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.24%) PKI
9 3 (1.24%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.16%) Linux
2 12 (4.96%) Windows
3 11 (4.55%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.48%) Unix
5 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.24%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.35%) Agile
2 101 (41.74%) CI/CD
3 90 (37.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (28.93%) Software Engineering
6 51 (21.07%) DevOps
7 49 (20.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (20.25%) Scrum
8 41 (16.94%) Test Automation
9 38 (15.70%) TDD
10 36 (14.88%) Sprint Planning
11 35 (14.46%) Mentoring
12 33 (13.64%) AI
13 32 (13.22%) Clean Code
13 32 (13.22%) SDLC
14 30 (12.40%) Code Quality
14 30 (12.40%) Integration Testing
14 30 (12.40%) Microservices
14 30 (12.40%) OOP
15 28 (11.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.40%) JavaScript
2 74 (30.58%) SQL
3 62 (25.62%) C#
4 51 (21.07%) Java
5 41 (16.94%) Python
6 35 (14.46%) C++
6 35 (14.46%) TypeScript
7 24 (9.92%) C
8 22 (9.09%) Apex Code
9 19 (7.85%) SOQL
10 11 (4.55%) ABAP
11 10 (4.13%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.31%) T-SQL
12 8 (3.31%) VB.NET
13 7 (2.89%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.48%) Bash
15 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
15 5 (2.07%) Rust
16 4 (1.65%) PHP
17 3 (1.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (15.29%) Degree
2 18 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.26%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.07%) GDPR
4 4 (1.65%) WCAG
5 3 (1.24%) MIL-STD-1553
6 2 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.83%) GAAP
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS
6 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (17.77%) Docker
2 12 (4.96%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (4.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.96%) Podman
3 3 (1.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.83%) Grafana
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.92%) Oracle
2 24 (9.92%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.44%) SAP
4 17 (7.02%) Google
5 9 (3.72%) iManage
6 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.07%) Intel
8 4 (1.65%) Databricks
8 4 (1.65%) Temenos
9 3 (1.24%) Infor
9 3 (1.24%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.83%) Workday
10 2 (0.83%) YouTube
11 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.41%) Informatica
11 1 (0.41%) RedGate
11 1 (0.41%) Zoho