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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 272 269
Rank change year-on-year -213 -3 -78
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 190 417 860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 1.12% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.20% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 130 322 686
10th Percentile £46,813 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,878 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,515 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.19% +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 59,005 34,747 71,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.29% 92.96% 85.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37,172 20,692 53,693
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -56 78 £85,000 +21.43% 25
South East -89 34 £50,000 -13.04% 18
North of England -84 26 £65,000 +18.18% 23
South West -77 21 £45,000 -21.66% 8
North West -42 15 £67,500 +25.58% 12
Yorkshire -62 11 £52,500 -6.67% 4
Midlands -83 10 £65,000 +8.33% 15
East of England -53 8 £61,500 +7.89% 9
West Midlands -48 5 - - 7
East Midlands -72 5 £65,000 +8.33% 8
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 13 (6.84%) Confluence
2 5 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.05%) IIS
3 2 (1.05%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Windchill
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.05%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.05%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.11%) Azure
2 47 (24.74%) AWS
3 44 (23.16%) GitHub
4 33 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 19 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 16 (8.42%) GCP
6 16 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.32%) Cloud Functions
7 12 (6.32%) Cloud Run
8 9 (4.74%) Serverless
9 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.32%) Broadband
2 9 (4.74%) Multicast
3 4 (2.11%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.11%) Modbus
3 4 (2.11%) Profibus
3 4 (2.11%) RS-232
3 4 (2.11%) RS-485
3 4 (2.11%) Wireless
3 4 (2.11%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.58%) HTTP
5 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.95%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.79%) MySQL
6 9 (4.74%) DB2
7 7 (3.68%) Power BI
8 5 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.58%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.05%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (24.21%) Git
2 29 (15.26%) JIRA
3 12 (6.32%) Bitbucket
3 12 (6.32%) CircleCI
3 12 (6.32%) Cypress.io
3 12 (6.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.79%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.26%) JUnit
5 10 (5.26%) Selenium
6 5 (2.63%) Maven
6 5 (2.63%) Mockito
7 4 (2.11%) GitLab
8 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) webpack
8 2 (1.05%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.53%) MLflow
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.53%) TestRail
9 1 (0.53%) utPLSQL
General
1 50 (26.32%) Finance
2 46 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.21%) Banking
5 19 (10.00%) Marketing
6 13 (6.84%) Front Office
7 8 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.63%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.11%) Advertising
9 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.11%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.11%) Automotive
9 4 (2.11%) Electronics
9 4 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.11%) Retail
10 3 (1.58%) Law
11 2 (1.05%) Legal
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 123 (64.74%) Developer
2 57 (30.00%) Senior
3 33 (17.37%) Senior Developer
4 32 (16.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (15.26%) Software Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
7 19 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
7 19 (10.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 18 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.32%) Applications Developer
9 12 (6.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (5.79%) C++ Developer
11 9 (4.74%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Lead
12 8 (4.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Consultant
13 7 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Application Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.63%) React
2 51 (26.84%) HTML
3 49 (25.79%) CSS
4 46 (24.21%) .NET
5 41 (21.58%) REST
6 28 (14.74%) RESTful
7 24 (12.63%) AngularJS
7 24 (12.63%) SOAP
8 22 (11.58%) Node.js
9 19 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (8.95%) Bootstrap
10 17 (8.95%) React Native
11 16 (8.42%) Playwright
12 14 (7.37%) Spring
12 14 (7.37%) Vue
13 12 (6.32%) Leaflet
14 11 (5.79%) ASP.NET
15 10 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (5.26%) Kafka
15 10 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.26%) Derivative
4 9 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.63%) Blog
7 5 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.58%) PKI
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.74%) Linux
2 9 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.11%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.11%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (70.53%) Agile
2 92 (48.42%) CI/CD
3 59 (31.05%) Scrum
4 54 (28.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (28.42%) DevOps
5 51 (26.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (25.79%) Clean Code
7 42 (22.11%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (20.53%) Test Automation
9 36 (18.95%) Microservices
9 36 (18.95%) Sprint Planning
10 34 (17.89%) Mentoring
11 32 (16.84%) Front End Development
11 32 (16.84%) TDD
12 29 (15.26%) System Testing
13 28 (14.74%) Design Patterns
14 27 (14.21%) Integration Testing
15 26 (13.68%) API Integration
16 25 (13.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.26%) SQL
2 57 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 51 (26.84%) Java
4 34 (17.89%) Python
5 32 (16.84%) C#
6 24 (12.63%) C++
7 22 (11.58%) TypeScript
8 19 (10.00%) Apex Code
8 19 (10.00%) SOQL
9 9 (4.74%) Bash
9 9 (4.74%) C
10 8 (4.21%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.16%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.16%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.11%) R
13 4 (2.11%) Rust
14 3 (1.58%) Perl
14 3 (1.58%) PHP
14 3 (1.58%) RPG
Qualifications
1 23 (12.11%) Degree
2 11 (5.79%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.53%) OCA
8 1 (0.53%) OCP
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.47%) QA
2 8 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.05%) GAAP
4 2 (1.05%) IFRS
4 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.53%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 21 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.32%) Podman
3 11 (5.79%) Terraform
4 2 (1.05%) Grafana
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 13 (6.84%) Google
2 13 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.32%) Oracle
4 9 (4.74%) Atlassian
4 9 (4.74%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.68%) Databricks
5 7 (3.68%) SAP
6 3 (1.58%) IBM
6 3 (1.58%) Telerik
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe
7 2 (1.05%) Apple
7 2 (1.05%) Foundry
7 2 (1.05%) Infor
7 2 (1.05%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.05%) Temenos
7 2 (1.05%) Workday
7 2 (1.05%) Zend
8 1 (0.53%) Cognizant