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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 253 261
Rank change year-on-year -199 +8 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 202 469 817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 1.23% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.32% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 128 346 677
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,375 £94,389 £82,548
UK median annual salary £65,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% +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 52,713 35,574 66,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.63% 93.56% 86.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,661 20,407 51,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -58 75 £86,250 +18.97% 35
South East -65 51 £50,000 -13.04% 31
North of England -81 25 £65,000 +18.18% 36
South West -49 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
North West -36 16 £65,000 +20.93% 16
Midlands -97 12 £49,500 -17.50% 21
Yorkshire -48 9 £55,000 -2.22% 10
West Midlands -39 7 - - 10
East Midlands -55 5 £49,500 -17.50% 11
East of England -20 4 £62,500 +9.65% 4
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 15 (7.43%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Windchill
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.98%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.98%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.98%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.99%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.67%) Azure
2 43 (21.29%) GitHub
3 41 (20.30%) AWS
4 32 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.42%) Serverless
7 14 (6.93%) GCP
7 14 (6.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 14 (6.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.46%) Cloud Run
9 8 (3.96%) PaaS
10 7 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.97%) Azure App Service
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.97%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.94%) Multicast
2 6 (2.97%) Broadband
3 3 (1.49%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.82%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.92%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.95%) MySQL
6 9 (4.46%) DB2
7 7 (3.47%) Power BI
8 5 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.50%) Cognos Connection
12 1 (0.50%) Cognos Event Studio
12 1 (0.50%) Cognos Framework Manager
12 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.50%) OLAP
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (25.74%) Git
2 28 (13.86%) JIRA
3 14 (6.93%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.44%) JUnit
5 11 (5.45%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.45%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.95%) Selenium
7 9 (4.46%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.97%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.97%) Maven
9 6 (2.97%) Mockito
10 5 (2.48%) GitLab
11 2 (0.99%) webpack
12 1 (0.50%) CMake
12 1 (0.50%) MSTest
12 1 (0.50%) NUnit
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (31.68%) Finance
2 41 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.89%) Banking
5 21 (10.40%) Marketing
6 16 (7.92%) Front Office
7 8 (3.96%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.97%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.48%) Retail
10 4 (1.98%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.99%) Advertising
11 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (65.35%) Developer
2 48 (23.76%) Senior
3 30 (14.85%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (13.86%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.87%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.40%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.90%) Lead
8 15 (7.43%) .NET Developer
9 14 (6.93%) Cloud Developer
9 14 (6.93%) Salesforce Developer
9 14 (6.93%) Senior Salesforce Developer
10 13 (6.44%) C++ Developer
10 13 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (5.45%) Applications Developer
12 11 (5.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.46%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.96%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.47%) Development Manager
15 7 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (34.16%) React
2 62 (30.69%) .NET
3 59 (29.21%) CSS
3 59 (29.21%) HTML
4 36 (17.82%) REST
5 27 (13.37%) RESTful
6 19 (9.41%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.41%) SOAP
7 17 (8.42%) Bootstrap
7 17 (8.42%) React Native
8 16 (7.92%) .NET Framework
8 16 (7.92%) Node.js
9 14 (6.93%) .NET Core
9 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET
9 14 (6.93%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (6.44%) Vue
11 12 (5.94%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (5.94%) Spring
12 10 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (4.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.91%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.93%) Derivative
4 11 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.47%) Blog
7 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.49%) Genomics
10 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.84%) Linux
2 12 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (71.29%) Agile
2 85 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 65 (32.18%) DevOps
4 57 (28.22%) Scrum
5 47 (23.27%) Clean Code
6 45 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (22.28%) Mentoring
7 43 (21.29%) Test Automation
8 42 (20.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 42 (20.79%) Software Engineering
9 39 (19.31%) Microservices
10 37 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (17.82%) Integration Testing
12 35 (17.33%) Front End Development
13 32 (15.84%) Sprint Planning
14 29 (14.36%) System Testing
15 28 (13.86%) Design Patterns
16 26 (12.87%) API Integration
17 25 (12.38%) TDD
18 24 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.68%) SQL
2 57 (28.22%) JavaScript
3 50 (24.75%) Java
4 41 (20.30%) C#
5 36 (17.82%) Python
6 27 (13.37%) TypeScript
7 24 (11.88%) C++
8 14 (6.93%) Apex Code
8 14 (6.93%) SOQL
9 10 (4.95%) Bash
10 9 (4.46%) C
10 9 (4.46%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.47%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.48%) ABAP
13 4 (1.98%) R
13 4 (1.98%) Rust
14 3 (1.49%) Perl
14 3 (1.49%) PHP
14 3 (1.49%) RPG
14 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (14.85%) Degree
2 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.95%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.47%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.98%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) OCA
8 1 (0.50%) OCP
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) QA
2 14 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) GAAP
4 1 (0.50%) IFRS
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (17.82%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.44%) Terraform
3 6 (2.97%) Podman
4 3 (1.49%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.43%) Oracle
3 14 (6.93%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.94%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.94%) SAP
5 11 (5.45%) Google
6 10 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.47%) Databricks
8 4 (1.98%) IBM
8 4 (1.98%) Telerik
9 2 (0.99%) Adobe
9 2 (0.99%) Foundry
9 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.99%) Zend
10 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.50%) Marketo
10 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.50%) Workday