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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 238 199
Rank change year-on-year -128 -39 -69
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 258 709 783
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.18% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.39% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 155 344 611
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,150 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £72,466
90th Percentile £124,000 £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 39,784 51,149 42,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.80% 85.43% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 26,668 32,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £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% - -2.44%
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 28 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 28 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 -77 96 £92,500 +23.33% 47
North of England -55 49 £58,750 +11.90% 26
South East -16 44 £52,500 -8.70% 50
North West -8 36 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Midlands 0 30 £57,500 -11.54% 11
South West -5 22 £57,500 -4.17% 16
West Midlands +27 18 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East Midlands -9 12 £54,250 +8.50% 6
Yorkshire +1 10 £75,000 +57.89% 6
East of England +14 7 £58,750 -16.07% 24
North East -6 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 (8.53%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.43%) Appian
2 14 (5.43%) Confluence
3 9 (3.49%) Headless CMS
4 6 (2.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.94%) CMS
6 4 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.55%) Camunda
7 3 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.39%) JBoss
9 1 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.49%) Shopify
3 4 (1.55%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.55%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.55%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.39%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.39%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (28.29%) Azure
2 66 (25.58%) AWS
3 30 (11.63%) Amazon S3
4 28 (10.85%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.47%) Serverless
6 24 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (7.75%) GitHub
9 18 (6.98%) Amazon ELB
9 18 (6.98%) GCP
10 12 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.49%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.49%) Figma
13 8 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.10%) PaaS
13 8 (3.10%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.88%) Multicast
2 4 (1.55%) DNS
2 4 (1.55%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.78%) HTTP
3 2 (0.78%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) UWB
4 1 (0.39%) Wideband
4 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.38%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.53%) Metadata
4 21 (8.14%) Spark SQL
5 20 (7.75%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.98%) Delta Lake
6 18 (6.98%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.65%) MySQL
9 11 (4.26%) Power BI
10 10 (3.88%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.71%) DB2
11 7 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.94%) Redis
13 4 (1.55%) Big Data
13 4 (1.55%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.16%) Neo4j
14 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (20.16%) Git
2 31 (12.02%) JIRA
3 23 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.36%) MLflow
5 16 (6.20%) Bitbucket
6 15 (5.81%) GitLab
7 12 (4.65%) JUnit
8 10 (3.88%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.88%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.49%) Selenium
10 8 (3.10%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.10%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.71%) NUnit
12 6 (2.33%) MSTest
13 5 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (1.16%) eCATT
15 3 (1.16%) Mockito
15 3 (1.16%) YouTrack
General
1 74 (28.68%) Finance
1 74 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.36%) Banking
4 17 (6.59%) Marketing
5 15 (5.81%) Front Office
5 15 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.65%) Law
7 8 (3.10%) Retail
8 7 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.71%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.55%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.16%) Automotive
11 3 (1.16%) Electronics
11 3 (1.16%) Games
11 3 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (58.14%) Developer
2 67 (25.97%) Senior
3 37 (14.34%) Senior Developer
3 37 (14.34%) Software Engineer
4 29 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.08%) .NET Developer
6 23 (8.91%) Lead
7 18 (6.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (6.98%) Operations Engineer
8 16 (6.20%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.20%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.43%) Appian Developer
10 13 (5.04%) C++ Developer
11 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.10%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.10%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.10%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.71%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.84%) .NET
2 66 (25.58%) React
3 61 (23.64%) CSS
4 58 (22.48%) HTML
5 49 (18.99%) RESTful
6 31 (12.02%) REST
7 28 (10.85%) .NET Core
8 27 (10.47%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.08%) .NET Framework
10 25 (9.69%) PySpark
11 24 (9.30%) PyTorch
12 23 (8.91%) NumPy
12 23 (8.91%) Pandas
12 23 (8.91%) scikit-learn
13 22 (8.53%) YAML
14 20 (7.75%) TensorFlow
15 19 (7.36%) GraphQL
15 19 (7.36%) Keras
16 18 (6.98%) Lambda Expressions
16 18 (6.98%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.04%) Derivative
3 12 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.33%) Blog
6 6 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.16%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.14%) Linux
1 21 (8.14%) Unix
2 10 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.16%) Android
3 3 (1.16%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (57.36%) Agile
2 109 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 70 (27.13%) DevOps
4 62 (24.03%) Software Engineering
5 58 (22.48%) Mentoring
6 54 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (20.93%) Scrum
7 51 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (19.38%) Test Automation
9 49 (18.99%) Integration Testing
10 48 (18.60%) Microservices
11 46 (17.83%) Containerisation
12 41 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (15.12%) AI
13 39 (15.12%) SDLC
14 37 (14.34%) Machine Learning
14 37 (14.34%) OO
15 35 (13.57%) Clean Code
15 35 (13.57%) User Experience
16 32 (12.40%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 84 (32.56%) SQL
2 68 (26.36%) JavaScript
3 67 (25.97%) C#
4 57 (22.09%) Python
5 51 (19.77%) Java
6 43 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.75%) C++
8 9 (3.49%) C
9 6 (2.33%) Bash
9 6 (2.33%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.55%) ABAP
10 4 (1.55%) X++
11 3 (1.16%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.16%) Bicep
11 3 (1.16%) Erlang
11 3 (1.16%) PHP
11 3 (1.16%) R
11 3 (1.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.78%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (17.05%) Degree
2 21 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.10%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.55%) PhD
9 4 (1.55%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.18%) QA
2 26 (10.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.94%) WCAG
4 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.78%) JTAG
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 59 (22.87%) Docker
2 11 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.18%) Terraform
3 18 (6.98%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.10%) Kibana
5 3 (1.16%) Ansible
5 3 (1.16%) Puppet
5 3 (1.16%) Salt
6 2 (0.78%) logstash
6 2 (0.78%) Oozie
7 1 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.69%) Databricks
3 15 (5.81%) SAP
4 13 (5.04%) Oracle
5 12 (4.65%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.10%) Apple
8 7 (2.71%) Google
9 5 (1.94%) IBM
10 4 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.55%) Telerik
11 3 (1.16%) Informatica
11 3 (1.16%) Splunk
12 2 (0.78%) Adobe
12 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.78%) Cognos
12 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.78%) Sybase
12 2 (0.78%) Xamarin