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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 233 200
Rank change year-on-year -145 -33 -70
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 256 720 779
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.20% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.40% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 153 351 607
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,466
90th Percentile £124,500 £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 39,801 51,328 42,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.92% 85.31% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,898 26,791 32,650
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 27 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 27 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 -83 95 £92,500 +23.33% 53
North of England -37 49 £58,750 +11.90% 23
South East -12 44 £52,500 -8.70% 52
North West -5 36 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Midlands -17 30 £57,500 -11.54% 12
South West 0 21 £57,500 -4.17% 15
West Midlands +29 18 £57,500 -17.86% 6
East Midlands -6 12 £54,250 +8.50% 6
Yorkshire -9 10 £75,000 +57.89% 4
East of England +14 7 £58,750 -16.07% 23
North East -2 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 (8.59%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.47%) Appian
2 14 (5.47%) Confluence
3 9 (3.52%) Headless CMS
4 7 (2.73%) Apache
5 5 (1.95%) CMS
6 4 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.56%) Camunda
7 3 (1.17%) 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 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.52%) Shopify
3 4 (1.56%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.56%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.56%) 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 (28.52%) Azure
2 67 (26.17%) AWS
3 31 (12.11%) Amazon S3
4 28 (10.94%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.94%) Serverless
5 24 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.42%) GitHub
8 18 (7.03%) Amazon ELB
8 18 (7.03%) GCP
9 13 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.52%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.52%) Figma
12 8 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.13%) PaaS
12 8 (3.13%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) Multicast
2 4 (1.56%) DNS
2 4 (1.56%) 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 49 (19.14%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.59%) Metadata
4 21 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 21 (8.20%) Spark SQL
5 18 (7.03%) Delta Lake
5 18 (7.03%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.69%) MySQL
6 12 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.30%) Power BI
8 10 (3.91%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.34%) DB2
11 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.95%) Redis
12 4 (1.56%) Big Data
12 4 (1.56%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.17%) Neo4j
13 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (20.31%) Git
2 31 (12.11%) JIRA
3 22 (8.59%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.42%) MLflow
5 16 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.25%) GitLab
6 13 (5.08%) JUnit
7 10 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.13%) Selenium
9 7 (2.73%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.73%) NUnit
9 7 (2.73%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.34%) MSTest
11 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.17%) eCATT
13 3 (1.17%) Mockito
13 3 (1.17%) YouTrack
General
1 73 (28.52%) Finance
1 73 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.03%) Banking
4 16 (6.25%) Marketing
5 15 (5.86%) Front Office
5 15 (5.86%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.69%) Law
7 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.73%) Retail
8 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.56%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.17%) Automotive
10 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 3 (1.17%) Games
10 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 149 (58.20%) Developer
2 66 (25.78%) Senior
3 36 (14.06%) Senior Developer
3 36 (14.06%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.16%) .NET Developer
6 23 (8.98%) Lead
7 18 (7.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Operations Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.47%) Appian Developer
10 13 (5.08%) C++ Developer
11 12 (4.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.13%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.13%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.13%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.73%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (30.08%) .NET
2 66 (25.78%) React
3 60 (23.44%) CSS
4 57 (22.27%) HTML
5 48 (18.75%) RESTful
6 30 (11.72%) REST
7 28 (10.94%) .NET Core
8 27 (10.55%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.16%) .NET Framework
10 25 (9.77%) PySpark
11 24 (9.38%) PyTorch
12 23 (8.98%) NumPy
12 23 (8.98%) Pandas
12 23 (8.98%) scikit-learn
13 22 (8.59%) YAML
14 20 (7.81%) TensorFlow
15 19 (7.42%) GraphQL
15 19 (7.42%) Keras
16 18 (7.03%) Lambda Expressions
16 18 (7.03%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.08%) Derivative
3 12 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.69%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.34%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.34%) Blog
6 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.17%) Genomics
9 3 (1.17%) IoT
9 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.20%) Linux
1 21 (8.20%) Unix
2 10 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.17%) Android
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (57.03%) Agile
2 107 (41.80%) CI/CD
3 70 (27.34%) DevOps
4 61 (23.83%) Software Engineering
5 58 (22.66%) Mentoring
6 53 (20.70%) Scrum
7 52 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (19.14%) Test Automation
10 48 (18.75%) Integration Testing
10 48 (18.75%) Microservices
11 46 (17.97%) Containerisation
12 40 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (15.23%) AI
14 38 (14.84%) SDLC
15 37 (14.45%) Machine Learning
15 37 (14.45%) OO
16 34 (13.28%) User Experience
17 33 (12.89%) Clean Code
18 32 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 83 (32.42%) SQL
2 68 (26.56%) JavaScript
3 67 (26.17%) C#
4 57 (22.27%) Python
5 51 (19.92%) Java
6 43 (16.80%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.42%) C++
8 9 (3.52%) C
9 6 (2.34%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.95%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) ABAP
11 4 (1.56%) X++
12 3 (1.17%) Bicep
12 3 (1.17%) Erlang
12 3 (1.17%) PHP
12 3 (1.17%) R
13 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.78%) PROC SQL
13 2 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (17.19%) Degree
2 22 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.95%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.56%) PhD
9 4 (1.56%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.28%) QA
2 26 (10.16%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.95%) WCAG
4 4 (1.56%) 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 58 (22.66%) Docker
2 11 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.28%) Terraform
3 18 (7.03%) Kubeflow
4 9 (3.52%) Kibana
5 3 (1.17%) Ansible
5 3 (1.17%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) 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 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.77%) Databricks
3 15 (5.86%) SAP
4 14 (5.47%) Oracle
5 13 (5.08%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.91%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.13%) Apple
8 7 (2.73%) Google
9 4 (1.56%) IBM
9 4 (1.56%) Telerik
10 3 (1.17%) Informatica
10 3 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.17%) Splunk
11 2 (0.78%) Adobe
11 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.78%) Cognos
11 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.78%) Sybase
11 2 (0.78%) Xamarin