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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 243 205
Rank change year-on-year -148 -38 -71
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 227 686 751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.21% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.39% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 128 342 581
10th Percentile £45,525 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £89,852
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 40,074 49,232 41,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.94% 86.64% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,111 25,640 32,120
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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% - -4.00%
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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -73 88 £95,000 +25.00% 44
South East -15 44 £52,500 -8.70% 78
North of England -45 43 £60,000 +14.29% 78
North West -10 31 £60,000 +14.29% 49
Midlands -13 24 £57,500 -11.54% 42
West Midlands +14 16 £57,500 -17.86% 24
South West -12 12 £47,500 -20.83% 33
Yorkshire -7 9 £66,250 +39.47% 25
East Midlands -15 8 £49,500 -5.71% 15
East of England +3 5 £67,950 -2.93% 48
North East -3 3 £45,000 -5.26% 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 22 (9.69%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.17%) Confluence
3 9 (3.96%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.20%) Apache
4 5 (2.20%) CMS
5 4 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.76%) Camunda
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.88%) SAS
6 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.44%) IIS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (5.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.96%) Shopify
3 4 (1.76%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.76%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.76%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.44%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.96%) Azure
2 62 (27.31%) AWS
3 31 (13.66%) Amazon S3
4 28 (12.33%) Power Platform
5 27 (11.89%) Serverless
6 25 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (9.25%) GitHub
9 18 (7.93%) Amazon ELB
10 16 (7.05%) GCP
11 12 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.96%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.96%) Figma
15 8 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (3.52%) Google Analytics
15 8 (3.52%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.85%) Multicast
2 3 (1.32%) DNS
2 3 (1.32%) HTTP
2 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.88%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.44%) Firewall
4 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) UWB
4 1 (0.44%) Wideband
4 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.38%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.69%) Metadata
2 22 (9.69%) NoSQL
3 21 (9.25%) Spark SQL
4 19 (8.37%) MongoDB
5 18 (7.93%) Delta Lake
5 18 (7.93%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.85%) Power BI
8 10 (4.41%) MySQL
9 8 (3.52%) DB2
9 8 (3.52%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.76%) Big Data
11 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.76%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.32%) Redis
13 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 43 (18.94%) Git
2 27 (11.89%) JIRA
3 23 (10.13%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.37%) MLflow
5 18 (7.93%) Bitbucket
6 15 (6.61%) GitLab
7 12 (5.29%) JUnit
8 11 (4.85%) Selenium
9 10 (4.41%) Cypress.io
9 10 (4.41%) SonarQube
10 9 (3.96%) Cucumber
11 8 (3.52%) TeamCity
12 6 (2.64%) MSTest
13 5 (2.20%) NUnit
13 5 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (1.32%) eCATT
15 3 (1.32%) JMeter
16 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 2 (0.88%) Moq
General
1 65 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.31%) Finance
3 31 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.05%) Banking
4 16 (7.05%) Marketing
5 15 (6.61%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.17%) Front Office
7 10 (4.41%) Law
8 7 (3.08%) Retail
9 6 (2.64%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.76%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.76%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Automotive
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
12 2 (0.88%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 120 (52.86%) Developer
2 52 (22.91%) Senior
3 35 (15.42%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (10.57%) .NET Developer
6 23 (10.13%) Lead
7 22 (9.69%) Senior Developer
8 18 (7.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (7.93%) Operations Engineer
9 17 (7.49%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.61%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.73%) C++ Developer
12 12 (5.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 11 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.08%) Agile Developer
15 7 (3.08%) Agile Java Developer
15 7 (3.08%) Java Engineer
16 6 (2.64%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (29.52%) .NET
2 63 (27.75%) React
3 57 (25.11%) CSS
4 54 (23.79%) HTML
5 47 (20.70%) RESTful
6 29 (12.78%) REST
7 26 (11.45%) .NET Core
8 25 (11.01%) AngularJS
8 25 (11.01%) PySpark
9 23 (10.13%) PyTorch
10 22 (9.69%) .NET Framework
10 22 (9.69%) NumPy
10 22 (9.69%) Pandas
10 22 (9.69%) scikit-learn
10 22 (9.69%) YAML
11 19 (8.37%) TensorFlow
12 18 (7.93%) GraphQL
12 18 (7.93%) Keras
12 18 (7.93%) Lambda Expressions
12 18 (7.93%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.93%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (6.17%) Derivative
3 11 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.96%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.20%) Blog
6 5 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.32%) Genomics
8 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.13%) Linux
2 20 (8.81%) Unix
3 11 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (55.51%) Agile
2 103 (45.37%) CI/CD
3 65 (28.63%) DevOps
4 57 (25.11%) Software Engineering
5 56 (24.67%) Mentoring
6 52 (22.91%) Scrum
7 50 (22.03%) Test Automation
8 47 (20.70%) Containerisation
8 47 (20.70%) Integration Testing
8 47 (20.70%) Microservices
9 42 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (16.74%) AI
11 36 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (15.86%) Machine Learning
12 35 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (14.98%) OO
13 34 (14.98%) User Experience
14 30 (13.22%) Clean Code
14 30 (13.22%) OOP
15 28 (12.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.36%) SQL
2 61 (26.87%) JavaScript
3 56 (24.67%) C#
4 55 (24.23%) Python
5 51 (22.47%) Java
6 38 (16.74%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.37%) C++
8 9 (3.96%) C
9 6 (2.64%) Bash
9 6 (2.64%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.76%) ABAP
10 4 (1.76%) X++
11 3 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (1.32%) Erlang
11 3 (1.32%) SOQL
12 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.88%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.88%) R
12 2 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (16.74%) Degree
2 15 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.85%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.52%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.76%) PhD
8 4 (1.76%) SAP Certification
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.01%) Accessibility
2 23 (10.13%) QA
3 5 (2.20%) WCAG
4 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.88%) JTAG
5 2 (0.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (25.11%) Docker
2 10 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (18.50%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.66%) Terraform
3 18 (7.93%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.52%) Kibana
5 2 (0.88%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 2 (0.88%) logstash
5 2 (0.88%) Oozie
5 2 (0.88%) Puppet
5 2 (0.88%) Salt
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.01%) Databricks
3 15 (6.61%) SAP
4 13 (5.73%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.85%) Oracle
5 11 (4.85%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.52%) Apple
7 6 (2.64%) Google
8 4 (1.76%) IBM
8 4 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.76%) Telerik
9 3 (1.32%) Informatica
10 2 (0.88%) Cognos
10 2 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.88%) Zend
11 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.44%) Marketo