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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 220 194
Rank change year-on-year -162 -26 -65
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 254 738 840
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.46% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 332 661
10th Percentile £46,050 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £116,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £63,150 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 38,107 50,570 44,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.72% 82.89% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23,702 26,628 34,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 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 7 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 -105 85 £89,000 +15.96% 216
North of England -75 61 £57,500 +7.98% 54
North West -45 46 £57,500 -9.80% 36
South East -38 41 £53,750 -6.52% 209
Midlands -8 30 £57,500 -11.54% 26
South West +20 21 £57,500 +17.54% 35
West Midlands +20 19 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Yorkshire +2 11 £75,000 +57.89% 12
East Midlands -5 11 £56,000 +12.00% 16
East of England +12 7 £58,750 -16.07% 48
North East -4 4 £47,500 +5.56% 6
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 23 (9.06%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.51%) Appian
3 9 (3.54%) Confluence
3 9 (3.54%) Headless CMS
4 6 (2.36%) Apache
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.97%) CMS
6 4 (1.57%) Camunda
7 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.39%) JBoss
9 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.54%) Shopify
3 3 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.39%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.35%) Azure
2 68 (26.77%) AWS
3 29 (11.42%) Amazon S3
4 28 (11.02%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.24%) Serverless
6 21 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.27%) GCP
7 19 (7.48%) GitHub
8 18 (7.09%) Amazon ELB
9 11 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.15%) Figma
12 8 (3.15%) Google Analytics
12 8 (3.15%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.97%) DNS
1 5 (1.97%) Kerberos
1 5 (1.97%) Multicast
2 3 (1.18%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) MQTT
4 1 (0.39%) UWB
4 1 (0.39%) Wideband
4 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 23 (9.06%) Metadata
4 22 (8.66%) MongoDB
4 22 (8.66%) Spark SQL
5 18 (7.09%) Delta Lake
5 18 (7.09%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.12%) Power BI
6 13 (5.12%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.72%) MySQL
8 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.36%) Redis
12 5 (1.97%) Big Data
12 5 (1.97%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (21.65%) Git
2 26 (10.24%) JIRA
3 19 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.48%) MLflow
4 14 (5.51%) GitLab
5 13 (5.12%) JUnit
6 12 (4.72%) Bitbucket
7 11 (4.33%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.94%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.76%) NUnit
10 6 (2.36%) MSTest
11 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.97%) Selenium
11 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.57%) Spinnaker
12 4 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.57%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.57%) YouTrack
13 3 (1.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 67 (26.38%) Finance
3 27 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.69%) Marketing
5 16 (6.30%) Banking
6 15 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.51%) Law
8 11 (4.33%) Front Office
9 8 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.76%) Retail
11 6 (2.36%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.18%) Automotive
13 3 (1.18%) Electronics
13 3 (1.18%) Games
13 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (56.30%) Developer
2 68 (26.77%) Senior
3 39 (15.35%) Senior Developer
4 35 (13.78%) Software Engineer
5 27 (10.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.24%) .NET Developer
7 24 (9.45%) Lead
8 18 (7.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 18 (7.09%) Operations Engineer
9 15 (5.91%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.91%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.51%) Appian Developer
11 11 (4.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (3.94%) Backend Developer
13 9 (3.54%) C++ Developer
13 9 (3.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.15%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.15%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.76%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.92%) .NET
2 62 (24.41%) React
3 56 (22.05%) CSS
4 54 (21.26%) RESTful
5 53 (20.87%) HTML
6 30 (11.81%) .NET Core
7 28 (11.02%) REST
8 26 (10.24%) .NET Framework
8 26 (10.24%) AngularJS
8 26 (10.24%) PySpark
9 24 (9.45%) PyTorch
10 23 (9.06%) NumPy
10 23 (9.06%) Pandas
10 23 (9.06%) scikit-learn
10 23 (9.06%) Spring
11 22 (8.66%) YAML
12 20 (7.87%) Spring Boot
12 20 (7.87%) TensorFlow
13 19 (7.48%) GraphQL
13 19 (7.48%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.09%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.94%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.15%) Derivative
6 7 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.18%) Blog
10 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.18%) IoT
10 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.66%) Unix
2 15 (5.91%) Linux
3 5 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Android
5 3 (1.18%) Windows
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (55.91%) Agile
2 105 (41.34%) CI/CD
3 70 (27.56%) DevOps
4 65 (25.59%) Software Engineering
5 54 (21.26%) Mentoring
6 51 (20.08%) Microservices
6 51 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (19.29%) Scrum
9 47 (18.50%) Test Automation
10 46 (18.11%) Containerisation
11 42 (16.54%) Integration Testing
12 39 (15.35%) SDLC
13 38 (14.96%) AI
13 38 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (14.57%) OO
15 35 (13.78%) Machine Learning
16 34 (13.39%) Code Quality
17 33 (12.99%) User Experience
18 32 (12.60%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 84 (33.07%) SQL
2 69 (27.17%) C#
3 67 (26.38%) JavaScript
4 61 (24.02%) Python
5 53 (20.87%) Java
6 42 (16.54%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.91%) C++
8 9 (3.54%) C
9 6 (2.36%) Bash
10 5 (1.97%) R
11 4 (1.57%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.57%) X++
12 3 (1.18%) ABAP
12 3 (1.18%) Bicep
12 3 (1.18%) Erlang
12 3 (1.18%) PROC SQL
12 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.79%) Scala
13 2 (0.79%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.14%) Degree
2 22 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.15%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.57%) PhD
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.18%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.78%) QA
2 24 (9.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.97%) WCAG
4 2 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.79%) JTAG
4 2 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (22.44%) Docker
2 12 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.18%) Firmware
3 3 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (15.75%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.78%) Terraform
3 18 (7.09%) Kubeflow
4 9 (3.54%) Kibana
5 4 (1.57%) Ansible
5 4 (1.57%) Puppet
5 4 (1.57%) Salt
6 3 (1.18%) logstash
6 3 (1.18%) Oozie
7 1 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.63%) Databricks
3 15 (5.91%) SAP
4 13 (5.12%) Oracle
5 9 (3.54%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.15%) Apple
6 8 (3.15%) Google
6 8 (3.15%) IBM
7 5 (1.97%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.97%) Splunk
8 4 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.57%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.57%) Informatica
8 4 (1.57%) Moogsoft
9 3 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.18%) Telerik
10 2 (0.79%) Cognos
10 2 (0.79%) Sybase
10 2 (0.79%) Xamarin