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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 261 270
Rank change year-on-year -214 +9 -70
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 203 443 839
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 1.21% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.30% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 134 345 688
10th Percentile £46,438 £46,642 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £94,511 £80,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -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 56,122 34,027 69,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.20% 93.12% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 35,367 20,500 53,025
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,465 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -65 80 £86,250 +20.63% 30
South East -78 41 £50,000 -13.04% 29
North of England -101 28 £65,000 +18.18% 36
South West -52 21 £45,000 -21.70% 13
North West -51 14 £67,500 +22.73% 18
Yorkshire -57 14 £52,500 -6.67% 8
Midlands -94 11 £65,000 +8.33% 19
East of England -38 8 £62,500 +9.65% 2
West Midlands -60 6 - - 9
East Midlands -68 5 £65,000 +8.33% 10
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 14 (6.90%) Confluence
2 5 (2.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.99%) Apache
3 2 (0.99%) IIS
3 2 (0.99%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Windchill
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.49%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.97%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.97%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.97%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.99%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.99%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.99%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.49%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.03%) Azure
2 48 (23.65%) GitHub
3 47 (23.15%) AWS
4 33 (16.26%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 17 (8.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 17 (8.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 16 (7.88%) Serverless
7 15 (7.39%) GCP
8 10 (4.93%) Cloud Run
9 8 (3.94%) Cloud Functions
10 7 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.97%) PaaS
13 3 (1.48%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.42%) Multicast
2 8 (3.94%) Broadband
3 3 (1.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.99%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.99%) Modbus
4 2 (0.99%) Profibus
4 2 (0.99%) RS-232
4 2 (0.99%) RS-485
4 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.99%) Wireless
4 2 (0.99%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.26%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.39%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.91%) MySQL
5 9 (4.43%) DB2
6 8 (3.94%) Power BI
7 6 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.99%) Metadata
10 2 (0.99%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.49%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (25.62%) Git
2 30 (14.78%) JIRA
3 13 (6.40%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.42%) JUnit
5 11 (5.42%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.93%) Selenium
7 8 (3.94%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.94%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.46%) GitLab
8 5 (2.46%) Maven
8 5 (2.46%) Mockito
9 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.99%) webpack
9 2 (0.99%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.49%) Locust
10 1 (0.49%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 53 (26.11%) Finance
2 44 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 38 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.30%) Banking
5 17 (8.37%) Marketing
6 15 (7.39%) Front Office
7 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.46%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.97%) Advertising
8 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.48%) Automotive
9 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Law
10 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (64.53%) Developer
2 54 (26.60%) Senior
3 34 (16.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (15.76%) Senior Developer
5 28 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Cloud Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Salesforce Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 16 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.40%) Lead
10 12 (5.91%) Applications Developer
10 12 (5.91%) C++ Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (5.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (4.43%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Consultant
14 7 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.02%) React
2 58 (28.57%) HTML
3 57 (28.08%) CSS
4 52 (25.62%) .NET
5 40 (19.70%) REST
6 30 (14.78%) RESTful
7 25 (12.32%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.84%) SOAP
9 18 (8.87%) Node.js
9 18 (8.87%) Vue
10 17 (8.37%) Bootstrap
10 17 (8.37%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (8.37%) React Native
11 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.90%) Spring
12 12 (5.91%) .NET Framework
12 12 (5.91%) Playwright
13 11 (5.42%) .NET Core
13 11 (5.42%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.81%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.85%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.91%) Derivative
4 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.43%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.96%) Blog
7 6 (2.96%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.48%) PKI
11 2 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.99%) Genomics
11 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.78%) Linux
2 11 (5.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (70.44%) Agile
2 94 (46.31%) CI/CD
3 61 (30.05%) DevOps
4 59 (29.06%) Scrum
5 51 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (24.63%) Clean Code
7 49 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (22.17%) Test Automation
9 44 (21.67%) Software Engineering
10 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (20.20%) Mentoring
12 38 (18.72%) Microservices
13 35 (17.24%) Front End Development
14 34 (16.75%) Sprint Planning
15 32 (15.76%) Design Patterns
16 31 (15.27%) System Testing
17 30 (14.78%) TDD
18 29 (14.29%) Integration Testing
19 28 (13.79%) API Integration
20 24 (11.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 73 (35.96%) SQL
2 60 (29.56%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.11%) Java
4 41 (20.20%) Python
5 37 (18.23%) C#
6 25 (12.32%) C++
7 24 (11.82%) TypeScript
8 17 (8.37%) Apex Code
8 17 (8.37%) SOQL
9 11 (5.42%) C
10 9 (4.43%) Bash
11 8 (3.94%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.45%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.96%) T-SQL
14 5 (2.46%) ABAP
14 5 (2.46%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.97%) Perl
15 4 (1.97%) R
15 4 (1.97%) Rust
16 3 (1.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (14.78%) Degree
2 14 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.43%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.97%) SAP Certification
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.49%) OCA
7 1 (0.49%) OCP
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.37%) QA
2 9 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) GAAP
4 2 (0.99%) IFRS
4 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (19.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.99%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.49%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.49%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.88%) Terraform
3 8 (3.94%) Podman
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.99%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Argo
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.37%) Salesforce
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.40%) Oracle
4 12 (5.91%) Google
5 11 (5.42%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.93%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.94%) SAP
8 7 (3.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.97%) IBM
9 4 (1.97%) Telerik
10 2 (0.99%) Adobe
10 2 (0.99%) Apple
10 2 (0.99%) Foundry
10 2 (0.99%) Infor
10 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.99%) Temenos
10 2 (0.99%) Workday
10 2 (0.99%) Zend
11 1 (0.49%) Ping Identity