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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 315 254
Rank change year-on-year -191 -61 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 196 357 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.90% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.97% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 130 256 714
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 60,775 36,652 77,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.04% 92.67% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,765 20,021 56,403
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -91 61 £82,500 +22.22% 36
North of England -55 35 £65,000 +18.18% 40
Midlands -35 27 £65,000 +8.33% 22
South East -48 24 £50,000 -13.04% 38
South West -76 23 £50,000 -13.04% 16
North West -23 19 £67,500 +28.57% 20
West Midlands -25 17 £52,500 -12.50% 8
East of England -16 16 £61,500 +7.89% 17
Yorkshire -39 12 £55,000 -35.49% 10
East Midlands -36 10 £65,750 +9.58% 14
North East -51 4 £57,500 +12.20% 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 4 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (5.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.53%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.02%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.65%) Azure
2 45 (22.96%) AWS
3 42 (21.43%) GitHub
4 30 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (13.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 27 (13.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.63%) GCP
8 12 (6.12%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.12%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (3.06%) Serverless
12 5 (2.55%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.55%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.04%) Figma
13 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.53%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.12%) Broadband
2 8 (4.08%) Bluetooth
2 8 (4.08%) Modbus
2 8 (4.08%) Profibus
2 8 (4.08%) RS-232
2 8 (4.08%) RS-485
2 8 (4.08%) Wireless
2 8 (4.08%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.76%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.24%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.10%) MySQL
5 9 (4.59%) Power BI
6 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.55%) Redis
8 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.55%) SAP HANA
8 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.53%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 48 (24.49%) Git
2 16 (8.16%) JIRA
3 14 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 13 (6.63%) JUnit
5 12 (6.12%) CircleCI
6 11 (5.61%) Maven
6 11 (5.61%) Mockito
7 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.53%) TestRail
8 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.02%) GitLab
8 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.02%) NUnit
8 2 (1.02%) Postman
8 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.02%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.51%) CMake
9 1 (0.51%) MSTest
9 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.96%) Finance
3 32 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.24%) Marketing
5 19 (9.69%) Banking
6 13 (6.63%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.61%) Electronics
7 11 (5.61%) Law
7 11 (5.61%) Legal
8 8 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.57%) Automotive
10 6 (3.06%) Advertising
10 6 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.55%) Agriculture
11 5 (2.55%) Social Housing
12 4 (2.04%) Front Office
12 4 (2.04%) Retail
13 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 120 (61.22%) Developer
2 67 (34.18%) Senior
3 40 (20.41%) Senior Developer
4 33 (16.84%) Software Engineer
5 28 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
6 27 (13.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (13.78%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 24 (12.24%) Cloud Developer
8 21 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (9.69%) Lead
10 15 (7.65%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.12%) Consultant
12 11 (5.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (4.08%) Embedded Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.06%) REST
2 50 (25.51%) React
3 42 (21.43%) .NET
4 34 (17.35%) SOAP
5 33 (16.84%) HTML
6 29 (14.80%) AngularJS
7 28 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
8 26 (13.27%) CSS
9 22 (11.22%) Node.js
10 18 (9.18%) Playwright
10 18 (9.18%) RESTful
11 15 (7.65%) React Native
11 15 (7.65%) Spring
12 12 (6.12%) Leaflet
12 12 (6.12%) Vue
13 11 (5.61%) Kafka
14 10 (5.10%) Bootstrap
15 9 (4.59%) Middleware
15 9 (4.59%) OAuth
15 9 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.37%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.55%) CMDB
6 5 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.53%) PKI
9 2 (1.02%) AS400
9 2 (1.02%) Derivative
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Equities
9 2 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 8 (4.08%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.04%) Unix
5 2 (1.02%) Android
5 2 (1.02%) Windows
6 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (64.29%) Agile
2 100 (51.02%) CI/CD
3 71 (36.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (27.04%) Scrum
5 47 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (23.47%) DevOps
6 46 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (21.94%) Software Engineering
8 42 (21.43%) Clean Code
9 41 (20.92%) Sprint Planning
9 41 (20.92%) TDD
10 36 (18.37%) Mentoring
11 35 (17.86%) Microservices
12 32 (16.33%) Test Automation
13 31 (15.82%) System Testing
14 29 (14.80%) Containerisation
15 26 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (12.24%) Data Architecture
16 24 (12.24%) SDLC
17 22 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.65%) SQL
2 50 (25.51%) JavaScript
3 41 (20.92%) Java
4 39 (19.90%) C#
5 28 (14.29%) Apex Code
5 28 (14.29%) Python
6 27 (13.78%) SOQL
7 23 (11.73%) C++
8 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.14%) C
9 14 (7.14%) PL/SQL
10 10 (5.10%) Bash
11 6 (3.06%) ABAP
11 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.04%) R
12 4 (2.04%) Rust
13 3 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.53%) SOSL
14 2 (1.02%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Degree
2 15 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) HND
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) QA
2 6 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.02%) GAAP
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS
5 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) MISRA
6 1 (0.51%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.39%) Docker
2 8 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (4.08%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 19 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.12%) Podman
3 8 (4.08%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 19 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.67%) Oracle
4 13 (6.63%) Google
5 12 (6.12%) SAP
6 6 (3.06%) Databricks
6 6 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.04%) iManage
8 3 (1.53%) Temenos
9 2 (1.02%) Apple
9 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) Infor
9 2 (1.02%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.02%) Workday
10 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.51%) Zoho