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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 228 260
Rank change year-on-year -206 +32 -79
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 193 584 740
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 1.33% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.43% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 125 338 592
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £124,000 £95,000 £86,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 47,788 40,729 58,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.33% 92.55% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,331 20,236 46,053
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,984 £46,250 £40,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 71 £102,500 +36.67% 50
South East -49 47 £50,000 -9.09% 27
North of England -71 31 £65,000 +23.81% 31
North West -18 25 £65,000 +23.81% 18
Midlands -65 15 £51,250 -24.07% 16
South West -46 11 £45,000 -21.66% 26
West Midlands -20 9 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Yorkshire -41 6 £75,000 +50.00% 8
East Midlands -49 6 £51,000 -15.00% 10
East of England -8 4 £62,500 +4.17% 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 16 (8.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (1.04%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.66%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Windchill
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.07%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.07%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.07%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.04%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (34.72%) Azure
2 34 (17.62%) AWS
2 34 (17.62%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (17.62%) GitHub
3 24 (12.44%) Power Platform
4 17 (8.81%) Serverless
5 9 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (4.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 9 (4.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 8 (4.15%) PaaS
7 7 (3.63%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.63%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.63%) GCP
8 6 (3.11%) Azure App Service
8 6 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Multicast
2 4 (2.07%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.13%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.74%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.70%) DB2
4 9 (4.66%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.15%) Power BI
6 7 (3.63%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Connection
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.52%) KDB
9 1 (0.52%) OLAP
9 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (21.76%) Git
2 24 (12.44%) JIRA
3 15 (7.77%) Bitbucket
3 15 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.77%) JUnit
4 13 (6.74%) Selenium
5 12 (6.22%) Cucumber
6 11 (5.70%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.11%) GitLab
7 6 (3.11%) Maven
7 6 (3.11%) Mockito
8 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.04%) JMeter
8 2 (1.04%) MSTest
8 2 (1.04%) webpack
9 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.52%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) NUnit
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (34.72%) Finance
2 36 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.40%) Banking
5 17 (8.81%) Marketing
6 14 (7.25%) Front Office
7 7 (3.63%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.11%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Billing
11 2 (1.04%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (63.21%) Developer
2 44 (22.80%) Senior
3 30 (15.54%) Software Engineer
4 24 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (11.92%) Java Developer
5 23 (11.92%) Lead
6 21 (10.88%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.29%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.74%) C++ Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Cloud Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Salesforce Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.20%) .NET
1 66 (34.20%) React
2 57 (29.53%) CSS
3 56 (29.02%) HTML
4 34 (17.62%) REST
5 33 (17.10%) RESTful
6 22 (11.40%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.84%) .NET Core
8 15 (7.77%) SOAP
9 14 (7.25%) Bootstrap
9 14 (7.25%) React Native
9 14 (7.25%) Spring
10 13 (6.74%) .NET Framework
10 13 (6.74%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.22%) Vue
12 11 (5.70%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.70%) Gherkin
13 10 (5.18%) Kafka
13 10 (5.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Mobile App
2 16 (8.29%) Derivative
2 16 (8.29%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.70%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.63%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.63%) Blog
6 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.59%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.55%) Genomics
9 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.04%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.04%) Equities
10 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.03%) Linux
2 12 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.88%) Agile
2 81 (41.97%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.12%) DevOps
4 55 (28.50%) Scrum
5 52 (26.94%) Microservices
5 52 (26.94%) Software Engineering
6 50 (25.91%) Mentoring
7 44 (22.80%) Test Automation
8 38 (19.69%) Clean Code
9 37 (19.17%) Front End Development
9 37 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (18.65%) Integration Testing
11 35 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (16.06%) Sprint Planning
14 30 (15.54%) Design Patterns
15 29 (15.03%) User Experience
16 28 (14.51%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (14.51%) TDD
17 26 (13.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.94%) Java
2 50 (25.91%) SQL
3 48 (24.87%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.73%) C#
5 27 (13.99%) Python
6 26 (13.47%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.88%) C++
8 10 (5.18%) Bash
9 9 (4.66%) Apex Code
9 9 (4.66%) C
9 9 (4.66%) SOQL
10 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.07%) ABAP
11 4 (2.07%) R
12 3 (1.55%) Erlang
12 3 (1.55%) RPG
13 2 (1.04%) Delphi
13 2 (1.04%) Perl
13 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.18%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.07%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.52%) OCA
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.40%) QA
2 18 (9.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (17.10%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.22%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.22%) Atlassian
2 12 (6.22%) Oracle
2 12 (6.22%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.18%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.18%) SAP
4 5 (2.59%) Databricks
5 4 (2.07%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) IBM
5 4 (2.07%) Telerik
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe
6 2 (1.04%) Cognos
6 2 (1.04%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.04%) Foundry
6 2 (1.04%) Zend
7 1 (0.52%) Apple
7 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.52%) Marketo
7 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow