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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 333 252
Rank change year-on-year -175 -81 -59
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 201 349 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.87% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.94% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 135 248 716
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,750 £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 £83,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -2.54%

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 62,086 37,058 77,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.52% 92.29% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43,761 20,420 55,963
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,490
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 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,250
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 25 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 25 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 -99 60 £82,500 +24.53% 20
North of England -59 35 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Midlands -33 28 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South East -60 25 £50,000 -13.04% 14
South West -76 25 £50,000 -13.04% 8
West Midlands -23 18 £56,250 -6.25% 4
North West -25 18 £67,500 +28.57% 7
East of England -14 17 £61,500 +7.89% 8
Yorkshire -28 12 £55,000 -35.49% 3
East Midlands -37 10 £66,000 +10.00% 6
North East -48 5 £57,500 +21.05% 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 3 (1.49%) Confluence
1 3 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.00%) IIS
2 2 (1.00%) JBoss
3 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (5.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.99%) Temenos T24
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.84%) Azure
2 43 (21.39%) AWS
3 41 (20.40%) GitHub
4 31 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (13.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 27 (13.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.47%) GCP
8 12 (5.97%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (5.97%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (2.49%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.49%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.49%) Serverless
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.99%) Figma
13 4 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) Broadband
2 9 (4.48%) Bluetooth
2 9 (4.48%) Modbus
2 9 (4.48%) Profibus
2 9 (4.48%) RS-232
2 9 (4.48%) RS-485
2 9 (4.48%) Wireless
2 9 (4.48%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.94%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.96%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.98%) MySQL
5 9 (4.48%) Power BI
6 7 (3.48%) Redis
6 7 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.49%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.49%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 51 (25.37%) Git
2 18 (8.96%) JIRA
3 14 (6.97%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.97%) CircleCI
5 11 (5.47%) JUnit
6 10 (4.98%) Maven
6 10 (4.98%) Mockito
7 4 (1.99%) GitLab
8 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.49%) NUnit
8 3 (1.49%) TestRail
9 2 (1.00%) Postman
9 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.50%) Appium
10 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.50%) utPLSQL
10 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.89%) Finance
3 30 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.94%) Marketing
5 18 (8.96%) Banking
6 14 (6.97%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.47%) Law
7 13 (6.47%) Legal
8 12 (5.97%) Electronics
9 9 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.98%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.48%) Automotive
12 6 (2.99%) Advertising
12 6 (2.99%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.49%) Agriculture
13 5 (2.49%) Retail
13 5 (2.49%) Social Housing
14 4 (1.99%) Front Office
15 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (59.70%) Developer
2 68 (33.83%) Senior
3 39 (19.40%) Senior Developer
4 37 (18.41%) Software Engineer
5 28 (13.93%) Salesforce Developer
6 27 (13.43%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 26 (12.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (11.94%) Cloud Developer
9 23 (11.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (9.95%) Lead
11 13 (6.47%) Java Developer
12 12 (5.97%) Consultant
13 9 (4.48%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 7 (3.48%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.48%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.48%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (28.36%) REST
2 48 (23.88%) React
3 43 (21.39%) .NET
4 37 (18.41%) SOAP
5 30 (14.93%) HTML
6 28 (13.93%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (13.43%) AngularJS
8 25 (12.44%) Node.js
9 23 (11.44%) CSS
10 18 (8.96%) Playwright
11 15 (7.46%) React Native
11 15 (7.46%) RESTful
12 14 (6.97%) Spring
13 12 (5.97%) Leaflet
14 11 (5.47%) OAuth
14 11 (5.47%) Vue
15 10 (4.98%) Kafka
15 10 (4.98%) Middleware
16 9 (4.48%) Bootstrap
16 9 (4.48%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.41%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.97%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.98%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.49%) CMDB
7 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.49%) PKI
10 2 (1.00%) AS400
10 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.00%) Derivative
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
10 2 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.45%) Linux
2 9 (4.48%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows
5 2 (1.00%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (62.19%) Agile
2 101 (50.25%) CI/CD
3 76 (37.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (25.87%) Scrum
5 47 (23.38%) DevOps
6 46 (22.89%) Software Engineering
7 45 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (21.39%) TDD
9 42 (20.90%) Clean Code
10 40 (19.90%) Sprint Planning
11 37 (18.41%) Mentoring
12 34 (16.92%) Microservices
13 33 (16.42%) Test Automation
14 32 (15.92%) System Testing
15 28 (13.93%) Containerisation
16 26 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 24 (11.94%) Data Architecture
17 24 (11.94%) SDLC
18 23 (11.44%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.84%) SQL
2 48 (23.88%) JavaScript
3 42 (20.90%) C#
3 42 (20.90%) Java
4 28 (13.93%) Apex Code
4 28 (13.93%) Python
5 27 (13.43%) SOQL
6 26 (12.94%) C++
7 17 (8.46%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.46%) C
9 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
10 9 (4.48%) Bash
11 8 (3.98%) ABAP
12 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.99%) Rust
14 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.49%) R
14 3 (1.49%) SOSL
15 2 (1.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (12.94%) Degree
2 17 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) HND
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.45%) QA
2 6 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.00%) GAAP
5 2 (1.00%) IFRS
5 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) MISRA
6 1 (0.50%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Docker
2 10 (4.98%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (4.98%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 18 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.97%) Podman
3 7 (3.48%) Terraform
4 2 (1.00%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (14.43%) Salesforce
2 20 (9.95%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.96%) Oracle
4 14 (6.97%) SAP
5 13 (6.47%) Google
6 6 (2.99%) Databricks
6 6 (2.99%) iManage
6 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.99%) Temenos
8 3 (1.49%) Infor
9 2 (1.00%) Foundry
9 2 (1.00%) Intel
9 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.00%) Workday
10 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.50%) Zoho