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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 316 271
Rank change year-on-year -176 -45 -74
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 186 372 870
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.96% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.03% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 123 287 686
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £93,778 £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 59,242 36,291 71,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.97% 93.41% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38,835 20,234 53,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -60 69 £86,250 +32.69% 23
North of England -41 33 £65,000 +18.18% 12
South East -57 28 £50,000 -13.04% 15
South West -70 21 £46,875 -18.44% 11
North West -10 20 £67,500 +25.58% 3
Midlands -69 15 £65,250 +8.75% 20
Yorkshire -59 11 £55,000 -24.27% 3
West Midlands -44 10 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East of England -27 8 £61,500 +7.89% 12
East Midlands -36 5 £65,500 +9.17% 13
North East -46 2 £57,500 +4.55% 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 10 (5.38%) Confluence
2 4 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.08%) IIS
3 2 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.08%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.54%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.80%) Azure
2 46 (24.73%) AWS
3 45 (24.19%) GitHub
4 32 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 24 (12.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.53%) GCP
7 13 (6.99%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.45%) Cloud Run
9 8 (4.30%) Serverless
10 7 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.45%) Broadband
2 6 (3.23%) Multicast
3 4 (2.15%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.15%) Modbus
3 4 (2.15%) Profibus
3 4 (2.15%) RS-232
3 4 (2.15%) RS-485
3 4 (2.15%) Wireless
3 4 (2.15%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.61%) HTTP
5 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.44%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.84%) MySQL
6 6 (3.23%) DB2
6 6 (3.23%) Power BI
7 5 (2.69%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.61%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.08%) Redis
10 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 49 (26.34%) Git
2 25 (13.44%) JIRA
3 13 (6.99%) Cypress.io
3 13 (6.99%) JUnit
4 12 (6.45%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.84%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.84%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.30%) Maven
6 8 (4.30%) Mockito
6 8 (4.30%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.76%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.76%) Selenium
8 4 (2.15%) GitLab
9 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.08%) TestRail
9 2 (1.08%) webpack
9 2 (1.08%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.54%) Locust
10 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 49 (26.34%) Finance
2 48 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.90%) Banking
5 22 (11.83%) Marketing
6 10 (5.38%) Front Office
7 9 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.69%) Agriculture
9 5 (2.69%) Automotive
9 5 (2.69%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.69%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Advertising
10 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.15%) Electronics
10 4 (2.15%) Law
10 4 (2.15%) Legal
10 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.61%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 117 (62.90%) Developer
2 60 (32.26%) Senior
3 36 (19.35%) Senior Developer
4 29 (15.59%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (13.44%) Salesforce Developer
7 24 (12.90%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 22 (11.83%) Cloud Developer
9 18 (9.68%) Java Developer
9 18 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (7.53%) Lead
11 13 (6.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (5.91%) Consultant
13 10 (5.38%) Applications Developer
14 8 (4.30%) C++ Developer
15 7 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.76%) Lead Developer
16 6 (3.23%) Java Engineer
16 6 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
16 6 (3.23%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (30.11%) React
2 45 (24.19%) REST
3 43 (23.12%) HTML
4 40 (21.51%) .NET
5 39 (20.97%) CSS
6 29 (15.59%) SOAP
7 25 (13.44%) Lightning Web Components
8 24 (12.90%) AngularJS
9 23 (12.37%) RESTful
10 20 (10.75%) Node.js
11 18 (9.68%) Playwright
12 17 (9.14%) React Native
13 15 (8.06%) Bootstrap
14 14 (7.53%) Spring
15 12 (6.45%) Leaflet
15 12 (6.45%) Vue
16 10 (5.38%) Kafka
17 9 (4.84%) Spring Boot
18 8 (4.30%) Middleware
19 7 (3.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.28%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.76%) Derivative
4 7 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.15%) Blog
7 4 (2.15%) CMDB
7 4 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.61%) PKI
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.98%) Linux
2 6 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.15%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (67.74%) Agile
2 94 (50.54%) CI/CD
3 60 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (29.57%) Scrum
5 49 (26.34%) DevOps
6 47 (25.27%) Clean Code
7 46 (24.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (20.43%) Software Engineering
9 38 (20.43%) Sprint Planning
10 36 (19.35%) Mentoring
11 34 (18.28%) Microservices
11 34 (18.28%) TDD
12 32 (17.20%) Test Automation
13 30 (16.13%) System Testing
14 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
15 26 (13.98%) Front End Development
15 26 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (12.37%) Integration Testing
17 22 (11.83%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.41%) SQL
2 53 (28.49%) JavaScript
3 45 (24.19%) Java
4 30 (16.13%) Python
5 29 (15.59%) C#
6 25 (13.44%) Apex Code
7 24 (12.90%) SOQL
8 21 (11.29%) C++
8 21 (11.29%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.91%) PL/SQL
10 10 (5.38%) Bash
11 8 (4.30%) C
12 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.69%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.69%) PowerShell
14 4 (2.15%) R
14 4 (2.15%) Rust
15 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.61%) Perl
15 3 (1.61%) RPG
Qualifications
1 21 (11.29%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.69%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) OCA
6 1 (0.54%) OCP
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) GAAP
4 2 (1.08%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) IFRS
4 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (19.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.15%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.54%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.54%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 20 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.45%) Podman
3 10 (5.38%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) Grafana
4 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) Salesforce
2 16 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.60%) Oracle
3 13 (6.99%) Google
4 8 (4.30%) SAP
5 6 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.23%) Databricks
5 6 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.08%) Apple
7 2 (1.08%) Foundry
7 2 (1.08%) IBM
7 2 (1.08%) Infor
7 2 (1.08%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.08%) Temenos
7 2 (1.08%) Workday
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.54%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.54%) Siemens