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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 257 261
Rank change year-on-year -196 +4 -76
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 203 464 802
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 1.22% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.30% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 129 341 661
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,250 £95,000 £82,548
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 51,670 35,658 65,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.78% 93.55% 87.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32,008 20,224 50,768
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 March 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 March 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 -64 74 £87,500 +16.67% 38
South East -60 51 £50,000 -13.04% 31
North of England -77 27 £62,500 +13.64% 36
South West -53 19 £45,000 -21.74% 17
North West -28 18 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Midlands -76 12 £49,500 -17.50% 17
Yorkshire -40 9 £55,000 -2.22% 10
West Midlands -44 7 - - 9
East Midlands -59 5 £49,500 -17.50% 8
East of England -27 4 £62,500 +9.65% 4
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 (7.88%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (3.94%) 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 12 (5.91%) 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%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.49%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (33.00%) Azure
2 43 (21.18%) GitHub
3 41 (20.20%) AWS
4 32 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.37%) Serverless
7 14 (6.90%) GCP
7 14 (6.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 14 (6.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.43%) Cloud Run
9 8 (3.94%) PaaS
10 7 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.96%) Azure App Service
11 6 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.96%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.96%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) Multicast
2 6 (2.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.72%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.88%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.93%) DB2
5 10 (4.93%) MySQL
6 7 (3.45%) Power BI
7 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.49%) Cognos Connection
10 1 (0.49%) Cognos Event Studio
10 1 (0.49%) Cognos Framework Manager
10 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (25.12%) Git
2 27 (13.30%) JIRA
3 15 (7.39%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.40%) JUnit
5 12 (5.91%) Jenkins
5 12 (5.91%) TeamCity
6 11 (5.42%) Selenium
7 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.96%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.96%) Maven
9 6 (2.96%) Mockito
10 5 (2.46%) GitLab
11 2 (0.99%) webpack
12 1 (0.49%) CMake
12 1 (0.49%) MSTest
12 1 (0.49%) NUnit
12 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (31.53%) Finance
2 41 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.84%) Banking
5 21 (10.34%) Marketing
6 16 (7.88%) Front Office
7 8 (3.94%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.96%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.46%) Retail
10 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.49%) Automotive
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (65.52%) Developer
2 49 (24.14%) Senior
3 29 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 26 (12.81%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 21 (10.34%) Lead
6 17 (8.37%) .NET Developer
7 14 (6.90%) Cloud Developer
7 14 (6.90%) Salesforce Developer
7 14 (6.90%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 13 (6.40%) C++ Developer
8 13 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.42%) Applications Developer
9 11 (5.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 11 (5.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (4.43%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.45%) Application Development Manager
11 7 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (33.99%) React
2 65 (32.02%) .NET
3 59 (29.06%) CSS
3 59 (29.06%) HTML
4 35 (17.24%) REST
5 27 (13.30%) RESTful
6 18 (8.87%) AngularJS
6 18 (8.87%) SOAP
7 17 (8.37%) Bootstrap
7 17 (8.37%) Node.js
7 17 (8.37%) React Native
8 16 (7.88%) .NET Core
8 16 (7.88%) .NET Framework
9 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 14 (6.90%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (5.91%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (5.91%) Vue
11 11 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (5.42%) Spring
12 10 (4.93%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.87%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.90%) Derivative
4 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.45%) Blog
8 6 (2.96%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.48%) Genomics
11 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.49%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.76%) Linux
2 12 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (70.44%) Agile
2 88 (43.35%) CI/CD
3 66 (32.51%) DevOps
4 58 (28.57%) Scrum
5 49 (24.14%) Clean Code
6 46 (22.66%) Mentoring
7 45 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (21.67%) Test Automation
9 43 (21.18%) Software Engineering
10 41 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (19.70%) Microservices
12 37 (18.23%) Integration Testing
13 36 (17.73%) Front End Development
14 35 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (16.75%) Sprint Planning
16 29 (14.29%) System Testing
17 28 (13.79%) Design Patterns
18 26 (12.81%) Containerisation
19 25 (12.32%) API Integration
19 25 (12.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.54%) SQL
2 57 (28.08%) JavaScript
3 49 (24.14%) Java
4 43 (21.18%) C#
5 35 (17.24%) Python
6 27 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 24 (11.82%) C++
8 14 (6.90%) Apex Code
8 14 (6.90%) SOQL
9 10 (4.93%) Bash
10 9 (4.43%) C
11 8 (3.94%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.45%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.46%) ABAP
14 4 (1.97%) R
14 4 (1.97%) Rust
15 3 (1.48%) PHP
15 3 (1.48%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.48%) RPG
15 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.29%) Degree
2 13 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.93%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.45%) 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 21 (10.34%) QA
2 15 (7.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) GAAP
4 1 (0.49%) IFRS
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (18.23%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.49%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.49%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.40%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Podman
4 3 (1.48%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.90%) Oracle
2 14 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.91%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.91%) SAP
4 11 (5.42%) Atlassian
4 11 (5.42%) Google
5 7 (3.45%) Databricks
6 4 (1.97%) IBM
6 4 (1.97%) Telerik
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe
7 2 (0.99%) Foundry
7 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
7 2 (0.99%) Zend
8 1 (0.49%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.49%) Marketo
8 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.49%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.49%) Workday