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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 250 263
Rank change year-on-year -214 +13 -68
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 203 441 826
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 1.21% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.30% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 132 343 684
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £94,756 £80,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 54,454 34,050 67,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.60% 93.17% 86.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34,258 20,315 52,343
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 77 £87,500 +22.38% 30
South East -76 46 £50,000 -13.04% 29
North of England -91 28 £67,500 +22.73% 36
South West -60 19 £45,000 -21.70% 13
North West -44 15 £67,500 +20.00% 18
Yorkshire -55 13 £55,000 -2.22% 8
Midlands -88 12 £57,250 -4.58% 19
East of England -37 7 £62,500 +9.65% 2
East Midlands -56 6 £57,250 -4.58% 10
West Midlands -58 6 - - 9
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 14 (6.90%) Confluence
2 5 (2.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.99%) Apache
3 2 (0.99%) IIS
3 2 (0.99%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.45%) 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 10 (4.93%) 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%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.99%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.99%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.49%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.53%) Azure
2 47 (23.15%) GitHub
3 44 (21.67%) AWS
4 33 (16.26%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.36%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.87%) Serverless
7 16 (7.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 16 (7.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 13 (6.40%) GCP
9 9 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.94%) Cloud Run
11 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.96%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.96%) PaaS
12 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.97%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) Multicast
2 6 (2.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) Modbus
4 1 (0.49%) Profibus
4 1 (0.49%) RS-232
4 1 (0.49%) RS-485
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
4 1 (0.49%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.75%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.36%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.40%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.91%) MySQL
6 9 (4.43%) DB2
6 9 (4.43%) Power BI
7 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.99%) Metadata
10 2 (0.99%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.49%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (0.49%) Cognos Event Studio
11 1 (0.49%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (25.62%) Git
2 30 (14.78%) JIRA
3 13 (6.40%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.42%) JUnit
5 11 (5.42%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.93%) Selenium
7 6 (2.96%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.96%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.46%) GitLab
8 5 (2.46%) Maven
8 5 (2.46%) Mockito
9 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.99%) webpack
9 2 (0.99%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.49%) Locust
10 1 (0.49%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.49%) utPLSQL
General
1 59 (29.06%) Finance
2 42 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 36 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.81%) Banking
5 19 (9.36%) Marketing
6 16 (7.88%) Front Office
7 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.97%) Advertising
9 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.97%) Retail
10 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.99%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (65.02%) Developer
2 54 (26.60%) Senior
3 34 (16.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (15.27%) Senior Developer
5 27 (13.30%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 16 (7.88%) Cloud Developer
7 16 (7.88%) Lead
7 16 (7.88%) Salesforce Developer
7 16 (7.88%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 15 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.40%) C++ Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Applications Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (5.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (4.93%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Consultant
13 8 (3.94%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (31.53%) React
2 60 (29.56%) HTML
3 59 (29.06%) CSS
4 55 (27.09%) .NET
5 38 (18.72%) REST
6 29 (14.29%) RESTful
7 23 (11.33%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.34%) SOAP
9 17 (8.37%) Bootstrap
9 17 (8.37%) React Native
9 17 (8.37%) Vue
10 16 (7.88%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (7.88%) Node.js
11 14 (6.90%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.90%) Spring
12 12 (5.91%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (5.42%) .NET Core
14 10 (4.93%) Kafka
14 10 (4.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.82%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.36%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.40%) Derivative
4 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.43%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.45%) Blog
8 5 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.48%) PKI
11 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Genomics
11 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.27%) Linux
2 12 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (70.44%) Agile
2 89 (43.84%) CI/CD
3 63 (31.03%) DevOps
4 56 (27.59%) Scrum
5 49 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (23.15%) Clean Code
6 47 (23.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (21.67%) Mentoring
8 43 (21.18%) Test Automation
9 41 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (20.20%) Software Engineering
10 37 (18.23%) Microservices
11 35 (17.24%) Front End Development
12 33 (16.26%) Sprint Planning
13 32 (15.76%) Design Patterns
13 32 (15.76%) Integration Testing
14 30 (14.78%) System Testing
15 28 (13.79%) TDD
16 27 (13.30%) API Integration
17 24 (11.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.47%) SQL
2 57 (28.08%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.11%) Java
4 40 (19.70%) Python
5 37 (18.23%) C#
6 25 (12.32%) C++
7 23 (11.33%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.88%) Apex Code
8 16 (7.88%) SOQL
9 10 (4.93%) C
10 9 (4.43%) Bash
11 8 (3.94%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.45%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.96%) T-SQL
14 5 (2.46%) ABAP
15 4 (1.97%) Perl
15 4 (1.97%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.97%) R
15 4 (1.97%) Rust
16 3 (1.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (15.27%) Degree
2 14 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.93%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.94%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.97%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.49%) OCA
9 1 (0.49%) OCP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.36%) QA
2 10 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.99%) GAAP
3 2 (0.99%) IFRS
3 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (18.23%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.49%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.49%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 21 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.88%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Podman
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.99%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Argo
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.88%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.40%) Oracle
4 12 (5.91%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.42%) SAP
6 10 (4.93%) Atlassian
6 10 (4.93%) Google
7 7 (3.45%) Databricks
8 4 (1.97%) IBM
8 4 (1.97%) Telerik
9 2 (0.99%) Adobe
9 2 (0.99%) Apple
9 2 (0.99%) Foundry
9 2 (0.99%) Infor
9 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.99%) Temenos
9 2 (0.99%) Workday
9 2 (0.99%) Zend
10 1 (0.49%) OpenAI