Unit Testing Jobs in Kent

Unit Testing
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 87 93
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 6 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.79% 1.34% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.63% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 3
10th Percentile - £50,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £42,627 £58,125 -
90th Percentile £49,301 £66,375 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 668 1,226 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 87.43% 82.06% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 313 898 542
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Kent

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Kent.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in Kent

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Kent over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in Kent

Unit Testing
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Kent region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Maidstone - 2 £32,500 -
Snodland - 2 £31,000 -
Rochester - 1 £40,101 -
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) PHPUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse RCP
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CakePHP
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) Laravel
2 2 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (16.67%) JSP
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) Verilog
1 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (16.67%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Kernel Development
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Ada
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware