Unit Testing Job Trends in Leeds

Unit Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 78 76
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 6 9 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.44% 0.89% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.00% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 26
10th Percentile - £41,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £41,875 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -30.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £47,500 £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £66,250 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +47.22% -28.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,070 899 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.14% 89.01% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 705 509 946
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,970
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.31% -0.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) Django
2 5 (83.33%) FastAPI
2 5 (83.33%) Flask
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Vue
3 1 (16.67%) NestJS
3 1 (16.67%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Hackathon
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) API Testing
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 5 (83.33%) Mathematics
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Software Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (50.00%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) Applied Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform