Unit Testing Job Trends in Manchester

Unit Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 81 110
Rank change year-on-year -45 +29 -38
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 24 98 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.05% 2.55% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 3.01% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 31
10th Percentile £51,250 £36,460 £47,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £45,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,250 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,027 3,258 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.52% 84.91% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,528 1,997
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,850 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) MongoDB
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) NUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
1 13 (54.17%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Backend Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Backend Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Associate Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) iOS Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) .NET
2 8 (33.33%) RESTful
2 8 (33.33%) Spring
2 8 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 5 (20.83%) Akka
4 5 (20.83%) Akka.NET
4 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (20.83%) Web Services
5 4 (16.67%) Kafka
5 4 (16.67%) React
6 2 (8.33%) CSS
6 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (8.33%) gRPC
6 2 (8.33%) HTML
6 2 (8.33%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Batch
7 1 (4.17%) NumPy
7 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Microservices
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
3 11 (45.83%) Scrum
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) SDLC
5 8 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Clean Code
6 7 (29.17%) TDD
7 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.83%) API Testing
8 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.83%) Functional Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Low Latency
8 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (20.83%) SOLID
8 5 (20.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Erlang
4 3 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 4 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 4 (16.67%) Moogsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks