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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 123 140
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 19 27 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 1.08% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.14% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 35
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,438 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,938 £75,625
90th Percentile - £86,000 £82,548
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -13.04%

All Process & 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 2,686 2,366 3,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.96% 95.06% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,181 2,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 19 February 2026.

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 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) MongoDB
2 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 4 (21.05%) JUnit
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Software Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) .NET Developer
3 5 (26.32%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Associate Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) .NET
2 10 (52.63%) AngularJS
3 7 (36.84%) React
3 7 (36.84%) Spring
3 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
4 6 (31.58%) .NET Core
4 6 (31.58%) Kafka
5 5 (26.32%) Akka
5 5 (26.32%) Akka.NET
5 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (26.32%) CSS
5 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 5 (26.32%) RESTful
6 4 (21.05%) gRPC
6 4 (21.05%) REST
6 4 (21.05%) Spring Batch
7 1 (5.26%) Jest
7 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (5.26%) Vue
7 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Microservices
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Containerisation
4 13 (68.42%) Agile
5 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (47.37%) Scrum
7 8 (42.11%) SDLC
7 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
8 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
8 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
9 6 (31.58%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (31.58%) SOLID
9 6 (31.58%) TDD
10 5 (26.32%) API Testing
10 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
10 5 (26.32%) DevOps
10 5 (26.32%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (26.32%) Functional Testing
10 5 (26.32%) Low Latency
10 5 (26.32%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) C#
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) Erlang
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform