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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 122 142
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 -58
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 17 25 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 1.04% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.09% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 35
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,438 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -4.00%
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 2,724 2,301 3,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.25% 95.32% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 1,174 2,721
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £30,000
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 £72,750 £73,886 £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% -9.09%

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 26 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 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Billing
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
5 4 (23.53%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (17.65%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Associate Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
1 9 (52.94%) AngularJS
2 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 6 (35.29%) Kafka
3 6 (35.29%) React
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
4 5 (29.41%) Akka
4 5 (29.41%) Akka.NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (29.41%) CSS
4 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 5 (29.41%) RESTful
5 4 (23.53%) gRPC
5 4 (23.53%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) Spring Batch
6 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.88%) Jest
6 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Microservices
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
3 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (52.94%) Scrum
6 7 (41.18%) SDLC
7 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
7 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
7 6 (35.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
8 5 (29.41%) API Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
8 5 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Functional Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
9 4 (23.53%) AI
9 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
9 4 (23.53%) SOLID
9 4 (23.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Erlang
5 1 (5.88%) SQL