Unit Testing Jobs in Manchester

Unit Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 108 133
Rank change year-on-year -30 +25 +36
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 27 123 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.11% 2.08% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 2.48% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 46 48
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,125 £47,813 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £74,688 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,125 £66,250 £77,715
North West median annual salary £51,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% +4.76%

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 2,274 4,958 4,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.20% 83.67% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 3,540 2,484
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,335
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,501 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Azure
5 1 (3.70%) Bitrise
5 1 (3.70%) Firebase
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (55.56%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) fastlane
4 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
4 1 (3.70%) MLflow
4 1 (3.70%) NUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Back Office
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Backend Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering Team Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Software Team Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Team Leader
6 2 (7.41%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) PHP Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) AngularJS
2 9 (33.33%) RESTful
3 8 (29.63%) CSS
3 8 (29.63%) HTML
3 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
4 7 (25.93%) Spring
5 6 (22.22%) gRPC
5 6 (22.22%) Kafka
6 5 (18.52%) Laravel
6 5 (18.52%) Vue
7 4 (14.81%) REST
7 4 (14.81%) Spring Batch
8 3 (11.11%) React
8 3 (11.11%) Web Services
9 2 (7.41%) .NET
9 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
10 1 (3.70%) Keras
10 1 (3.70%) React Native
10 1 (3.70%) Redux
10 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) PDA
4 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Android
1 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) User Experience
3 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Code Quality
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Microservices
4 9 (33.33%) Scrum
5 8 (29.63%) DevOps
6 7 (25.93%) TDD
6 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (22.22%) OOP
8 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
8 5 (18.52%) Open Source
9 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
9 4 (14.81%) Market Research
9 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 12 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) PHP
5 4 (14.81%) C#
6 3 (11.11%) Python
7 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Bloomberg
2 5 (18.52%) IBM
3 3 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 3 (11.11%) Moogsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow