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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 118 158
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 -17
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 11 28 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.25% 1.38% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.45% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 44
10th Percentile £56,237 £48,250 £43,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.30% -2.92%
75th Percentile £68,125 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,750 £79,625
North West median annual salary £66,250 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +20.45% +6.80% -10.43%

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 3,190 1,933 4,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.50% 95.32% 87.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,159 1,243 3,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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
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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Application Development Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Development Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) AngularJS
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) React
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
4 4 (36.36%) REST
5 3 (27.27%) .NET
5 3 (27.27%) gRPC
5 3 (27.27%) Kafka
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
6 2 (18.18%) Vue
7 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 1 (9.09%) Akka
7 1 (9.09%) Akka.NET
7 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
7 1 (9.09%) Jest
7 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Full-Stack Development
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) AI
5 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) OOP
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) SOLID
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Erlang
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google