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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 128 158
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 -20
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 11 25 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.20% 1.15% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.20% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 46
10th Percentile £59,237 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £83,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% +2.94% -11.30%

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 3,907 2,075 4,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.80% 95.49% 86.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 1,300 3,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,650
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £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 6 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Advertising
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
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%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) AngularJS
2 7 (63.64%) Spring
2 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
3 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 6 (54.55%) RESTful
4 5 (45.45%) React
4 5 (45.45%) REST
5 3 (27.27%) gRPC
5 3 (27.27%) Kafka
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
6 2 (18.18%) .NET
6 2 (18.18%) Vue
7 1 (9.09%) CSS3
7 1 (9.09%) HTML5
7 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (9.09%) Middleware
7 1 (9.09%) SOAP
7 1 (9.09%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) OOP
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
7 2 (18.18%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
5 1 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) SOQL
5 1 (9.09%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce