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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 132 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 -21
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 17 26 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.60% 0.96% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.03% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 34
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,325
25th Percentile £52,813 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £84,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% +0.96% -9.57%

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 2,285 2,521 2,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.12% 93.47% 91.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 1,176 1,742
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,772
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

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 7 January 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
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Billing
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Associate Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
2 7 (41.18%) AngularJS
2 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 6 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 6 (35.29%) Kafka
4 5 (29.41%) Akka
4 5 (29.41%) Akka.NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (29.41%) RESTful
5 4 (23.53%) CSS
5 4 (23.53%) gRPC
5 4 (23.53%) HTML
5 4 (23.53%) React
5 4 (23.53%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) Spring Batch
6 2 (11.76%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Microservices
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 10 (58.82%) Scrum
5 7 (41.18%) Code Quality
5 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) AI
7 5 (29.41%) API Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
7 5 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Functional Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
7 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
7 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (23.53%) DevOps
8 4 (23.53%) SOLID
8 4 (23.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Erlang
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Moogsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk