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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 92 127
Rank change year-on-year -43 +35 -4
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 21 100 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.89% 2.47% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.98% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 32
10th Percentile £38,125 £23,800 £41,375
25th Percentile £42,813 £41,250 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,375 £61,250
90th Percentile - £67,500 £64,625
North West median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -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 2,114 3,356 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.50% 82.74% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,777 2,098
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,900 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +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

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 16 September 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
1 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 5 (23.81%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (4.76%) NUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Xcode
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Backend Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Backend Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Associate Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) iOS Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) RESTful
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) Spring Boot
3 9 (42.86%) AngularJS
4 6 (28.57%) .NET
4 6 (28.57%) Kafka
5 5 (23.81%) CSS
5 5 (23.81%) gRPC
5 5 (23.81%) HTML
5 5 (23.81%) REST
5 5 (23.81%) Spring Batch
5 5 (23.81%) Web Services
6 4 (19.05%) React
7 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 1 (4.76%) Keras
7 1 (4.76%) Metaflow
7 1 (4.76%) PySpark
7 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
7 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
7 1 (4.76%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (42.86%) Scrum
5 8 (38.10%) Code Quality
5 8 (38.10%) SDLC
5 8 (38.10%) User Experience
6 7 (33.33%) OOP
6 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 7 (33.33%) TDD
7 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
7 5 (23.81%) SOLID
8 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
8 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 6 (28.57%) IBM
3 4 (19.05%) AppDynamics
3 4 (19.05%) Moogsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks