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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 96 87
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 17 66 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.69% 2.07% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 2.30% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 36
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,375
25th Percentile £52,813 £48,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%

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 2,097 2,866 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.31% 89.96% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%

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 December 2025.

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%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Billing
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical 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%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack 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%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
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 6 (35.29%) .NET Core
2 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) Akka
3 5 (29.41%) Akka.NET
3 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (29.41%) Kafka
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) gRPC
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) REST
5 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
6 2 (11.76%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) NumPy
7 1 (5.88%) Pandas
7 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Microservices
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
4 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 9 (52.94%) Scrum
5 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
5 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) AI
6 5 (29.41%) API Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
6 5 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Functional Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
6 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) OOP
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Erlang
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubeflow
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Moogsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk