Unit Testing Job Trends in the North of England

Unit Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 190 196
Rank change year-on-year -71 +6 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 28 68 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.99% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 1.04% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 17 42 153
10th Percentile £53,106 £42,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +6.80% -10.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,875 £62,500
90th Percentile - £86,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,653 6,564 12,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.93% 95.13% 85.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,126 3,545 10,037
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -28 21 £65,000 +23.81% 12
Yorkshire -45 7 £75,000 +33.33% 7
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP PP
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) GitHub
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (21.43%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.71%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) JUnit
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Local Government
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Lead
3 6 (21.43%) Lead Developer
4 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Python Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Development Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) SAP PP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) .NET
2 11 (39.29%) CSS
2 11 (39.29%) HTML
3 9 (32.14%) React
4 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 6 (21.43%) Spring
5 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 6 (21.43%) Vue
6 5 (17.86%) Akka
6 5 (17.86%) Akka.NET
6 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (17.86%) Django
6 5 (17.86%) FastAPI
6 5 (17.86%) Flask
6 5 (17.86%) Kafka
7 4 (14.29%) RESTful
8 3 (10.71%) gRPC
8 3 (10.71%) REST
8 3 (10.71%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) AI Agents
2 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
4 13 (46.43%) Microservices
5 10 (35.71%) API Testing
5 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 10 (35.71%) Scrum
6 9 (32.14%) AI
7 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (28.57%) OOP
8 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 6 (21.43%) Backlog Refinement
9 6 (21.43%) DevOps
9 6 (21.43%) Front End Development
9 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (21.43%) LLM
9 6 (21.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 10 (35.71%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) Java
5 6 (21.43%) Python
6 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (10.71%) Erlang
8 1 (3.57%) ABAP
8 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) SAP