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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 251 191
Rank change year-on-year -37 -60 -6
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 36 47 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.61% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.64% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 174
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,869 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £93,778 £68,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 13,943 7,324 14,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.85% 94.72% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,378 3,425 11,269
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -25 20 £67,500 +22.73% 14
Yorkshire -36 12 £55,000 -35.49% 3
North East -40 4 £57,500 +4.55% 2
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.78%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
1 5 (13.89%) SAP HANA
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Agriculture
2 5 (13.89%) Automotive
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.33%) Advertising
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Local Government
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Consultant
5 6 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (11.11%) Angular Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) SAP HANA Consultant
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 2 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) AngularJS
2 11 (30.56%) React
2 11 (30.56%) Vue
3 9 (25.00%) .NET
3 9 (25.00%) CSS
3 9 (25.00%) HTML
4 6 (16.67%) REST
4 6 (16.67%) RESTful
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
4 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (11.11%) Flask
5 4 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (11.11%) React Native
5 4 (11.11%) Visualforce
6 3 (8.33%) Kafka
6 3 (8.33%) Middleware
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.33%) OpenID
6 3 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Data Structures
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) PKI
4 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (25.00%) Integration Testing
7 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.22%) Microservices
8 8 (22.22%) SDLC
9 6 (16.67%) DevOps
9 6 (16.67%) OOP
9 6 (16.67%) Scrum
9 6 (16.67%) TDD
9 6 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
10 5 (13.89%) OO
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) C#
3 11 (30.56%) TypeScript
4 7 (19.44%) Java
5 5 (13.89%) Python
6 4 (11.11%) Apex Code
7 3 (8.33%) SOQL
7 3 (8.33%) SOSL
8 2 (5.56%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Foundry
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Google