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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 153 141
Rank change year-on-year -54 -12 -68
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 59 163 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 1.31% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.62% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28 44 120
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,625 £43,231
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process and 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 8,344 10,071 7,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.93% 81.02% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,621 4,733 5,412
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -22 45 £57,500 -6.12% 26
Yorkshire -8 10 £75,000 +57.89% 7
North East -7 4 £47,500 +5.56% 3
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 9 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Camunda
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.08%) SAS
4 1 (1.69%) CMS
4 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Azure
3 7 (11.86%) GitHub
3 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 4 (6.78%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.69%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) PuTTY
2 2 (3.39%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.25%) Metadata
2 9 (15.25%) Spark SQL
3 8 (13.56%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.17%) Delta Lake
5 6 (10.17%) DynamoDB
6 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.78%) MySQL
7 4 (6.78%) Neo4j
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (5.08%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.08%) Power BI
8 3 (5.08%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (5.08%) QlikView
8 3 (5.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) GitLab
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) MLflow
4 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
4 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (8.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
6 2 (3.39%) JUnit
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) NUnit
7 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Backend Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Associate Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) .NET
2 15 (25.42%) RESTful
3 13 (22.03%) Spring
3 13 (22.03%) Spring Boot
4 11 (18.64%) React
5 10 (16.95%) CSS
5 10 (16.95%) HTML
6 9 (15.25%) PySpark
7 7 (11.86%) .NET Core
7 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (11.86%) Kafka
7 7 (11.86%) Keras
7 7 (11.86%) NumPy
7 7 (11.86%) Pandas
7 7 (11.86%) PyTorch
7 7 (11.86%) scikit-learn
7 7 (11.86%) TensorFlow
8 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
8 6 (10.17%) Metaflow
8 6 (10.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (8.47%) AI Agents
2 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.08%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Blog
5 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 21 (35.59%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Agile
3 20 (33.90%) Microservices
4 18 (30.51%) AI
4 18 (30.51%) Mentoring
5 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.12%) Secure Coding
7 15 (25.42%) Code Quality
7 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.73%) Decision-Making
9 13 (22.03%) Business Strategy
9 13 (22.03%) OOP
10 12 (20.34%) Scrum
10 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
11 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (16.95%) Data Science
12 10 (16.95%) Machine Learning
12 10 (16.95%) SDLC
12 10 (16.95%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) Java
3 18 (30.51%) Python
4 15 (25.42%) C#
5 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.78%) Bash
7 4 (6.78%) R
8 3 (5.08%) Erlang
8 3 (5.08%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.69%) Bicep
9 1 (1.69%) C++
9 1 (1.69%) Julia
9 1 (1.69%) Perl
9 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.69%) Swift
9 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (27.12%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Flume
2 3 (5.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.17%) Kubeflow
4 3 (5.08%) Kibana
4 3 (5.08%) logstash
4 3 (5.08%) Oozie
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Databricks
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) IBM
3 4 (6.78%) AppDynamics
3 4 (6.78%) Bloomberg
3 4 (6.78%) Moogsoft
3 4 (6.78%) Splunk
4 3 (5.08%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle