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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 149 152
Rank change year-on-year -80 +3 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 59 178 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.39% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.74% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28 53 121
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £43,313
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,750 £72,433
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 7,952 10,257 7,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.15% 80.20% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,086 4,957 5,956
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -59 47 £57,500 -8.00% 25
Yorkshire -4 8 £75,000 +57.89% 11
North East -4 4 £47,500 +5.56% 6
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%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
2 14 (23.73%) Azure
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%) GCP
5 5 (8.47%) GitHub
6 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.39%) Serverless
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) PuTTY
2 2 (3.39%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.25%) Metadata
2 9 (15.25%) MongoDB
2 9 (15.25%) Spark SQL
3 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.17%) Delta Lake
4 6 (10.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.78%) Neo4j
6 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.08%) Apache Hive
7 3 (5.08%) Big Data
7 3 (5.08%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.08%) MySQL
7 3 (5.08%) QlikView
7 3 (5.08%) SQLite
7 3 (5.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) 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%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) NUnit
7 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (52.54%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) 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%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Junior Software Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.59%) .NET
2 15 (25.42%) RESTful
3 13 (22.03%) Spring
3 13 (22.03%) Spring Boot
4 10 (16.95%) React
5 9 (15.25%) PySpark
6 8 (13.56%) .NET Core
6 8 (13.56%) Kafka
7 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (11.86%) CSS
7 7 (11.86%) HTML
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%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (10.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (8.47%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.08%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
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
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
2 22 (37.29%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Microservices
4 19 (32.20%) Agile
5 18 (30.51%) AI
6 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
6 17 (28.81%) Secure Coding
7 16 (27.12%) Code Quality
7 16 (27.12%) Mentoring
8 14 (23.73%) Decision-Making
8 14 (23.73%) Software Engineering
9 13 (22.03%) Business Strategy
9 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (20.34%) Scrum
11 11 (18.64%) OOP
12 10 (16.95%) Data Science
12 10 (16.95%) Machine Learning
12 10 (16.95%) SDLC
12 10 (16.95%) Strategic Thinking
13 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) Java
1 25 (42.37%) SQL
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 16 (27.12%) C#
4 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.47%) R
7 4 (6.78%) Bash
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%) Go
9 1 (1.69%) Julia
9 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
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
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 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Flume
2 3 (5.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Terraform
2 9 (15.25%) 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 10 (16.95%) Databricks
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) 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