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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 192 131
Rank change year-on-year -34 -61 -28
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 36 83 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.91% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.00% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 19 30 119
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,088 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £43,438 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,188 £67,500
90th Percentile - £68,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,588 8,260 7,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.47% 90.41% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,575 3,682 5,707
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +8 29 £65,000 +23.81% 25
Yorkshire -17 7 £66,250 +47.22% 26
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 4 (11.11%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.67%) Serverless
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.89%) GitLab
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
2 5 (13.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Billing
4 2 (5.56%) Local Government
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Lead
3 6 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.89%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Backend Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) .NET
2 11 (30.56%) CSS
2 11 (30.56%) HTML
3 10 (27.78%) React
4 8 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 8 (22.22%) REST
5 7 (19.44%) Spring
5 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
6 6 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (16.67%) Kafka
6 6 (16.67%) Vue
7 5 (13.89%) Akka
7 5 (13.89%) Akka.NET
7 5 (13.89%) Django
7 5 (13.89%) FastAPI
7 5 (13.89%) Flask
7 5 (13.89%) RESTful
8 4 (11.11%) gRPC
8 4 (11.11%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) Mentoring
3 16 (44.44%) Agile
4 15 (41.67%) Microservices
5 13 (36.11%) DevOps
5 13 (36.11%) Scrum
6 12 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 11 (30.56%) AI
7 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (27.78%) API Testing
9 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (25.00%) OOP
9 9 (25.00%) Secure Coding
10 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
10 7 (19.44%) SDLC
10 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
11 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) C#
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 12 (33.33%) Java
3 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.89%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) Erlang
7 1 (2.78%) Perl
7 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Foundry
3 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.78%) IBM
3 1 (2.78%) Moogsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk