Unit Testing Jobs in the North of England

Unit Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 163 167
Rank change year-on-year -121 +4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 66 265 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.50% 1.41% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.76% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35 164 178
10th Percentile £41,450 £36,250 £42,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,344 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,267 £69,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 11,540 15,050 13,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.37% 80.08% 96.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,782 10,787 7,658
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year - -11.93% +4.08%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the North of England.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the North of England

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -123 46 £52,000 -2.35% 41
Yorkshire +2 12 £85,253 +55.00% 21
North East +42 8 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) SAS
3 2 (3.03%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
2 12 (18.18%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (10.61%) GitHub
3 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.58%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) Serverless
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.03%) SaaS
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.52%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.52%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) HTTP
2 3 (4.55%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.52%) DNS
3 1 (1.52%) Firewall
3 1 (1.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 9 (13.64%) Metadata
3 9 (13.64%) Spark SQL
4 8 (12.12%) MongoDB
5 7 (10.61%) DynamoDB
5 7 (10.61%) Power BI
6 6 (9.09%) Delta Lake
7 5 (7.58%) Big Data
7 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (6.06%) Biml
8 4 (6.06%) Neo4j
8 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.55%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 31 (46.97%) Git
2 10 (15.15%) JIRA
3 6 (9.09%) JUnit
3 6 (9.09%) MLflow
4 4 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.06%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.55%) GitLab
5 3 (4.55%) Jasmine
5 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.03%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.52%) JDeveloper
7 1 (1.52%) Mockito
7 1 (1.52%) NetBeans
7 1 (1.52%) NUnit
7 1 (1.52%) Protractor
7 1 (1.52%) Xcode
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Games
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Back Office
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Developer
2 19 (28.79%) Senior
3 14 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Backend Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Support Specialist
8 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Lead
8 3 (4.55%) PHP Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 3 (4.55%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) RESTful
2 18 (27.27%) .NET
3 16 (24.24%) HTML
4 15 (22.73%) CSS
5 14 (21.21%) AngularJS
6 13 (19.70%) React
6 13 (19.70%) Spring Boot
7 12 (18.18%) Spring
8 10 (15.15%) Kafka
8 10 (15.15%) Vue
9 9 (13.64%) PySpark
10 7 (10.61%) Keras
10 7 (10.61%) Node.js
10 7 (10.61%) NumPy
10 7 (10.61%) Pandas
10 7 (10.61%) PyTorch
10 7 (10.61%) scikit-learn
10 7 (10.61%) TensorFlow
11 6 (9.09%) gRPC
11 6 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.03%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.52%) Blog
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) PDA
6 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Unix
2 5 (7.58%) Linux
3 3 (4.55%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (39.39%) Agile
2 26 (39.39%) Software Engineering
3 21 (31.82%) Microservices
4 17 (25.76%) Code Quality
5 16 (24.24%) User Experience
6 15 (22.73%) DevOps
7 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (18.18%) Clean Code
9 12 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.67%) OOP
11 10 (15.15%) Data Science
11 10 (15.15%) Machine Learning
11 10 (15.15%) Scrum
11 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
12 9 (13.64%) Coaching
12 9 (13.64%) Secure Coding
12 9 (13.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) SQL
2 24 (36.36%) Java
3 22 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 22 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 16 (24.24%) C#
4 16 (24.24%) Python
5 7 (10.61%) PHP
6 5 (7.58%) R
6 5 (7.58%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.06%) Bash
8 3 (4.55%) PROC SQL
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.03%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.52%) Bicep
10 1 (1.52%) Go
10 1 (1.52%) Julia
10 1 (1.52%) Swift
10 1 (1.52%) VB
10 1 (1.52%) VB6
10 1 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Flume
2 3 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (21.21%) Terraform
2 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.09%) Kubeflow
4 3 (4.55%) Kibana
4 3 (4.55%) logstash
4 3 (4.55%) Oozie
5 2 (3.03%) Grafana
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Databricks
2 7 (10.61%) Bloomberg
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) IBM
4 3 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.55%) Informatica
4 3 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (4.55%) Moogsoft
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) Splunk
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Telerik