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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 146 155
Rank change year-on-year -101 +9 -52
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 51 201 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 1.43% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.84% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 20 82 134
10th Percentile £36,875 £37,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,813 £66,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £73,750 £70,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 8,147 10,953 8,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.49% 78.11% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,027 6,118 6,327
10th Percentile £26,010 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,390 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -88 40 £50,000 -16.67% 33
Yorkshire -15 6 £75,000 +57.89% 10
North East +3 5 £46,250 +2.78% 4
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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.84%) Camunda
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.88%) SAS
4 1 (1.96%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Azure
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 5 (9.80%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub
5 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (1.96%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
2 9 (17.65%) Metadata
2 9 (17.65%) Spark SQL
3 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
4 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (11.76%) Delta Lake
5 6 (11.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.84%) Data Lake
7 4 (7.84%) Neo4j
7 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.88%) Apache Hive
8 3 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (5.88%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.88%) MySQL
8 3 (5.88%) Power BI
8 3 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (5.88%) QlikView
8 3 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) GitLab
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) JIRA
3 6 (11.76%) MLflow
4 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
4 5 (9.80%) JUnit
4 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) NUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Xcode
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Billing
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Backend Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Backend Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Associate Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Junior Software Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) RESTful
2 15 (29.41%) Spring
2 15 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 14 (27.45%) .NET
4 10 (19.61%) AngularJS
4 10 (19.61%) Kafka
5 9 (17.65%) HTML
5 9 (17.65%) PySpark
5 9 (17.65%) REST
6 8 (15.69%) CSS
6 8 (15.69%) React
7 7 (13.73%) Keras
7 7 (13.73%) NumPy
7 7 (13.73%) Pandas
7 7 (13.73%) PyTorch
7 7 (13.73%) scikit-learn
7 7 (13.73%) TensorFlow
8 6 (11.76%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (11.76%) Metaflow
8 6 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) Blog
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Unix
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 19 (37.25%) Agile
3 18 (35.29%) Code Quality
3 18 (35.29%) DevOps
4 17 (33.33%) Microservices
5 15 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 14 (27.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (27.45%) Decision-Making
7 13 (25.49%) Business Strategy
7 13 (25.49%) Secure Coding
7 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
8 12 (23.53%) OOP
8 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (19.61%) Data Science
9 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (19.61%) Machine Learning
9 10 (19.61%) Scrum
9 10 (19.61%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
10 9 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Java
2 25 (49.02%) SQL
3 16 (31.37%) Python
4 13 (25.49%) C#
4 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
5 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.80%) R
7 4 (7.84%) Bash
8 3 (5.88%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.96%) Bicep
9 1 (1.96%) C++
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Julia
9 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.96%) Swift
9 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Apache Flume
2 3 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 9 (17.65%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Kubeflow
3 3 (5.88%) Kibana
3 3 (5.88%) logstash
3 3 (5.88%) Oozie
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Databricks
2 7 (13.73%) Bloomberg
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) IBM
4 4 (7.84%) AppDynamics
4 4 (7.84%) Moogsoft
4 4 (7.84%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) Informatica
5 3 (5.88%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (5.88%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Telerik