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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 237 149
Rank change year-on-year -89 -88 +3
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 39 59 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.63% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.71% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 30 28 57
10th Percentile £44,400 £40,500 £39,275
25th Percentile £51,188 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +4.17% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £74,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 17,092 8,277 10,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.23% 87.78% 80.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,700 4,093 5,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -4.47% -7.27%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 East -50 17 £57,500 +21.05% 9
North West -61 14 £71,250 +23.91% 14
Yorkshire -35 8 £55,000 -26.67% 5
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 3 (7.69%) CMS
1 3 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Shopify
2 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.56%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
6 3 (7.69%) Algolia
6 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (7.69%) Storyblok
7 2 (5.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.82%) MySQL
4 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.26%) Redis
5 3 (7.69%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.26%) Gatling
5 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.56%) JIRA
7 1 (2.56%) Mocha
7 1 (2.56%) NUnit
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Electronics
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.56%) Automotive
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Salesforce Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Angular Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) SAP HANA Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Integration Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
2 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
2 8 (20.51%) Spring
2 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.95%) React
4 6 (15.38%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) Kafka
5 5 (12.82%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (12.82%) Middleware
5 5 (12.82%) SOAP
5 5 (12.82%) Visualforce
6 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
6 4 (10.26%) CSS
6 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
6 4 (10.26%) Gherkin
6 4 (10.26%) HTML
6 4 (10.26%) React Native
6 4 (10.26%) Terraform
7 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Learning Management System
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.13%) IoT
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.90%) DevOps
5 13 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.95%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (17.95%) Scrum
7 7 (17.95%) TDD
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 6 (15.38%) SDLC
8 6 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (12.82%) Clean Code
9 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
9 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) C#
1 11 (28.21%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.82%) Apex Code
6 3 (7.69%) Python
6 3 (7.69%) SOQL
6 3 (7.69%) SOSL
7 2 (5.13%) C
7 2 (5.13%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) ABAP
8 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Argo
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.69%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.56%) Infor
4 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft