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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 238 152
Rank change year-on-year -89 -86 -7
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 40 55 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.58% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.65% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 30 26 63
10th Percentile £44,400 £38,125 £37,750
25th Percentile £51,188 £44,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 17,096 8,415 10,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.03% 88.14% 79.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,718 4,036 5,547
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 1 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 1 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 West -59 16 £67,500 +28.57% 36
North East -56 14 £57,500 +21.05% 9
Yorkshire -30 10 £55,000 -26.67% 10
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 (7.50%) CMS
1 3 (7.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.50%) Shopify
3 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Algolia
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Storyblok
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) MySQL
2 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (12.50%) SAP HANA
4 4 (10.00%) Redis
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) Eclipse
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
3 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.00%) Gatling
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Mocha
5 1 (2.50%) NUnit
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Agriculture
4 3 (7.50%) Automotive
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Electronics
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Consultant
4 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 5 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Angular Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.50%) SAP HANA Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Junior
8 1 (2.50%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 11 (27.50%) AngularJS
3 9 (22.50%) React
4 6 (15.00%) REST
4 6 (15.00%) Spring
4 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (12.50%) Middleware
5 5 (12.50%) SOAP
5 5 (12.50%) Visualforce
6 4 (10.00%) CSS
6 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
6 4 (10.00%) HTML
6 4 (10.00%) React Native
6 4 (10.00%) Terraform
7 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (7.50%) SAP Core Interface
7 3 (7.50%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (7.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Learning Management System
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.00%) IoT
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (35.00%) Integration Testing
3 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.00%) DevOps
6 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) SDLC
8 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 7 (17.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.00%) Scrum
9 6 (15.00%) TDD
9 6 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) C#
2 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (22.50%) Java
5 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.50%) Apex Code
7 3 (7.50%) Python
7 3 (7.50%) SOQL
7 3 (7.50%) SOSL
8 2 (5.00%) C
8 2 (5.00%) C++
9 1 (2.50%) ABAP
9 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Infor
4 1 (2.50%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft