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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 188 197
Rank change year-on-year -80 +9 -39
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 27 56 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.87% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.92% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16 41 159
10th Percentile £52,797 £42,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £69,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -

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 11,192 6,097 12,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.14% 95.04% 84.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,568 3,625 10,360
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -43 16 £65,000 +20.93% 18
Yorkshire -40 11 £55,000 -2.22% 8
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 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP PP
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) GitHub
2 8 (29.63%) Serverless
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (11.11%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Advertising
3 2 (7.41%) Local Government
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Lead Developer
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Development Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) CSS
1 14 (51.85%) HTML
2 11 (40.74%) React
3 10 (37.04%) Vue
4 9 (33.33%) .NET
5 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
6 7 (25.93%) Flask
7 5 (18.52%) .NET Core
7 5 (18.52%) Django
7 5 (18.52%) FastAPI
7 5 (18.52%) RESTful
7 5 (18.52%) Spring
7 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
8 3 (11.11%) Akka
8 3 (11.11%) Akka.NET
8 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (11.11%) gRPC
8 3 (11.11%) Kafka
8 3 (11.11%) REST
8 3 (11.11%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
2 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (14.81%) AI Agents
4 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (7.41%) PKI
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.70%) Hackathon
6 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 15 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 11 (40.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (37.04%) API Testing
5 10 (37.04%) Microservices
5 10 (37.04%) OOP
6 9 (33.33%) Scrum
7 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
7 8 (29.63%) Front End Development
7 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (25.93%) AI
8 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (25.93%) Data Analysis
8 7 (25.93%) Design Patterns
8 7 (25.93%) Mathematics
8 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
9 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (18.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) C#
4 8 (29.63%) Python
5 6 (22.22%) Java
5 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.11%) Erlang
7 1 (3.70%) ABAP
7 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) SAP