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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 253 158
Rank change year-on-year -56 -95 -1
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 43 61 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.64% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.72% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 119
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,125 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,625 £43,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 15,753 8,527 11,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.87% 78.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,782 4,264 7,670
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -38 18 £67,500 +28.57% 31
Yorkshire -20 16 £55,000 -35.49% 6
North East -52 9 £57,500 +24.32% 12
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 (6.98%) CMS
1 3 (6.98%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.98%) Shopify
3 1 (2.33%) SAP EWM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) Algolia
6 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) Storyblok
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.95%) MySQL
3 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 5 (11.63%) SAP HANA
4 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.30%) Redis
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.65%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) JUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Mocha
4 1 (2.33%) NUnit
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Agriculture
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Automotive
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Advertising
5 2 (4.65%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Senior
3 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (16.28%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Consultant
6 6 (13.95%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (11.63%) Salesforce Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Angular Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.98%) SAP HANA Consultant
9 3 (6.98%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
10 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
10 2 (4.65%) Lead
10 2 (4.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 1 (2.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) AngularJS
2 12 (27.91%) React
3 10 (23.26%) .NET
4 9 (20.93%) CSS
4 9 (20.93%) HTML
4 9 (20.93%) Vue
5 7 (16.28%) REST
6 5 (11.63%) Flask
6 5 (11.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (11.63%) Middleware
6 5 (11.63%) SOAP
6 5 (11.63%) Spring
6 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
6 5 (11.63%) Visualforce
7 4 (9.30%) Entity Framework
7 4 (9.30%) React Native
7 4 (9.30%) RESTful
8 3 (6.98%) Node.js
8 3 (6.98%) OAuth
8 3 (6.98%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Learning Management System
3 3 (6.98%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.65%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.65%) IoT
4 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Agile
2 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
3 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (30.23%) Integration Testing
4 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
4 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
5 10 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (20.93%) DevOps
6 9 (20.93%) SDLC
7 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 8 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (16.28%) OOP
9 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
9 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
9 6 (13.95%) OO
9 6 (13.95%) TDD
10 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (11.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) SQL
2 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.23%) C#
4 12 (27.91%) TypeScript
5 7 (16.28%) Java
5 7 (16.28%) Python
6 5 (11.63%) Apex Code
7 3 (6.98%) SOQL
7 3 (6.98%) SOSL
8 2 (4.65%) ABAP
8 2 (4.65%) C
8 2 (4.65%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (4.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Salesforce
1 6 (13.95%) SAP
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Infor
2 1 (2.33%) ION Trading
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft