Unit Testing Job Trends in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 168 104
Rank change year-on-year +20 -64 -42
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 29 44 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.47% 0.85% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.94% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 60
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,450 £42,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,625
90th Percentile - £75,500 £80,255
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,110 4,671 3,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.50% 90.38% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,286 2,752
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the North West

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Manchester +6 17 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Cheshire -15 11 £75,000 +76.47% 7
Lancashire +10 1 £32,500 -36.62% 3
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (13.79%) Camunda
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
1 5 (17.24%) Git
1 5 (17.24%) GitLab
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
1 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
1 5 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) JUnit
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Billing
4 2 (6.90%) Local Government
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Lead Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Software Developer
4 5 (17.24%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Backend Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Associate Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) .NET
2 8 (27.59%) .NET Core
2 8 (27.59%) REST
3 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
3 7 (24.14%) Spring
3 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
4 6 (20.69%) Kafka
5 5 (17.24%) Akka
5 5 (17.24%) Akka.NET
5 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (17.24%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) CSS
6 4 (13.79%) gRPC
6 4 (13.79%) HTML
6 4 (13.79%) React
6 4 (13.79%) Spring Batch
7 2 (6.90%) Web Services
8 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.45%) Jest
8 1 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) AI Agents
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) Microservices
3 13 (44.83%) DevOps
4 12 (41.38%) Code Quality
4 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
4 12 (41.38%) Scrum
5 11 (37.93%) AI
5 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
6 10 (34.48%) Agile
7 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (31.03%) Secure Coding
8 6 (20.69%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.69%) LLM
8 6 (20.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (20.69%) SDLC
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) C#
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 6 (20.69%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Foundry
3 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) Moogsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk