Unit Testing Jobs in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 120 162
Rank change year-on-year -126 +42 +17
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 40 184 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.52% 1.80% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 2.21% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 19 126 81
10th Percentile £40,515 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,125 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and 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 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the North West.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +10 24 £65,000 +22.07% 49
Lancashire -83 9 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Cheshire -3 7 £50,000 -16.67% 26
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Serverless
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.50%) Firebase
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (50.00%) Git
2 6 (15.00%) JIRA
3 5 (12.50%) JUnit
4 4 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.00%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.50%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (2.50%) fastlane
6 1 (2.50%) GitLab
6 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (2.50%) NetBeans
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
3 3 (7.50%) Military
4 1 (2.50%) Back Office
4 1 (2.50%) Electronics
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Team Leader
4 4 (10.00%) Support Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Junior
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) RESTful
2 14 (35.00%) CSS
2 14 (35.00%) HTML
3 13 (32.50%) AngularJS
4 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 11 (27.50%) Spring
6 10 (25.00%) Vue
7 8 (20.00%) React
8 7 (17.50%) .NET
9 6 (15.00%) gRPC
9 6 (15.00%) Kafka
10 5 (12.50%) Jest
10 5 (12.50%) Laravel
10 5 (12.50%) Node.js
10 5 (12.50%) REST
11 4 (10.00%) SOAP
11 4 (10.00%) Spring Batch
11 4 (10.00%) XML
12 3 (7.50%) Web Services
13 1 (2.50%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) PDA
5 1 (2.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Microservices
2 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 15 (37.50%) Agile
5 13 (32.50%) Scrum
5 13 (32.50%) User Experience
6 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 9 (22.50%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.50%) SDLC
8 7 (17.50%) Secure Coding
9 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.00%) TDD
10 5 (12.50%) Analytics
10 5 (12.50%) ITIL
10 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.50%) OO
10 5 (12.50%) Open Source
10 5 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Java
2 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (45.00%) TypeScript
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) Python
5 5 (12.50%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) Ada
7 1 (2.50%) Rust
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) VB
7 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) IEC 62304
1 1 (2.50%) ISO 13485
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Bloomberg
2 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Moogsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Intel
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow