Unit Testing Jobs in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 161 176
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -54
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 161 153 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.66% 1.92% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.00% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 120 98 83
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £83,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.93% +11.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,075 7,639 8,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.17% 95.75% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,151 3,950 5,365
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,396 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -9 68 £55,000 -4.35% 18
Merseyside +47 55 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Lancashire -11 21 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Cheshire -8 14 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Cumbria - 1 £40,000 - 1
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 15 (9.32%) IIS
2 4 (2.48%) CMS
3 2 (1.24%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.62%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.35%) BPCS
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.09%) Azure
2 36 (22.36%) AWS
3 29 (18.01%) GitHub
4 20 (12.42%) SaaS
5 14 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.07%) Power Platform
6 13 (8.07%) Serverless
7 8 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.11%) OCI
9 5 (3.11%) Stripe
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.24%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) Wireless
2 2 (1.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.62%) MQTT
3 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.36%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (14.91%) Oracle Database
3 22 (13.66%) SQL Server
4 20 (12.42%) MySQL
5 18 (11.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.73%) Power BI
7 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.11%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.62%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Git
2 21 (13.04%) Visual Studio
3 20 (12.42%) PHPUnit
4 14 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 11 (6.83%) Jasmine
5 11 (6.83%) Karma Test Runner
6 6 (3.73%) JDeveloper
7 4 (2.48%) JIRA
7 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.86%) Subversion
9 2 (1.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.24%) Postman
9 2 (1.24%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.62%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.62%) Moq
10 1 (0.62%) NUnit
10 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.94%) Legal
3 15 (9.32%) Finance
4 10 (6.21%) Law
5 7 (4.35%) Banking
5 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.11%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.48%) Marketing
7 4 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Advertising
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
9 1 (0.62%) Electronics
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 123 (76.40%) Developer
2 43 (26.71%) Senior
3 39 (24.22%) Senior Developer
4 31 (19.25%) Software Developer
5 24 (14.91%) Software Engineer
6 22 (13.66%) C# Developer
7 20 (12.42%) .NET Developer
8 18 (11.18%) Database Developer
8 18 (11.18%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 16 (9.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (9.94%) Senior Database Developer
10 11 (6.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Lead
11 7 (4.35%) React Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Systems Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Ruby Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Senior Technical Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (32.30%) .NET
2 51 (31.68%) React
3 43 (26.71%) CSS
4 34 (21.12%) HTML
4 34 (21.12%) RESTful
5 33 (20.50%) AngularJS
6 27 (16.77%) Laravel
6 27 (16.77%) Sass
6 27 (16.77%) SOAP
7 25 (15.53%) REST
8 23 (14.29%) Vue
9 18 (11.18%) .NET Framework
9 18 (11.18%) GraphQL
10 17 (10.56%) Tailwind CSS
11 16 (9.94%) XML
12 14 (8.70%) ASP.NET
12 14 (8.70%) Node.js
12 14 (8.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 14 (8.70%) Web Services
13 13 (8.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) IoT
2 7 (4.35%) iSeries
3 5 (3.11%) Hackathon
3 5 (3.11%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.11%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.48%) CCTV
5 3 (1.86%) Blog
5 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.86%) Media Streaming
5 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) iPhone
7 1 (0.62%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.21%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.86%) Windows
4 2 (1.24%) FreeBSD
4 2 (1.24%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.33%) Design Patterns
2 40 (24.84%) Clean Code
3 38 (23.60%) Agile
3 38 (23.60%) DevOps
4 36 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (18.63%) Software Engineering
6 29 (18.01%) Actionable Insight
7 27 (16.77%) TDD
8 26 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (16.15%) Full Stack Development
9 23 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 22 (13.66%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
11 21 (13.04%) Use Case
12 20 (12.42%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (12.42%) Front End Development
12 20 (12.42%) Secure Coding
13 19 (11.80%) Microservices
13 19 (11.80%) User Experience
14 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (52.17%) JavaScript
2 64 (39.75%) C#
3 50 (31.06%) SQL
4 33 (20.50%) Java
5 29 (18.01%) VB.NET
6 20 (12.42%) Python
7 19 (11.80%) TypeScript
8 18 (11.18%) PL/SQL
9 16 (9.94%) PHP
10 11 (6.83%) T-SQL
10 11 (6.83%) VB
10 11 (6.83%) VB6
11 9 (5.59%) Ruby
12 8 (4.97%) Perl
13 7 (4.35%) RPG
13 7 (4.35%) RPG IV
14 6 (3.73%) Bash
14 6 (3.73%) Go
15 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (2.48%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.86%) Degree
3 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.91%) QA
2 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) HL7
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (19.25%) Oracle
2 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.35%) IBM
4 5 (3.11%) PayPal
4 5 (3.11%) WorldPay
5 4 (2.48%) Facebook
6 2 (1.24%) Progress
7 1 (0.62%) Google