Unit Testing Jobs in Northern Ireland

Unit Testing
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 65 51
Rank change year-on-year +36 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 6 13 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.33% 1.74% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.99% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 40
10th Percentile - - £39,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% +48.39%
75th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 236 653 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.83% 87.53% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 59 311 436
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,408 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,667 £87,500 £71,625
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Northern Ireland

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in Northern Ireland

Unit Testing
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 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
County Antrim +32 6 £55,000 +15.79% 19
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (83.33%) nginx
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) Bitbucket
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 5 (83.33%) Mockito
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (83.33%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (83.33%) Gherkin
2 5 (83.33%) Guice
2 5 (83.33%) JAX-RS
2 5 (83.33%) Mustache
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Swagger
2 5 (83.33%) WireMock
3 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 1 (16.67%) Grails
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Micronaut
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) RxJava
3 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
2 5 (83.33%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (83.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Kustomize
1 5 (83.33%) Packer
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat