Unit Testing Job Trends in the South East

Unit Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 221 212
Rank change year-on-year -52 -9 -55
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 27 58 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.74% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.81% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23 44 166
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £64,500 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,457 7,126 14,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.80% 90.45% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,207 3,372 10,204
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,280 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Surrey -6 15 £50,000 -39.39% 2
Thames Valley -6 6 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Hampshire -40 4 £52,500 -8.70% 10
Oxfordshire -20 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Buckinghamshire -15 2 £60,000 +14.29%
Berkshire +1 1 - - 3
Kent -33 1 £65,000 +109.68% 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (55.56%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.41%) Figma
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.70%) Toad
4 1 (3.70%) utPLSQL
General
1 13 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Law
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 2 (7.41%) Social Housing
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Applications Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Web Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (7.41%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (3.70%) React Developer
4 1 (3.70%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) SAP MM Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) SAP MM Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) SAP PP Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) SAP PP Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (70.37%) HTML
2 15 (55.56%) .NET
2 15 (55.56%) CSS
2 15 (55.56%) React
3 13 (48.15%) Bootstrap
3 13 (48.15%) React Native
4 6 (22.22%) REST
5 4 (14.81%) Node.js
6 3 (11.11%) Web Services
7 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.41%) Jest
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) NestJS
7 2 (7.41%) NgRx
7 2 (7.41%) Playwright
7 2 (7.41%) Sass
7 2 (7.41%) SOAP
7 2 (7.41%) Vitest
7 2 (7.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 20 (74.07%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Wireframes
4 13 (48.15%) B2B
4 13 (48.15%) B2C
4 13 (48.15%) Clean Code
4 13 (48.15%) Mobile Application Development
5 12 (44.44%) API Integration
5 12 (44.44%) Front End Development
6 8 (29.63%) Web Development
7 6 (22.22%) Scrum
8 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) AI
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (11.11%) Microservices
10 3 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
10 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 3 (11.11%) User Experience
11 2 (7.41%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) Delphi
6 1 (3.70%) Groovy
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.70%) VB
6 1 (3.70%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) WCAG
2 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Rollbar
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow