Unit Testing Jobs in the South East

Unit Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 206 147
Rank change year-on-year -36 -59 -69
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 67 211 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 1.12% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.37% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 53 165 199
10th Percentile £37,574 £47,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
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
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 8,828 15,346 12,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.64% 81.58% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,385 10,447 7,508
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,905 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the South East

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

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 16 June 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
Thames Valley +29 28 £55,000 +1.85% 149
Oxfordshire +52 15 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Hampshire +16 12 £53,750 -6.52% 78
Berkshire +3 8 £80,000 +60.00% 88
Isle of Wight - 8 £60,000 - 7
Middlesex -12 7 £62,500 +8.70%
Surrey +36 5 £82,500 +47.32% 49
Kent +22 5 £31,750 -42.27% 36
Buckinghamshire +17 5 £52,500 -4.55% 34
West Sussex +33 1 £75,000 +7.14% 24
East Sussex +18 1 £38,500 -35.83% 21
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.46%) Apache
1 5 (7.46%) JBoss
2 3 (4.48%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (13.43%) Serverless
3 6 (8.96%) Azure
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
6 2 (2.99%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.99%) Firebase
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.49%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
1 1 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) MongoDB
2 11 (16.42%) NoSQL
3 9 (13.43%) Redis
4 8 (11.94%) DynamoDB
5 5 (7.46%) MySQL
5 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.49%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.91%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (7.46%) Eclipse
4 5 (7.46%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (5.97%) JUnit
5 4 (5.97%) PHPUnit
5 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio
6 3 (4.48%) GitLab
6 3 (4.48%) Mockito
7 2 (2.99%) JIRA
7 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.49%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.49%) NUnit
8 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Aerospace
3 8 (11.94%) Electronics
4 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.97%) Finance
7 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Automotive
9 1 (1.49%) Games
9 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Developer
2 28 (41.79%) Senior
3 12 (17.91%) Software Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.43%) .NET Developer
5 9 (13.43%) C# Developer
6 8 (11.94%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Software Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Software Test Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Software Test Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Junior
8 5 (7.46%) Junior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) BizTalk Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Lead
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) REST
2 16 (23.88%) React
3 15 (22.39%) .NET
4 13 (19.40%) CSS
5 12 (17.91%) HTML
5 12 (17.91%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (13.43%) Node.js
7 8 (11.94%) GraphQL
7 8 (11.94%) MSMQ
8 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.46%) JSP
8 5 (7.46%) Laravel
8 5 (7.46%) Middleware
9 4 (5.97%) CakePHP
9 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.97%) HTML5
9 4 (5.97%) Kafka
9 4 (5.97%) RESTful
9 4 (5.97%) Spring
9 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Online Games
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 6 (8.96%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) Test Automation
3 26 (38.81%) Microservices
4 20 (29.85%) Mentoring
5 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
5 16 (23.88%) OO
6 14 (20.90%) OOD
6 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.40%) DevOps
7 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.42%) Computer Science
8 11 (16.42%) Software Testing
8 11 (16.42%) UML
9 10 (14.93%) Event-Driven
9 10 (14.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (14.93%) TDD
10 9 (13.43%) Clean Code
10 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (13.43%) SDLC
10 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) C#
2 14 (20.90%) Java
3 13 (19.40%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) C
4 12 (17.91%) TypeScript
5 11 (16.42%) C++
6 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.96%) Python
8 5 (7.46%) Ada
8 5 (7.46%) PHP
8 5 (7.46%) Rust
9 4 (5.97%) Embedded C
10 3 (4.48%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.49%) Go
11 1 (1.49%) Groovy
11 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.49%) Perl
11 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.96%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.49%) MISRA
3 1 (1.49%) MISRA C
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle
2 3 (4.48%) Informatica
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.99%) Apple
4 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.49%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.49%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.49%) Splunk