JUnit Job Trends in the South West

JUnit
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JUnit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 166 213
Rank change year-on-year -2 +47 +33
Permanent jobs citing JUnit 15 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.29% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.34% 4.51% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile £58,078 - £46,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £29,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £77,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £76,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -16.13% -3.13%

All Development Application Skills
South West

JUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 281 488 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.44% 11.97% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 180 287 624
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +1.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,250 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

JUnit job vacancy trend in the South West

JUnit
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JUnit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JUnit

JUnit
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the South West over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JUnit in the South West

JUnit
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 January 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
Gloucestershire +20 9 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Dorset +2 5 £80,000 +153.97% 1
Devon - 1 £42,750 -
JUnit
England

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (46.67%) Confluence
2 5 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Slack
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) GitLab
2 8 (53.33%) Git
2 8 (53.33%) JIRA
3 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 5 (33.33%) TestNG
5 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (20.00%) Gradle
5 3 (20.00%) Maven
5 3 (20.00%) Selenium
6 2 (13.33%) Checkstyle
6 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (13.33%) ESLint
6 2 (13.33%) Mockito
6 2 (13.33%) Postman
6 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
6 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
6 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (6.67%) Games
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) JSF
2 4 (26.67%) PrimeFaces
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) pytest
3 3 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (13.33%) JWT
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Security
4 2 (13.33%) Swagger
5 1 (6.67%) Django
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kibana
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (26.67%) Splunk
4 3 (20.00%) Google