Unit Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 179 120
Rank change year-on-year +31 -59 -78
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 35 65 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.97% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.15% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23 46 76
10th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £39,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,500 £60,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £79,500 £66,875 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,221 5,669 5,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 94.04% 84.71% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 3,877 3,051
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Oxfordshire +43 17 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Berkshire +15 11 £63,000 +26.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £56,250 +2.27% 7
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (8.57%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Serverless
3 11 (31.43%) Azure
4 10 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.57%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Firebase
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
1 4 (11.43%) JUnit
1 4 (11.43%) Mockito
1 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.86%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.86%) Protractor
3 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (22.86%) Aerospace
1 8 (22.86%) Electronics
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Senior
2 19 (54.29%) Developer
3 12 (34.29%) Senior Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Senior Software Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Software Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.57%) BizTalk Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) React Developer
8 1 (2.86%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (2.86%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (57.14%) React
2 10 (28.57%) Node.js
3 9 (25.71%) GraphQL
4 5 (14.29%) .NET
4 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 5 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.43%) Hibernate
5 4 (11.43%) RESTful
5 4 (11.43%) Vue
6 3 (8.57%) Kafka
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.57%) Spring
6 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.71%) CSS
7 2 (5.71%) CSS3
7 2 (5.71%) HTML
7 2 (5.71%) HTML5
7 2 (5.71%) REST
7 2 (5.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Microservices
2 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (31.43%) Test Automation
4 10 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 10 (28.57%) OO
5 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 9 (25.71%) Event-Driven
5 9 (25.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (25.71%) Functional Programming
5 9 (25.71%) Kanban
5 9 (25.71%) Secure Coding
5 9 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (25.71%) Technology Strategy
6 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 8 (22.86%) OOD
7 6 (17.14%) SDLC
8 4 (11.43%) API Development
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
2 9 (25.71%) C
3 8 (22.86%) C++
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Java
6 5 (14.29%) C#
7 3 (8.57%) Python
8 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.86%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.86%) Groovy
9 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.86%) Perl
9 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (2.86%) ISO 26262
1 1 (2.86%) MISRA
1 1 (2.86%) MISRA C
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Packer
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Apple
1 2 (5.71%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft