JUnit Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JUnit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JUnit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 420 480
Rank change year-on-year -64 +60 +127
Permanent jobs citing JUnit 53 95 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 3.21% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 17 56 89
10th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -22.58% +24.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £100,000
90th Percentile - £76,875 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,418 2,963 5,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.54% 10.52% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,609 1,941 4,462
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,777 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JUnit relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JUnit job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JUnit

JUnit
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JUnit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for JUnit in the UK excluding London

JUnit
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
South East -30 18 £60,000 -4.00% 7
South West -17 14 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Midlands -27 12 £55,200 -8.00% 2
West Midlands +3 11 £48,975 -18.38% 2
North of England -49 7 £55,200 -22.53% 8
North West -8 4 £60,000 -15.79% 7
Scotland -22 2 £30,000 -45.45%
Yorkshire -44 2 £50,000 -41.35% 1
Wales -10 1 £55,200 +22.67% 1
North East -13 1 £55,200 +22.67%
East Midlands -47 1 £55,200 -8.00%
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (11.32%) Confluence
3 3 (5.66%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Camunda
4 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.89%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) GitHub
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (18.87%) Serverless
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.98%) OpenShift
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (9.43%) GCP
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.77%) Slack
12 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.89%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (45.28%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (24.53%) Relational Database
3 9 (16.98%) MongoDB
4 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.32%) RDBMS
4 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
5 5 (9.43%) CockroachDB
5 5 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.66%) MySQL
7 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (45.28%) Jenkins
2 22 (41.51%) Git
2 22 (41.51%) Mockito
3 16 (30.19%) GitLab
4 13 (24.53%) Selenium
5 12 (22.64%) Cucumber
5 12 (22.64%) Maven
6 11 (20.75%) JIRA
7 9 (16.98%) JMeter
8 7 (13.21%) TestNG
9 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
9 4 (7.55%) Gradle
9 4 (7.55%) Postman
9 4 (7.55%) REST Assured
10 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.77%) Appium
11 2 (3.77%) ESLint
11 2 (3.77%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (3.77%) SoapUI
11 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (35.85%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Developer
2 20 (37.74%) Java Developer
3 16 (30.19%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (28.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (26.42%) Senior
6 11 (20.75%) Software Engineer
7 10 (18.87%) Senior Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (9.43%) Software Developer
10 4 (7.55%) Java Engineer
10 4 (7.55%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Lead
11 3 (5.66%) QA Engineer
12 2 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
12 2 (3.77%) Kafka Engineer
12 2 (3.77%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (58.49%) Spring
2 25 (47.17%) Spring Boot
3 24 (45.28%) REST
4 15 (28.30%) Hibernate
5 12 (22.64%) Web Services
6 11 (20.75%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (20.75%) HTML
6 11 (20.75%) React
7 10 (18.87%) RESTful
8 9 (16.98%) WireMock
9 8 (15.09%) JSON
9 8 (15.09%) Kafka
9 8 (15.09%) pytest
10 6 (11.32%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (11.32%) Apache Camel
10 6 (11.32%) Django
10 6 (11.32%) Flask
10 6 (11.32%) jQuery
10 6 (11.32%) XML
11 5 (9.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (69.81%) CI/CD
2 36 (67.92%) Agile
3 31 (58.49%) Microservices
4 27 (50.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (49.06%) TDD
6 21 (39.62%) Containerisation
7 20 (37.74%) DevOps
8 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
9 15 (28.30%) Scrum
9 15 (28.30%) SDLC
9 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
10 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
10 12 (22.64%) Unit Testing
11 11 (20.75%) BDD
11 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (16.98%) Code Quality
12 9 (16.98%) Sprint Planning
13 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven
14 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (96.23%) Java
2 23 (43.40%) Python
3 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 19 (35.85%) SQL
5 11 (20.75%) TypeScript
6 9 (16.98%) PL/SQL
7 8 (15.09%) Bash
8 6 (11.32%) Delphi
8 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (7.55%) C
9 4 (7.55%) R
10 3 (5.66%) C#
11 2 (3.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (64.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (58.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Kibana
3 8 (15.09%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) Splunk
3 6 (11.32%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.66%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.77%) VMware
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat