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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 471 487
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 +83
Permanent jobs citing JUnit 57 95 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 2.67% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18 41 46
10th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -25.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% -14.75% -1.61%

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 2,184 3,554 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.15% 9.89% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,996 3,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,325 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 14 January 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 14 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
South East +8 18 £65,000 - 18
Midlands +26 15 £55,200 -8.00% 8
South West +5 15 £75,000 +25.00% 19
West Midlands +28 11 £48,975 -18.38% 3
North of England +4 7 £55,200 -21.14% 15
North West +17 5 - - 4
East Midlands -10 4 £58,000 -3.33% 5
Scotland +4 2 £30,000 -45.45% 3
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 9
North East - 1 £55,200 - 2
Wales - 1 £55,200 - 4
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 (12.28%) Confluence
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (8.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.75%) Camunda
4 1 (1.75%) CMS
4 1 (1.75%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.75%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (26.32%) Serverless
3 14 (24.56%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (22.81%) Azure
5 12 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (17.54%) GitHub
6 10 (17.54%) OpenShift
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.51%) Slack
11 1 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.75%) ChatGPT
11 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (29.82%) Relational Database
3 11 (19.30%) RDBMS
4 9 (15.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.28%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.77%) CockroachDB
7 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (3.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (50.88%) Jenkins
2 25 (43.86%) Git
3 24 (42.11%) Mockito
4 16 (28.07%) GitLab
5 15 (26.32%) JMeter
6 14 (24.56%) JIRA
6 14 (24.56%) Maven
6 14 (24.56%) Selenium
7 13 (22.81%) Cucumber
8 9 (15.79%) TestNG
9 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
9 5 (8.77%) Gradle
9 5 (8.77%) REST Assured
10 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
11 3 (5.26%) Appium
11 3 (5.26%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (5.26%) Postman
11 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (3.51%) SoapUI
12 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (28.07%) Finance
2 15 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Games
4 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Legal
4 1 (1.75%) Marketing
4 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (56.14%) Developer
2 25 (43.86%) Java Developer
3 20 (35.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (35.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 16 (28.07%) Senior
5 12 (21.05%) Software Engineer
6 11 (19.30%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (19.30%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.77%) Software Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Kafka Engineer
12 1 (1.75%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (61.40%) Spring
2 32 (56.14%) REST
3 29 (50.88%) Spring Boot
4 18 (31.58%) Hibernate
4 18 (31.58%) HTML
5 13 (22.81%) Web Services
6 12 (21.05%) React
7 11 (19.30%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (19.30%) Apache Camel
7 11 (19.30%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (19.30%) jQuery
7 11 (19.30%) JSON
7 11 (19.30%) WireMock
7 11 (19.30%) XML
8 8 (14.04%) Kafka
8 8 (14.04%) pytest
9 7 (12.28%) CSS
9 7 (12.28%) RESTful
10 6 (10.53%) Django
10 6 (10.53%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.75%) Life Science
8 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) Agile
1 40 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 35 (61.40%) Microservices
3 28 (49.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (47.37%) TDD
5 20 (35.09%) SDLC
6 18 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 18 (31.58%) DevOps
7 17 (29.82%) BDD
7 17 (29.82%) Scrum
8 16 (28.07%) Software Engineering
9 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
10 14 (24.56%) Unit Testing
11 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (21.05%) Workflow
12 11 (19.30%) Process Management
13 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
13 10 (17.54%) Sprint Planning
14 9 (15.79%) Code Quality
15 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (98.25%) Java
2 32 (56.14%) Python
3 30 (52.63%) JavaScript
4 17 (29.82%) SQL
5 13 (22.81%) TypeScript
6 12 (21.05%) Shell Script
7 8 (14.04%) Bash
7 8 (14.04%) PL/SQL
8 6 (10.53%) Delphi
9 4 (7.02%) C
9 4 (7.02%) R
10 2 (3.51%) C#
11 1 (1.75%) Go
11 1 (1.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (59.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (28.07%) Kibana
3 8 (14.04%) Grafana
4 2 (3.51%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Oracle
2 15 (26.32%) Splunk
3 11 (19.30%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (3.51%) VMware
7 1 (1.75%) Adobe
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat