Unit Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 183 147
Rank change year-on-year -55 -36 -21
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 857 1,180 1,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.91% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.00% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 547 810 1,063
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,207 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +0.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,460 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,978 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.37% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England -1 226 £51,000 -11.30% 41
South East -22 203 £57,500 +4.55% 45
North West +25 161 £51,000 -11.30% 27
Scotland -15 122 £57,500 - 17
South West -33 114 £60,000 - 27
Midlands -64 103 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Yorkshire +10 62 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -43 60 £52,500 -4.55% 12
West Midlands -34 42 £58,750 +6.82% 24
East of England -29 40 £55,000 - 30
Wales +23 31 £47,500 -7.05% 4
Northern Ireland +5 19 £53,750 -6.52% 3
North East -17 3 £67,500 +17.39% 5
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (5.13%) FileNet
2 34 (3.97%) IIS
3 13 (1.52%) CMS
4 11 (1.28%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.93%) WordPress
6 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) Apache
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.12%) PrestaShop
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.12%) TYPO3
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.93%) Siebel CRM
3 7 (0.82%) BPCS
3 7 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.47%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 265 (30.92%) Azure
2 252 (29.40%) AWS
3 109 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (12.37%) GitHub
5 81 (9.45%) Serverless
6 74 (8.63%) SaaS
7 54 (6.30%) Amazon S3
8 40 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 29 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.45%) BlazeMeter
11 14 (1.63%) GCP
12 13 (1.52%) Azure Functions
12 13 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.52%) npm
12 13 (1.52%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.93%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Bluetooth
1 6 (0.70%) HTTP
2 5 (0.58%) Wireless
3 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) MQTT
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (17.85%) SQL Server
2 117 (13.65%) Oracle Database
3 114 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (10.39%) NoSQL
5 87 (10.15%) Oracle Database 11g
6 62 (7.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 62 (7.23%) Relational Database
7 55 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (5.60%) MySQL
9 35 (4.08%) MongoDB
10 33 (3.85%) RDBMS
11 22 (2.57%) Power BI
12 20 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.52%) Redis
14 12 (1.40%) MariaDB
14 12 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.93%) OLAP
17 8 (0.93%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 175 (20.42%) Git
2 80 (9.33%) Jasmine
3 75 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 73 (8.52%) JUnit
5 72 (8.40%) Visual Studio
6 50 (5.83%) Mockito
7 43 (5.02%) JIRA
8 41 (4.78%) NUnit
9 30 (3.50%) JDeveloper
10 29 (3.38%) Karma Test Runner
11 22 (2.57%) PHPUnit
12 20 (2.33%) Moq
12 20 (2.33%) Postman
13 16 (1.87%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.75%) Storybook
15 14 (1.63%) MSTest
16 13 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (1.40%) Cucumber
17 12 (1.40%) LabVIEW
18 11 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 168 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.50%) Finance
3 87 (10.15%) Law
4 74 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 62 (7.23%) Legal
6 53 (6.18%) Marketing
7 40 (4.67%) Banking
8 29 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (2.45%) Private Banking
10 20 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 20 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.22%) Retail
12 17 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.52%) Electronics
14 10 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 9 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 517 (60.33%) Developer
2 259 (30.22%) Senior
3 248 (28.94%) Software Engineer
4 191 (22.29%) Senior Developer
5 102 (11.90%) .NET Developer
6 90 (10.50%) Software Developer
7 87 (10.15%) Database Developer
7 87 (10.15%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 77 (8.98%) Senior Database Developer
9 75 (8.75%) C# Developer
10 57 (6.65%) Java Engineer
11 56 (6.53%) Java Software Engineer
12 53 (6.18%) Full Stack Developer
13 52 (6.07%) PHP Developer
14 51 (5.95%) Lead
14 51 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
16 30 (3.50%) Ruby Engineer
17 29 (3.38%) C# .NET Developer
18 28 (3.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (35.01%) .NET
2 226 (26.37%) React
3 210 (24.50%) AngularJS
4 122 (14.24%) CSS
5 114 (13.30%) .NET Core
6 110 (12.84%) HTML
7 107 (12.49%) Spring
8 104 (12.14%) REST
9 85 (9.92%) Vue
10 82 (9.57%) SOAP
11 80 (9.33%) .NET Framework
11 80 (9.33%) ASP.NET
12 79 (9.22%) Node.js
13 75 (8.75%) Kafka
13 75 (8.75%) Laravel
14 72 (8.40%) RESTful
15 70 (8.17%) GraphQL
15 70 (8.17%) jQuery
16 68 (7.93%) Sass
17 63 (7.35%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.45%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 16 (1.87%) IoT
7 15 (1.75%) Digital Media
8 13 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.82%) iSeries
12 7 (0.82%) Legacy Code
12 7 (0.82%) PMI
12 7 (0.82%) SCADA
13 5 (0.58%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.60%) Windows
2 36 (4.20%) Linux
3 18 (2.10%) Android
4 11 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.05%) Unix
6 7 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.35%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.35%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (45.74%) Agile
2 314 (36.64%) Software Engineering
3 281 (32.79%) DevOps
4 203 (23.69%) Microservices
5 202 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (22.52%) CI/CD
7 179 (20.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 173 (20.19%) Actionable Insight
9 171 (19.95%) Design Patterns
10 149 (17.39%) Full Stack Development
11 144 (16.80%) TDD
12 126 (14.70%) Continuous Integration
13 122 (14.24%) Computer Science
14 118 (13.77%) Clean Code
15 117 (13.65%) MVC
16 114 (13.30%) Secure Coding
17 100 (11.67%) Mentoring
18 99 (11.55%) Scrum
19 97 (11.32%) Code Quality
20 95 (11.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 367 (42.82%) C#
2 338 (39.44%) SQL
3 326 (38.04%) JavaScript
4 226 (26.37%) Java
5 114 (13.30%) TypeScript
6 111 (12.95%) Python
7 90 (10.50%) PL/SQL
8 81 (9.45%) PHP
9 74 (8.63%) VB.NET
10 54 (6.30%) T-SQL
11 52 (6.07%) C++
12 48 (5.60%) Ruby
13 46 (5.37%) C
14 36 (4.20%) Perl
15 35 (4.08%) Bash
16 32 (3.73%) Go
17 28 (3.27%) VB
17 28 (3.27%) VB6
18 22 (2.57%) PowerShell
19 12 (1.40%) Ada
Qualifications
1 128 (14.94%) Degree
2 69 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 35 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (14.47%) QA
2 8 (0.93%) GDPR
3 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.58%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.58%) TickIT
5 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.23%) HL7
5 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.23%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.12%) MISRA
6 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (5.95%) Docker
2 13 (1.52%) Firmware
3 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 81 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.08%) Terraform
3 23 (2.68%) Grafana
4 6 (0.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.23%) Packer
6 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
6 1 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 192 (22.40%) Oracle
2 155 (18.09%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.57%) Splunk
4 21 (2.45%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.22%) IBM
6 13 (1.52%) SAP
7 9 (1.05%) Apple
7 9 (1.05%) Google
8 8 (0.93%) Siebel
8 8 (0.93%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.82%) Zoho
10 6 (0.70%) Cognos
11 5 (0.58%) PayPal
11 5 (0.58%) WorldPay
12 4 (0.47%) Adobe
12 4 (0.47%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.47%) Facebook
12 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.47%) Telerik