Unit Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 259 217
Rank change year-on-year -143 -42 -88
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 122 384 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 1.03% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.17% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 66 192 346
10th Percentile £44,375 £42,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,828 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £64,538 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,700 £79,975 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,518 32,882 27,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.16% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,196 15,153 20,782
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,700 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Unit Testing

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
South East -17 43 £50,000 -13.04% 162
North of England -27 35 £62,500 +19.05% 181
North West +10 28 £62,500 +19.05% 101
Midlands -37 18 £57,500 -9.80% 136
West Midlands -5 13 £57,500 -17.86% 64
South West -19 12 £47,500 -20.83% 94
Scotland -19 8 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire -7 7 £66,250 +47.22% 68
East Midlands -45 5 £49,500 -13.91% 63
East of England -5 3 £67,950 -2.93% 105
Northern Ireland -14 2 - - 13
Wales +1 1 £42,000 -35.38% 20
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
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 5 (4.10%) Apache
1 5 (4.10%) Confluence
2 4 (3.28%) Camunda
2 4 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Windchill
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.82%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.64%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.82%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) Azure
2 25 (20.49%) AWS
3 21 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (17.21%) GitHub
4 18 (14.75%) Serverless
5 16 (13.11%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.38%) Azure Functions
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.74%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.74%) PaaS
8 7 (5.74%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.92%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.10%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.82%) UWB
2 1 (0.82%) Wideband
2 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.48%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.38%) Metadata
4 8 (6.56%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.92%) Power BI
7 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.46%) MySQL
8 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.82%) Cognos Connection
10 1 (0.82%) Cognos Event Studio
10 1 (0.82%) Cognos Framework Manager
10 1 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.82%) OLAP
10 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.82%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (22.95%) Git
2 12 (9.84%) JIRA
2 12 (9.84%) JUnit
3 10 (8.20%) Bitbucket
3 10 (8.20%) GitLab
4 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.10%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.28%) Maven
5 4 (3.28%) Mockito
5 4 (3.28%) MSTest
5 4 (3.28%) NUnit
6 3 (2.46%) Moq
7 2 (1.64%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.82%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (32.79%) Finance
2 25 (20.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.92%) Marketing
6 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.46%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.64%) Automotive
8 2 (1.64%) Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Billing
8 2 (1.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
9 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (56.56%) Developer
2 31 (25.41%) Senior
3 19 (15.57%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.11%) .NET Developer
4 16 (13.11%) Lead
5 14 (11.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (10.66%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.84%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Applications Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Test Leader
11 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.10%) Embedded Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Python Developer
12 4 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (40.16%) .NET
2 40 (32.79%) React
3 36 (29.51%) CSS
3 36 (29.51%) HTML
4 21 (17.21%) RESTful
5 20 (16.39%) REST
6 19 (15.57%) AngularJS
7 16 (13.11%) .NET Core
8 15 (12.30%) .NET Framework
9 13 (10.66%) ASP.NET
10 11 (9.02%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (9.02%) Spring
11 10 (8.20%) Vue
12 9 (7.38%) ARM Templates
12 9 (7.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (7.38%) Bootstrap
12 9 (7.38%) Spring Boot
13 8 (6.56%) gRPC
13 8 (6.56%) Kafka
13 8 (6.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.10%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.64%) IoT
5 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.64%) RISC-V
6 1 (0.82%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.82%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (72.13%) Agile
2 56 (45.90%) CI/CD
3 51 (41.80%) DevOps
4 40 (32.79%) Scrum
5 33 (27.05%) Mentoring
6 31 (25.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (24.59%) Software Engineering
8 28 (22.95%) Microservices
9 24 (19.67%) Test Automation
10 23 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (17.21%) Clean Code
13 20 (16.39%) AI
14 18 (14.75%) Front End Development
15 17 (13.93%) SDLC
16 16 (13.11%) Code Quality
16 16 (13.11%) Computer Science
16 16 (13.11%) Containerisation
16 16 (13.11%) Decision-Making
16 16 (13.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.25%) SQL
2 36 (29.51%) C#
2 36 (29.51%) JavaScript
3 26 (21.31%) Java
4 24 (19.67%) Python
4 24 (19.67%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.20%) C
6 9 (7.38%) T-SQL
7 7 (5.74%) C++
8 6 (4.92%) Bash
9 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.46%) Erlang
11 2 (1.64%) Bicep
11 2 (1.64%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.64%) Perl
11 2 (1.64%) PHP
11 2 (1.64%) R
12 1 (0.82%) Delphi
12 1 (0.82%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Degree
2 10 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.28%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.82%) OCA
7 1 (0.82%) OCP
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) QA
2 10 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.64%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.64%) JTAG
4 2 (1.64%) WCAG
5 1 (0.82%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (11.48%) Docker
2 8 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.74%) Terraform
2 5 (4.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle
3 8 (6.56%) Databricks
4 6 (4.92%) SAP
5 5 (4.10%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.28%) Telerik
7 2 (1.64%) Cognos
7 2 (1.64%) IBM
7 2 (1.64%) Zend
8 1 (0.82%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.82%) Apple
8 1 (0.82%) Foundry
8 1 (0.82%) Informatica
8 1 (0.82%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.82%) Okta
8 1 (0.82%) Siemens
8 1 (0.82%) Splunk