Unit Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unit Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 240 182
Rank change year-on-year -68 -58 -46
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 311 892 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.13% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.39% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 222 581 710
10th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,188 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,625 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and 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 36,645 64,110 53,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.70% 81.15% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,855 43,360 28,416
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,584 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -34 68 £57,500 - 114
North of England -106 65 £52,250 -0.48% 94
South West +55 52 £57,443 -4.26% 17
Scotland +57 50 £62,500 +8.70% 46
North West -120 46 £50,055 -7.31% 79
Midlands +9 44 £60,000 +14.29% 52
West Midlands +38 24 £60,000 - 25
East of England +21 23 £57,000 +3.64% 39
East Midlands +9 20 £60,000 +14.29% 25
Yorkshire +10 12 £75,000 +50.00% 15
North East +52 7 £55,000 -2.22%
Northern Ireland +39 6 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Wales +14 3 £60,000 +26.32% 14
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 25 (8.04%) Apache
2 14 (4.50%) Appian
3 6 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (1.61%) JBoss
4 5 (1.61%) nginx
4 5 (1.61%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.96%) Confluence
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) SAS
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 76 (24.44%) AWS
2 65 (20.90%) Azure
3 27 (8.68%) Serverless
4 23 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (7.07%) GitHub
6 21 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.75%) SaaS
7 17 (5.47%) GCP
8 14 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.29%) Firebase
12 4 (1.29%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.86%) HTTP
2 9 (2.89%) Internet
3 5 (1.61%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.61%) Modbus
3 5 (1.61%) Profibus
3 5 (1.61%) RS-232
3 5 (1.61%) RS-485
3 5 (1.61%) Wireless
3 5 (1.61%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.64%) FTP
4 2 (0.64%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.32%) Intranet
5 1 (0.32%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.79%) NoSQL
2 42 (13.50%) MongoDB
3 30 (9.65%) SQL Server
4 20 (6.43%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.14%) Big Data
7 14 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.54%) Redis
9 11 (3.54%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.22%) MySQL
11 8 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.57%) Power BI
12 6 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.93%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 75 (24.12%) Git
2 41 (13.18%) Eclipse
2 41 (13.18%) JUnit
3 32 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.04%) Eclipse RCP
5 23 (7.40%) Mockito
6 20 (6.43%) GitLab
7 18 (5.79%) JIRA
8 16 (5.14%) Jasmine
8 16 (5.14%) Maven
9 15 (4.82%) Karma Test Runner
10 14 (4.50%) IntelliJ
11 13 (4.18%) Protractor
12 12 (3.86%) Visual Studio
13 8 (2.57%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.57%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (2.25%) Cucumber
14 7 (2.25%) Cypress.io
14 7 (2.25%) NUnit
14 7 (2.25%) Postman
General
1 56 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.72%) Finance
3 29 (9.32%) Banking
4 22 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.82%) Aerospace
6 15 (4.82%) Electronics
7 14 (4.50%) Games
8 12 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.54%) Retail
10 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.29%) Law
12 3 (0.96%) Legal
12 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.64%) Automotive
13 2 (0.64%) Marketing
13 2 (0.64%) Military
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (41.80%) Developer
2 98 (31.51%) Senior
3 89 (28.62%) Software Engineer
4 50 (16.08%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.25%) Java Developer
6 28 (9.00%) Lead
7 27 (8.68%) Software Developer
8 26 (8.36%) Junior
9 25 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (7.07%) Junior Software Engineer
11 19 (6.11%) Backend Developer
12 17 (5.47%) C# Developer
13 14 (4.50%) .NET Developer
13 14 (4.50%) Appian Developer
13 14 (4.50%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.18%) SaaS Developer
15 12 (3.86%) C# .NET Developer
15 12 (3.86%) Embedded Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Android Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (25.40%) React
2 61 (19.61%) CSS
2 61 (19.61%) HTML
3 57 (18.33%) .NET
4 48 (15.43%) RESTful
5 41 (13.18%) AngularJS
6 39 (12.54%) REST
7 35 (11.25%) Kafka
7 35 (11.25%) Middleware
8 34 (10.93%) Node.js
9 29 (9.32%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (9.32%) Spring
10 27 (8.68%) Spring Boot
11 25 (8.04%) JSP
12 23 (7.40%) Hibernate
13 20 (6.43%) GraphQL
13 20 (6.43%) Vue
14 16 (5.14%) .NET Core
14 16 (5.14%) JPA
15 15 (4.82%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.14%) Algorithms
3 15 (4.82%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.50%) Virtual Team
5 12 (3.86%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.22%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.22%) Reference Data
6 10 (3.22%) Replication
7 8 (2.57%) Online Banking
8 6 (1.93%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.61%) Life Science
9 5 (1.61%) Robotics
10 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.96%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.33%) Linux
2 35 (11.25%) Windows
3 15 (4.82%) Android
4 6 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.61%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (45.34%) Agile
2 130 (41.80%) Software Engineering
3 102 (32.80%) Microservices
4 96 (30.87%) CI/CD
5 93 (29.90%) Test Automation
6 86 (27.65%) Mentoring
7 70 (22.51%) DevOps
8 69 (22.19%) TDD
9 62 (19.94%) SDLC
10 60 (19.29%) OO
11 51 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (15.43%) UML
13 44 (14.15%) Clean Code
14 41 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (12.22%) Containerisation
15 38 (12.22%) Scrum
16 36 (11.58%) OOD
16 36 (11.58%) User Experience
17 35 (11.25%) Code Quality
17 35 (11.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (36.33%) Java
2 94 (30.23%) C#
3 93 (29.90%) SQL
4 77 (24.76%) JavaScript
5 67 (21.54%) TypeScript
6 58 (18.65%) Python
7 33 (10.61%) C++
8 23 (7.40%) C
9 22 (7.07%) Ada
9 22 (7.07%) PHP
9 22 (7.07%) Rust
10 10 (3.22%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.25%) Bash
12 6 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.61%) Go
14 4 (1.29%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.29%) R
15 3 (0.96%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.96%) Ruby
16 2 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (21.22%) Degree
2 31 (9.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.86%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.25%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.22%) QA
2 9 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) MISRA
5 1 (0.32%) MISRA C
System Software
1 55 (17.68%) Docker
2 8 (2.57%) Firmware
3 6 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.29%) Terraform
3 8 (2.57%) Ansible
3 8 (2.57%) Kibana
4 7 (2.25%) Grafana
5 6 (1.93%) Packer
6 5 (1.61%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.64%) logstash
7 2 (0.64%) Oozie
7 2 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (7.72%) Oracle
2 23 (7.40%) IBM
2 23 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.57%) Splunk
4 7 (2.25%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.25%) Bloomberg
4 7 (2.25%) Databricks
4 7 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.61%) Informatica
6 4 (1.29%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.29%) F5
6 4 (1.29%) Okta
7 3 (0.96%) Moogsoft
7 3 (0.96%) SAP
8 2 (0.64%) Apple
8 2 (0.64%) Curam
8 2 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.32%) Lauterbach