JUnit Job Trends

JUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JUnit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 599 531
Rank change year-on-year +50 -68 -70
Permanent jobs citing JUnit 114 157 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.06% 2.62% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 40 52 136
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £108,750 £104,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.99% +3.08%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,722 5,990 6,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 8.81% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,380 3,333 5,559
10th Percentile £30,225 £37,574 £42,431
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

JUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JUnit job vacancy trend in the UK

JUnit
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JUnit

JUnit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JUnit over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JUnit in the UK

JUnit
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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
England +46 96 £70,000 -0.36% 59
UK excluding London +87 84 £70,000 +7.69% 37
London +17 50 £90,000 +20.00% 27
South East +17 29 £72,500 +7.41% 10
Midlands - 21 £65,000 - 12
Work from Home +56 20 £55,200 -26.40% 48
Scotland - 16 £77,500 - 2
West Midlands - 15 £71,250 - 10
South West +28 13 £73,750 - 7
East Midlands - 6 £58,000 - 2
North of England +23 5 £55,200 +22.67% 4
North West +34 4 - - 2
Wales - 2 £55,200 - 1
North East - 1 £55,200 -

JUnit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (12.28%) Confluence
2 11 (9.65%) Apache
3 8 (7.02%) Camunda
3 8 (7.02%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (5.26%) JBoss
5 5 (4.39%) Apache Spark
6 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.75%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 90 (78.95%) AWS
2 33 (28.95%) Amazon EC2
3 31 (27.19%) Serverless
4 30 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (22.81%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (14.91%) Azure
7 16 (14.04%) Amazon S3
8 14 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (11.40%) GitHub
9 13 (11.40%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.26%) AWS KMS
10 6 (5.26%) Route 53
11 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.63%) GCP
13 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.75%) Bitrise
14 2 (1.75%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (41.23%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (28.07%) Relational Database
3 21 (18.42%) RDBMS
4 11 (9.65%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.77%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (6.14%) Big Data
7 7 (6.14%) Redis
8 6 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.26%) DynamoDB
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.39%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (4.39%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (4.39%) Parquet
10 4 (3.51%) CockroachDB
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (55.26%) Jenkins
2 46 (40.35%) Git
3 44 (38.60%) Mockito
4 33 (28.95%) JMeter
5 24 (21.05%) Cucumber
5 24 (21.05%) GitLab
5 24 (21.05%) Selenium
6 22 (19.30%) Maven
7 21 (18.42%) JIRA
8 9 (7.89%) REST Assured
9 8 (7.02%) SonarQube
10 7 (6.14%) Bitbucket
10 7 (6.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (5.26%) DbUnit
11 6 (5.26%) jMock
11 6 (5.26%) TestNG
12 5 (4.39%) Appium
12 5 (4.39%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (3.51%) Postman
General
1 44 (38.60%) Finance
2 35 (30.70%) Public Sector
3 25 (21.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (21.93%) Law
3 25 (21.93%) Social Skills
4 17 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.91%) Banking
5 12 (10.53%) Marketing
6 4 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Publishing
8 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (46.49%) Developer
2 45 (39.47%) Java Developer
3 37 (32.46%) Software Engineer
4 23 (20.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (19.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 22 (19.30%) Senior
6 21 (18.42%) Java Engineer
7 20 (17.54%) Lead
8 17 (14.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (13.16%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Senior Developer
11 9 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
13 6 (5.26%) Software Developer
14 5 (4.39%) AWS Software Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Lead Java Developer
14 5 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (65.79%) Spring
2 65 (57.02%) Spring Boot
3 57 (50.00%) REST
4 41 (35.96%) Hibernate
5 34 (29.82%) Web Services
6 30 (26.32%) HTML
7 29 (25.44%) ActiveMQ
8 26 (22.81%) Apache Camel
9 25 (21.93%) Kafka
10 24 (21.05%) JSON
11 23 (20.18%) WireMock
12 22 (19.30%) jQuery
12 22 (19.30%) RESTful
13 21 (18.42%) React
13 21 (18.42%) XML
14 17 (14.91%) SOAP
15 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
15 10 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (8.77%) pytest
16 9 (7.89%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 33 (28.95%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (12.28%) Algorithms
3 10 (8.77%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.63%) Equities
7 3 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.81%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Android
2 4 (3.51%) Unix
3 3 (2.63%) Windows
4 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (78.07%) Agile
2 71 (62.28%) CI/CD
3 61 (53.51%) TDD
4 60 (52.63%) Microservices
5 50 (43.86%) SDLC
6 46 (40.35%) Software Engineering
7 45 (39.47%) BDD
8 37 (32.46%) DevOps
9 36 (31.58%) Test Automation
10 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (26.32%) Workflow
13 28 (24.56%) Scrum
14 22 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (17.54%) Community of Practice
15 20 (17.54%) Containerisation
15 20 (17.54%) Process Management
16 19 (16.67%) Operational Stability
17 18 (15.79%) Mentoring
18 14 (12.28%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 105 (92.11%) Java
2 51 (44.74%) JavaScript
3 48 (42.11%) Python
4 25 (21.93%) Shell Script
5 14 (12.28%) SQL
5 14 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.02%) Delphi
7 6 (5.26%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) C++
8 5 (4.39%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.39%) Scala
9 4 (3.51%) Go
9 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.51%) Rust
10 2 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) SLA
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (44.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (50.88%) Kubernetes
2 28 (24.56%) Kibana
3 20 (17.54%) Terraform
4 11 (9.65%) Grafana
5 9 (7.89%) Ansible
6 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (31.58%) Oracle
2 32 (28.07%) Dynatrace
2 32 (28.07%) Splunk
3 12 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.39%) Databricks
5 4 (3.51%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) VMware
6 3 (2.63%) Sybase
7 2 (1.75%) IBM
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) UiPath
8 1 (0.88%) Veracode