Unit Testing Jobs

Unit Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 228 190
Rank change year-on-year -33 -38 -45
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 564 1,205 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.33% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.53% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 424 757 1,460
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,925 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £79,563
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,442 78,799 106,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.85% 87.28% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,695 57,211 62,127
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,175 £34,324
25th Percentile £44,956 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the UK

Unit Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 March 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 -36 483 £60,000 - 259
UK excluding London -30 368 £57,500 +4.55% 204
Work from Home -13 333 £60,000 - 135
London -16 144 £72,000 +5.11% 100
South East -3 90 £55,000 -4.35% 44
Midlands +18 71 £60,000 +11.63% 14
North of England -63 64 £52,500 - 88
Scotland +46 59 £56,500 -1.74% 23
South West +43 55 £55,000 -8.33% 15
West Midlands +50 50 £67,500 +12.50% 7
North West -79 39 £52,500 - 76
East of England +34 22 £57,000 +3.64% 16
East Midlands +3 21 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Yorkshire +10 14 £52,500 +5.00% 7
North East +55 11 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Northern Ireland +16 5 £60,000 +11.63% 4
Wales +9 3 £48,500 +7.78% 3

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (6.21%) Apache
2 14 (2.48%) Confluence
3 10 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.42%) CMS
4 8 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.06%) Drupal
6 4 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.71%) IIS
6 4 (0.71%) JBoss
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.35%) Appian
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) Liferay
9 1 (0.18%) Mule
9 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.18%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
1 1 (0.18%) Simulink
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.06%) Shopify
4 2 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.35%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) BPCS
5 1 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 202 (35.82%) Azure
2 137 (24.29%) AWS
3 84 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (9.75%) Serverless
5 54 (9.57%) SaaS
6 46 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (6.74%) Power Platform
8 34 (6.03%) GitHub
9 29 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (4.79%) GCP
11 19 (3.37%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.48%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.77%) CloudFront
16 9 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 9 (1.60%) Route 53
17 7 (1.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.48%) HTTP
2 11 (1.95%) Internet
3 10 (1.77%) Bluetooth
4 8 (1.42%) RS-232
4 8 (1.42%) Wireless
4 8 (1.42%) ZigBee
5 7 (1.24%) Ethernet
5 7 (1.24%) Modbus
5 7 (1.24%) Profibus
5 7 (1.24%) RS-485
6 6 (1.06%) Firewall
7 4 (0.71%) DNS
7 4 (0.71%) FTP
7 4 (0.71%) IPv6
7 4 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.18%) BGP
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Intranet
8 1 (0.18%) Network Security
8 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (15.43%) NoSQL
2 72 (12.77%) SQL Server
3 58 (10.28%) MongoDB
4 40 (7.09%) DynamoDB
5 27 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (4.61%) Redis
7 23 (4.08%) Big Data
7 23 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 17 (3.01%) MySQL
9 14 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.77%) Power BI
12 9 (1.60%) DocumentDB
12 9 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.24%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.89%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.89%) Impala
14 5 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 121 (21.45%) Git
2 61 (10.82%) Eclipse
3 48 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 45 (7.98%) JUnit
5 38 (6.74%) JIRA
6 35 (6.21%) Eclipse RCP
7 27 (4.79%) Mockito
8 25 (4.43%) Jasmine
9 24 (4.26%) Karma Test Runner
10 22 (3.90%) IntelliJ
10 22 (3.90%) Protractor
11 20 (3.55%) Maven
12 19 (3.37%) NUnit
12 19 (3.37%) Visual Studio
13 18 (3.19%) GitLab
14 16 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
15 10 (1.77%) Postman
16 9 (1.60%) Bitbucket
17 8 (1.42%) Gradle
General
1 112 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.54%) Finance
3 65 (11.52%) Banking
4 43 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (6.21%) Games
7 22 (3.90%) Electronics
8 18 (3.19%) Tech for Good
9 17 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 15 (2.66%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.66%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.48%) Law
11 14 (2.48%) Retail
12 11 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.95%) Marketing
13 9 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.42%) Automotive
15 7 (1.24%) Legal
15 7 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (48.58%) Developer
2 208 (36.88%) Senior
3 154 (27.30%) Software Engineer
4 112 (19.86%) Senior Developer
5 54 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 51 (9.04%) Lead
7 47 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 41 (7.27%) .NET Developer
8 41 (7.27%) C# Developer
9 37 (6.56%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (5.85%) Senior Software Developer
11 29 (5.14%) Junior
12 25 (4.43%) Backend Developer
12 25 (4.43%) React Developer
13 23 (4.08%) Junior Software Engineer
14 22 (3.90%) Senior Xamarin Developer
14 22 (3.90%) Xamarin Developer
15 21 (3.72%) C# .NET Developer
16 20 (3.55%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (31.38%) .NET
2 151 (26.77%) React
3 114 (20.21%) HTML
4 97 (17.20%) CSS
5 91 (16.13%) AngularJS
6 85 (15.07%) RESTful
7 73 (12.94%) Node.js
8 61 (10.82%) REST
9 57 (10.11%) GraphQL
10 56 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
11 54 (9.57%) Kafka
12 52 (9.22%) Middleware
13 51 (9.04%) .NET Core
14 36 (6.38%) JSP
15 33 (5.85%) HTML5
15 33 (5.85%) JSON
16 29 (5.14%) .NET Framework
16 29 (5.14%) Hibernate
16 29 (5.14%) Jest
17 24 (4.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.45%) Mobile App
2 39 (6.91%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 22 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.19%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.30%) Reference Data
10 13 (2.30%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.13%) Replication
12 9 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
12 9 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (1.60%) Mobile Games
13 8 (1.42%) Online Banking
14 6 (1.06%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.54%) Linux
2 50 (8.87%) Windows
3 42 (7.45%) Android
4 27 (4.79%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (1.06%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.53%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (46.28%) Agile
2 238 (42.20%) Software Engineering
3 195 (34.57%) Microservices
4 167 (29.61%) CI/CD
5 154 (27.30%) DevOps
5 154 (27.30%) TDD
6 145 (25.71%) Mentoring
7 143 (25.35%) Test Automation
8 85 (15.07%) Clean Code
8 85 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (14.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 82 (14.54%) OO
10 80 (14.18%) SDLC
11 69 (12.23%) Design Patterns
12 68 (12.06%) SOLID
13 67 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
14 64 (11.35%) Secure Coding
15 62 (10.99%) Code Quality
16 59 (10.46%) Integration Testing
17 58 (10.28%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 225 (39.89%) C#
2 165 (29.26%) Java
3 157 (27.84%) SQL
4 133 (23.58%) JavaScript
5 95 (16.84%) Python
6 88 (15.60%) TypeScript
7 41 (7.27%) C++
8 40 (7.09%) PHP
9 26 (4.61%) C
10 24 (4.26%) Rust
11 23 (4.08%) Ada
12 16 (2.84%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.48%) Ruby
14 9 (1.60%) Go
15 8 (1.42%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.24%) Bash
16 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 6 (1.06%) Groovy
17 6 (1.06%) Scala
17 6 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (20.92%) Degree
2 29 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.66%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.71%) PhD
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.53%) HND
11 3 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CCNP
13 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.52%) QA
2 40 (7.09%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.53%) IEC 62304
4 3 (0.53%) ISO 13485
4 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.35%) NCSC
5 2 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.18%) MISRA
6 1 (0.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 88 (15.60%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.95%) Firmware
3 10 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (14.72%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.51%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Ansible
3 7 (1.24%) Grafana
3 7 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.06%) Argo
5 4 (0.71%) Kibana
5 4 (0.71%) Packer
6 2 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 44 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.38%) Oracle
3 33 (5.85%) IBM
4 22 (3.90%) Xamarin
5 17 (3.01%) Google
6 10 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.77%) Databricks
7 8 (1.42%) Okta
8 7 (1.24%) SAP
9 6 (1.06%) New Relic
10 5 (0.89%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.89%) Splunk
10 5 (0.89%) Trayport
11 4 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.71%) F5
11 4 (0.71%) Informatica
11 4 (0.71%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.71%) Veracode
12 3 (0.53%) EMC
12 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow