Unit Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 164 129 133
Rank change year-on-year -35 +4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,141 3,408 3,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 2.71% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.83% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 646 1,627 2,261
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,313 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,137 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,852 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,318 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,908 120,439 123,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.71% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,868 73,620 81,568
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,459 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,045
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% +7.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,825 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +3.63%

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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 -37 977 £60,000 -7.69% 293
UK excluding London -18 789 £56,318 +2.40% 221
Work from Home -10 739 £60,000 - 205
London -56 297 £65,000 -18.75% 114
North of England -29 223 £55,000 +4.76% 55
South East +31 196 £60,000 +8.80% 69
North West -28 132 £55,000 -4.35% 37
South West -1 122 £60,000 - 35
Midlands -38 108 £58,000 +5.45% 15
Yorkshire +28 84 £56,250 +7.14% 16
Scotland +24 68 £55,000 +4.76% 15
East Midlands -2 67 £65,000 +18.18% 5
West Midlands -48 41 £52,500 -16.00% 10
Wales +30 32 £49,053 +3.27% 14
Northern Ireland +35 31 £50,000 -1.96% 3
East of England +48 17 £65,000 -7.14% 22
North East +29 7 £31,000 -39.81% 2

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 21 (1.84%) Confluence
2 15 (1.31%) Umbraco
3 13 (1.14%) CMS
4 12 (1.05%) NServiceBus
5 8 (0.70%) OpenEdge
6 7 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.61%) IIS
7 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.35%) WordPress
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.26%) Jetty
9 3 (0.26%) Kentico
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Apache
10 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.088%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.088%) Simulink
2 1 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.44%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.44%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.088%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.088%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.088%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 276 (24.19%) Serverless
2 271 (23.75%) Azure
3 241 (21.12%) AWS
4 74 (6.49%) SaaS
5 61 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 37 (3.24%) GitHub
8 27 (2.37%) GCP
9 26 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 24 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (1.14%) Azure Functions
17 13 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
18 12 (1.05%) WhatsApp
19 11 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.86%) HTTP
2 33 (2.89%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.70%) Internet
3 8 (0.70%) Wireless
4 4 (0.35%) ATM
5 3 (0.26%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.26%) GSM
5 3 (0.26%) Modbus
5 3 (0.26%) RS-232
5 3 (0.26%) RS-422
5 3 (0.26%) RS-485
6 2 (0.18%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.088%) DNS
7 1 (0.088%) Intranet
7 1 (0.088%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.088%) SSH
7 1 (0.088%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.37%) SQL Server
2 171 (14.99%) Relational Database
3 160 (14.02%) Oracle Database
4 129 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
5 107 (9.38%) RDBMS
6 70 (6.13%) Oracle Database 11g
7 67 (5.87%) NoSQL
8 63 (5.52%) MySQL
9 31 (2.72%) Power BI
10 29 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (2.10%) JasperReports
12 24 (2.10%) MongoDB
12 24 (2.10%) Redis
13 22 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (1.58%) Big Data
15 17 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 13 (1.14%) MariaDB
18 12 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 433 (37.95%) Git
2 55 (4.82%) JIRA
3 52 (4.56%) Selenium
4 47 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 41 (3.59%) Jasmine
6 39 (3.42%) Maven
7 35 (3.07%) JUnit
8 32 (2.80%) IntelliJ
9 31 (2.72%) Mockito
9 31 (2.72%) Visual Studio
10 28 (2.45%) Eclipse
11 24 (2.10%) JDeveloper
12 21 (1.84%) Cucumber
13 18 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
14 17 (1.49%) NUnit
14 17 (1.49%) TeamCity
15 14 (1.23%) GitLab
15 14 (1.23%) Mocha
16 13 (1.14%) SpecFlow
17 12 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 162 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 159 (13.94%) Police
3 144 (12.62%) Finance
4 84 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (5.70%) Banking
6 60 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 55 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.77%) Retail
9 37 (3.24%) Electronics
10 19 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.49%) Marketing
12 16 (1.40%) Legal
12 16 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 11 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.79%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.70%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.61%) Front Office
18 6 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 574 (50.31%) Developer
2 388 (34.01%) Software Engineer
3 279 (24.45%) Senior
4 203 (17.79%) Senior Developer
5 157 (13.76%) Java Engineer
6 152 (13.32%) Java Software Engineer
7 132 (11.57%) .NET Developer
8 79 (6.92%) Software Developer
9 77 (6.75%) Lead
10 75 (6.57%) C# Developer
10 75 (6.57%) Ruby Engineer
11 64 (5.61%) Java Developer
12 53 (4.65%) Database Developer
12 53 (4.65%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 53 (4.65%) Senior Database Developer
13 48 (4.21%) Senior .NET Developer
14 44 (3.86%) Embedded Engineer
15 42 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 41 (3.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 37 (3.24%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (34.62%) React
2 299 (26.21%) .NET
3 230 (20.16%) Spring
4 174 (15.25%) HTML
5 169 (14.81%) CSS
6 155 (13.58%) Ruby on Rails
7 146 (12.80%) J2EE
8 142 (12.45%) .NET Core
9 138 (12.09%) Node.js
10 128 (11.22%) REST
11 125 (10.96%) AngularJS
12 98 (8.59%) RESTful
13 86 (7.54%) .NET Framework
14 74 (6.49%) Web Services
15 73 (6.40%) ASP.NET Web API
16 66 (5.78%) XML
17 65 (5.70%) ASP.NET
18 57 (5.00%) HTML5
19 56 (4.91%) jQuery
20 55 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (3.77%) Mobile App
2 25 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 14 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 10 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 9 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 8 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.61%) Client/Server
10 7 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.53%) Equities
11 6 (0.53%) IoT
11 6 (0.53%) Legacy Code
12 5 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (9.64%) Linux
2 49 (4.29%) Windows
3 42 (3.68%) Android
4 10 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Unix
9 1 (0.088%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.088%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (41.28%) Software Engineering
2 453 (39.70%) Agile
3 382 (33.48%) Problem-Solving
4 366 (32.08%) Microservices
5 341 (29.89%) Actionable Insight
6 340 (29.80%) Design Patterns
7 325 (28.48%) Continuous Integration
8 272 (23.84%) Containerisation
9 267 (23.40%) Mentoring
10 265 (23.23%) Code Quality
11 261 (22.87%) Clean Code
12 254 (22.26%) DevOps
13 215 (18.84%) TDD
14 179 (15.69%) Coaching
15 156 (13.67%) CI/CD
16 145 (12.71%) MVC
17 133 (11.66%) Test Automation
18 132 (11.57%) Scrum
19 126 (11.04%) Secure Coding
20 108 (9.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 474 (41.54%) Java
2 435 (38.12%) C#
3 344 (30.15%) JavaScript
4 326 (28.57%) Python
5 324 (28.40%) SQL
6 233 (20.42%) Ruby
7 88 (7.71%) Perl
8 87 (7.62%) Bash
8 87 (7.62%) Go
9 78 (6.84%) TypeScript
10 73 (6.40%) PL/SQL
11 52 (4.56%) T-SQL
12 49 (4.29%) C
13 45 (3.94%) C++
14 34 (2.98%) PHP
14 34 (2.98%) VB.NET
15 18 (1.58%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.49%) PowerShell
17 15 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 315 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 283 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 136 (11.92%) Degree
4 58 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (18.49%) QA
2 20 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
4 8 (0.70%) MISRA
5 6 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.53%) DO-178B
6 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.088%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.088%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.088%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.088%) JTAG
8 1 (0.088%) MiFID
8 1 (0.088%) SLA
8 1 (0.088%) TickIT
8 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (9.11%) Docker
2 17 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (0.70%) Firmware
4 6 (0.53%) IAG
5 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.37%) Terraform
3 14 (1.23%) Ansible
4 8 (0.70%) Packer
5 6 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.26%) Grafana
8 2 (0.18%) MIIS
9 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.088%) Control-M
9 1 (0.088%) Istio
9 1 (0.088%) linkerd
9 1 (0.088%) Podman
9 1 (0.088%) Rancher
Vendors
1 232 (20.33%) Oracle
2 146 (12.80%) Microsoft
3 33 (2.89%) IBM
4 28 (2.45%) Google
5 22 (1.93%) Xamarin
6 19 (1.67%) SAP
7 12 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.05%) Zoho
8 11 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.70%) Databricks
9 8 (0.70%) Progress
10 6 (0.53%) Workday
11 5 (0.44%) Apple
12 4 (0.35%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.35%) RedGate
13 3 (0.26%) Cadence
13 3 (0.26%) Telerik
13 3 (0.26%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.26%) Zend