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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 237 189
Rank change year-on-year -101 -48 -69
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 448 1,235 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.20% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.43% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 325 787 1,263
10th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% +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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

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 May 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 29 May 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 -98 374 £60,000 +4.35% 444
UK excluding London -70 302 £56,500 +2.73% 365
Work from Home -90 233 £60,000 +4.35% 457
London -39 110 £65,000 -7.14% 150
South East -24 69 £55,000 -4.35% 89
North of England -109 60 £52,500 - 95
Scotland +62 50 £60,000 +4.35% 39
South West +59 47 £55,000 -8.33% 34
North West -123 43 £50,055 -4.66% 72
Midlands -2 42 £60,000 +14.29% 49
East of England +25 26 £57,000 +3.64% 47
West Midlands +32 24 £60,000 - 21
East Midlands -5 18 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Yorkshire +8 11 £72,626 +41.71% 19
North East +47 6 £55,000 -2.22% 4
Northern Ireland +36 6 £55,000 +15.79% 15
Wales +19 2 £53,550 +12.74% 6

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 27 (6.03%) Apache
2 8 (1.79%) nginx
2 8 (1.79%) Tomcat
3 7 (1.56%) Confluence
4 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (1.12%) JBoss
6 3 (0.67%) Appian
6 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.67%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.45%) Drupal
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 118 (26.34%) Azure
2 116 (25.89%) AWS
3 46 (10.27%) Serverless
4 43 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (7.81%) SaaS
7 28 (6.25%) GitHub
8 27 (6.03%) Power Platform
9 26 (5.80%) GCP
10 20 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 12 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.57%) HTTP
2 9 (2.01%) Internet
3 7 (1.56%) Bluetooth
4 6 (1.34%) Modbus
4 6 (1.34%) Profibus
4 6 (1.34%) RS-232
4 6 (1.34%) RS-485
4 6 (1.34%) Wireless
4 6 (1.34%) ZigBee
5 4 (0.89%) FTP
6 2 (0.45%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.22%) DNS
7 1 (0.22%) Firewall
7 1 (0.22%) Intranet
7 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.73%) NoSQL
2 55 (12.28%) SQL Server
3 54 (12.05%) MongoDB
4 37 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (6.70%) DynamoDB
6 20 (4.46%) MySQL
7 18 (4.02%) Big Data
7 18 (4.02%) Redis
8 17 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.01%) Power BI
11 9 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.34%) DB2
15 5 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 123 (27.46%) Git
2 57 (12.72%) JUnit
3 45 (10.04%) Eclipse
4 43 (9.60%) Jenkins
5 32 (7.14%) Mockito
6 29 (6.47%) JIRA
7 27 (6.03%) Maven
8 26 (5.80%) Eclipse RCP
9 25 (5.58%) GitLab
10 20 (4.46%) NUnit
11 19 (4.24%) Jasmine
12 18 (4.02%) Karma Test Runner
13 17 (3.79%) IntelliJ
14 16 (3.57%) Postman
14 16 (3.57%) Protractor
15 15 (3.35%) Visual Studio
16 14 (3.13%) Bitbucket
16 14 (3.13%) Cucumber
16 14 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
17 13 (2.90%) SonarQube
General
1 105 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.40%) Finance
3 63 (14.06%) Banking
4 41 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (7.14%) Games
7 21 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.46%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.57%) Electronics
10 15 (3.35%) Aerospace
10 15 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.46%) Retail
12 10 (2.23%) Tech for Good
13 9 (2.01%) iGaming
14 6 (1.34%) Law
14 6 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Legal
15 5 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 215 (47.99%) Developer
2 125 (27.90%) Senior
3 110 (24.55%) Software Engineer
4 76 (16.96%) Senior Developer
5 41 (9.15%) Java Developer
6 40 (8.93%) Lead
6 40 (8.93%) Software Developer
7 33 (7.37%) C# Developer
8 32 (7.14%) .NET Developer
8 32 (7.14%) Junior
9 29 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (6.03%) Senior Software Developer
11 24 (5.36%) Backend Developer
11 24 (5.36%) React Developer
12 23 (5.13%) Junior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.02%) C# .NET Developer
13 18 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.57%) SaaS Developer
15 13 (2.90%) Embedded Engineer
15 13 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (28.79%) React
2 109 (24.33%) .NET
3 96 (21.43%) HTML
4 90 (20.09%) RESTful
5 87 (19.42%) CSS
6 63 (14.06%) Node.js
7 62 (13.84%) AngularJS
7 62 (13.84%) REST
8 53 (11.83%) Kafka
9 48 (10.71%) GraphQL
10 44 (9.82%) RabbitMQ
11 43 (9.60%) Spring
12 40 (8.93%) Middleware
13 38 (8.48%) Spring Boot
14 35 (7.81%) HTML5
15 31 (6.92%) Hibernate
15 31 (6.92%) Jest
16 29 (6.47%) .NET Core
17 28 (6.25%) .NET Framework
18 26 (5.80%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 23 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 15 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.13%) Mobile Games
8 13 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.90%) Reference Data
9 12 (2.68%) Replication
10 8 (1.79%) Life Science
10 8 (1.79%) Online Banking
11 7 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.12%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.12%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.29%) Linux
2 39 (8.71%) Windows
3 16 (3.57%) Android
4 6 (1.34%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.12%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (45.98%) Agile
2 179 (39.96%) Software Engineering
3 158 (35.27%) Microservices
4 136 (30.36%) CI/CD
5 127 (28.35%) Test Automation
6 112 (25.00%) DevOps
6 112 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 111 (24.78%) TDD
8 96 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (16.74%) OO
10 72 (16.07%) Clean Code
11 63 (14.06%) SDLC
12 60 (13.39%) Code Quality
13 57 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 51 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
14 51 (11.38%) Scrum
15 50 (11.16%) User Experience
16 49 (10.94%) Containerisation
16 49 (10.94%) Secure Coding
17 47 (10.49%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 155 (34.60%) Java
2 141 (31.47%) C#
3 134 (29.91%) SQL
4 124 (27.68%) JavaScript
5 82 (18.30%) TypeScript
6 73 (16.29%) Python
7 38 (8.48%) C++
8 27 (6.03%) PHP
9 24 (5.36%) C
9 24 (5.36%) Rust
10 23 (5.13%) Ada
11 13 (2.90%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.79%) Go
12 8 (1.79%) Ruby
13 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.34%) Bash
14 6 (1.34%) Groovy
15 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.89%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (19.20%) Degree
2 33 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.34%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.38%) QA
2 16 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.45%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.22%) MISRA
6 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 78 (17.41%) Docker
2 9 (2.01%) Firmware
3 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.38%) Terraform
3 15 (3.35%) Ansible
4 11 (2.46%) Packer
5 8 (1.79%) Kibana
5 8 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 7 (1.56%) Grafana
7 6 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.12%) Argo
9 3 (0.67%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) logstash
10 1 (0.22%) Oozie
10 1 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (8.26%) Oracle
2 33 (7.37%) IBM
3 31 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.23%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.23%) Google
4 10 (2.23%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.79%) Okta
5 8 (1.79%) Splunk
6 6 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.34%) Databricks
7 5 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.12%) New Relic
8 4 (0.89%) F5
8 4 (0.89%) Informatica
9 3 (0.67%) Progress
9 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.67%) Trayport
10 2 (0.45%) iManage
10 2 (0.45%) Intapp