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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 191 127
Rank change year-on-year -46 -64 +9
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,202 2,097 4,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 2.00% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 2.09% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 769 1,423 2,109
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,457 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,207 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +0.38% +10.00%

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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -61 970 £57,500 -4.17% 261
UK excluding London -58 857 £55,000 -0.37% 201
Work from Home -6 659 £60,000 - 125
London -83 267 £70,000 -12.50% 72
North of England -6 226 £51,000 -11.30% 43
South East -28 204 £57,500 +4.55% 44
North West +21 161 £51,000 -11.30% 28
Scotland -12 122 £57,500 - 15
South West -54 113 £60,000 - 28
Midlands -72 103 £52,500 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire +15 62 £50,000 -13.04% 11
East Midlands -44 60 £52,500 -4.55% 14
West Midlands -33 42 £58,750 +6.82% 25
East of England -18 40 £55,000 - 32
Wales +18 31 £47,500 -7.05% 4
Northern Ireland +2 19 £53,750 -6.52% 3
North East -15 3 £67,500 +17.39% 5

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 44 (3.66%) FileNet
2 38 (3.16%) CMS
3 37 (3.08%) IIS
4 11 (0.92%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.67%) WordPress
6 5 (0.42%) Confluence
7 4 (0.33%) Apache
8 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.083%) JBoss
10 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.083%) nginx
10 1 (0.083%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.083%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.083%) TYPO3
Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 29 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.25%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (0.67%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.58%) BPCS
4 7 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.083%) Endur
5 1 (0.083%) Magento
5 1 (0.083%) Shopify
5 1 (0.083%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 383 (31.86%) Azure
2 344 (28.62%) AWS
3 157 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
4 128 (10.65%) Serverless
5 121 (10.07%) GitHub
6 92 (7.65%) SaaS
7 61 (5.07%) Power Platform
8 58 (4.83%) Amazon S3
9 50 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (1.91%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
13 20 (1.66%) Azure Functions
13 20 (1.66%) GCP
14 18 (1.50%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
16 15 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 14 (1.16%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.75%) HTTP
2 6 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.42%) Wireless
4 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.17%) DNS
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Internet
6 2 (0.17%) MQTT
6 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.17%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.083%) Broadband
7 1 (0.083%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.083%) Modbus
7 1 (0.083%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (19.38%) SQL Server
2 158 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
3 142 (11.81%) Oracle Database
4 124 (10.32%) NoSQL
5 105 (8.74%) Oracle Database 11g
6 90 (7.49%) Relational Database
7 63 (5.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 63 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
8 55 (4.58%) MySQL
9 47 (3.91%) MongoDB
10 43 (3.58%) RDBMS
11 28 (2.33%) DynamoDB
12 27 (2.25%) Power BI
13 26 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 19 (1.58%) Redis
16 17 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (1.00%) MariaDB
17 12 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
18 11 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 282 (23.46%) Git
2 98 (8.15%) JUnit
3 97 (8.07%) Visual Studio
4 93 (7.74%) Jasmine
5 90 (7.49%) Jenkins
6 81 (6.74%) JIRA
7 72 (5.99%) NUnit
8 62 (5.16%) Mockito
9 45 (3.74%) Moq
10 36 (3.00%) JDeveloper
11 34 (2.83%) Karma Test Runner
11 34 (2.83%) TeamCity
12 27 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 26 (2.16%) Postman
14 24 (2.00%) GitLab
15 22 (1.83%) PHPUnit
16 21 (1.75%) MSTest
17 17 (1.41%) Bitbucket
17 17 (1.41%) SpecFlow
17 17 (1.41%) Storybook
General
1 260 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 219 (18.22%) Finance
3 95 (7.90%) Marketing
4 87 (7.24%) Law
5 79 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (5.82%) Legal
7 69 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (4.16%) Banking
9 41 (3.41%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.41%) Retail
11 26 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.75%) Private Banking
14 18 (1.50%) Electronics
15 15 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.00%) Tech for Good
17 11 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.92%) Front Office
17 11 (0.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 741 (61.65%) Developer
2 351 (29.20%) Senior
3 277 (23.04%) Software Engineer
4 267 (22.21%) Senior Developer
5 142 (11.81%) .NET Developer
6 123 (10.23%) C# Developer
7 122 (10.15%) Software Developer
8 114 (9.48%) Lead
9 105 (8.74%) Database Developer
9 105 (8.74%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 95 (7.90%) Full Stack Developer
11 93 (7.74%) Senior Database Developer
12 67 (5.57%) PHP Developer
13 60 (4.99%) Java Engineer
13 60 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
14 59 (4.91%) Java Software Engineer
15 46 (3.83%) Lead Developer
16 45 (3.74%) Senior .NET Developer
16 45 (3.74%) Senior C# Developer
17 39 (3.24%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (36.19%) .NET
2 307 (25.54%) React
3 269 (22.38%) AngularJS
4 198 (16.47%) CSS
5 165 (13.73%) HTML
6 146 (12.15%) REST
7 140 (11.65%) .NET Core
8 138 (11.48%) .NET Framework
9 133 (11.06%) ASP.NET
10 121 (10.07%) Spring
11 117 (9.73%) RESTful
12 111 (9.23%) Web Services
13 110 (9.15%) SOAP
14 104 (8.65%) Node.js
15 96 (7.99%) jQuery
16 91 (7.57%) Vue
17 90 (7.49%) Laravel
17 90 (7.49%) XML
18 87 (7.24%) GraphQL
19 82 (6.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 69 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 30 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (2.41%) Legacy Code
7 28 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.41%) IoT
12 16 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.25%) Digital Media
14 13 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
17 9 (0.75%) Equities
18 8 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 8 (0.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.41%) Windows
2 52 (4.33%) Linux
3 22 (1.83%) Android
4 18 (1.50%) Unix
5 15 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.25%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (46.59%) Agile
2 393 (32.70%) Software Engineering
3 392 (32.61%) DevOps
4 293 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
5 288 (23.96%) Microservices
6 234 (19.47%) CI/CD
7 219 (18.22%) TDD
8 217 (18.05%) Design Patterns
9 216 (17.97%) Full Stack Development
10 213 (17.72%) Computer Science
11 202 (16.81%) Actionable Insight
12 200 (16.64%) Artificial Intelligence
13 184 (15.31%) Test Automation
14 176 (14.64%) Clean Code
15 174 (14.48%) Continuous Integration
16 159 (13.23%) Mentoring
17 157 (13.06%) MVC
18 145 (12.06%) Secure Coding
19 143 (11.90%) Scrum
20 137 (11.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 527 (43.84%) C#
2 467 (38.85%) SQL
3 450 (37.44%) JavaScript
4 320 (26.62%) Java
5 174 (14.48%) TypeScript
6 164 (13.64%) Python
7 113 (9.40%) PL/SQL
8 99 (8.24%) PHP
9 78 (6.49%) T-SQL
10 77 (6.41%) VB.NET
11 63 (5.24%) C++
12 60 (4.99%) Ruby
13 57 (4.74%) C
14 43 (3.58%) Go
15 42 (3.49%) Perl
16 41 (3.41%) Bash
17 36 (3.00%) PowerShell
18 28 (2.33%) VB
18 28 (2.33%) VB6
19 16 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 221 (18.39%) Degree
2 106 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (7.15%) Security Cleared
4 58 (4.83%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.083%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.083%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (12.81%) QA
2 14 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.67%) GDPR
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.42%) TickIT
6 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.17%) HL7
6 2 (0.17%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.17%) WAI
7 1 (0.083%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.083%) MISRA
7 1 (0.083%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.083%) SLA
7 1 (0.083%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (8.32%) Docker
2 18 (1.50%) Firmware
3 13 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.91%) Terraform
3 23 (1.91%) Grafana
4 8 (0.67%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) Packer
6 4 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.25%) Consul
8 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.083%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.083%) Kibana
9 1 (0.083%) Podman
9 1 (0.083%) Puppet
9 1 (0.083%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (19.55%) Oracle
2 220 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.25%) IBM
4 22 (1.83%) Splunk
5 21 (1.75%) Dynatrace
5 21 (1.75%) SAP
6 17 (1.41%) Adobe
7 14 (1.16%) Cognizant
8 12 (1.00%) Google
9 9 (0.75%) Apple
10 8 (0.67%) Facebook
10 8 (0.67%) Siebel
10 8 (0.67%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.58%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.58%) Zoho
12 6 (0.50%) Cognos
13 5 (0.42%) PayPal
13 5 (0.42%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.33%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.33%) Twitter