Unit Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 173 205 181
Rank change year-on-year +32 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 24 48 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.61% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.75% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 21 45 47
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £40,724
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £62,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +43 17 £60,000 - 22
Staffordshire +19 3 £62,500 +31.58% 20
Walsall - 1 £33,000 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £64,000 - 28
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Sitefinity
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) SaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.17%) Figma
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JUnit
2 9 (37.50%) Git
3 7 (29.17%) Eclipse
3 7 (29.17%) IntelliJ
3 7 (29.17%) Jasmine
3 7 (29.17%) Karma Test Runner
3 7 (29.17%) Mockito
3 7 (29.17%) Protractor
4 4 (16.67%) NUnit
5 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 2 (8.33%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) Mocha
6 1 (4.17%) Appium
6 1 (4.17%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.17%) TestRail
6 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.67%) Games
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) SaaS Developer
4 4 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (16.67%) React Developer
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C# Application Developer
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.33%) PHP Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) React
2 8 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 8 (33.33%) Jest
2 8 (33.33%) JPA
2 8 (33.33%) Node.js
3 7 (29.17%) .NET
3 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
3 7 (29.17%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 4 (16.67%) Kafka
5 3 (12.50%) HTML
5 3 (12.50%) JSON
6 2 (8.33%) CSS
6 2 (8.33%) gRPC
6 2 (8.33%) HTML5
6 2 (8.33%) Middleware
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (8.33%) Pixi.js
6 2 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (4.17%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile Games
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Microservices
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 7 (29.17%) DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) API Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (25.00%) OO
6 6 (25.00%) OOP
6 6 (25.00%) Scrum
6 6 (25.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.83%) Clean Code
7 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) C#
3 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) IBM
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Okta