Unit Testing Jobs

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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 184 120
Rank change year-on-year -50 -64 +13
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,258 1,848 5,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.98% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.07% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 798 1,228 2,016
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68,438 £77,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +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 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -60 1,049 £57,500 -4.17% 245
UK excluding London -47 891 £55,000 -4.35% 186
Work from Home -41 605 £57,500 -4.17% 139
London -82 289 £70,000 -12.50% 70
North of England -1 265 £52,500 -8.70% 51
South East -50 211 £57,500 +4.55% 50
North West +34 196 £54,000 -1.82% 29
Midlands -67 116 £52,500 -8.70% 35
Scotland -8 110 £57,500 - 19
South West -58 108 £60,000 +7.62% 14
Yorkshire -4 64 £50,000 -13.04% 14
East Midlands -48 62 £52,500 -11.02% 10
West Midlands -30 53 £60,000 +6.67% 25
East of England -48 43 £55,000 - 23
Wales +8 27 £47,500 -7.05% 3
Northern Ireland -18 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -24 5 £56,250 -2.17% 8

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 48 (3.82%) CMS
2 45 (3.58%) FileNet
3 38 (3.02%) IIS
4 8 (0.64%) Confluence
4 8 (0.64%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.56%) WordPress
6 6 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.24%) Apache
8 3 (0.24%) Drupal
8 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.079%) TYPO3
Applications
1 19 (1.51%) Photoshop
2 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.079%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.079%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.079%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (2.94%) SDL Web 8
2 32 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.56%) BPCS
3 7 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.079%) Endur
6 1 (0.079%) Magento
6 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.079%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 420 (33.39%) Azure
2 371 (29.49%) AWS
3 168 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (9.70%) GitHub
5 94 (7.47%) SaaS
6 84 (6.68%) Serverless
7 72 (5.72%) Power Platform
8 60 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 39 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
11 34 (2.70%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (2.31%) Power Automate
14 27 (2.15%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (1.51%) Azure Pipelines
15 19 (1.51%) NuGet
16 18 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (1.27%) BlazeMeter
17 16 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.64%) HTTP
2 7 (0.56%) Bluetooth
3 6 (0.48%) Wireless
4 4 (0.32%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.32%) Modbus
4 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.24%) MQTT
5 3 (0.24%) RS-485
5 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.16%) DNS
6 2 (0.16%) Firewall
6 2 (0.16%) Internet
6 2 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.16%) RS-422
6 2 (0.16%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.079%) 4G
7 1 (0.079%) 5G
7 1 (0.079%) RS-232
7 1 (0.079%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.079%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (20.43%) SQL Server
2 180 (14.31%) PostgreSQL
3 152 (12.08%) NoSQL
4 92 (7.31%) Oracle Database
5 91 (7.23%) Oracle Database 11g
6 64 (5.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 63 (5.01%) DynamoDB
8 62 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
9 51 (4.05%) MongoDB
10 49 (3.90%) MySQL
11 45 (3.58%) Redis
12 40 (3.18%) Relational Database
13 38 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 32 (2.54%) Power BI
15 26 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
18 11 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
19 10 (0.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 243 (19.32%) Git
2 109 (8.66%) Visual Studio
3 97 (7.71%) JUnit
4 96 (7.63%) Jenkins
5 89 (7.07%) JIRA
6 83 (6.60%) Jasmine
7 82 (6.52%) NUnit
8 62 (4.93%) Moq
9 52 (4.13%) Mockito
10 44 (3.50%) TeamCity
11 36 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
12 33 (2.62%) Karma Test Runner
13 29 (2.31%) GitLab
14 27 (2.15%) MSTest
15 24 (1.91%) Postman
16 23 (1.83%) Gatling
17 22 (1.75%) PHPUnit
17 22 (1.75%) SpecFlow
18 21 (1.67%) Sourcetree
19 19 (1.51%) git-flow
General
1 318 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 235 (18.68%) Finance
3 111 (8.82%) Marketing
4 86 (6.84%) Law
5 77 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.64%) Legal
7 68 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (3.66%) Electronics
9 42 (3.34%) Banking
10 40 (3.18%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.38%) Retail
12 29 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.07%) Billing
14 21 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.51%) Tech for Good
16 16 (1.27%) Private Banking
16 16 (1.27%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 13 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 783 (62.24%) Developer
2 388 (30.84%) Senior
3 285 (22.66%) Senior Developer
4 264 (20.99%) Software Engineer
5 161 (12.80%) .NET Developer
6 156 (12.40%) C# Developer
7 134 (10.65%) Software Developer
8 129 (10.25%) Lead
9 106 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
10 92 (7.31%) Database Developer
11 91 (7.23%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 79 (6.28%) Senior Database Developer
13 62 (4.93%) PHP Developer
14 61 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 58 (4.61%) Senior .NET Developer
15 58 (4.61%) Senior C# Developer
16 56 (4.45%) C# .NET Developer
17 53 (4.21%) Lead Developer
18 44 (3.50%) Java Engineer
19 42 (3.34%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 489 (38.87%) .NET
2 278 (22.10%) AngularJS
3 259 (20.59%) React
4 203 (16.14%) CSS
5 175 (13.91%) HTML
5 175 (13.91%) REST
6 164 (13.04%) .NET Framework
7 162 (12.88%) ASP.NET
7 162 (12.88%) Web Services
8 147 (11.69%) .NET Core
9 141 (11.21%) RESTful
10 122 (9.70%) GraphQL
11 115 (9.14%) SOAP
12 108 (8.59%) Entity Framework
13 107 (8.51%) jQuery
14 102 (8.11%) XML
15 97 (7.71%) Spring
16 89 (7.07%) Vue
17 87 (6.92%) Laravel
18 85 (6.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 76 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.02%) Legacy Code
6 34 (2.70%) Blog
6 34 (2.70%) Media Streaming
7 32 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.46%) Data Structures
9 30 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.67%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.19%) Digital Media
13 15 (1.19%) IoT
13 15 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
14 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.72%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.29%) Windows
2 53 (4.21%) Linux
3 22 (1.75%) Android
4 21 (1.67%) Unix
5 15 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.24%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.079%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.079%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (51.11%) Agile
2 429 (34.10%) DevOps
3 368 (29.25%) Software Engineering
4 260 (20.67%) TDD
5 255 (20.27%) CI/CD
6 251 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (19.71%) Computer Science
7 248 (19.71%) Microservices
8 230 (18.28%) Full Stack Development
9 199 (15.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 191 (15.18%) Test Automation
11 179 (14.23%) MVC
12 169 (13.43%) Design Patterns
13 163 (12.96%) Mentoring
14 156 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
15 152 (12.08%) Scrum
16 134 (10.65%) Clean Code
17 133 (10.57%) Performance Tuning
17 133 (10.57%) Secure Coding
18 127 (10.10%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 568 (45.15%) C#
2 485 (38.55%) SQL
3 432 (34.34%) JavaScript
4 282 (22.42%) Java
5 180 (14.31%) TypeScript
6 115 (9.14%) Python
7 104 (8.27%) PL/SQL
8 98 (7.79%) PHP
9 86 (6.84%) T-SQL
10 83 (6.60%) C++
11 75 (5.96%) VB.NET
12 62 (4.93%) C
13 43 (3.42%) Scala
14 35 (2.78%) PowerShell
15 28 (2.23%) VB
15 28 (2.23%) VB6
16 19 (1.51%) XPath
17 14 (1.11%) Ada
18 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.72%) RPG
Qualifications
1 269 (21.38%) Degree
2 135 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (6.44%) Security Cleared
4 52 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.57%) QA
2 15 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.64%) GDPR
4 7 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.48%) TickIT
6 5 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.32%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.32%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.24%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.16%) HL7
9 2 (0.16%) MiFID
9 2 (0.16%) WAI
10 1 (0.079%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.079%) MISRA
10 1 (0.079%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.079%) SLA
10 1 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (7.79%) Docker
2 21 (1.67%) Firmware
3 16 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.079%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 123 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.77%) Terraform
3 22 (1.75%) Ansible
4 18 (1.43%) Grafana
5 5 (0.40%) Packer
6 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.24%) Consul
7 2 (0.16%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) Podman
7 2 (0.16%) Puppet
8 1 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.079%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 237 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.79%) Oracle
3 25 (1.99%) SAP
4 23 (1.83%) Adobe
5 19 (1.51%) Cognizant
6 18 (1.43%) Splunk
7 16 (1.27%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.27%) IBM
8 13 (1.03%) Google
9 9 (0.72%) Apple
10 8 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.56%) Facebook
11 7 (0.56%) Xamarin
12 6 (0.48%) Cognos
13 5 (0.40%) PayPal
13 5 (0.40%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.32%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.32%) Databricks
14 4 (0.32%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.32%) ServiceNow