Unit Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Unit Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 158 127
Rank change year-on-year -15 -31 -2
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 639 915 2,179
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.89% 2.26% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.36% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 419 638 1,103
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £89,852 £86,250
UK median annual salary £58,457 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,859 38,849 68,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.22% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,373 27,016 41,283
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Unit Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unit Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unit Testing.

Unit Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Unit Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Unit Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 36 (5.63%) IIS
2 7 (1.10%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.94%) WordPress
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Apache
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.31%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Drupal
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 18 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.25%) Siebel CRM
3 7 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 249 (38.97%) Azure
2 228 (35.68%) AWS
3 93 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (12.21%) Serverless
5 73 (11.42%) SaaS
6 37 (5.79%) GitHub
7 36 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.35%) GCP
11 12 (1.88%) OpenShift
12 11 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.56%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.41%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.10%) Azure Functions
16 7 (1.10%) OCI
17 6 (0.94%) Azure Pipelines
17 6 (0.94%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.63%) HTTP
2 2 (0.31%) DNS
2 2 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (20.19%) SQL Server
2 127 (19.87%) Oracle Database
3 109 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (14.24%) Oracle Database 11g
5 57 (8.92%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.57%) RDBMS
7 26 (4.07%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.66%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.50%) MySQL
10 14 (2.19%) Power BI
11 13 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.25%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.10%) OLAP
14 7 (1.10%) OLAP Cube
15 6 (0.94%) GIS
15 6 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 156 (24.41%) Git
2 43 (6.73%) Visual Studio
3 36 (5.63%) JDeveloper
4 34 (5.32%) Jasmine
5 29 (4.54%) JIRA
6 28 (4.38%) Karma Test Runner
7 23 (3.60%) Postman
8 22 (3.44%) Jenkins
9 16 (2.50%) NUnit
10 13 (2.03%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.56%) GitLab
11 10 (1.56%) JUnit
12 9 (1.41%) Mockito
13 8 (1.25%) MSTest
14 7 (1.10%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.94%) Moq
15 6 (0.94%) Storybook
15 6 (0.94%) TeamCity
16 5 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 107 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.05%) Finance
3 36 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.85%) Legal
5 28 (4.38%) Marketing
6 27 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.35%) Retail
8 14 (2.19%) Law
9 12 (1.88%) Banking
9 12 (1.88%) Electronics
10 10 (1.56%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.10%) Publishing
12 5 (0.78%) Advertising
12 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.63%) Aviation
13 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 424 (66.35%) Developer
2 198 (30.99%) Senior
3 160 (25.04%) Senior Developer
4 124 (19.41%) Software Engineer
5 91 (14.24%) Database Developer
5 91 (14.24%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 81 (12.68%) .NET Developer
7 79 (12.36%) Senior Database Developer
8 75 (11.74%) C# Developer
9 64 (10.02%) Software Developer
10 54 (8.45%) PHP Developer
11 42 (6.57%) Full Stack Developer
12 36 (5.63%) Ruby Engineer
13 32 (5.01%) Lead
14 28 (4.38%) Azure Developer
15 27 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
15 27 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (3.76%) Senior .NET Developer
17 23 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
18 20 (3.13%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (34.90%) .NET
2 147 (23.00%) React
3 142 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 80 (12.52%) CSS
4 80 (12.52%) HTML
5 72 (11.27%) .NET Core
6 71 (11.11%) Node.js
6 71 (11.11%) REST
7 69 (10.80%) .NET Framework
8 67 (10.49%) ASP.NET
9 66 (10.33%) RESTful
9 66 (10.33%) SOAP
10 60 (9.39%) Laravel
11 51 (7.98%) Web Services
12 48 (7.51%) XML
13 42 (6.57%) Vue
14 41 (6.42%) jQuery
15 38 (5.95%) Sass
16 36 (5.63%) JSON
17 30 (4.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.10%) IoT
10 7 (1.10%) SCADA
11 6 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.78%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.63%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.23%) Windows
2 11 (1.72%) Android
3 10 (1.56%) Linux
4 8 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (45.38%) Agile
2 258 (40.38%) DevOps
3 185 (28.95%) Software Engineering
4 163 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (22.85%) Actionable Insight
6 144 (22.54%) Microservices
7 141 (22.07%) TDD
8 126 (19.72%) Design Patterns
9 123 (19.25%) Artificial Intelligence
10 118 (18.47%) Secure Coding
11 115 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
12 107 (16.74%) Clean Code
13 104 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
14 95 (14.87%) CI/CD
15 94 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
16 92 (14.40%) Migration
17 91 (14.24%) Data Migration
18 86 (13.46%) SOLID
19 83 (12.99%) Test Automation
20 77 (12.05%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 266 (41.63%) C#
1 266 (41.63%) JavaScript
2 242 (37.87%) SQL
3 147 (23.00%) Java
4 106 (16.59%) TypeScript
5 99 (15.49%) Python
6 91 (14.24%) PL/SQL
7 68 (10.64%) PHP
8 65 (10.17%) VB.NET
9 42 (6.57%) Go
10 38 (5.95%) Bash
10 38 (5.95%) Ruby
10 38 (5.95%) T-SQL
11 37 (5.79%) Perl
12 29 (4.54%) C
13 28 (4.38%) VB
13 28 (4.38%) VB6
14 19 (2.97%) C++
15 12 (1.88%) Ada
16 9 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (11.58%) Degree
2 49 (7.67%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (19.72%) QA
2 7 (1.10%) GDPR
3 6 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.31%) HL7
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (8.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Firmware
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.48%) Terraform
3 18 (2.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.47%) Consul
4 3 (0.47%) Packer
5 2 (0.31%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.31%) Podman
5 2 (0.31%) Puppet
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 148 (23.16%) Oracle
2 133 (20.81%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.35%) SAP
4 11 (1.72%) IBM
5 8 (1.25%) Siebel
6 6 (0.94%) Cognos
6 6 (0.94%) Xamarin
6 6 (0.94%) Zoho
7 5 (0.78%) Apple
8 4 (0.63%) Facebook
8 4 (0.63%) Google
8 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.47%) Adobe
9 3 (0.47%) PayPal
9 3 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.47%) WorldPay
10 2 (0.31%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.31%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.31%) Progress
10 2 (0.31%) Talend