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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 145 124
Rank change year-on-year -37 -21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 605 899 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.71% 2.38% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.48% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 414 598 1,139
10th Percentile £40,375 £45,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,375 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%

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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 (5.95%) IIS
2 6 (0.99%) WordPress
3 5 (0.83%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 19 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.66%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 251 (41.49%) Azure
2 224 (37.02%) AWS
3 96 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (11.90%) SaaS
5 44 (7.27%) Serverless
6 38 (6.28%) Power Platform
7 37 (6.12%) GitHub
8 30 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.98%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.98%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.82%) GCP
12 11 (1.82%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.32%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.16%) Azure Pipelines
14 7 (1.16%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.66%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) DNS
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (20.66%) SQL Server
2 110 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (15.04%) Oracle Database
3 91 (15.04%) Oracle Database 11g
4 19 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.98%) DynamoDB
6 15 (2.48%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.48%) MySQL
7 14 (2.31%) Power BI
7 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.16%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.16%) OLAP
9 7 (1.16%) OLAP Cube
10 6 (0.99%) GIS
10 6 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.83%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 121 (20.00%) Git
2 45 (7.44%) Visual Studio
3 29 (4.79%) Jasmine
3 29 (4.79%) JIRA
4 28 (4.63%) Karma Test Runner
5 25 (4.13%) Jenkins
6 20 (3.31%) Postman
7 15 (2.48%) NUnit
8 14 (2.31%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.82%) JUnit
10 10 (1.65%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.65%) GitLab
11 9 (1.49%) MSTest
12 7 (1.16%) LabVIEW
12 7 (1.16%) Moq
12 7 (1.16%) Selenium
13 6 (0.99%) Storybook
13 6 (0.99%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.83%) Mockito
14 5 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 114 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.22%) Finance
3 36 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.12%) Legal
5 30 (4.96%) Marketing
6 28 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.64%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.64%) Retail
8 14 (2.31%) Law
9 12 (1.98%) Banking
9 12 (1.98%) Electronics
10 10 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.32%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.16%) Publishing
13 5 (0.83%) Advertising
13 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Aviation
14 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 429 (70.91%) Developer
2 200 (33.06%) Senior
3 163 (26.94%) Senior Developer
4 91 (15.04%) Database Developer
4 91 (15.04%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 88 (14.55%) Software Engineer
6 84 (13.88%) .NET Developer
7 83 (13.72%) C# Developer
8 79 (13.06%) Senior Database Developer
9 69 (11.40%) Software Developer
10 53 (8.76%) PHP Developer
11 42 (6.94%) Full Stack Developer
12 31 (5.12%) Lead
13 30 (4.96%) Azure Developer
14 29 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
15 28 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
15 28 (4.63%) Senior Software Developer
16 26 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (3.47%) .NET Software Developer
18 20 (3.31%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (38.18%) .NET
2 142 (23.47%) AngularJS
3 114 (18.84%) React
4 76 (12.56%) CSS
5 75 (12.40%) .NET Framework
5 75 (12.40%) HTML
6 73 (12.07%) .NET Core
7 71 (11.74%) ASP.NET
8 68 (11.24%) RESTful
9 66 (10.91%) REST
10 61 (10.08%) Laravel
10 61 (10.08%) SOAP
11 53 (8.76%) Web Services
12 46 (7.60%) XML
13 44 (7.27%) Vue
14 39 (6.45%) Sass
15 38 (6.28%) jQuery
15 38 (6.28%) Node.js
16 35 (5.79%) Entity Framework
16 35 (5.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.97%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.16%) SCADA
13 6 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.99%) IoT
14 5 (0.83%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
15 4 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.46%) Windows
2 11 (1.82%) Android
3 10 (1.65%) Linux
4 8 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.66%) Unix
6 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.17%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (48.26%) Agile
2 221 (36.53%) DevOps
3 150 (24.79%) TDD
4 146 (24.13%) Software Engineering
5 131 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (19.83%) Secure Coding
7 119 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 106 (17.52%) Actionable Insight
9 102 (16.86%) Full Stack Development
10 101 (16.69%) CI/CD
10 101 (16.69%) Microservices
11 94 (15.54%) Performance Tuning
12 92 (15.21%) Migration
13 91 (15.04%) Data Migration
14 90 (14.88%) Design Patterns
15 84 (13.88%) SOLID
16 83 (13.72%) Test Automation
17 79 (13.06%) OOP
18 77 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
19 76 (12.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 275 (45.45%) C#
2 235 (38.84%) SQL
3 223 (36.86%) JavaScript
4 108 (17.85%) TypeScript
5 104 (17.19%) Java
6 91 (15.04%) PL/SQL
7 70 (11.57%) PHP
8 64 (10.58%) Python
9 61 (10.08%) VB.NET
10 38 (6.28%) T-SQL
11 29 (4.79%) C
12 28 (4.63%) VB
12 28 (4.63%) VB6
13 19 (3.14%) C++
14 14 (2.31%) Ada
15 9 (1.49%) PowerShell
16 7 (1.16%) Scala
17 6 (0.99%) Go
18 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.66%) X++
Qualifications
1 76 (12.56%) Degree
2 47 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.21%) QA
2 7 (1.16%) GDPR
3 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (7.93%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.83%) Firmware
3 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.79%) Terraform
3 19 (3.14%) Ansible
4 4 (0.66%) Packer
5 3 (0.50%) Consul
6 2 (0.33%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.33%) Podman
6 2 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 138 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 109 (18.02%) Oracle
3 15 (2.48%) SAP
4 6 (0.99%) Cognos
4 6 (0.99%) IBM
4 6 (0.99%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.83%) Apple
6 4 (0.66%) Facebook
6 4 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.66%) Siebel
6 4 (0.66%) Zoho
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe
7 3 (0.50%) Google
7 3 (0.50%) PayPal
7 3 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.50%) WorldPay
8 2 (0.33%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.33%) Hortonworks
8 2 (0.33%) Progress
8 2 (0.33%) Red Hat