Unit Testing Jobs in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 162 185
Rank change year-on-year +31 +23 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 186 140 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 1.89% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.99% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 129 79 75
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £74,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,616 7,048 9,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.75% 95.36% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 3,818 5,301
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +4 87 £54,000 -6.09% 24
Merseyside +42 51 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Lancashire -8 24 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Cheshire 0 20 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Cumbria - 2 £40,000 - 2
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (8.06%) IIS
2 3 (1.61%) CMS
3 2 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.76%) BPCS
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.80%) AWS
2 45 (24.19%) Azure
3 29 (15.59%) Amazon Kinesis
4 27 (14.52%) GitHub
5 19 (10.22%) SaaS
6 16 (8.60%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.69%) OCI
11 5 (2.69%) Stripe
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.15%) Serverless
13 2 (1.08%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.08%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) Wireless
2 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.54%) MQTT
2 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.54%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.72%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 29 (15.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (15.59%) NoSQL
4 23 (12.37%) SQL Server
5 21 (11.29%) MySQL
6 19 (10.22%) Redis
7 16 (8.60%) Oracle Database
7 16 (8.60%) Oracle Database 11g
8 9 (4.84%) Power BI
9 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (1.61%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (11.83%) Visual Studio
2 20 (10.75%) PHPUnit
3 19 (10.22%) Gatling
4 14 (7.53%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.53%) Git
5 11 (5.91%) Jasmine
5 11 (5.91%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (2.15%) JIRA
6 4 (2.15%) Subversion
6 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.08%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.08%) Postman
7 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.54%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.54%) Moq
8 1 (0.54%) NUnit
General
1 48 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.75%) Electronics
3 19 (10.22%) Billing
4 16 (8.60%) Legal
5 13 (6.99%) Finance
6 11 (5.91%) Law
7 9 (4.84%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.76%) Banking
8 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.69%) Marketing
10 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Advertising
11 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (66.67%) Developer
2 50 (26.88%) Senior
3 37 (19.89%) Senior Developer
4 36 (19.35%) Software Engineer
5 30 (16.13%) Software Developer
6 22 (11.83%) C# Developer
7 21 (11.29%) .NET Developer
8 16 (8.60%) Database Developer
8 16 (8.60%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (7.53%) Senior Database Developer
10 13 (6.99%) Lead
11 12 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (5.91%) Full Stack Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Technical Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Technical Leader
14 8 (4.30%) Scala Engineer
14 8 (4.30%) Senior Scala Engineer
15 7 (3.76%) Azure Developer
15 7 (3.76%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.03%) .NET
2 53 (28.49%) REST
3 47 (25.27%) GraphQL
4 41 (22.04%) CSS
5 40 (21.51%) Web Services
6 38 (20.43%) React
7 34 (18.28%) AngularJS
7 34 (18.28%) RESTful
8 32 (17.20%) HTML
9 29 (15.59%) http4s
9 29 (15.59%) Scalaz
10 27 (14.52%) Laravel
10 27 (14.52%) Sass
10 27 (14.52%) SOAP
11 24 (12.90%) Vue
12 19 (10.22%) .NET Framework
13 16 (8.60%) Tailwind CSS
13 16 (8.60%) XML
14 15 (8.06%) ASP.NET
14 15 (8.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Blog
1 29 (15.59%) Media Streaming
2 17 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.84%) IoT
5 8 (4.30%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.76%) iSeries
7 5 (2.69%) Hackathon
7 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.15%) CCTV
9 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.54%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.54%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.54%) SCADA
11 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.84%) Linux
2 6 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.08%) FreeBSD
3 2 (1.08%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.95%) Agile
2 63 (33.87%) DevOps
3 42 (22.58%) Software Engineering
4 39 (20.97%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (18.82%) Design Patterns
6 32 (17.20%) Clean Code
7 31 (16.67%) Open Source
8 30 (16.13%) Integration Testing
9 29 (15.59%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (15.59%) Functional Programming
9 29 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.98%) TDD
11 25 (13.44%) Analytics
11 25 (13.44%) Coaching
11 25 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (12.37%) Use Case
13 22 (11.83%) User Experience
14 21 (11.29%) Computer Science
14 21 (11.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.40%) JavaScript
2 61 (32.80%) C#
3 50 (26.88%) SQL
4 38 (20.43%) Java
5 29 (15.59%) Scala
5 29 (15.59%) VB.NET
6 21 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.60%) PHP
7 16 (8.60%) PL/SQL
8 11 (5.91%) T-SQL
8 11 (5.91%) VB
8 11 (5.91%) VB6
9 10 (5.38%) Python
10 7 (3.76%) RPG
10 7 (3.76%) RPG IV
11 5 (2.69%) C++
12 3 (1.61%) C
13 2 (1.08%) Perl
13 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.08%) XAML
Qualifications
1 21 (11.29%) Degree
2 20 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) QA
2 7 (3.76%) GDPR
3 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.08%) HL7
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Oracle
2 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.76%) IBM
4 5 (2.69%) PayPal
4 5 (2.69%) WorldPay
5 4 (2.15%) Facebook
6 2 (1.08%) Progress
7 1 (0.54%) Google