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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 191 124
Rank change year-on-year -51 -67 +12
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,195 1,985 4,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.97% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 2.06% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 774 1,343 2,043
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
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% +6.80%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -54 968 £57,500 -4.17% 241
UK excluding London -56 848 £55,000 -4.35% 180
Work from Home -9 640 £60,000 - 130
London -87 267 £70,000 -9.68% 74
North of England +3 226 £51,000 -11.30% 44
South East -42 205 £57,500 +4.55% 34
North West +15 160 £51,000 -11.30% 21
Scotland -1 121 £57,500 - 21
South West -39 112 £60,000 - 14
Midlands -81 100 £52,500 -8.70% 39
Yorkshire +21 63 £50,000 -13.04% 16
East Midlands -46 57 £52,500 -9.48% 17
West Midlands -49 42 £58,750 +6.82% 22
East of England -25 40 £55,000 - 24
Wales +17 30 £47,500 -7.05% 4
Northern Ireland -11 15 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North East -20 3 £67,500 +17.39% 7

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 45 (3.77%) FileNet
2 38 (3.18%) CMS
2 38 (3.18%) IIS
3 11 (0.92%) Umbraco
4 8 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.67%) WordPress
5 5 (0.42%) Confluence
6 4 (0.33%) Apache
6 4 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.084%) JBoss
9 1 (0.084%) nginx
9 1 (0.084%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.084%) PrestaShop
9 1 (0.084%) TYPO3
Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.084%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.084%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 29 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.26%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (0.67%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.59%) BPCS
4 7 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.084%) Endur
5 1 (0.084%) Magento
5 1 (0.084%) Shopify
5 1 (0.084%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 401 (33.56%) Azure
2 328 (27.45%) AWS
3 161 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
4 120 (10.04%) GitHub
5 112 (9.37%) Serverless
6 95 (7.95%) SaaS
7 66 (5.52%) Power Platform
8 58 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 55 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.34%) PowerApps
12 24 (2.01%) Azure Functions
12 24 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.76%) BlazeMeter
14 18 (1.51%) Azure Pipelines
15 17 (1.42%) GCP
16 15 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.67%) HTTP
2 7 (0.59%) Bluetooth
3 6 (0.50%) Wireless
4 4 (0.33%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.25%) MQTT
5 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.17%) DNS
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Internet
6 2 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.17%) Modbus
6 2 (0.17%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.084%) 4G
7 1 (0.084%) 5G
7 1 (0.084%) Broadband
7 1 (0.084%) RS-232
7 1 (0.084%) RS-485
7 1 (0.084%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.084%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (20.08%) SQL Server
2 145 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (10.79%) NoSQL
4 128 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 91 (7.62%) Oracle Database 11g
6 87 (7.28%) Relational Database
7 64 (5.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 64 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
8 51 (4.27%) MySQL
9 50 (4.18%) MongoDB
10 43 (3.60%) RDBMS
11 30 (2.51%) DynamoDB
12 29 (2.43%) Power BI
13 26 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.84%) Redis
14 22 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 19 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
17 10 (0.84%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 263 (22.01%) Git
2 100 (8.37%) JUnit
3 98 (8.20%) Visual Studio
4 91 (7.62%) Jenkins
5 89 (7.45%) Jasmine
6 79 (6.61%) JIRA
7 72 (6.03%) NUnit
8 58 (4.85%) Mockito
9 48 (4.02%) Moq
10 36 (3.01%) JDeveloper
11 34 (2.85%) Karma Test Runner
11 34 (2.85%) TeamCity
12 29 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
13 27 (2.26%) Postman
14 24 (2.01%) GitLab
14 24 (2.01%) MSTest
15 22 (1.84%) PHPUnit
16 17 (1.42%) Bitbucket
16 17 (1.42%) SpecFlow
16 17 (1.42%) Storybook
General
1 263 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 229 (19.16%) Finance
3 96 (8.03%) Marketing
4 90 (7.53%) Law
5 79 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.94%) Legal
7 69 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (3.93%) Banking
9 40 (3.35%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.43%) Retail
11 28 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.76%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.76%) Private Banking
13 20 (1.67%) Electronics
14 16 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.09%) Tech for Good
16 12 (1.00%) Front Office
17 11 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 745 (62.34%) Developer
2 345 (28.87%) Senior
3 265 (22.18%) Software Engineer
4 261 (21.84%) Senior Developer
5 149 (12.47%) .NET Developer
6 133 (11.13%) C# Developer
7 128 (10.71%) Software Developer
8 117 (9.79%) Lead
9 94 (7.87%) Full Stack Developer
10 91 (7.62%) Database Developer
10 91 (7.62%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 79 (6.61%) Senior Database Developer
12 63 (5.27%) PHP Developer
13 62 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 50 (4.18%) Lead Developer
15 46 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
15 46 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
16 45 (3.77%) C# .NET Developer
17 42 (3.51%) Java Engineer
18 41 (3.43%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (38.24%) .NET
2 285 (23.85%) React
3 268 (22.43%) AngularJS
4 198 (16.57%) CSS
5 167 (13.97%) HTML
6 148 (12.38%) REST
7 144 (12.05%) .NET Framework
8 141 (11.80%) .NET Core
9 139 (11.63%) ASP.NET
10 122 (10.21%) RESTful
11 116 (9.71%) Web Services
12 109 (9.12%) Node.js
12 109 (9.12%) SOAP
13 102 (8.54%) Spring
14 98 (8.20%) jQuery
15 93 (7.78%) XML
16 89 (7.45%) Vue
17 88 (7.36%) GraphQL
18 86 (7.20%) Laravel
19 84 (7.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 78 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 67 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 30 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 28 (2.34%) Legacy Code
6 28 (2.34%) Mobile App
7 23 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.34%) IoT
12 15 (1.26%) Digital Media
13 13 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
14 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.67%) Client/Server
15 8 (0.67%) Equities
15 8 (0.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.60%) Linux
2 53 (4.44%) Windows
3 22 (1.84%) Android
4 20 (1.67%) Unix
5 15 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.25%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.084%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (48.79%) Agile
2 418 (34.98%) DevOps
3 377 (31.55%) Software Engineering
4 276 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
5 269 (22.51%) Microservices
6 248 (20.75%) CI/CD
7 226 (18.91%) TDD
8 217 (18.16%) Computer Science
9 215 (17.99%) Full Stack Development
10 200 (16.74%) Artificial Intelligence
10 200 (16.74%) Design Patterns
11 184 (15.40%) Test Automation
12 167 (13.97%) Actionable Insight
13 162 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
14 161 (13.47%) Clean Code
15 160 (13.39%) MVC
16 145 (12.13%) Scrum
17 139 (11.63%) Mentoring
18 130 (10.88%) Secure Coding
19 122 (10.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 531 (44.44%) C#
2 467 (39.08%) SQL
3 449 (37.57%) JavaScript
4 307 (25.69%) Java
5 174 (14.56%) TypeScript
6 147 (12.30%) Python
7 101 (8.45%) PL/SQL
8 94 (7.87%) PHP
9 78 (6.53%) T-SQL
9 78 (6.53%) VB.NET
10 65 (5.44%) C++
11 57 (4.77%) C
12 43 (3.60%) Go
13 41 (3.43%) Bash
13 41 (3.43%) Ruby
14 40 (3.35%) Perl
15 37 (3.10%) PowerShell
16 28 (2.34%) VB
16 28 (2.34%) VB6
17 16 (1.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 227 (19.00%) Degree
2 109 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.10%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.14%) QA
2 14 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.67%) GDPR
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.42%) TickIT
6 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.17%) HL7
6 2 (0.17%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.17%) WAI
7 1 (0.084%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.084%) MISRA
7 1 (0.084%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.084%) SLA
7 1 (0.084%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (7.78%) Docker
2 19 (1.59%) Firmware
3 16 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 117 (9.79%) Kubernetes
2 58 (4.85%) Terraform
3 23 (1.92%) Grafana
4 20 (1.67%) Ansible
5 4 (0.33%) Packer
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.25%) Consul
7 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.17%) Podman
7 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.084%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.084%) Kibana
8 1 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 225 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 221 (18.49%) Oracle
3 22 (1.84%) SAP
3 22 (1.84%) Splunk
4 21 (1.76%) Dynatrace
4 21 (1.76%) IBM
5 17 (1.42%) Adobe
6 14 (1.17%) Cognizant
7 11 (0.92%) Google
8 9 (0.75%) Apple
9 8 (0.67%) Siebel
9 8 (0.67%) Xamarin
10 7 (0.59%) Facebook
10 7 (0.59%) Zoho
11 6 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.50%) Cognos
12 5 (0.42%) PayPal
12 5 (0.42%) WorldPay
13 4 (0.33%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.25%) Twitter