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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 189 119
Rank change year-on-year -51 -70 +14
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,250 1,854 5,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.97% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.07% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 794 1,244 2,021
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 £68,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
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 6 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 6 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 -64 1,039 £57,500 -4.17% 223
UK excluding London -59 883 £55,000 -4.35% 165
Work from Home -39 606 £57,500 -4.17% 130
London -81 289 £70,000 -12.50% 71
North of England -1 257 £52,500 -8.70% 51
South East -55 212 £57,500 +4.55% 40
North West +29 191 £52,500 -4.55% 29
Midlands -51 114 £52,500 -8.70% 33
Scotland -22 112 £57,500 - 19
South West -57 108 £60,000 +5.03% 9
East Midlands -40 62 £52,500 -11.02% 9
Yorkshire -4 61 £52,500 -8.70% 14
West Midlands -53 51 £60,000 +9.09% 24
East of England -52 42 £55,000 - 15
Wales +13 27 £47,500 -7.05% 2
Northern Ireland -18 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -26 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 (3.84%) CMS
2 45 (3.60%) FileNet
3 38 (3.04%) IIS
4 8 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.64%) Confluence
4 8 (0.64%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.56%) WordPress
6 6 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.32%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.080%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.080%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.080%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.080%) TYPO3
Applications
1 19 (1.52%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.080%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.080%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.080%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (2.96%) SDL Web 8
2 32 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.56%) BPCS
3 7 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.080%) Endur
5 1 (0.080%) Magento
5 1 (0.080%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
5 1 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 417 (33.36%) Azure
2 368 (29.44%) AWS
3 167 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (9.68%) GitHub
5 93 (7.44%) SaaS
6 83 (6.64%) Serverless
7 71 (5.68%) Power Platform
8 59 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 59 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (3.04%) Amazon Kinesis
10 33 (2.64%) PowerApps
11 30 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.08%) Azure Functions
14 19 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (1.52%) Azure Pipelines
14 19 (1.52%) NuGet
15 18 (1.44%) BlazeMeter
15 18 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (1.28%) 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%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.24%) Modbus
5 3 (0.24%) MQTT
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-485
6 2 (0.16%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.080%) 4G
7 1 (0.080%) 5G
7 1 (0.080%) RS-232
7 1 (0.080%) RS-422
7 1 (0.080%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.080%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (20.40%) SQL Server
2 178 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (12.32%) NoSQL
4 92 (7.36%) Oracle Database
5 91 (7.28%) Oracle Database 11g
6 64 (5.12%) Apache Cassandra
7 63 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
8 62 (4.96%) DynamoDB
9 53 (4.24%) MongoDB
10 50 (4.00%) MySQL
11 47 (3.76%) Redis
12 40 (3.20%) Relational Database
13 37 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 32 (2.56%) Power BI
15 26 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
18 11 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
19 10 (0.80%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 244 (19.52%) Git
2 109 (8.72%) Visual Studio
3 99 (7.92%) JUnit
4 97 (7.76%) Jenkins
5 89 (7.12%) JIRA
6 83 (6.64%) Jasmine
7 82 (6.56%) NUnit
8 61 (4.88%) Moq
9 52 (4.16%) Mockito
10 44 (3.52%) TeamCity
11 37 (2.96%) Octopus Deploy
12 33 (2.64%) Karma Test Runner
13 29 (2.32%) GitLab
14 26 (2.08%) MSTest
15 24 (1.92%) Postman
16 23 (1.84%) Gatling
17 22 (1.76%) PHPUnit
17 22 (1.76%) SpecFlow
18 21 (1.68%) Sourcetree
19 19 (1.52%) git-flow
General
1 317 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.96%) Finance
3 110 (8.80%) Marketing
4 88 (7.04%) Law
5 77 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.68%) Legal
7 69 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (3.52%) Banking
8 44 (3.52%) Electronics
9 40 (3.20%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.32%) Retail
11 26 (2.08%) Billing
12 21 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.44%) Private Banking
14 17 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 16 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.04%) Front Office
17 12 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 782 (62.56%) Developer
2 385 (30.80%) Senior
3 285 (22.80%) Senior Developer
4 261 (20.88%) Software Engineer
5 162 (12.96%) .NET Developer
6 155 (12.40%) C# Developer
7 135 (10.80%) Software Developer
8 129 (10.32%) Lead
9 106 (8.48%) Full Stack Developer
10 92 (7.36%) Database Developer
11 91 (7.28%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 79 (6.32%) Senior Database Developer
13 62 (4.96%) PHP Developer
13 62 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 58 (4.64%) Senior .NET Developer
14 58 (4.64%) Senior C# Developer
15 57 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
16 53 (4.24%) Lead Developer
17 44 (3.52%) Java Engineer
18 42 (3.36%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (38.88%) .NET
2 279 (22.32%) AngularJS
3 260 (20.80%) React
4 203 (16.24%) CSS
5 178 (14.24%) REST
6 175 (14.00%) HTML
7 163 (13.04%) .NET Framework
8 161 (12.88%) ASP.NET
9 160 (12.80%) Web Services
10 145 (11.60%) .NET Core
11 140 (11.20%) RESTful
12 121 (9.68%) GraphQL
13 115 (9.20%) SOAP
14 107 (8.56%) Entity Framework
15 106 (8.48%) jQuery
16 102 (8.16%) XML
17 100 (8.00%) Spring
18 89 (7.12%) Vue
19 87 (6.96%) Laravel
20 85 (6.80%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.96%) Product Ownership
2 78 (6.24%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.04%) Legacy Code
5 33 (2.64%) Blog
5 33 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 33 (2.64%) Media Streaming
6 32 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.20%) Digital Media
11 15 (1.20%) IoT
11 15 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (0.72%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.24%) Linux
1 53 (4.24%) Windows
2 22 (1.76%) Android
3 21 (1.68%) Unix
4 15 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.24%) FreeBSD
7 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.080%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.080%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (51.44%) Agile
2 427 (34.16%) DevOps
3 367 (29.36%) Software Engineering
4 258 (20.64%) CI/CD
4 258 (20.64%) TDD
5 255 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 249 (19.92%) Computer Science
6 249 (19.92%) Microservices
7 229 (18.32%) Full Stack Development
8 200 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 191 (15.28%) Test Automation
10 179 (14.32%) MVC
11 172 (13.76%) Design Patterns
12 161 (12.88%) Mentoring
13 154 (12.32%) Continuous Integration
14 153 (12.24%) Scrum
15 133 (10.64%) Clean Code
15 133 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
15 133 (10.64%) Secure Coding
16 127 (10.16%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 563 (45.04%) C#
2 490 (39.20%) SQL
3 432 (34.56%) JavaScript
4 287 (22.96%) Java
5 181 (14.48%) TypeScript
6 115 (9.20%) Python
7 104 (8.32%) PL/SQL
8 98 (7.84%) PHP
9 86 (6.88%) T-SQL
10 77 (6.16%) C++
11 75 (6.00%) VB.NET
12 60 (4.80%) C
13 42 (3.36%) Scala
14 35 (2.80%) PowerShell
15 28 (2.24%) VB
15 28 (2.24%) VB6
16 20 (1.60%) XPath
17 14 (1.12%) Ada
18 11 (0.88%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.72%) RPG
Qualifications
1 267 (21.36%) Degree
2 135 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 53 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.80%) 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
1 131 (10.48%) QA
2 15 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.64%) GDPR
4 7 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.48%) TickIT
6 4 (0.32%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.32%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.16%) HL7
7 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.16%) MiFID
7 2 (0.16%) WAI
8 1 (0.080%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.080%) MISRA
8 1 (0.080%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.080%) SLA
8 1 (0.080%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (7.92%) Docker
2 20 (1.60%) Firmware
3 16 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.080%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 124 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.80%) Terraform
3 22 (1.76%) Ansible
4 20 (1.60%) 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 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.080%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 235 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 185 (14.80%) Oracle
3 24 (1.92%) SAP
4 23 (1.84%) Adobe
5 20 (1.60%) Splunk
6 19 (1.52%) Cognizant
7 18 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.28%) IBM
9 12 (0.96%) Google
10 9 (0.72%) Apple
11 8 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.56%) Facebook
12 7 (0.56%) Xamarin
13 6 (0.48%) Cognos
14 5 (0.40%) PayPal
14 5 (0.40%) Siebel
14 5 (0.40%) WorldPay
15 4 (0.32%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.32%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.32%) ServiceNow