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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 145 124
Rank change year-on-year -44 -21 +5
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 596 907 2,391
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.72% 2.35% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.45% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 411 612 1,145
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,214 £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 £73,750 £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 31,295 36,978 72,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,528 26,243 42,080
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 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 (6.04%) IIS
2 6 (1.01%) WordPress
3 5 (0.84%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.50%) CMS
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 18 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.84%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 243 (40.77%) Azure
2 224 (37.58%) AWS
3 93 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (12.08%) SaaS
5 42 (7.05%) Serverless
6 37 (6.21%) GitHub
7 36 (6.04%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.01%) GCP
10 12 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 10 (1.68%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.51%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.17%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.17%) OCI
15 6 (1.01%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) HTTP
2 2 (0.34%) DNS
2 2 (0.34%) 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 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 110 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (15.27%) Oracle Database
3 91 (15.27%) Oracle Database 11g
4 18 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.85%) DynamoDB
6 16 (2.68%) MySQL
7 14 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 14 (2.35%) Power BI
7 14 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.34%) MariaDB
10 7 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.17%) OLAP
10 7 (1.17%) OLAP Cube
11 6 (1.01%) GIS
11 6 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 119 (19.97%) Git
2 45 (7.55%) Visual Studio
3 30 (5.03%) JIRA
4 29 (4.87%) Jasmine
5 28 (4.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 24 (4.03%) Jenkins
7 19 (3.19%) Postman
8 15 (2.52%) NUnit
9 14 (2.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.85%) JUnit
11 10 (1.68%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.68%) GitLab
12 9 (1.51%) MSTest
13 7 (1.17%) LabVIEW
13 7 (1.17%) Moq
13 7 (1.17%) Selenium
14 6 (1.01%) Storybook
14 6 (1.01%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.84%) Mockito
15 5 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 112 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.09%) Finance
3 36 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.20%) Legal
5 28 (4.70%) Marketing
5 28 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.52%) Retail
8 14 (2.35%) Law
9 12 (2.01%) Banking
9 12 (2.01%) Electronics
10 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.34%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.17%) Publishing
13 5 (0.84%) Advertising
14 4 (0.67%) Automotive
14 4 (0.67%) Aviation
14 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 422 (70.81%) Developer
2 198 (33.22%) Senior
3 161 (27.01%) Senior Developer
4 91 (15.27%) Database Developer
4 91 (15.27%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 86 (14.43%) Software Engineer
6 80 (13.42%) .NET Developer
6 80 (13.42%) C# Developer
7 79 (13.26%) Senior Database Developer
8 68 (11.41%) Software Developer
9 54 (9.06%) PHP Developer
10 41 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
11 29 (4.87%) Azure Developer
11 29 (4.87%) Lead
12 28 (4.70%) Senior Software Developer
13 27 (4.53%) C# .NET Developer
14 26 (4.36%) Senior .NET Developer
14 26 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.52%) .NET Software Developer
16 20 (3.36%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (37.25%) .NET
2 140 (23.49%) AngularJS
3 110 (18.46%) React
4 76 (12.75%) CSS
5 75 (12.58%) HTML
6 72 (12.08%) .NET Framework
7 69 (11.58%) .NET Core
7 69 (11.58%) ASP.NET
8 67 (11.24%) REST
8 67 (11.24%) RESTful
9 62 (10.40%) SOAP
10 61 (10.23%) Laravel
11 53 (8.89%) Web Services
12 47 (7.89%) XML
13 44 (7.38%) Vue
14 39 (6.54%) jQuery
14 39 (6.54%) Sass
15 37 (6.21%) Node.js
16 36 (6.04%) JSON
17 32 (5.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.88%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (4.19%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.17%) SCADA
12 6 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.01%) IoT
13 5 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.53%) Windows
2 11 (1.85%) Android
3 10 (1.68%) Linux
4 8 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.67%) Unix
6 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.17%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (48.15%) Agile
2 216 (36.24%) DevOps
3 144 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 144 (24.16%) TDD
4 129 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (20.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 120 (20.13%) Secure Coding
6 107 (17.95%) Actionable Insight
7 101 (16.95%) Full Stack Development
8 100 (16.78%) Microservices
9 95 (15.94%) CI/CD
10 94 (15.77%) Performance Tuning
11 92 (15.44%) Migration
12 91 (15.27%) Data Migration
13 88 (14.77%) Design Patterns
14 83 (13.93%) SOLID
14 83 (13.93%) Test Automation
15 80 (13.42%) OOP
16 77 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
17 73 (12.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 265 (44.46%) C#
2 235 (39.43%) SQL
3 223 (37.42%) JavaScript
4 106 (17.79%) TypeScript
5 105 (17.62%) Java
6 91 (15.27%) PL/SQL
7 70 (11.74%) PHP
8 63 (10.57%) Python
9 61 (10.23%) VB.NET
10 38 (6.38%) T-SQL
11 29 (4.87%) C
12 28 (4.70%) VB
12 28 (4.70%) VB6
13 19 (3.19%) C++
14 13 (2.18%) Ada
15 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
16 7 (1.17%) Scala
17 6 (1.01%) Go
18 5 (0.84%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (12.42%) Degree
2 48 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (3.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (15.27%) QA
2 7 (1.17%) GDPR
3 5 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (7.89%) Docker
2 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.67%) Firmware
3 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.04%) Terraform
3 19 (3.19%) Ansible
4 4 (0.67%) Packer
5 3 (0.50%) Consul
6 2 (0.34%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.34%) Podman
6 2 (0.34%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 134 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 110 (18.46%) Oracle
3 15 (2.52%) SAP
4 6 (1.01%) Cognos
4 6 (1.01%) IBM
4 6 (1.01%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.84%) Apple
5 5 (0.84%) Siebel
6 4 (0.67%) Facebook
6 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.67%) 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 (0.34%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.34%) Hortonworks
8 2 (0.34%) Progress
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat