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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 185 121
Rank change year-on-year -53 -64 +15
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 1,211 1,952 5,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.98% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 2.07% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 778 1,288 2,024
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +5.77%

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 -62 989 £57,500 -4.17% 251
UK excluding London -46 853 £55,000 -3.51% 184
Work from Home -14 627 £60,000 - 142
London -82 279 £70,000 -12.50% 77
North of England +11 241 £51,000 -11.30% 56
South East -48 204 £57,500 +4.55% 37
North West +24 175 £51,750 -5.91% 29
Scotland -8 118 £57,500 - 18
South West -39 107 £60,000 +2.78% 14
Midlands -67 100 £52,500 -8.70% 45
Yorkshire +7 62 £50,000 -13.04% 18
East Midlands -32 56 £52,500 -9.48% 14
West Midlands -35 43 £58,750 +6.82% 31
East of England -36 41 £55,000 - 15
Wales +16 29 £47,500 -7.05% 2
Northern Ireland -10 14 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -19 4 £56,250 -2.17% 9

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 (3.72%) FileNet
2 44 (3.63%) CMS
3 38 (3.14%) IIS
4 10 (0.83%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.58%) Confluence
6 7 (0.58%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.33%) Apache
8 4 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.083%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.083%) TYPO3
Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.083%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 33 (2.73%) SDL Web 8
2 30 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.58%) BPCS
3 7 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.58%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.083%) Endur
4 1 (0.083%) Magento
4 1 (0.083%) Shopify
4 1 (0.083%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 407 (33.61%) Azure
2 348 (28.74%) AWS
3 164 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (9.99%) GitHub
5 106 (8.75%) Serverless
6 91 (7.51%) SaaS
7 69 (5.70%) Power Platform
8 58 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 57 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (2.56%) PowerApps
11 29 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.23%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.15%) Azure Functions
14 22 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
15 21 (1.73%) BlazeMeter
16 18 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
17 17 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 16 (1.32%) NuGet
19 15 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.66%) HTTP
2 7 (0.58%) 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 (0.083%) 4G
7 1 (0.083%) 5G
7 1 (0.083%) Broadband
7 1 (0.083%) RS-232
7 1 (0.083%) RS-485
7 1 (0.083%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.083%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (20.15%) SQL Server
2 160 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (12.14%) NoSQL
4 115 (9.50%) Oracle Database
5 91 (7.51%) Oracle Database 11g
6 73 (6.03%) Relational Database
7 64 (5.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 63 (5.20%) Elasticsearch
9 53 (4.38%) MongoDB
10 50 (4.13%) MySQL
11 45 (3.72%) DynamoDB
12 34 (2.81%) Redis
13 31 (2.56%) Power BI
13 31 (2.56%) RDBMS
14 26 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 22 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
18 12 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
19 11 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 259 (21.39%) Git
2 101 (8.34%) Visual Studio
3 98 (8.09%) JUnit
4 94 (7.76%) Jenkins
5 87 (7.18%) Jasmine
6 84 (6.94%) JIRA
7 78 (6.44%) NUnit
8 56 (4.62%) Mockito
9 54 (4.46%) Moq
10 40 (3.30%) TeamCity
11 33 (2.73%) Karma Test Runner
11 33 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 28 (2.31%) GitLab
13 24 (1.98%) JDeveloper
13 24 (1.98%) Postman
14 23 (1.90%) MSTest
15 22 (1.82%) PHPUnit
16 19 (1.57%) SpecFlow
17 18 (1.49%) Sourcetree
18 17 (1.40%) Storybook
General
1 284 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 232 (19.16%) Finance
3 104 (8.59%) Marketing
4 90 (7.43%) Law
5 80 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (5.86%) Legal
7 68 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (3.63%) Banking
9 40 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 30 (2.48%) Electronics
11 29 (2.39%) Retail
12 28 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.73%) Private Banking
14 16 (1.32%) Tech for Good
14 16 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.16%) Billing
16 13 (1.07%) Front Office
17 11 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 754 (62.26%) Developer
2 353 (29.15%) Senior
3 267 (22.05%) Senior Developer
4 264 (21.80%) Software Engineer
5 152 (12.55%) .NET Developer
6 140 (11.56%) C# Developer
7 130 (10.73%) Software Developer
8 123 (10.16%) Lead
9 101 (8.34%) Full Stack Developer
10 91 (7.51%) Database Developer
10 91 (7.51%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 79 (6.52%) Senior Database Developer
12 63 (5.20%) PHP Developer
13 61 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 49 (4.05%) C# .NET Developer
14 49 (4.05%) Lead Developer
14 49 (4.05%) Senior .NET Developer
14 49 (4.05%) Senior C# Developer
15 41 (3.39%) Java Engineer
16 40 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (38.48%) .NET
2 279 (23.04%) React
3 276 (22.79%) AngularJS
4 202 (16.68%) CSS
5 169 (13.96%) HTML
6 167 (13.79%) REST
7 150 (12.39%) .NET Framework
8 148 (12.22%) ASP.NET
9 139 (11.48%) .NET Core
10 134 (11.07%) Web Services
11 129 (10.65%) RESTful
12 111 (9.17%) SOAP
13 106 (8.75%) GraphQL
14 103 (8.51%) jQuery
14 103 (8.51%) Spring
15 98 (8.09%) Node.js
16 95 (7.84%) XML
17 94 (7.76%) Entity Framework
18 89 (7.35%) Vue
19 86 (7.10%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.77%) Cloud Native
1 82 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 68 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 35 (2.89%) Data Structures
4 34 (2.81%) Legacy Code
5 32 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.49%) Blog
10 18 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.49%) Media Streaming
11 16 (1.32%) IoT
11 16 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.24%) Digital Media
13 14 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
16 8 (0.66%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.29%) Linux
2 51 (4.21%) Windows
3 22 (1.82%) Android
4 21 (1.73%) Unix
5 15 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.25%) FreeBSD
7 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (50.54%) Agile
2 428 (35.34%) DevOps
3 375 (30.97%) Software Engineering
4 272 (22.46%) Microservices
5 271 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
6 256 (21.14%) CI/CD
7 243 (20.07%) TDD
8 231 (19.08%) Computer Science
9 226 (18.66%) Full Stack Development
10 199 (16.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 187 (15.44%) Design Patterns
12 184 (15.19%) Test Automation
13 168 (13.87%) MVC
14 164 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
15 153 (12.63%) Actionable Insight
15 153 (12.63%) Scrum
16 151 (12.47%) Clean Code
17 147 (12.14%) Mentoring
18 132 (10.90%) Secure Coding
19 128 (10.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 539 (44.51%) C#
2 478 (39.47%) SQL
3 449 (37.08%) JavaScript
4 303 (25.02%) Java
5 179 (14.78%) TypeScript
6 133 (10.98%) Python
7 102 (8.42%) PL/SQL
8 95 (7.84%) PHP
9 83 (6.85%) T-SQL
10 75 (6.19%) VB.NET
11 64 (5.28%) C++
12 57 (4.71%) C
13 35 (2.89%) PowerShell
14 31 (2.56%) Go
15 29 (2.39%) Ruby
16 28 (2.31%) Bash
16 28 (2.31%) Perl
16 28 (2.31%) VB
16 28 (2.31%) VB6
17 26 (2.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 243 (20.07%) Degree
2 120 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 79 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (12.47%) QA
2 14 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.66%) GDPR
4 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.083%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.083%) MiFID
7 1 (0.083%) MISRA
7 1 (0.083%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.083%) SLA
7 1 (0.083%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (8.09%) Docker
2 19 (1.57%) Firmware
3 16 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 123 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.87%) Terraform
3 23 (1.90%) Grafana
4 20 (1.65%) 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%) Kibana
7 2 (0.17%) Podman
7 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.083%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 228 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 209 (17.26%) Oracle
3 23 (1.90%) Splunk
4 22 (1.82%) SAP
5 21 (1.73%) Dynatrace
6 20 (1.65%) IBM
7 19 (1.57%) Adobe
8 16 (1.32%) Cognizant
9 9 (0.74%) Apple
9 9 (0.74%) Google
10 8 (0.66%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.58%) Facebook
11 7 (0.58%) Siebel
12 6 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.50%) Cognos
12 6 (0.50%) Zoho
13 5 (0.41%) PayPal
13 5 (0.41%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.33%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.25%) Databricks