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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 157 187
Rank change year-on-year +22 +30 -71
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 187 140 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.75% 1.90% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.99% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 129 79 76
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £44,688
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 8,635 7,040 9,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.63% 95.51% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,406 3,845 5,293
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,800
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% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +2 88 £54,000 -6.09% 23
Merseyside +38 51 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Lancashire -7 24 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Cheshire -3 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 (8.02%) IIS
2 3 (1.60%) CMS
3 2 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.74%) BPCS
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.16%) AWS
2 45 (24.06%) Azure
3 30 (16.04%) Amazon Kinesis
4 27 (14.44%) GitHub
5 19 (10.16%) SaaS
6 16 (8.56%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.67%) OCI
11 5 (2.67%) Stripe
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.14%) Serverless
13 2 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.07%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.07%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.07%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) Wireless
2 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) MQTT
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (32.09%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (17.11%) DynamoDB
3 30 (16.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 30 (16.04%) NoSQL
4 23 (12.30%) SQL Server
5 21 (11.23%) MySQL
6 20 (10.70%) Redis
7 16 (8.56%) Oracle Database
7 16 (8.56%) Oracle Database 11g
8 9 (4.81%) Power BI
9 5 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (1.60%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 20 (10.70%) Gatling
2 20 (10.70%) PHPUnit
3 14 (7.49%) Bitbucket
3 14 (7.49%) Git
4 11 (5.88%) Jasmine
4 11 (5.88%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (2.14%) JIRA
5 4 (2.14%) Subversion
5 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.07%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.07%) Postman
6 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.53%) Moq
7 1 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 49 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Electronics
3 20 (10.70%) Billing
4 16 (8.56%) Legal
5 13 (6.95%) Finance
6 11 (5.88%) Law
7 9 (4.81%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.74%) Banking
8 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.67%) Marketing
10 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Advertising
11 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (66.31%) Developer
2 50 (26.74%) Senior
3 37 (19.79%) Senior Developer
3 37 (19.79%) Software Engineer
4 30 (16.04%) Software Developer
5 22 (11.76%) C# Developer
6 21 (11.23%) .NET Developer
7 16 (8.56%) Database Developer
7 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 14 (7.49%) Senior Database Developer
9 13 (6.95%) Lead
10 12 (6.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (4.81%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Technical Leader
13 8 (4.28%) Scala Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) Azure Developer
14 7 (3.74%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.88%) .NET
1 54 (28.88%) REST
2 48 (25.67%) GraphQL
3 41 (21.93%) CSS
3 41 (21.93%) Web Services
4 38 (20.32%) React
5 34 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 34 (18.18%) RESTful
6 32 (17.11%) HTML
7 30 (16.04%) http4s
7 30 (16.04%) Scalaz
8 27 (14.44%) Laravel
8 27 (14.44%) Sass
8 27 (14.44%) SOAP
9 24 (12.83%) Vue
10 19 (10.16%) .NET Framework
11 16 (8.56%) Tailwind CSS
11 16 (8.56%) XML
12 15 (8.02%) ASP.NET
12 15 (8.02%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.04%) Blog
1 30 (16.04%) Media Streaming
2 17 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.81%) IoT
5 8 (4.28%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.74%) iSeries
7 5 (2.67%) Hackathon
7 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.14%) CCTV
9 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.53%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.53%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.53%) SCADA
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.81%) Linux
2 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.07%) FreeBSD
3 2 (1.07%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.07%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.29%) Agile
2 64 (34.22%) DevOps
3 43 (22.99%) Software Engineering
4 40 (21.39%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (18.72%) Design Patterns
6 32 (17.11%) Clean Code
6 32 (17.11%) Open Source
7 31 (16.58%) Integration Testing
8 30 (16.04%) Functional Programming
9 29 (15.51%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (15.51%) Mentoring
10 26 (13.90%) Analytics
10 26 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.90%) TDD
11 25 (13.37%) Coaching
11 25 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (12.30%) Use Case
13 22 (11.76%) Computer Science
13 22 (11.76%) Microservices
13 22 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 61 (32.62%) C#
3 50 (26.74%) SQL
4 39 (20.86%) Java
5 30 (16.04%) Scala
6 29 (15.51%) VB.NET
7 21 (11.23%) TypeScript
8 16 (8.56%) PHP
8 16 (8.56%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 11 (5.88%) VB
9 11 (5.88%) VB6
10 10 (5.35%) Python
11 7 (3.74%) RPG
11 7 (3.74%) RPG IV
12 5 (2.67%) C++
13 3 (1.60%) C
14 2 (1.07%) JSX
14 2 (1.07%) Perl
14 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (11.76%) Degree
2 21 (11.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.63%) QA
2 7 (3.74%) GDPR
3 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.07%) HL7
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.07%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (12.30%) Oracle
2 21 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.74%) IBM
4 5 (2.67%) PayPal
4 5 (2.67%) WorldPay
5 4 (2.14%) Facebook
6 2 (1.07%) Progress
7 1 (0.53%) Google