Unit Testing Jobs in Scotland

Unit Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 168 154 112
Rank change year-on-year -14 -42 +24
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 113 55 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.65% 1.27% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.34% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 51
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £44,981
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,433 - £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,457 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Scotland.

Salary trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -60 87 £57,500 - 5
Edinburgh +37 22 £55,000 - 5
Dundee - 1 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 4
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (39.82%) FileNet
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.82%) Amazon S3
1 45 (39.82%) AWS
1 45 (39.82%) GitHub
2 19 (16.81%) BlazeMeter
3 16 (14.16%) Azure
4 7 (6.19%) GCP
5 6 (5.31%) SaaS
6 3 (2.65%) Serverless
7 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.88%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (53.98%) Apache Cassandra
1 61 (53.98%) NoSQL
2 51 (45.13%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (13.27%) MongoDB
5 13 (11.50%) Oracle Database
5 13 (11.50%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (58.41%) JUnit
2 47 (41.59%) Mockito
3 46 (40.71%) Jasmine
3 46 (40.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.42%) Git
5 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) JMeter
6 1 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.88%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Vite
6 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 70 (61.95%) Finance
2 65 (57.52%) Law
3 64 (56.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (23.01%) Legal
5 21 (18.58%) Banking
6 19 (16.81%) Marketing
6 19 (16.81%) Private Banking
7 10 (8.85%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.77%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (63.72%) Software Engineer
2 38 (33.63%) Java Engineer
2 38 (33.63%) Java Software Engineer
3 34 (30.09%) Senior
4 29 (25.66%) Developer
5 21 (18.58%) Full Stack Engineer
5 21 (18.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 21 (18.58%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.50%) Database Developer
6 13 (11.50%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 11 (9.73%) Senior Database Developer
8 10 (8.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.54%) Lead
10 4 (3.54%) Software Engineering Manager
11 3 (2.65%) Data Scientist
11 3 (2.65%) Senior Data Scientist
12 2 (1.77%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (61.06%) Spring
2 67 (59.29%) Kafka
3 55 (48.67%) AngularJS
4 54 (47.79%) React
5 49 (43.36%) Hibernate
6 48 (42.48%) J2EE
7 45 (39.82%) GraphQL
7 45 (39.82%) Spring Integration
8 13 (11.50%) .NET
9 11 (9.73%) XML
10 10 (8.85%) CSS
11 9 (7.96%) HTML
12 8 (7.08%) REST
12 8 (7.08%) RESTful
13 7 (6.19%) JSON
14 6 (5.31%) .NET Core
14 6 (5.31%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (5.31%) Spring Boot
15 4 (3.54%) Web Services
16 3 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (43.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.88%) FPGA
4 1 (0.88%) Kindle
4 1 (0.88%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (76.11%) Agile
2 78 (69.03%) Artificial Intelligence
2 78 (69.03%) Software Engineering
3 75 (66.37%) Microservices
4 67 (59.29%) CI/CD
5 63 (55.75%) Machine Learning
6 53 (46.90%) SDLC
7 50 (44.25%) Computer Science
8 48 (42.48%) Decision-Making
9 45 (39.82%) AOP
9 45 (39.82%) Document Management
9 45 (39.82%) Regtech
10 29 (25.66%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (23.01%) Risk Management
11 26 (23.01%) Self-Awareness
12 21 (18.58%) DevOps
12 21 (18.58%) Wealth Management
13 19 (16.81%) Asset Management
13 19 (16.81%) Investment Management
13 19 (16.81%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (65.49%) Java
2 71 (62.83%) SQL
3 17 (15.04%) C#
4 15 (13.27%) PL/SQL
5 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.31%) Python
7 5 (4.42%) C
8 4 (3.54%) Embedded C
8 4 (3.54%) PHP
9 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.77%) Ruby
10 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.88%) R
11 1 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) VB
11 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Degree
2 30 (26.55%) Master's Degree
3 29 (25.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (44.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.81%) Grafana
3 18 (15.93%) Terraform
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (53.98%) Oracle
2 19 (16.81%) Dynatrace
2 19 (16.81%) Splunk
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft