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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 156 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 +34 -61
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 175 146 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.76% 1.89% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.98% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 123 87 77
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,250 £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 8,207 7,382 9,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.31% 95.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 3,877 5,302
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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
Manchester -9 76 £54,000 -6.09% 19
Merseyside +46 55 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Lancashire -7 23 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Cheshire +2 17 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Cumbria - 2 £40,000 - 3
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 (8.57%) IIS
2 4 (2.29%) CMS
3 2 (1.14%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.00%) BPCS
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.00%) AWS
2 44 (25.14%) Azure
3 27 (15.43%) GitHub
4 19 (10.86%) SaaS
5 17 (9.71%) Amazon Kinesis
6 15 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.71%) Serverless
9 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.86%) OCI
11 5 (2.86%) Stripe
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.14%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.14%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Wireless
2 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) MQTT
2 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.86%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (13.14%) SQL Server
3 22 (12.57%) Oracle Database
4 20 (11.43%) MySQL
5 19 (10.86%) DynamoDB
6 17 (9.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (9.71%) NoSQL
7 16 (9.14%) Oracle Database 11g
8 10 (5.71%) Redis
9 8 (4.57%) Power BI
10 6 (3.43%) RDBMS
10 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.29%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (1.71%) Data Mart
13 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Visual Studio
2 20 (11.43%) Git
2 20 (11.43%) PHPUnit
3 14 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 11 (6.29%) Jasmine
4 11 (6.29%) Karma Test Runner
5 10 (5.71%) Gatling
6 6 (3.43%) JDeveloper
7 4 (2.29%) JIRA
7 4 (2.29%) Subversion
7 4 (2.29%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.14%) Postman
8 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.57%) Moq
9 1 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.14%) Legal
3 13 (7.43%) Finance
4 11 (6.29%) Electronics
5 10 (5.71%) Billing
5 10 (5.71%) Law
6 8 (4.57%) Tech for Good
7 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.86%) Banking
9 4 (2.29%) Marketing
9 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (70.86%) Developer
2 42 (24.00%) Senior
3 37 (21.14%) Senior Developer
4 32 (18.29%) Software Engineer
5 30 (17.14%) Software Developer
6 22 (12.57%) C# Developer
7 21 (12.00%) .NET Developer
8 16 (9.14%) Database Developer
8 16 (9.14%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 15 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (8.00%) Senior Database Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (5.71%) Lead
13 7 (4.00%) Azure Developer
13 7 (4.00%) React Developer
13 7 (4.00%) Systems Developer
14 6 (3.43%) .NET Software Developer
14 6 (3.43%) Senior Manager
14 6 (3.43%) Technical Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (30.29%) .NET
2 45 (25.71%) React
3 44 (25.14%) CSS
4 41 (23.43%) REST
5 35 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 35 (20.00%) HTML
5 35 (20.00%) RESTful
6 34 (19.43%) AngularJS
7 28 (16.00%) Sass
7 28 (16.00%) Web Services
8 27 (15.43%) Laravel
8 27 (15.43%) SOAP
9 24 (13.71%) Vue
10 19 (10.86%) .NET Framework
11 17 (9.71%) http4s
11 17 (9.71%) Scalaz
11 17 (9.71%) Tailwind CSS
12 16 (9.14%) XML
13 15 (8.57%) ASP.NET
13 15 (8.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Blog
1 17 (9.71%) Media Streaming
2 10 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.14%) IoT
3 9 (5.14%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.00%) iSeries
4 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.86%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.29%) CCTV
7 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.57%) iPhone
9 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.57%) SCADA
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.71%) Windows
4 2 (1.14%) FreeBSD
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) DevOps
2 54 (30.86%) Agile
3 39 (22.29%) Design Patterns
4 38 (21.71%) Clean Code
4 38 (21.71%) Software Engineering
5 33 (18.86%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.29%) Open Source
10 24 (13.71%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (13.71%) TDD
11 23 (13.14%) Use Case
12 22 (12.57%) Code Quality
12 22 (12.57%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.57%) User Experience
13 21 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
13 21 (12.00%) Front End Development
13 21 (12.00%) Microservices
14 20 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 61 (34.86%) C#
3 50 (28.57%) SQL
4 37 (21.14%) Java
5 29 (16.57%) VB.NET
6 23 (13.14%) TypeScript
7 17 (9.71%) Scala
8 16 (9.14%) PL/SQL
8 16 (9.14%) Python
9 15 (8.57%) PHP
10 11 (6.29%) T-SQL
10 11 (6.29%) VB
10 11 (6.29%) VB6
11 8 (4.57%) Perl
12 7 (4.00%) RPG
12 7 (4.00%) RPG IV
13 6 (3.43%) Bash
13 6 (3.43%) Go
13 6 (3.43%) Ruby
14 3 (1.71%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (7.43%) Degree
2 11 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.71%) QA
2 7 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.14%) HL7
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.29%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (16.57%) Oracle
2 20 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.00%) IBM
4 5 (2.86%) PayPal
4 5 (2.86%) WorldPay
5 4 (2.29%) Facebook
6 2 (1.14%) Progress
7 1 (0.57%) Google