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Which roles ask for Unit Testing at tech companies · 93 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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93 roles counted that list Unit Testing, one per company, title and level; 162 postings in the window.

In short

Unit Testing: listed in 93 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 71 and preferred in 22. The largest group is software engineer roles: 72 of 93 (77%).

Required
71 of 93 (76%)
Of the roles that list Unit Testing
Preferred
22 of 93 (24%)
Of the roles that list Unit Testing
Largest group
72 of 93 (77%)
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Unit Testing

Roles listing Unit Testing, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer7272 of 719 (10%)
Mobile engineer1010 of 38
Data engineer44 of 99 (4%)
DevOps engineer22 of 58 (3%)
Machine learning engineer22 of 79 (3%)
AI engineer11 of 70 (1%)
QA engineer11 of 63 (2%)
Security engineer11 of 126 (1%)

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 93 Unit Testing roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.

Required
SkillRoles asking
REST
52 of 93 (56%)
CI/CD
43 of 93 (46%)
Integration Testing
43 of 93 (46%)
Git
39 of 93 (42%)
AWS
29 of 93 (31%)
TypeScript
26 of 93 (28%)
JavaScript
25 of 93 (27%)
Agile
24 of 93 (26%)
SQL
24 of 93 (26%)
Java
23 of 93 (25%)
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Integration Testing
13 of 93 (14%)
AWS
10 of 93 (11%)
Docker
10 of 93 (11%)
Performance Optimization
10 of 93 (11%)
GCP
7 of 93 (8%)
Kubernetes
7 of 93 (8%)
Microservices
7 of 93 (8%)
Observability
7 of 93 (8%)
AI Coding Tools
6 of 93 (6%)
Agile
6 of 93 (6%)

Experience

Of the 50 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
50 of 50 (100%)
2+ years
49 of 50 (98%)
3+ years
45 of 50 (90%)
5+ years
31 of 50 (62%)
8+ years
14 of 50 (28%)
10+ years
6 of 50 (12%)

Degree

Of the 60 roles we could read for it

Required
13 of 60 (22%)
Required, or experience instead
12 of 60 (20%)
Preferred
1 of 60 (2%)
Not mentioned
34 of 60 (57%)

Pay and remote work

Of the 93 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
27 of 93 (29%)
Remote roles
81 of 93 (87%)

How we count: 93 roles from 82 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology