Unit Testing Job Trends in London

Unit Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 215 239
Rank change year-on-year -94 +24 -61
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 72 231 234
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 1.50% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.58% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 48 124 185
10th Percentile £63,875 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £125,000 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £133,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,245 14,602 16,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.73% 94.53% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,837 8,051 13,548
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in London

Unit Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in London over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unit Testing in London

Unit Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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
Central London +3 9 £125,000 +56.25% 5
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) GitHub
3 9 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (11.11%) AWS
5 6 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 6 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Run
7 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.78%) IaaS
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.39%) Figma
9 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.28%) DB2
4 5 (6.94%) MySQL
5 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.17%) Power BI
6 3 (4.17%) Redis
7 1 (1.39%) Big Data
7 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.39%) KDB
7 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.39%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.06%) JIRA
3 12 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 12 (16.67%) Selenium
4 11 (15.28%) Bitbucket
4 11 (15.28%) Git
4 11 (15.28%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.78%) GitLab
5 2 (2.78%) webpack
6 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.39%) CMake
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) MLflow
6 1 (1.39%) MSTest
6 1 (1.39%) Sourcetree
6 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (38.89%) Finance
2 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Banking
4 13 (18.06%) Front Office
5 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.11%) Marketing
6 8 (11.11%) Retail
7 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Law
10 1 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (59.72%) Developer
2 18 (25.00%) Senior
3 15 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) C++ Developer
4 12 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 8 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Agile Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Development Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Development Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) React
2 17 (23.61%) CSS
2 17 (23.61%) HTML
2 17 (23.61%) RESTful
3 13 (18.06%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (15.28%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (15.28%) Gherkin
5 10 (13.89%) Node.js
5 10 (13.89%) REST
5 10 (13.89%) SOAP
6 8 (11.11%) .NET
7 7 (9.72%) .NET Core
8 6 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (6.94%) Kafka
9 5 (6.94%) PyTorch
10 4 (5.56%) CSS3
10 4 (5.56%) HTML5
10 4 (5.56%) NumPy
10 4 (5.56%) Pandas
10 4 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Derivative
2 11 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (9.72%) Blog
4 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.17%) Genomics
5 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.78%) CMDB
6 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.39%) Equities
7 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.39%) Life Science
7 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Agile
1 29 (40.28%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.56%) Design Patterns
2 22 (30.56%) Test Automation
3 21 (29.17%) Systems Analysis
4 19 (26.39%) Microservices
5 18 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 16 (22.22%) Integration Testing
6 16 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 14 (19.44%) Low Latency
7 14 (19.44%) Scrum
7 14 (19.44%) Sprint Planning
7 14 (19.44%) User Experience
8 13 (18.06%) Concurrent Programming
8 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.67%) BDD
9 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 12 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Java
2 20 (27.78%) SQL
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (19.44%) Python
5 13 (18.06%) C++
6 9 (12.50%) C#
7 7 (9.72%) Kotlin
8 6 (8.33%) Apex Code
8 6 (8.33%) SOQL
9 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 3 (4.17%) RPG
11 2 (2.78%) ABAP
12 1 (1.39%) Groovy
12 1 (1.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Degree
2 12 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) PhD
5 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) SLA
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.39%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.39%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 9 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 7 (9.72%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.56%) Databricks
5 4 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (4.17%) IBM
7 2 (2.78%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.78%) SAP
7 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.39%) Adobe
8 1 (1.39%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.39%) Foundry
8 1 (1.39%) Marketo
8 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity