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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 272 255
Rank change year-on-year -84 -17 -78
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 62 117 274
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.97% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.01% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42 87 167
10th Percentile £66,150 £50,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.85% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £91,250 £111,250 £88,125
90th Percentile £107,375 £165,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 17,060 11,581 21,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.60% 96.05% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,510 6,921 15,929
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -12.00%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -28 3 £68,000 -10.82% 12
South London - 2 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 1
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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) GitHub
2 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 12 (19.35%) AWS
4 7 (11.29%) Cloud Functions
4 7 (11.29%) Cloud Run
4 7 (11.29%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) Azure
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Broadband
2 1 (1.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.29%) MongoDB
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) DB2
4 3 (4.84%) MySQL
5 2 (3.23%) Redis
5 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (43.55%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) CircleCI
2 7 (11.29%) Cypress.io
3 6 (9.68%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) Selenium
4 3 (4.84%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.23%) TestRail
6 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.61%) CMake
6 1 (1.61%) JUnit
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 22 (35.48%) Marketing
2 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 18 (29.03%) Finance
4 16 (25.81%) Banking
5 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.06%) Front Office
7 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.23%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (3.23%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Advertising
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (67.74%) Developer
2 33 (53.23%) Senior
3 23 (37.10%) Senior Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Cloud Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
8 3 (4.84%) C++ Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Development Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Lead Tester
9 2 (3.23%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Development Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.32%) REST
2 23 (37.10%) SOAP
3 22 (35.48%) Lightning Web Components
4 11 (17.74%) React
5 9 (14.52%) Node.js
5 9 (14.52%) Playwright
6 7 (11.29%) Leaflet
6 7 (11.29%) RESTful
7 6 (9.68%) .NET
7 6 (9.68%) Kafka
8 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.45%) CSS
9 4 (6.45%) HTML
10 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (4.84%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.61%) CSS3
11 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
11 1 (1.61%) Sass
11 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
11 1 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.84%) Derivative
3 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Blog
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Equities
4 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (74.19%) Agile
2 44 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 34 (54.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (41.94%) System Testing
5 25 (40.32%) Clean Code
5 25 (40.32%) Sprint Planning
6 24 (38.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (35.48%) Data Architecture
8 15 (24.19%) Scrum
9 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
11 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (17.74%) Containerisation
12 11 (17.74%) Microservices
13 10 (16.13%) DevOps
13 10 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (14.52%) Kanban
14 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
15 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) Apex Code
1 22 (35.48%) SOQL
2 15 (24.19%) Java
3 14 (22.58%) SQL
4 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 10 (16.13%) Python
6 9 (14.52%) C#
6 9 (14.52%) C++
7 4 (6.45%) Rust
8 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.61%) Groovy
10 1 (1.61%) Perl
10 1 (1.61%) RPG
10 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) GAAP
3 2 (3.23%) IFRS
3 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.61%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.61%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
1 7 (11.29%) Podman
2 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Salesforce
2 7 (11.29%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) Temenos
4 2 (3.23%) Workday
5 1 (1.61%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow