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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 218 241
Rank change year-on-year -87 +23 -58
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 72 226 261
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 1.47% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.55% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48 121 193
10th Percentile £74,250 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £57,001 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £125,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -4.00%

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 12,882 14,602 19,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.90% 95.02% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,228 7,911 15,562
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -8.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -4 8 £125,000 +61.29% 7
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
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 14 (19.44%) GitHub
2 11 (15.28%) Azure
3 9 (12.50%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) GCP
3 9 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 9 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.17%) Cloud Run
5 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.39%) Figma
7 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.28%) DB2
4 3 (4.17%) MySQL
4 3 (4.17%) Power BI
5 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.39%) KDB
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.39%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Git
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
1 14 (19.44%) JIRA
2 12 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 12 (16.67%) Selenium
3 11 (15.28%) Bitbucket
3 11 (15.28%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.78%) GitLab
4 2 (2.78%) webpack
5 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.39%) CMake
5 1 (1.39%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) JUnit
5 1 (1.39%) MLflow
5 1 (1.39%) MSTest
5 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (40.28%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.22%) Banking
4 13 (18.06%) Front Office
5 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.28%) Marketing
6 7 (9.72%) 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
Job Titles
1 43 (59.72%) Developer
2 22 (30.56%) Senior
3 14 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 13 (18.06%) C++ Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Agile Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Cloud Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) React
2 15 (20.83%) CSS
2 15 (20.83%) HTML
3 14 (19.44%) RESTful
4 13 (18.06%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (15.28%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (15.28%) Gherkin
5 11 (15.28%) REST
5 11 (15.28%) SOAP
6 10 (13.89%) Node.js
7 9 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (8.33%) .NET
9 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
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%) PySpark
10 4 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Derivative
2 11 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (9.72%) Blog
3 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.17%) Genomics
5 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) Equities
6 2 (2.78%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.39%) Life Science
7 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) CI/CD
2 30 (41.67%) Agile
3 23 (31.94%) Test Automation
4 22 (30.56%) Design Patterns
5 21 (29.17%) Systems Analysis
6 18 (25.00%) Microservices
7 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
7 17 (23.61%) Sprint Planning
8 16 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 15 (20.83%) Integration Testing
9 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.44%) Low Latency
10 14 (19.44%) User Experience
11 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
11 13 (18.06%) Concurrent Programming
11 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (18.06%) Scrum
12 12 (16.67%) Front End Development
12 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 12 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Java
2 19 (26.39%) SQL
3 17 (23.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (20.83%) Python
5 14 (19.44%) C++
6 9 (12.50%) Apex Code
6 9 (12.50%) SOQL
7 7 (9.72%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.94%) C#
9 3 (4.17%) RPG
9 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.78%) ABAP
11 1 (1.39%) Groovy
11 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Degree
2 12 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.56%) PhD
4 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.39%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.39%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 10 (13.89%) Salesforce
3 9 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.56%) Databricks
4 4 (5.56%) Google
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.17%) IBM
6 2 (2.78%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.78%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) Adobe
7 1 (1.39%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.39%) Marketo
7 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity