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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 246 268
Rank change year-on-year -67 +22 -88
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 71 182 235
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 1.27% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.32% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 48 117 181
10th Percentile £74,250 £49,140 £45,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile £114,688 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £65,508 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.81% +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 14,224 13,738 19,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.71% 96.00% 91.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,192 7,819 15,974
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,426 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -6 5 £125,000 +51.52% 16
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 10 (14.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (11.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.82%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.82%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) GitHub
2 12 (16.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 12 (16.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Azure
4 5 (7.04%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Run
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.41%) Figma
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (14.08%) DB2
4 6 (8.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) KDB
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Git
2 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.49%) JIRA
3 10 (14.08%) Bitbucket
3 10 (14.08%) Cucumber
3 10 (14.08%) Selenium
3 10 (14.08%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.82%) webpack
5 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.41%) CMake
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) JUnit
5 1 (1.41%) MLflow
5 1 (1.41%) MSTest
5 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (42.25%) Finance
2 18 (25.35%) Banking
3 17 (23.94%) Front Office
3 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
4 13 (18.31%) Marketing
5 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.23%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Law
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (64.79%) Developer
2 22 (30.99%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) C++ Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Software Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Cloud Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Salesforce Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Java Developer
6 9 (12.68%) Java Engineer
6 9 (12.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Agile Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) React
2 13 (18.31%) CSS
2 13 (18.31%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (18.31%) HTML
2 13 (18.31%) RESTful
3 12 (16.90%) Lightning Web Components
3 12 (16.90%) REST
3 12 (16.90%) SOAP
4 10 (14.08%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (14.08%) Gherkin
5 8 (11.27%) Node.js
6 6 (8.45%) Kafka
7 5 (7.04%) .NET
8 4 (5.63%) CSS3
8 4 (5.63%) HTML5
9 3 (4.23%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.23%) pytest
10 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Derivative
2 12 (16.90%) Product Ownership
3 10 (14.08%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (9.86%) Blog
5 6 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.23%) Genomics
7 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.41%) Life Science
9 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 25 (35.21%) Test Automation
4 21 (29.58%) Sprint Planning
5 20 (28.17%) Design Patterns
5 20 (28.17%) Systems Analysis
6 17 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (23.94%) Low Latency
6 17 (23.94%) Microservices
7 16 (22.54%) System Testing
8 15 (21.13%) Clean Code
8 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
8 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (19.72%) Integration Testing
10 13 (18.31%) User Experience
11 12 (16.90%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (16.90%) Data Architecture
11 12 (16.90%) DevOps
11 12 (16.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) Java
2 18 (25.35%) C++
2 18 (25.35%) SQL
3 14 (19.72%) JavaScript
3 14 (19.72%) Python
4 12 (16.90%) Apex Code
4 12 (16.90%) SOQL
5 8 (11.27%) C#
6 7 (9.86%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.63%) Rust
8 3 (4.23%) RPG
9 2 (2.82%) ABAP
9 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.41%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.41%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.41%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Salesforce
2 12 (16.90%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.27%) Atlassian
4 7 (9.86%) Databricks
5 4 (5.63%) Google
5 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.23%) IBM
7 2 (2.82%) SAP
8 1 (1.41%) Adobe
8 1 (1.41%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.41%) Marketo
8 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity