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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 209 221
Rank change year-on-year -88 +12 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 87 257 268
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 1.50% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.63% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 50 131 215
10th Percentile £61,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process and 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 11,808 15,758 17,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.60% 91.83% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,500 9,242 14,087
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
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 1 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +11 14 £125,000 +53.85% 10
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 8 (9.20%) Confluence
1 8 (9.20%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.60%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (6.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Shopify
2 5 (5.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.30%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.30%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) Azure
2 19 (21.84%) AWS
3 11 (12.64%) GCP
4 10 (11.49%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.49%) Serverless
5 9 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.34%) Figma
5 9 (10.34%) GitHub
6 8 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (9.20%) Google Analytics
6 8 (9.20%) Vercel
7 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.45%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) Multicast
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.05%) DB2
5 5 (5.75%) MySQL
6 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.45%) Power BI
7 3 (3.45%) Redis
8 2 (2.30%) Big Data
8 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.15%) KDB
9 1 (1.15%) Metadata
9 1 (1.15%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) JIRA
2 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.79%) Git
4 9 (10.34%) Selenium
5 8 (9.20%) Cucumber
5 8 (9.20%) Cypress.io
6 7 (8.05%) Bitbucket
6 7 (8.05%) TeamCity
7 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (3.45%) eCATT
8 3 (3.45%) JUnit
9 2 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.30%) GitLab
9 2 (2.30%) JMeter
9 2 (2.30%) MLflow
9 2 (2.30%) MSTest
9 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.30%) WebDriver
9 2 (2.30%) YouTrack
General
1 33 (37.93%) Finance
2 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Banking
3 13 (14.94%) Front Office
4 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.49%) Marketing
6 8 (9.20%) Law
7 7 (8.05%) Manufacturing
7 7 (8.05%) Retail
8 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.15%) Back Office
11 1 (1.15%) Games
11 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (59.77%) Developer
2 26 (29.89%) Senior
3 16 (18.39%) Software Engineer
4 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (14.94%) Senior Developer
6 12 (13.79%) C++ Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.20%) Lead
8 8 (9.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.05%) .NET Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Java Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Agile Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Agile Java Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Development Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.18%) CSS
2 27 (31.03%) HTML
2 27 (31.03%) RESTful
3 25 (28.74%) React
4 18 (20.69%) .NET
5 15 (17.24%) GraphQL
5 15 (17.24%) Node.js
6 11 (12.64%) .NET Core
6 11 (12.64%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (11.49%) Express.js
8 9 (10.34%) Jest
8 9 (10.34%) Playwright
8 9 (10.34%) REST
9 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
9 8 (9.20%) Next.js
9 8 (9.20%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (9.20%) Vitest
10 7 (8.05%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (8.05%) Gherkin
10 7 (8.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Derivative
2 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.75%) Blog
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.45%) Genomics
6 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) CMDB
7 2 (2.30%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.30%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.15%) Equities
8 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.15%) Life Science
8 1 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Linux
1 10 (11.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Android
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (49.43%) Agile
2 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
3 29 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 23 (26.44%) Integration Testing
4 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (22.99%) Microservices
6 19 (21.84%) Analytics
6 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
6 19 (21.84%) User Experience
7 17 (19.54%) Design Patterns
7 17 (19.54%) Sprint Planning
8 16 (18.39%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (18.39%) Systems Analysis
9 15 (17.24%) DevOps
9 15 (17.24%) Machine Learning
9 15 (17.24%) Scrum
9 15 (17.24%) Sprint Retrospective
10 14 (16.09%) Low Latency
11 13 (14.94%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.18%) JavaScript
2 27 (31.03%) SQL
3 21 (24.14%) Java
4 19 (21.84%) C#
5 16 (18.39%) Python
6 13 (14.94%) TypeScript
7 12 (13.79%) C++
8 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.45%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.45%) SOQL
10 2 (2.30%) ABAP
10 2 (2.30%) RPG
10 2 (2.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (20.69%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.60%) PhD
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.30%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) SLA
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) PSD2
3 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (28.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) Puppet
3 2 (2.30%) Salt
4 1 (1.15%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Red Hat
3 8 (9.20%) Apple
4 6 (6.90%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.90%) Google
5 5 (5.75%) Databricks
5 5 (5.75%) SAP
6 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.30%) IBM
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Adobe
8 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.15%) Foundry
8 1 (1.15%) Marketo
8 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.15%) Sybase