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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 201 202
Rank change year-on-year -104 +1 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 78 279 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 1.56% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.74% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 44 124 269
10th Percentile £56,625 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £61,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £75,500 £69,491
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% +8.65% -13.14%
75th Percentile £126,250 £100,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £168,500 £133,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10,998 16,062 19,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 93.77% 89.71% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,993 9,687 15,589
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +14 15 £115,000 +17.95% 17
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 (10.26%) Headless CMS
2 6 (7.69%) Confluence
3 4 (5.13%) CMS
4 2 (2.56%) Apache
4 2 (2.56%) nginx
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Shopify
2 3 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.05%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
3 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
3 10 (12.82%) Serverless
4 9 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (11.54%) GCP
5 8 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (10.26%) Figma
5 8 (10.26%) Google Analytics
5 8 (10.26%) Vercel
6 6 (7.69%) GitHub
7 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) DNS
1 4 (5.13%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.56%) Multicast
3 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) NoSQL
1 14 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.13%) Redis
5 3 (3.85%) Power BI
5 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.56%) Big Data
6 2 (2.56%) DB2
6 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.28%) KDB
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.28%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.28%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) JIRA
2 11 (14.10%) Git
2 11 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.26%) Cypress.io
4 7 (8.97%) JUnit
5 6 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (6.41%) Selenium
7 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.13%) Spinnaker
7 4 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (5.13%) YouTrack
8 3 (3.85%) eCATT
8 3 (3.85%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.56%) JMeter
9 2 (2.56%) Maven
9 2 (2.56%) Mockito
9 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (37.18%) Finance
2 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.95%) Banking
4 11 (14.10%) Marketing
5 10 (12.82%) Law
6 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (10.26%) Front Office
7 8 (10.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
9 6 (7.69%) Retail
10 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (2.56%) Back Office
12 2 (2.56%) Games
12 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (62.82%) Developer
2 26 (33.33%) Senior
3 16 (20.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (20.51%) Senior Developer
4 15 (19.23%) Software Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) .NET Developer
6 9 (11.54%) Lead
6 9 (11.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.69%) C++ Developer
8 5 (6.41%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.13%) .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior C++ Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.33%) CSS
2 25 (32.05%) HTML
2 25 (32.05%) RESTful
3 23 (29.49%) .NET
4 21 (26.92%) React
5 15 (19.23%) GraphQL
6 13 (16.67%) REST
7 11 (14.10%) .NET Core
7 11 (14.10%) .NET Framework
7 11 (14.10%) Node.js
8 10 (12.82%) Jest
8 10 (12.82%) Playwright
9 9 (11.54%) Express.js
9 9 (11.54%) Kafka
9 9 (11.54%) Web Services
10 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
10 8 (10.26%) Entity Framework
10 8 (10.26%) Next.js
10 8 (10.26%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (10.26%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (6.41%) Derivative
2 5 (6.41%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.41%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Blog
5 2 (2.56%) CMDB
5 2 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.56%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Genomics
6 1 (1.28%) Life Science
6 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Android
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) Agile
2 29 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.64%) Software Engineering
4 20 (25.64%) Test Automation
5 17 (21.79%) Analytics
5 17 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (21.79%) Integration Testing
5 17 (21.79%) Microservices
6 14 (17.95%) Code Quality
6 14 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.95%) User Experience
7 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (16.67%) DevOps
8 12 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 12 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 12 (15.38%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) ERP
9 11 (14.10%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (14.10%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 24 (30.77%) C#
3 23 (29.49%) SQL
4 15 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 14 (17.95%) Python
6 13 (16.67%) Java
7 6 (7.69%) C++
8 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.56%) SOQL
9 2 (2.56%) X++
10 1 (1.28%) Groovy
10 1 (1.28%) PHP
10 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.13%) PhD
5 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) QA
2 9 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.56%) SLA
4 1 (1.28%) PSD2
4 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (24.36%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Terraform
3 5 (6.41%) Ansible
4 4 (5.13%) Puppet
4 4 (5.13%) Salt
5 1 (1.28%) Kibana
5 1 (1.28%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.28%) Packer
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Apple
3 5 (6.41%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.85%) SAP
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.28%) Foundry
6 1 (1.28%) Splunk
6 1 (1.28%) Trayport
6 1 (1.28%) Xamarin