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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 275 277
Rank change year-on-year -59 +2 -103
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 77 132 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 1.02% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.06% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52 104 169
10th Percentile £75,000 £49,398 £40,750
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £70,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% +4.81% -15.63%
75th Percentile £108,125 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £148,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 16,126 12,405 21,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.34% 96.08% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,558 7,549 16,067
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -13 4 £70,000 -12.50% 8
South London - 2 - - 1
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 9 (11.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (9.09%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.68%) GitHub
2 18 (23.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 18 (23.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 14 (18.18%) AWS
4 8 (10.39%) GCP
5 7 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
5 7 (9.09%) Cloud Run
6 5 (6.49%) Azure
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.30%) Figma
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.30%) Serverless
8 1 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Multicast
2 7 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) NoSQL
2 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
3 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (11.69%) DB2
5 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.90%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.30%) Power BI
8 1 (1.30%) Redis
8 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) Git
2 12 (15.58%) JIRA
3 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.69%) Bitbucket
4 9 (11.69%) Cucumber
4 9 (11.69%) Selenium
4 9 (11.69%) TeamCity
5 7 (9.09%) CircleCI
5 7 (9.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.60%) webpack
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.30%) CMake
7 1 (1.30%) GitLab
7 1 (1.30%) JUnit
7 1 (1.30%) MLflow
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.30%) TestRail
General
1 30 (38.96%) Finance
2 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
3 22 (28.57%) Banking
4 18 (23.38%) Marketing
5 14 (18.18%) Front Office
6 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (2.60%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Retail
9 1 (1.30%) Advertising
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Developer
2 29 (37.66%) Senior
3 18 (23.38%) Cloud Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Salesforce Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Senior Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 11 (14.29%) C++ Developer
5 9 (11.69%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.69%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Agile Java Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Development Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Development Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.97%) REST
2 19 (24.68%) React
2 19 (24.68%) SOAP
3 18 (23.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (18.18%) Node.js
5 13 (16.88%) RESTful
6 11 (14.29%) CSS
6 11 (14.29%) HTML
7 10 (12.99%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (11.69%) Gherkin
9 8 (10.39%) Playwright
10 7 (9.09%) Leaflet
11 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.49%) Kafka
12 4 (5.19%) .NET
13 3 (3.90%) CSS3
13 3 (3.90%) HTML5
13 3 (3.90%) Spring
14 2 (2.60%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.68%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.29%) Derivative
3 9 (11.69%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.49%) Blog
5 4 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.30%) Equities
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.78%) Linux
2 10 (12.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.19%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Android
4 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (62.34%) Agile
2 45 (58.44%) CI/CD
3 30 (38.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (35.06%) Sprint Planning
5 22 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 22 (28.57%) System Testing
6 21 (27.27%) Scrum
6 21 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 18 (23.38%) Data Architecture
7 18 (23.38%) Design Patterns
8 17 (22.08%) Microservices
8 17 (22.08%) Systems Analysis
9 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (18.18%) Kanban
10 14 (18.18%) Low Latency
11 13 (16.88%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.58%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Java
2 20 (25.97%) JavaScript
2 20 (25.97%) SQL
3 18 (23.38%) Apex Code
3 18 (23.38%) SOQL
4 16 (20.78%) C++
5 11 (14.29%) Python
6 7 (9.09%) C#
7 6 (7.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.19%) Rust
9 3 (3.90%) RPG
10 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.30%) ABAP
11 1 (1.30%) Groovy
11 1 (1.30%) Perl
11 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.90%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) GAAP
2 2 (2.60%) IFRS
2 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.30%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.30%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 13 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Podman
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Salesforce
2 10 (12.99%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 7 (9.09%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) IBM
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.60%) Temenos
6 2 (2.60%) Workday
7 1 (1.30%) Adobe
7 1 (1.30%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.30%) Marketo
7 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.30%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow