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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 214 226
Rank change year-on-year -84 +12 -77
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 85 239 244
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 1.48% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.58% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 50 130 197
10th Percentile £61,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £75,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% +16.15% -18.75%
75th Percentile £124,375 £99,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,500 £102,000
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 12,008 15,165 16,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.63% 93.83% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,728 8,699 13,486
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £121,250 £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 16 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 16 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 +21 13 £125,000 +56.25% 5
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 8 (9.41%) Headless CMS
3 4 (4.71%) CMS
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (9.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Shopify
2 5 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.35%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.35%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.18%) Azure
2 16 (18.82%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.59%) Figma
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Serverless
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (9.41%) GitHub
5 8 (9.41%) Google Analytics
5 8 (9.41%) Vercel
6 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.12%) Multicast
2 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.18%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.76%) DB2
4 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.88%) MySQL
6 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.53%) Power BI
7 3 (3.53%) Redis
8 2 (2.35%) Big Data
8 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.18%) KDB
9 1 (1.18%) Metadata
9 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) JIRA
2 14 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.12%) Git
3 12 (14.12%) Selenium
4 11 (12.94%) Cucumber
5 10 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 10 (11.76%) TeamCity
6 8 (9.41%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (3.53%) eCATT
9 2 (2.35%) GitLab
9 2 (2.35%) JMeter
9 2 (2.35%) JUnit
9 2 (2.35%) MLflow
9 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
9 2 (2.35%) webpack
10 1 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.18%) Sourcetree
General
1 33 (38.82%) Finance
2 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Banking
4 13 (15.29%) Front Office
5 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.41%) Marketing
6 8 (9.41%) Retail
7 7 (8.24%) Manufacturing
8 6 (7.06%) Law
9 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.18%) Games
12 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (61.18%) Developer
2 26 (30.59%) Senior
3 16 (18.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) C++ Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Java Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (9.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Agile Developer
9 7 (8.24%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (8.24%) Development Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Software Development Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.12%) CSS
1 29 (34.12%) RESTful
2 28 (32.94%) HTML
3 27 (31.76%) React
4 17 (20.00%) Node.js
5 15 (17.65%) GraphQL
6 14 (16.47%) .NET
7 13 (15.29%) FIX Protocol
8 11 (12.94%) .NET Core
9 10 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (11.76%) Express.js
9 10 (11.76%) Gherkin
10 9 (10.59%) Jest
11 8 (9.41%) Next.js
11 8 (9.41%) Playwright
11 8 (9.41%) REST
11 8 (9.41%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (9.41%) Vitest
12 7 (8.24%) SOAP
13 6 (7.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Derivative
2 10 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.24%) Blog
4 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.53%) Genomics
5 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.35%) CMDB
6 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Equities
7 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Linux
1 12 (14.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Agile
2 32 (37.65%) Test Automation
3 31 (36.47%) CI/CD
4 25 (29.41%) Integration Testing
5 22 (25.88%) Microservices
5 22 (25.88%) User Experience
6 21 (24.71%) Design Patterns
7 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (23.53%) Systems Analysis
8 19 (22.35%) Analytics
9 18 (21.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (21.18%) Sprint Planning
10 17 (20.00%) Machine Learning
10 17 (20.00%) Scrum
10 17 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 16 (18.82%) Sprint Retrospective
12 15 (17.65%) Containerisation
13 14 (16.47%) DevOps
13 14 (16.47%) Low Latency
14 13 (15.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 28 (32.94%) SQL
3 26 (30.59%) Java
4 15 (17.65%) C#
5 14 (16.47%) Python
6 13 (15.29%) TypeScript
7 12 (14.12%) C++
8 7 (8.24%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.53%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.53%) RPG
9 3 (3.53%) SOQL
10 2 (2.35%) ABAP
10 2 (2.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Degree
2 12 (14.12%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.71%) PhD
5 2 (2.35%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.24%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) PSD2
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.41%) Apple
3 8 (9.41%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.88%) Databricks
4 5 (5.88%) SAP
5 4 (4.71%) Google
5 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.53%) IBM
7 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.18%) Adobe
8 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.18%) Foundry
8 1 (1.18%) Marketo
8 1 (1.18%) OpenAI