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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 215 206
Rank change year-on-year -84 -9 -77
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 85 294 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.72% 1.55% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.73% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 51 130 320
10th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £117,500 £96,563 £91,563
90th Percentile £165,000 £130,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 11,148 16,969 21,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.12% 89.28% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,039 10,479 17,306
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -4 13 £105,000 +40.00% 8
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (9.41%) Headless CMS
2 5 (5.88%) Confluence
3 4 (4.71%) CMS
3 4 (4.71%) nginx
4 3 (3.53%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.35%) Apache
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Shopify
2 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) AWS
1 25 (29.41%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) Amazon SQS
3 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 10 (11.76%) Serverless
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.41%) Figma
5 8 (9.41%) GCP
5 8 (9.41%) Google Analytics
5 8 (9.41%) Vercel
6 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.88%) GitHub
7 5 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) DNS
1 4 (4.71%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.35%) FTP
3 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) NoSQL
2 12 (14.12%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.24%) MySQL
5 5 (5.88%) Redis
6 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.53%) DB2
7 3 (3.53%) Metadata
7 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.35%) Big Data
8 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.35%) Power BI
9 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) JIRA
2 15 (17.65%) Git
3 13 (15.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (11.76%) JUnit
5 9 (10.59%) SonarQube
6 8 (9.41%) Cypress.io
7 6 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (7.06%) Selenium
8 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.88%) Maven
8 5 (5.88%) Mockito
8 5 (5.88%) Postman
9 4 (4.71%) GitLab
9 4 (4.71%) Spinnaker
9 4 (4.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (4.71%) YouTrack
10 3 (3.53%) eCATT
10 3 (3.53%) SpecFlow
10 3 (3.53%) TestNG
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.76%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.65%) Banking
4 10 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.76%) Marketing
5 9 (10.59%) Law
6 8 (9.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.06%) Front Office
8 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.88%) Retail
9 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.53%) Games
10 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.35%) Back Office
11 2 (2.35%) Publishing
12 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (57.65%) Developer
2 24 (28.24%) Senior
3 18 (21.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (18.82%) Senior Developer
5 14 (16.47%) Software Engineer
6 12 (14.12%) Lead
7 10 (11.76%) .NET Developer
8 9 (10.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.24%) C# Developer
10 6 (7.06%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) React Developer
11 4 (4.71%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) C++ Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
11 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Senior C++ Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.12%) CSS
2 28 (32.94%) HTML
2 28 (32.94%) RESTful
3 24 (28.24%) .NET
3 24 (28.24%) React
4 16 (18.82%) GraphQL
4 16 (18.82%) REST
5 12 (14.12%) .NET Core
5 12 (14.12%) .NET Framework
5 12 (14.12%) Kafka
5 12 (14.12%) Node.js
6 11 (12.94%) Jest
7 10 (11.76%) Playwright
7 10 (11.76%) Web Services
8 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
8 9 (10.59%) Entity Framework
8 9 (10.59%) Express.js
9 8 (9.41%) CSS3
9 8 (9.41%) Next.js
9 8 (9.41%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (7.06%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Life Science
5 2 (2.35%) AS400
5 2 (2.35%) CMDB
5 2 (2.35%) Derivative
5 2 (2.35%) iSeries
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.18%) Equities
6 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Android
1 3 (3.53%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Agile
2 36 (42.35%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (37.65%) CI/CD
4 22 (25.88%) Test Automation
5 21 (24.71%) Software Engineering
6 19 (22.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (21.18%) Integration Testing
8 17 (20.00%) Analytics
8 17 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 17 (20.00%) Microservices
9 16 (18.82%) DevOps
10 15 (17.65%) User Experience
11 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (16.47%) TDD
12 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
12 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
13 12 (14.12%) Clean Code
14 11 (12.94%) ERP
14 11 (12.94%) OO
14 11 (12.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.47%) JavaScript
2 27 (31.76%) SQL
3 26 (30.59%) C#
4 18 (21.18%) Python
4 18 (21.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (16.47%) Java
6 4 (4.71%) C++
7 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.35%) Groovy
7 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.35%) RPG
7 2 (2.35%) RPG IV
7 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.35%) SOQL
7 2 (2.35%) XQuery
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.71%) PhD
4 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) QA
2 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) PSD2
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (25.88%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.94%) Terraform
3 7 (8.24%) Ansible
4 4 (4.71%) Puppet
4 4 (4.71%) Salt
5 3 (3.53%) Kustomize
5 3 (3.53%) Packer
6 1 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Apple
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Pega
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
5 2 (2.35%) Sybase
6 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.18%) Foundry
6 1 (1.18%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.18%) Xamarin