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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 211 220
Rank change year-on-year -71 +9 -71
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 93 271 282
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.57% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.73% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52 132 229
10th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £78,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +20.00% -18.75%
75th Percentile £126,250 £100,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £134,500 £105,500
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 11,762 15,674 17,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.24% 90.60% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,375 9,201 14,552
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,751
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 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +51.52% 50
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 (8.60%) Confluence
1 8 (8.60%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Shopify
2 5 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.15%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.15%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.15%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.11%) Azure
2 22 (23.66%) AWS
3 13 (13.98%) GCP
4 10 (10.75%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.75%) Serverless
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (9.68%) Figma
5 9 (9.68%) GitHub
6 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (8.60%) Google Analytics
6 8 (8.60%) Vercel
7 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.38%) SaaS
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.23%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.23%) IaaS
10 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) Multicast
2 4 (4.30%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.05%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.45%) MySQL
6 5 (5.38%) DB2
7 4 (4.30%) Redis
7 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.23%) Power BI
9 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.15%) Big Data
9 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.08%) KDB
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.08%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.08%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (20.43%) JIRA
2 15 (16.13%) Git
3 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.60%) Cypress.io
5 7 (7.53%) Selenium
6 6 (6.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.45%) JUnit
7 5 (5.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
8 4 (4.30%) Spinnaker
8 4 (4.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (4.30%) YouTrack
9 3 (3.23%) eCATT
9 3 (3.23%) SpecFlow
10 2 (2.15%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.15%) JMeter
10 2 (2.15%) MSTest
10 2 (2.15%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (37.63%) Finance
2 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Banking
4 13 (13.98%) Front Office
5 11 (11.83%) Law
5 11 (11.83%) Marketing
6 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.53%) Manufacturing
8 6 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 6 (6.45%) Retail
9 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Back Office
12 1 (1.08%) Games
12 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (60.22%) Developer
2 28 (30.11%) Senior
3 19 (20.43%) Software Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (17.20%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.83%) C++ Developer
6 10 (10.75%) Lead
7 9 (9.68%) .NET Developer
7 9 (9.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (8.60%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Agile Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Agile Java Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Data Scientist
11 4 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) CSS
2 28 (30.11%) HTML
3 26 (27.96%) React
3 26 (27.96%) RESTful
4 23 (24.73%) .NET
5 15 (16.13%) GraphQL
6 14 (15.05%) Node.js
7 12 (12.90%) .NET Core
8 11 (11.83%) .NET Framework
8 11 (11.83%) REST
9 10 (10.75%) AngularJS
9 10 (10.75%) Express.js
9 10 (10.75%) Playwright
10 9 (9.68%) Jest
11 8 (8.60%) Entity Framework
11 8 (8.60%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (8.60%) Kafka
11 8 (8.60%) Next.js
11 8 (8.60%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (8.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Derivative
2 9 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.30%) Blog
4 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Genomics
5 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.15%) CMDB
6 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.08%) Life Science
7 1 (1.08%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.08%) PKI
7 1 (1.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.23%) Android
4 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) Agile
2 33 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Test Automation
4 27 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.81%) Software Engineering
6 22 (23.66%) Integration Testing
7 21 (22.58%) Microservices
8 19 (20.43%) Analytics
9 18 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (18.28%) DevOps
10 17 (18.28%) User Experience
11 16 (17.20%) Containerisation
11 16 (17.20%) Design Patterns
11 16 (17.20%) Scrum
12 15 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
13 14 (15.05%) Code Quality
13 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (15.05%) Machine Learning
13 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
13 14 (15.05%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.26%) JavaScript
2 27 (29.03%) SQL
3 24 (25.81%) C#
4 20 (21.51%) Java
5 18 (19.35%) Python
6 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.83%) C++
8 6 (6.45%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.15%) ABAP
9 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.15%) SOQL
9 2 (2.15%) X++
10 1 (1.08%) Groovy
10 1 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (1.08%) RPG
10 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (20.43%) Degree
2 9 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.68%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.30%) PhD
4 3 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) QA
2 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) SLA
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) PSD2
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (25.81%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.68%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Ansible
3 4 (4.30%) Puppet
3 4 (4.30%) Salt
4 1 (1.08%) Kibana
4 1 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.60%) Apple
2 8 (8.60%) Google
3 7 (7.53%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.45%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.38%) Databricks
5 5 (5.38%) SAP
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) Adobe
7 2 (2.15%) Oracle
7 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.15%) Sybase
8 1 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.08%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.08%) Foundry
8 1 (1.08%) IBM
8 1 (1.08%) Marketo
8 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.08%) Xamarin