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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 288 224
Rank change year-on-year -79 -64 -35
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 66 95 274
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.27% 0.79% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.84% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36 59 130
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -6.90% -2.68%
75th Percentile £91,250 £105,000 £89,688
90th Percentile - £165,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 19,600 11,305 17,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.30% 94.08% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13,295 7,169 11,114
10th Percentile £40,808 £38,810 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -7 3 £68,000 +4.62% 9
South London - 2 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 2
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 5 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) JBoss
3 1 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) GitHub
2 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 14 (21.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 13 (19.70%) AWS
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 7 (10.61%) Cloud Functions
5 7 (10.61%) Cloud Run
5 7 (10.61%) Power Automate
5 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.06%) Power BI
5 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (3.03%) Redis
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.52%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) CircleCI
2 7 (10.61%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.55%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (3.03%) TestRail
5 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.52%) JUnit
5 1 (1.52%) Maven
5 1 (1.52%) NUnit
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Marketing
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Law
7 2 (3.03%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (3.03%) Front Office
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Billing
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (60.61%) Developer
2 31 (46.97%) Senior
3 18 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 14 (21.21%) Cloud Developer
4 14 (21.21%) Salesforce Developer
4 14 (21.21%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 12 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead
8 4 (6.06%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) T24 Developer
9 3 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Applications Support
10 2 (3.03%) Applications Support Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (39.39%) REST
2 16 (24.24%) SOAP
3 14 (21.21%) Lightning Web Components
4 13 (19.70%) Kafka
5 12 (18.18%) Spring
6 11 (16.67%) RESTful
7 10 (15.15%) .NET
8 9 (13.64%) Playwright
9 8 (12.12%) React
10 7 (10.61%) Leaflet
10 7 (10.61%) Node.js
11 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
12 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
13 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
13 4 (6.06%) CSS
13 4 (6.06%) HTML
13 4 (6.06%) JSON
14 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
14 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
14 3 (4.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.55%) Blog
3 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Derivative
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Equities
5 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.52%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Android
1 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Agile
2 36 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 29 (43.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (30.30%) Sprint Planning
5 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (24.24%) Clean Code
6 16 (24.24%) DevOps
6 16 (24.24%) Software Engineering
7 15 (22.73%) System Testing
8 14 (21.21%) Data Architecture
8 14 (21.21%) Scrum
8 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (18.18%) AI
10 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (15.15%) Customer Experience
11 10 (15.15%) OOP
11 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.15%) Validation
12 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) Java
2 17 (25.76%) SQL
3 14 (21.21%) Apex Code
3 14 (21.21%) SOQL
4 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.18%) C#
6 7 (10.61%) Kotlin
6 7 (10.61%) Python
7 3 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.03%) VBA
9 1 (1.52%) C
9 1 (1.52%) Perl
9 1 (1.52%) ProC
9 1 (1.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.58%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) GAAP
3 2 (3.03%) IFRS
3 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.52%) Basel III
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Podman
2 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Kibana
3 1 (1.52%) logstash
3 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Salesforce
2 7 (10.61%) Google
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.06%) Temenos
5 3 (4.55%) IBM
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Workday
6 2 (3.03%) YouTube
7 1 (1.52%) Databricks
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow