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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 292 229
Rank change year-on-year -82 -63 -35
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 61 95 258
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.79% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.83% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 60 132
10th Percentile £61,500 £52,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.30% -8.62% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,625 £90,000
90th Percentile - £165,000 £128,575
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 19,598 11,387 17,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.65% 94.28% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,237 7,180 11,521
10th Percentile £40,825 £39,679 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,025 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -6 3 £68,000 +4.62% 7
South London - 2 - - 1
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 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.64%) JBoss
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.64%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) GitHub
2 15 (24.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 15 (24.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 11 (18.03%) AWS
3 11 (18.03%) Azure
4 8 (13.11%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Cloud Functions
5 7 (11.48%) Cloud Run
6 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.28%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.48%) MongoDB
2 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) MySQL
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) Redis
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) CircleCI
2 7 (11.48%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.28%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) TestRail
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) NUnit
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Marketing
3 12 (19.67%) Finance
4 10 (16.39%) Banking
5 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.20%) Law
7 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (3.28%) Front Office
8 2 (3.28%) Legal
8 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.64%) Advertising
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (62.30%) Developer
2 30 (49.18%) Senior
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Cloud Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Salesforce Developer
4 15 (24.59%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 10 (16.39%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) T24 Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (3.28%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Lead Tester
9 2 (3.28%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (39.34%) REST
2 16 (26.23%) SOAP
3 15 (24.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (19.67%) Kafka
5 9 (14.75%) Playwright
5 9 (14.75%) Spring
6 8 (13.11%) React
6 8 (13.11%) RESTful
7 7 (11.48%) .NET
7 7 (11.48%) Leaflet
7 7 (11.48%) Node.js
8 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
10 2 (3.28%) CSS
10 2 (3.28%) HTML
10 2 (3.28%) pytest
10 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.64%) HTML5
11 1 (1.64%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Blog
2 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.92%) Pricing Data
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.28%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Derivative
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Equities
4 1 (1.64%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) Agile
2 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 29 (47.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (32.79%) Sprint Planning
5 17 (27.87%) Clean Code
5 17 (27.87%) System Testing
6 15 (24.59%) Data Architecture
6 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (24.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (21.31%) DevOps
7 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
8 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
8 11 (18.03%) Scrum
9 10 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (16.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (14.75%) AI
10 9 (14.75%) Customer Experience
10 9 (14.75%) Data Science
10 9 (14.75%) OOP
10 9 (14.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) Java
2 15 (24.59%) Apex Code
2 15 (24.59%) SOQL
2 15 (24.59%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) C#
3 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.11%) Python
5 7 (11.48%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.56%) C++
7 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.28%) Rust
8 1 (1.64%) C
8 1 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.64%) ProC
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.20%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) GAAP
3 2 (3.28%) IFRS
3 2 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Podman
2 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) logstash
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Salesforce
2 7 (11.48%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) Temenos
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) IBM
6 2 (3.28%) Workday
6 2 (3.28%) YouTube
7 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow