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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 299 215
Rank change year-on-year -72 -84 -8
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 61 85 294
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.72% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.76% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34 51 130
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -4.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £117,500 £96,563
90th Percentile - £165,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 19,982 11,150 16,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.70% 94.13% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13,628 7,041 10,487
10th Percentile £41,125 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -0.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 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 15 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 -15 4 £68,000 -35.24% 20
South London - 1 - - 4
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 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle 10gAS
3 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 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) GitHub
3 12 (19.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 12 (19.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 10 (16.39%) AWS
5 8 (13.11%) Power Automate
5 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) PowerApps
7 4 (6.56%) GCP
7 4 (6.56%) Serverless
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.92%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.92%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (4.92%) Cloud Run
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.20%) Power BI
4 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.28%) MySQL
6 2 (3.28%) Redis
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) CircleCI
2 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) TestRail
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
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 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Marketing
3 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Finance
4 7 (11.48%) Banking
5 6 (9.84%) Law
6 2 (3.28%) Cantonese Language
6 2 (3.28%) Legal
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Advertising
7 1 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (60.66%) Developer
2 29 (47.54%) Senior
3 16 (26.23%) Senior Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Cloud Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Salesforce Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Applications Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) T24 Developer
9 3 (4.92%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Automation Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Power Platform Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Angular Developer
10 2 (3.28%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Lead Tester
10 2 (3.28%) QA Leader
10 2 (3.28%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (39.34%) REST
2 14 (22.95%) SOAP
3 12 (19.67%) Kafka
3 12 (19.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 12 (19.67%) Spring
4 11 (18.03%) .NET
4 11 (18.03%) RESTful
5 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.20%) Playwright
6 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.56%) CSS
7 4 (6.56%) HTML
7 4 (6.56%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) React
7 4 (6.56%) Terraform
8 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.92%) HTML5
8 3 (4.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.92%) Blog
4 3 (4.92%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.92%) Pricing Data
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Derivative
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Equities
6 1 (1.64%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Android
1 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Agile
2 32 (52.46%) CI/CD
3 23 (37.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (29.51%) Sprint Planning
5 17 (27.87%) DevOps
6 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
7 14 (22.95%) AI
7 14 (22.95%) Clean Code
8 13 (21.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (19.67%) Data Architecture
9 12 (19.67%) System Testing
10 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
11 10 (16.39%) Customer Experience
11 10 (16.39%) Integration Testing
11 10 (16.39%) Scrum
12 9 (14.75%) Data Science
12 9 (14.75%) Observability
12 9 (14.75%) Validation
13 8 (13.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Java
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 12 (19.67%) Apex Code
3 12 (19.67%) SOQL
4 11 (18.03%) C#
5 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.48%) Kotlin
6 7 (11.48%) Python
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.28%) VBA
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.64%) ProC
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.20%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Basel III
3 1 (1.64%) GAAP
3 1 (1.64%) IFRS
3 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Podman
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) logstash
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Temenos
4 3 (4.92%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) IBM
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) YouTube
6 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Workday