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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 211 236
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 -86
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 81 243 233
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 1.53% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.62% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 50 131 187
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £124,375 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £102,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12,201 14,961 16,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.55% 94.25% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,815 8,448 13,411
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 10 £125,000 +53.85% 13
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 11 (13.58%) Confluence
2 7 (8.64%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Shopify
2 2 (2.47%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.47%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) AWS
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 10 (12.35%) GitHub
3 9 (11.11%) GCP
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon S3
4 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.88%) Figma
4 8 (9.88%) Serverless
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (8.64%) Google Analytics
5 7 (8.64%) Vercel
6 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (4.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) Multicast
2 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.58%) DB2
4 8 (9.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.17%) MySQL
6 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.70%) Power BI
7 3 (3.70%) Redis
8 2 (2.47%) Big Data
8 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.23%) KDB
9 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.23%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.05%) JIRA
2 13 (16.05%) Selenium
3 12 (14.81%) Cucumber
4 11 (13.58%) Bitbucket
4 11 (13.58%) Git
4 11 (13.58%) TeamCity
5 7 (8.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.47%) GitLab
6 2 (2.47%) JMeter
6 2 (2.47%) JUnit
6 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.47%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.47%) webpack
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) MLflow
7 1 (1.23%) Sourcetree
7 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (37.04%) Finance
2 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.52%) Banking
4 13 (16.05%) Front Office
5 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.88%) Retail
7 6 (7.41%) Marketing
8 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.70%) Law
9 3 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.23%) Games
11 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (62.96%) Developer
2 23 (28.40%) Senior
3 15 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 14 (17.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (14.81%) C++ Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.58%) Senior Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Agile Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Development Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Software Development Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) CSS
1 26 (32.10%) HTML
1 26 (32.10%) React
1 26 (32.10%) RESTful
2 17 (20.99%) Node.js
3 13 (16.05%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (14.81%) GraphQL
5 11 (13.58%) .NET
5 11 (13.58%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (13.58%) Gherkin
6 9 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 9 (11.11%) Express.js
6 9 (11.11%) REST
7 8 (9.88%) Jest
7 8 (9.88%) SOAP
8 7 (8.64%) Next.js
8 7 (8.64%) Playwright
8 7 (8.64%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (8.64%) Vitest
9 6 (7.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Derivative
2 11 (13.58%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.64%) Blog
4 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.70%) Genomics
5 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.47%) CMDB
6 2 (2.47%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.47%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Life Science
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Linux
2 12 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (44.44%) Agile
2 30 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 29 (35.80%) Test Automation
4 23 (28.40%) Integration Testing
5 22 (27.16%) Design Patterns
6 21 (25.93%) Microservices
6 21 (25.93%) Systems Analysis
6 21 (25.93%) User Experience
7 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (23.46%) Sprint Planning
9 18 (22.22%) Analytics
9 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 16 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (19.75%) Machine Learning
10 16 (19.75%) Scrum
10 16 (19.75%) Sprint Retrospective
11 14 (17.28%) Low Latency
12 13 (16.05%) Concurrent Programming
12 13 (16.05%) DevOps
13 12 (14.81%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) Java
2 27 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 27 (33.33%) SQL
3 14 (17.28%) Python
4 13 (16.05%) C++
5 12 (14.81%) C#
6 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.64%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.94%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.94%) SOQL
9 3 (3.70%) RPG
10 2 (2.47%) ABAP
10 2 (2.47%) X++
11 1 (1.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Degree
2 12 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.94%) PhD
5 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.17%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (32.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.23%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.23%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Terraform
3 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.64%) Apple
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
5 4 (4.94%) Google
6 3 (3.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.47%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) Adobe
8 1 (1.23%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.23%) Foundry
8 1 (1.23%) Marketo
8 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.23%) Ping Identity