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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 268 261
Rank change year-on-year -82 -7 -90
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 62 107 268
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.90% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.94% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42 80 167
10th Percentile £68,250 £49,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £91,250 £110,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £165,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 17,109 11,387 21,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.63% 96.06% 90.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,562 6,828 15,858
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,963 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £125,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -31 3 £68,000 -10.82% 6
South London - 2 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 1
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 4 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) GitHub
2 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 12 (19.35%) AWS
4 7 (11.29%) Cloud Functions
4 7 (11.29%) Cloud Run
4 7 (11.29%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) Azure
6 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Broadband
2 2 (3.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.29%) MongoDB
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.45%) DB2
5 3 (4.84%) MySQL
6 2 (3.23%) Redis
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (43.55%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) CircleCI
2 7 (11.29%) Cypress.io
2 7 (11.29%) JIRA
3 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) Selenium
3 4 (6.45%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.23%) TestRail
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.61%) CMake
5 1 (1.61%) JUnit
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 22 (35.48%) Marketing
2 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 19 (30.65%) Finance
4 17 (27.42%) Banking
5 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Front Office
6 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (3.23%) Law
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (69.35%) Developer
2 33 (53.23%) Senior
3 23 (37.10%) Senior Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Cloud Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Salesforce Developer
4 22 (35.48%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) C++ Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Lead
9 2 (3.23%) Development Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Development Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.71%) REST
2 23 (37.10%) SOAP
3 22 (35.48%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (19.35%) React
5 10 (16.13%) Node.js
6 9 (14.52%) Playwright
7 8 (12.90%) RESTful
8 7 (11.29%) Leaflet
9 6 (9.68%) Kafka
10 5 (8.06%) .NET
10 5 (8.06%) CSS
10 5 (8.06%) HTML
11 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
11 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (6.45%) Gherkin
12 2 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
13 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
13 1 (1.61%) J2EE
13 1 (1.61%) JSON
13 1 (1.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.84%) Derivative
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Blog
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Equities
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Unix
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (74.19%) Agile
2 44 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 34 (54.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (41.94%) Sprint Planning
4 26 (41.94%) System Testing
5 25 (40.32%) Clean Code
6 24 (38.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (35.48%) Data Architecture
8 16 (25.81%) Scrum
9 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
10 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (17.74%) Containerisation
12 11 (17.74%) Microservices
13 10 (16.13%) Kanban
13 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
13 10 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (14.52%) DevOps
15 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) Apex Code
1 22 (35.48%) SOQL
2 16 (25.81%) Java
3 15 (24.19%) SQL
4 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.52%) C++
5 9 (14.52%) Python
6 8 (12.90%) C#
7 4 (6.45%) Rust
8 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.61%) Groovy
10 1 (1.61%) Perl
10 1 (1.61%) RPG
10 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) GAAP
3 2 (3.23%) IFRS
3 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.61%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.61%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) Podman
3 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Salesforce
2 7 (11.29%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.23%) Temenos
5 2 (3.23%) Workday
6 1 (1.61%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow