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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 230 249
Rank change year-on-year -91 +19 -67
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 71 198 239
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 1.36% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.42% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 49 117 182
10th Percentile £74,500 £49,656 £45,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +11.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £88,438
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,500 £107,250
England median annual salary £66,508 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.41% +4.17% -1.64%

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 13,824 13,919 19,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.01% 95.81% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,922 7,771 15,698
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,881 £39,231
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 February 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 February 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 -20 6 £125,000 +53.85% 8
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 (15.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (12.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.82%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.82%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) GitHub
2 11 (15.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 11 (15.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Azure
4 5 (7.04%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Run
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.49%) DB2
4 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.41%) Big Data
6 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) KDB
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Git
2 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.90%) Cucumber
3 12 (16.90%) JIRA
3 12 (16.90%) Selenium
4 11 (15.49%) Bitbucket
4 11 (15.49%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.82%) JUnit
5 2 (2.82%) webpack
6 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.41%) CMake
6 1 (1.41%) GitLab
6 1 (1.41%) JMeter
6 1 (1.41%) MLflow
6 1 (1.41%) MSTest
6 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (42.25%) Finance
2 18 (25.35%) Banking
2 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Front Office
4 12 (16.90%) Marketing
5 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.23%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Law
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (63.38%) Developer
2 21 (29.58%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) C++ Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Software Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Java Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Cloud Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Salesforce Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 9 (12.68%) Java Engineer
6 9 (12.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Agile Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) React
2 14 (19.72%) CSS
2 14 (19.72%) HTML
2 14 (19.72%) RESTful
3 13 (18.31%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (16.90%) REST
5 11 (15.49%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (15.49%) Gherkin
5 11 (15.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (15.49%) SOAP
6 9 (12.68%) Node.js
7 6 (8.45%) Kafka
8 5 (7.04%) .NET
9 4 (5.63%) CSS3
9 4 (5.63%) HTML5
10 3 (4.23%) .NET Core
10 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.23%) pytest
11 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
11 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Derivative
2 11 (15.49%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (15.49%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.86%) Blog
4 5 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.23%) Genomics
6 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Equities
8 1 (1.41%) Life Science
8 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.94%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.11%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 26 (36.62%) Test Automation
4 21 (29.58%) Design Patterns
4 21 (29.58%) Sprint Planning
4 21 (29.58%) Systems Analysis
5 18 (25.35%) Microservices
6 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.54%) Low Latency
6 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
7 15 (21.13%) Integration Testing
8 14 (19.72%) Clean Code
8 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (19.72%) System Testing
8 14 (19.72%) User Experience
9 13 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (18.31%) Scrum
10 12 (16.90%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (16.90%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Java
2 18 (25.35%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) C++
4 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) Python
6 11 (15.49%) Apex Code
6 11 (15.49%) SOQL
7 7 (9.86%) C#
7 7 (9.86%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.23%) RPG
8 3 (4.23%) Rust
9 2 (2.82%) ABAP
9 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.41%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.41%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.41%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Red Hat
1 12 (16.90%) Salesforce
2 9 (12.68%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.45%) Databricks
4 4 (5.63%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Adobe
7 1 (1.41%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.41%) Marketo
7 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity