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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 208 231
Rank change year-on-year -92 +23 -77
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 82 241 235
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 1.50% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.60% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 50 131 188
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £76,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.87% +16.92% -18.75%
75th Percentile £124,375 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £135,000 £98,250
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 12,099 15,092 16,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.97% 94.23% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,740 8,580 13,135
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,725 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £117,500
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 24 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 24 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 11 £125,000 +56.25% 15
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 (13.41%) Confluence
2 8 (9.76%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.66%) CMS
4 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Shopify
2 2 (2.44%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.44%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) AWS
2 16 (19.51%) Azure
3 10 (12.20%) Amazon S3
4 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.98%) Figma
4 9 (10.98%) GCP
4 9 (10.98%) GitHub
4 9 (10.98%) Serverless
5 8 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (9.76%) Google Analytics
5 8 (9.76%) Vercel
6 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.66%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.63%) Multicast
2 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.41%) DB2
4 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.10%) MySQL
6 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.66%) Power BI
7 3 (3.66%) Redis
8 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.22%) KDB
9 1 (1.22%) Metadata
9 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.85%) JIRA
2 13 (15.85%) Selenium
3 12 (14.63%) Cucumber
4 11 (13.41%) Bitbucket
4 11 (13.41%) Git
4 11 (13.41%) TeamCity
5 8 (9.76%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.66%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.66%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.44%) GitLab
7 2 (2.44%) JMeter
7 2 (2.44%) JUnit
7 2 (2.44%) MLflow
7 2 (2.44%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.44%) webpack
8 1 (1.22%) CMake
8 1 (1.22%) MSTest
8 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (37.80%) Finance
2 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.29%) Banking
4 13 (15.85%) Front Office
5 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.76%) Retail
7 5 (6.10%) Marketing
8 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.66%) Law
9 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.22%) Games
11 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (63.41%) Developer
2 23 (28.05%) Senior
3 16 (19.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (18.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) C++ Developer
5 12 (14.63%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.41%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.98%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Agile Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Development Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Software Development Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (34.15%) CSS
1 28 (34.15%) HTML
1 28 (34.15%) RESTful
2 27 (32.93%) React
3 18 (21.95%) Node.js
4 14 (17.07%) GraphQL
5 13 (15.85%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (14.63%) .NET
7 11 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (13.41%) Gherkin
8 10 (12.20%) .NET Core
8 10 (12.20%) Express.js
9 9 (10.98%) Jest
10 8 (9.76%) Next.js
10 8 (9.76%) Playwright
10 8 (9.76%) REST
10 8 (9.76%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (9.76%) Vitest
11 7 (8.54%) SOAP
12 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Derivative
2 11 (13.41%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.54%) Blog
4 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.66%) Genomics
5 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) CMDB
6 2 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Equities
7 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.22%) Life Science
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.85%) Linux
2 12 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Agile
2 31 (37.80%) CI/CD
3 30 (36.59%) Test Automation
4 23 (28.05%) Integration Testing
5 22 (26.83%) Design Patterns
5 22 (26.83%) Microservices
5 22 (26.83%) User Experience
6 21 (25.61%) Systems Analysis
7 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (23.17%) Analytics
8 19 (23.17%) Sprint Planning
9 18 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (21.95%) Software Engineering
10 17 (20.73%) Machine Learning
10 17 (20.73%) Scrum
10 17 (20.73%) Sprint Retrospective
11 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
11 14 (17.07%) Low Latency
12 13 (15.85%) Concurrent Programming
12 13 (15.85%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.37%) JavaScript
1 29 (35.37%) SQL
2 27 (32.93%) Java
3 15 (18.29%) Python
4 13 (15.85%) C#
4 13 (15.85%) C++
5 12 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.54%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.66%) Apex Code
7 3 (3.66%) RPG
7 3 (3.66%) SOQL
8 2 (2.44%) ABAP
8 2 (2.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.88%) PhD
5 2 (2.44%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.32%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (34.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.98%) Atlassian
3 8 (9.76%) Apple
3 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.10%) Databricks
5 4 (4.88%) Google
5 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.66%) IBM
7 2 (2.44%) SAP
7 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe
8 1 (1.22%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.22%) Foundry
8 1 (1.22%) Marketo
8 1 (1.22%) OpenAI