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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 280 274
Rank change year-on-year -62 -6 -98
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 72 117 253
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.93% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.96% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 47 93 165
10th Percentile £72,000 £50,000 £39,750
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% -9.68%
75th Percentile £105,625 £108,418 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £162,000 £103,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.17% +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 16,586 12,149 21,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.78% 96.08% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,138 7,429 15,994
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,464 £37,580
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £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 11 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 11 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 -30 3 £68,000 -6.21% 5
South London - 2 - -
East London - 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 7 (9.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.39%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.39%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) GitHub
2 21 (29.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 21 (29.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 14 (19.44%) AWS
4 7 (9.72%) Cloud Functions
4 7 (9.72%) Cloud Run
4 7 (9.72%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) Azure
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) Broadband
2 6 (8.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.72%) DB2
4 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (36.11%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) JIRA
3 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.72%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.72%) CircleCI
4 7 (9.72%) Cucumber
4 7 (9.72%) Cypress.io
4 7 (9.72%) Selenium
4 7 (9.72%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.78%) TestRail
5 2 (2.78%) webpack
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.39%) CMake
6 1 (1.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (34.72%) Finance
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.17%) Banking
2 21 (29.17%) Marketing
3 10 (13.89%) Front Office
4 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Cantonese Language
6 2 (2.78%) Law
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (68.06%) Developer
2 33 (45.83%) Senior
3 21 (29.17%) Cloud Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Salesforce Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Senior Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) C++ Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Development Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Development Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Software Development Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.94%) REST
2 22 (30.56%) SOAP
3 21 (29.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (20.83%) React
5 12 (16.67%) Node.js
6 10 (13.89%) RESTful
7 9 (12.50%) Playwright
8 8 (11.11%) CSS
8 8 (11.11%) HTML
9 7 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (9.72%) Gherkin
9 7 (9.72%) Leaflet
10 6 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (6.94%) Kafka
12 4 (5.56%) .NET
13 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
14 2 (2.78%) CSS3
14 2 (2.78%) HTML5
14 2 (2.78%) Sass
14 2 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.72%) Derivative
2 7 (9.72%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.94%) Blog
4 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Equities
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (65.28%) Agile
2 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
5 25 (34.72%) Clean Code
5 25 (34.72%) System Testing
6 24 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (29.17%) Data Architecture
8 19 (26.39%) Scrum
9 18 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (19.44%) Design Patterns
12 13 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (18.06%) Microservices
13 12 (16.67%) Kanban
14 11 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (15.28%) Low Latency
14 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
14 11 (15.28%) Systems Analysis
15 10 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Java
2 21 (29.17%) Apex Code
2 21 (29.17%) SOQL
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.06%) C++
6 10 (13.89%) Python
7 7 (9.72%) C#
8 6 (8.33%) Kotlin
9 4 (5.56%) Rust
10 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.78%) RPG
10 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.39%) ABAP
11 1 (1.39%) Groovy
11 1 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) GAAP
3 2 (2.78%) IFRS
3 2 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.39%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.39%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Podman
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Salesforce
2 7 (9.72%) Google
3 6 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.94%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.56%) Databricks
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.78%) IBM
7 2 (2.78%) Temenos
7 2 (2.78%) Workday
8 1 (1.39%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle
8 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.39%) SAP
8 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow