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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 256 276
Rank change year-on-year -68 +20 -101
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 78 139 240
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 1.08% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.12% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 52 108 175
10th Percentile £75,000 £49,140 £41,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £71,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.93% -15.63%
75th Percentile £110,313 £95,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.64% -2.57%

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 15,397 12,415 20,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.27% 96.23% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,084 7,585 15,993
10th Percentile £39,575 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -18 5 £125,000 +56.25% 8
East London - 1 - -
South 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 9 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (8.97%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.56%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.64%) GitHub
2 16 (20.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 16 (20.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 11 (14.10%) AWS
4 8 (10.26%) GCP
5 6 (7.69%) Cloud Run
6 5 (6.41%) Azure
7 4 (5.13%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.28%) Serverless
9 1 (1.28%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.38%) Multicast
2 4 (5.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.82%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.54%) DB2
5 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.85%) MySQL
7 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.28%) Power BI
8 1 (1.28%) Redis
8 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (30.77%) Git
2 12 (15.38%) JIRA
3 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.54%) Bitbucket
4 9 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 9 (11.54%) Selenium
4 9 (11.54%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.13%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.56%) webpack
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.28%) CMake
7 1 (1.28%) GitLab
7 1 (1.28%) JUnit
7 1 (1.28%) MLflow
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 32 (41.03%) Finance
2 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (28.21%) Banking
4 16 (20.51%) Front Office
4 16 (20.51%) Marketing
5 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (2.56%) Law
7 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Advertising
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (65.38%) Developer
2 28 (35.90%) Senior
3 16 (20.51%) Cloud Developer
3 16 (20.51%) Salesforce Developer
3 16 (20.51%) Senior Developer
3 16 (20.51%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 13 (16.67%) C++ Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Software Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Development Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Development Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.08%) REST
2 17 (21.79%) React
2 17 (21.79%) SOAP
3 16 (20.51%) Lightning Web Components
4 13 (16.67%) RESTful
5 12 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (14.10%) CSS
6 11 (14.10%) HTML
6 11 (14.10%) Node.js
7 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (11.54%) Gherkin
8 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.41%) Kafka
8 5 (6.41%) Playwright
9 4 (5.13%) .NET
9 4 (5.13%) Leaflet
10 3 (3.85%) CSS3
10 3 (3.85%) HTML5
10 3 (3.85%) Spring
11 2 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Product Ownership
2 13 (16.67%) Derivative
3 9 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (7.69%) Blog
5 4 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.56%) Genomics
7 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.28%) Equities
8 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.28%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.08%) Linux
2 12 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.97%) Agile
2 39 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (32.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
5 23 (29.49%) Test Automation
6 20 (25.64%) System Testing
7 19 (24.36%) Clean Code
7 19 (24.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (24.36%) Systems Analysis
8 18 (23.08%) Design Patterns
8 18 (23.08%) Scrum
9 17 (21.79%) Microservices
10 16 (20.51%) Data Architecture
10 16 (20.51%) Low Latency
10 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (16.67%) DevOps
11 13 (16.67%) Integration Testing
11 13 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.38%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Java
2 21 (26.92%) SQL
3 18 (23.08%) C++
4 17 (21.79%) JavaScript
5 16 (20.51%) Apex Code
5 16 (20.51%) SOQL
6 14 (17.95%) Python
7 7 (8.97%) C#
8 6 (7.69%) Kotlin
9 4 (5.13%) Rust
10 3 (3.85%) RPG
11 2 (2.56%) ABAP
11 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.28%) Groovy
12 1 (1.28%) Perl
12 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Degree
2 7 (8.97%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) GAAP
2 2 (2.56%) IFRS
2 2 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.28%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.28%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 14 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.13%) Podman
3 3 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (20.51%) Salesforce
2 12 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.97%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.97%) Google
4 6 (7.69%) Databricks
5 3 (3.85%) IBM
5 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.56%) SAP
6 2 (2.56%) Temenos
6 2 (2.56%) Workday
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe
7 1 (1.28%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.28%) Marketo
7 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle
7 1 (1.28%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow