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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 278 255
Rank change year-on-year -94 -23 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 58 119 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.97% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.02% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 36 81 134
10th Percentile £61,875 £51,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £73,125 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -6.90% -6.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £88,438
90th Percentile - £165,000 £111,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 18,699 11,616 18,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.51% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12,758 7,347 13,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -17 3 £68,000 -6.21% 6
South London - 2 - - 1
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 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) GitHub
2 19 (32.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 19 (32.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 9 (15.52%) Azure
5 8 (13.79%) GCP
6 7 (12.07%) Cloud Functions
6 7 (12.07%) Cloud Run
7 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.72%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.72%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) NoSQL
2 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) Redis
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (41.38%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) CircleCI
2 7 (12.07%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) TestRail
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) NUnit
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (34.48%) Marketing
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Banking
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Front Office
6 4 (6.90%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (68.97%) Developer
2 28 (48.28%) Senior
3 21 (36.21%) Senior Developer
4 19 (32.76%) Cloud Developer
4 19 (32.76%) Salesforce Developer
4 19 (32.76%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) T24 Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Senior QA Tester
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.45%) Systems Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.83%) REST
2 20 (34.48%) SOAP
3 19 (32.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (15.52%) Kafka
4 9 (15.52%) Playwright
5 8 (13.79%) React
6 7 (12.07%) .NET
6 7 (12.07%) Leaflet
6 7 (12.07%) Node.js
6 7 (12.07%) RESTful
7 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.45%) pytest
8 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.45%) Spring
9 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.72%) HTML
9 1 (1.72%) JSON
9 1 (1.72%) STL
9 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Derivative
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Equities
4 1 (1.72%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) Agile
2 39 (67.24%) CI/CD
3 33 (56.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (39.66%) System Testing
5 22 (37.93%) Sprint Planning
6 21 (36.21%) Clean Code
7 20 (34.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (32.76%) Data Architecture
9 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
10 12 (20.69%) DevOps
11 11 (18.97%) Scrum
11 11 (18.97%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (15.52%) OOP
12 9 (15.52%) TDD
13 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
13 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
14 7 (12.07%) Kanban
14 7 (12.07%) OO
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Apex Code
1 19 (32.76%) SOQL
2 15 (25.86%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) C#
3 12 (20.69%) Java
4 10 (17.24%) Python
5 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) C++
7 4 (6.90%) Rust
8 2 (3.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.72%) Perl
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) GAAP
3 2 (3.45%) IFRS
3 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Podman
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Kibana
4 1 (1.72%) logstash
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Salesforce
2 7 (12.07%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) Temenos
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) Workday
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow