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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 228 239
Rank change year-on-year -89 +11 -54
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 72 226 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 1.46% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.53% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 47 121 189
10th Percentile £74,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £57,001 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £127,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -4.00%

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 12,903 14,738 18,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.09% 95.00% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,247 7,999 15,056
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,110 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.28% -8.00%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -9 9 £125,000 +66.67% 5
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 (15.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) GitHub
2 11 (15.28%) Azure
3 9 (12.50%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 8 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.17%) Cloud Run
6 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.78%) IaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.28%) DB2
4 3 (4.17%) MySQL
4 3 (4.17%) Power BI
4 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.39%) KDB
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.39%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
1 14 (19.44%) JIRA
2 13 (18.06%) Git
3 12 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 12 (16.67%) Selenium
4 11 (15.28%) Bitbucket
4 11 (15.28%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.78%) GitLab
5 2 (2.78%) webpack
6 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.39%) CMake
6 1 (1.39%) JMeter
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) MLflow
6 1 (1.39%) MSTest
6 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (40.28%) Finance
2 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.22%) Banking
4 13 (18.06%) Front Office
5 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (13.89%) Marketing
7 7 (9.72%) Retail
8 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.78%) Law
11 1 (1.39%) Games
11 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (59.72%) Developer
2 21 (29.17%) Senior
3 14 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 13 (18.06%) C++ Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Java Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Agile Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Software Development Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) React
2 16 (22.22%) CSS
2 16 (22.22%) HTML
3 14 (19.44%) RESTful
4 13 (18.06%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (15.28%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (15.28%) Gherkin
5 11 (15.28%) REST
5 11 (15.28%) SOAP
6 10 (13.89%) Node.js
7 8 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (8.33%) .NET
9 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
9 5 (6.94%) PyTorch
10 4 (5.56%) CSS3
10 4 (5.56%) HTML5
10 4 (5.56%) NumPy
10 4 (5.56%) Pandas
10 4 (5.56%) PySpark
10 4 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Derivative
2 11 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (9.72%) Blog
4 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.17%) Genomics
6 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.78%) Equities
7 2 (2.78%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.39%) CMDB
8 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) Agile
1 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (31.94%) Test Automation
3 22 (30.56%) Design Patterns
4 21 (29.17%) Systems Analysis
5 18 (25.00%) Microservices
6 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
7 16 (22.22%) Integration Testing
7 16 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 16 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
8 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.44%) Low Latency
9 14 (19.44%) Scrum
9 14 (19.44%) User Experience
10 13 (18.06%) Concurrent Programming
10 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (16.67%) Analytics
11 12 (16.67%) BDD
11 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Java
2 20 (27.78%) SQL
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (20.83%) Python
5 14 (19.44%) C++
6 8 (11.11%) Apex Code
6 8 (11.11%) SOQL
7 7 (9.72%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.94%) C#
9 3 (4.17%) RPG
9 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.78%) ABAP
11 1 (1.39%) Groovy
11 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Degree
2 12 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.56%) PhD
4 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) PSD2
3 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.39%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.39%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 9 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 9 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.56%) Databricks
3 4 (5.56%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) IBM
5 2 (2.78%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.78%) SAP
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.39%) Marketo
6 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow