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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 195 209
Rank change year-on-year -105 +14 -64
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 85 278 298
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 1.60% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.78% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 132 243
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £61,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,000 £76,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.96% +18.08% -18.75%
75th Percentile £125,000 £98,125 £89,926
90th Percentile £167,000 £130,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11,409 15,655 18,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.79% 90.07% 93.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,328 9,287 14,730
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -1 14 £125,000 +38.89% 85
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 8 (9.41%) Headless CMS
2 6 (7.06%) Confluence
3 4 (4.71%) CMS
4 2 (2.35%) Apache
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.18%) nginx
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Shopify
2 4 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) Magento
3 1 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.94%) Azure
2 21 (24.71%) AWS
3 13 (15.29%) GCP
4 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.76%) Serverless
5 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.59%) GitHub
6 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (9.41%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (9.41%) Figma
6 8 (9.41%) Google Analytics
6 8 (9.41%) Vercel
7 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.88%) SaaS
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.53%) IaaS
10 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) Multicast
2 4 (4.71%) DNS
2 4 (4.71%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.47%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.06%) MySQL
4 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.71%) Redis
5 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.53%) DB2
6 3 (3.53%) Power BI
7 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.35%) Big Data
7 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.18%) KDB
8 1 (1.18%) Metadata
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) JIRA
2 15 (17.65%) Git
3 11 (12.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.41%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.06%) JUnit
6 5 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (5.88%) Selenium
6 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.71%) Spinnaker
7 4 (4.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (4.71%) YouTrack
8 3 (3.53%) eCATT
8 3 (3.53%) SpecFlow
8 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.35%) JMeter
9 2 (2.35%) MLflow
9 2 (2.35%) MSTest
9 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (36.47%) Finance
2 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Banking
4 11 (12.94%) Front Office
4 11 (12.94%) Law
4 11 (12.94%) Marketing
5 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.24%) Manufacturing
7 6 (7.06%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.06%) Retail
8 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Back Office
11 1 (1.18%) Games
11 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (60.00%) Developer
2 26 (30.59%) Senior
3 17 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 16 (18.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (18.82%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Lead
6 9 (10.59%) .NET Developer
6 9 (10.59%) C++ Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior C++ Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.59%) CSS
2 25 (29.41%) HTML
3 24 (28.24%) RESTful
4 23 (27.06%) .NET
4 23 (27.06%) React
5 14 (16.47%) GraphQL
6 12 (14.12%) .NET Core
6 12 (14.12%) Node.js
7 11 (12.94%) .NET Framework
7 11 (12.94%) REST
8 10 (11.76%) Express.js
8 10 (11.76%) Playwright
9 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
9 9 (10.59%) Jest
10 8 (9.41%) Entity Framework
10 8 (9.41%) Kafka
10 8 (9.41%) Next.js
10 8 (9.41%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (9.41%) Vitest
10 8 (9.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (9.41%) Derivative
3 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.53%) Genomics
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Blog
6 2 (2.35%) CMDB
6 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Android
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Agile
2 31 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 25 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 23 (27.06%) Software Engineering
5 19 (22.35%) Integration Testing
5 19 (22.35%) Microservices
6 18 (21.18%) Analytics
7 17 (20.00%) DevOps
7 17 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (18.82%) Containerisation
9 15 (17.65%) User Experience
10 14 (16.47%) Code Quality
10 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (16.47%) Scrum
11 12 (14.12%) Clean Code
11 12 (14.12%) Design Patterns
11 12 (14.12%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.12%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (14.12%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) JavaScript
2 25 (29.41%) SQL
3 24 (28.24%) C#
4 18 (21.18%) Python
5 15 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.47%) Java
7 9 (10.59%) C++
8 4 (4.71%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.35%) SOQL
9 2 (2.35%) X++
10 1 (1.18%) ABAP
10 1 (1.18%) Groovy
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
10 1 (1.18%) RPG
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.71%) PhD
5 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) QA
2 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) PSD2
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (25.88%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.59%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 4 (4.71%) Puppet
3 4 (4.71%) Salt
4 1 (1.18%) Kibana
4 1 (1.18%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Apple
2 8 (9.41%) Google
3 5 (5.88%) Databricks
3 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.71%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.71%) SAP
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.35%) Oracle
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Sybase
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.18%) Foundry
7 1 (1.18%) IBM
7 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Xamarin