TDD Job Trends in Bristol

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 56 68
Rank change year-on-year -43 +12 +4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 2 50 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.097% 3.61% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 4.06% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 35 59
10th Percentile £45,750 £44,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £60,000 £46,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,525 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% -1.33% +15.75%
75th Percentile £64,375 £76,250 £72,466
90th Percentile £66,250 £90,000 £86,387
South West median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

TDD 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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,323 1,233 1,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 63.97% 88.96% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 663 1,350
10th Percentile £28,925 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,075 £85,000 £88,875
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

TDD job vacancy trend in Bristol

TDD
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle