TDD Job Trends in Chester

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs citing TDD 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 3.62% 1.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 1.94% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £52,775 - -
25th Percentile £55,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £75,250 - -
90th Percentile £75,700 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £70,000 - £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 120 103 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 86.96% 67.76% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 72 70
10th Percentile £30,350 £35,000 £32,083
25th Percentile £48,720 £37,500 £39,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +30.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,484 £67,393
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £48,979 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.11% -5.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Chester

TDD
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in Chester over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in Chester

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Solace