TDD Job Trends in Durham

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 4 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.99% 1.86% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.20% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £35,233 - -
25th Percentile £46,269 £71,200 £37,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,850 £75,400 £40,001
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +88.50% -42.86%
75th Percentile £70,250 £79,600 £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +17.07% -18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 182 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 75.62% 84.65% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 54 57 132
10th Percentile £25,087 £33,081 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% +18.75%
75th Percentile £56,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,403 £79,600 £64,775
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Durham

TDD
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in Durham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in Durham

TDD
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 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
Peterlee 0 2 £49,625 -
TDD
North East

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Blazor
1 3 (75.00%) WebAssembly
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Delphi
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle