TDD Job Trends in the East of England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 162 140
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 -48
Permanent jobs citing TDD 31 16 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.42% 0.46% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.52% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 26
10th Percentile £49,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £67,813
90th Percentile £79,250 £83,000 £86,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,170 3,054 3,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.45% 87.73% 73.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 1,641 2,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the East of England

TDD
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the East of England

TDD
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Cambridgeshire -6 18 £67,500 - 4
Essex - 7 £100,000 - 4
Hertfordshire -26 6 £56,250 -6.25% 2
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 6 (19.35%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Bluetooth
1 9 (29.03%) Modbus
1 9 (29.03%) Profibus
1 9 (29.03%) RS-232
1 9 (29.03%) RS-485
1 9 (29.03%) Wireless
1 9 (29.03%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (19.35%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Moq
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) MLflow
3 1 (3.23%) Poetry
General
1 15 (48.39%) Electronics
1 15 (48.39%) Manufacturing
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (22.58%) Finance
5 7 (22.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (19.35%) Aerospace
6 6 (19.35%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Software Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) Senior
3 12 (38.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (35.48%) Developer
5 9 (29.03%) Embedded Engineer
5 9 (29.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 9 (29.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 9 (29.03%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 7 (22.58%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.45%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Software Test Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) .NET
2 13 (41.94%) .NET Framework
3 8 (25.81%) Node.js
4 7 (22.58%) .NET Core
4 7 (22.58%) ASP.NET
4 7 (22.58%) Entity Framework
5 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
5 6 (19.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (19.35%) Vue
5 6 (19.35%) XML
5 6 (19.35%) XSLT
6 3 (9.68%) CSS
6 3 (9.68%) HTML
7 2 (6.45%) NestJS
7 2 (6.45%) Next.js
7 2 (6.45%) React
8 1 (3.23%) Anaconda
8 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
8 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (19.35%) Acoustics
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) IoT
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Code
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Software Engineering
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
3 8 (25.81%) BDD
3 8 (25.81%) Microservices
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (19.35%) Asset Management
5 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
5 6 (19.35%) Fintech
5 6 (19.35%) Kanban
5 6 (19.35%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (19.35%) Multithreading
5 6 (19.35%) MVVM
5 6 (19.35%) Scrum
5 6 (19.35%) Wealth Management
6 5 (16.13%) Code Quality
6 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.90%) Clean Code
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) C++
1 16 (51.61%) SQL
2 15 (48.39%) C#
3 9 (29.03%) C
4 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
5 6 (19.35%) Python
5 6 (19.35%) XAML
6 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Haskell
7 1 (3.23%) OCaml
7 1 (3.23%) Rust
7 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Embedded Firmware
1 9 (29.03%) Firmware
2 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) RedGate