TDD Job Trends in England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 207 142
Rank change year-on-year -111 -65 -44
Permanent jobs citing TDD 569 673 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.55% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.75% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 405 361 842
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £42,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,249 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,131 38,549 56,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.32% 88.64% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52,091 22,224 32,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

TDD job vacancy trend in England

TDD
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in England

TDD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
North of England -10 187 £65,000 -5.45% 54
London -166 153 £84,000 +12.00% 151
South East -21 113 £60,000 -7.69% 32
North West -13 108 £65,000 - 27
Midlands -87 47 £62,500 -1.96% 20
North East -21 45 £55,500 +5.71% 15
West Midlands -47 42 £60,000 -6.25% 13
South West -66 39 £63,500 +1.60% 24
Yorkshire -32 34 £69,305 -0.99% 13
East of England -14 28 £67,500 -20.59% 16
East Midlands -55 5 £65,000 +8.33% 7
TDD
UK

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.76%) Confluence
2 9 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.23%) Apache
3 7 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.70%) CMS
4 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.53%) DNN
5 3 (0.53%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.53%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Kentico
5 3 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 305 (53.60%) AWS
2 238 (41.83%) Azure
3 115 (20.21%) GitHub
4 86 (15.11%) Serverless
5 71 (12.48%) GitHub Copilot
6 58 (10.19%) GCP
7 45 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (5.10%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.69%) SaaS
13 17 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.46%) Azure AI
15 14 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (1.93%) Firebase
18 10 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.57%) HTTP
2 10 (1.76%) Wireless
3 9 (1.58%) Bluetooth
3 9 (1.58%) Modbus
3 9 (1.58%) Profibus
3 9 (1.58%) RS-232
3 9 (1.58%) RS-485
3 9 (1.58%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (20.39%) MongoDB
2 77 (13.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (12.13%) Elasticsearch
4 55 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (7.38%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.03%) MySQL
7 32 (5.62%) Relational Database
8 30 (5.27%) SQL Server
9 21 (3.69%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.58%) Redis
12 5 (0.88%) Big Data
12 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.53%) KDB
14 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 100 (17.57%) Git
2 51 (8.96%) JUnit
3 46 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 32 (5.62%) Mockito
5 29 (5.10%) Maven
6 26 (4.57%) GitLab
7 17 (2.99%) JIRA
8 15 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 14 (2.46%) Postman
9 14 (2.46%) Selenium
10 11 (1.93%) fastlane
11 9 (1.58%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.58%) JMeter
11 9 (1.58%) Spock
12 8 (1.41%) Android Studio
12 8 (1.41%) Gatling
13 7 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.23%) Gradle
14 6 (1.05%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.05%) Moq
General
1 160 (28.12%) Finance
2 86 (15.11%) Social Skills
3 74 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 44 (7.73%) Banking
5 33 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (4.22%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.99%) Advertising
9 15 (2.64%) Electronics
10 13 (2.28%) Legal
10 13 (2.28%) Marketing
11 10 (1.76%) Retail
12 9 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.41%) Publishing
14 6 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.05%) Automotive
14 6 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Local Government
15 5 (0.88%) Front Office
15 5 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 282 (49.56%) Developer
2 184 (32.34%) Senior
3 139 (24.43%) Software Engineer
4 107 (18.80%) Lead
5 98 (17.22%) Senior Developer
6 92 (16.17%) .NET Developer
7 61 (10.72%) Lead Software Engineer
8 58 (10.19%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (5.62%) Development Engineer
11 32 (5.62%) Software Development Engineer
12 29 (5.10%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.75%) Java Engineer
14 26 (4.57%) Backend Developer
15 25 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (3.87%) Senior Java Developer
17 17 (2.99%) C# Software Engineer
17 17 (2.99%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.99%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (28.47%) .NET
2 129 (22.67%) Node.js
3 121 (21.27%) React
4 107 (18.80%) Spring
5 103 (18.10%) AngularJS
6 95 (16.70%) REST
7 84 (14.76%) .NET Core
8 80 (14.06%) ASP.NET
9 76 (13.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 74 (13.01%) Spring Boot
11 71 (12.48%) RESTful
12 68 (11.95%) Vue
13 64 (11.25%) HTML
14 62 (10.90%) Terraform
15 61 (10.72%) CSS
16 52 (9.14%) .NET Framework
17 39 (6.85%) Kafka
18 33 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
19 27 (4.75%) Entity Framework
20 22 (3.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 46 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.62%) Cloud Native
5 32 (5.62%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.93%) Blog
9 10 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.05%) Acoustics
11 6 (1.05%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.88%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.39%) Android
1 25 (4.39%) Linux
2 13 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.58%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (1.23%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (69.42%) Agile
2 262 (46.05%) CI/CD
3 221 (38.84%) Software Engineering
4 218 (38.31%) Microservices
5 182 (31.99%) BDD
6 180 (31.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 179 (31.46%) Scrum
8 147 (25.83%) Test Automation
9 141 (24.78%) Mentoring
10 133 (23.37%) DevOps
11 123 (21.62%) AI
12 112 (19.68%) Kanban
13 99 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (15.47%) Technical Leadership
15 86 (15.11%) Coaching
16 76 (13.36%) Clean Code
17 71 (12.48%) Code Quality
18 70 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (12.30%) OO
19 65 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 237 (41.65%) Java
2 177 (31.11%) C#
3 176 (30.93%) SQL
4 163 (28.65%) JavaScript
5 135 (23.73%) TypeScript
6 114 (20.04%) Python
7 29 (5.10%) C++
8 28 (4.92%) Kotlin
9 26 (4.57%) PHP
10 19 (3.34%) PL/SQL
10 19 (3.34%) Scala
11 15 (2.64%) Bash
11 15 (2.64%) C
12 11 (1.93%) Swift
13 10 (1.76%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.58%) Go
14 9 (1.58%) Ruby
14 9 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.05%) Groovy
15 6 (1.05%) XAML
Qualifications
1 77 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.44%) Degree
4 19 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.70%) PhD
8 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ISEB
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.91%) QA
2 41 (7.21%) Accessibility
3 31 (5.45%) WCAG
4 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.53%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) GRC
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 184 (32.34%) Docker
2 10 (1.76%) Firmware
3 9 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 161 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.64%) Ansible
3 12 (2.11%) Kibana
4 6 (1.05%) Grafana
5 5 (0.88%) Packer
5 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.18%) logstash
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.27%) Oracle
3 21 (3.69%) Splunk
4 18 (3.16%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.64%) Google
6 11 (1.93%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.58%) Adobe
8 8 (1.41%) IBM
9 6 (1.05%) Apple
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.70%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.53%) Alterian
12 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.53%) Databricks
12 3 (0.53%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.53%) Pega
12 3 (0.53%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.35%) Facebook
13 2 (0.35%) WSO2
13 2 (0.35%) YouTube