TDD Job Trends in London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 146 106
Rank change year-on-year -87 -40 -46
Permanent jobs citing TDD 177 330 658
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.91% 2.55% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 2.66% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 104 229 527
10th Percentile £58,688 £60,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £64,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £137,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +11.57% -16.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,162 12,417 21,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.30% 96.06% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,596 7,558 16,043
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

TDD job vacancy trend in London

TDD
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in London

TDD
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Central London -22 16 £80,000 -3.03% 20
South London -22 12 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London - 7 - - 2
East London -12 2 - - 3
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (3.95%) Confluence
2 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.33%) AWS
2 49 (27.68%) Azure
3 26 (14.69%) Serverless
4 22 (12.43%) Amazon S3
4 22 (12.43%) GCP
5 15 (8.47%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.21%) GitHub
7 7 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.95%) SaaS
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.69%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.17%) Broadband
2 7 (3.95%) HTTP
3 2 (1.13%) Multicast
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.34%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.78%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.95%) Redis
5 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.82%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) DB2
10 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (13.56%) Git
1 24 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.17%) TeamCity
3 9 (5.08%) JIRA
4 7 (3.95%) JUnit
5 6 (3.39%) Selenium
6 4 (2.26%) Storybook
7 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.69%) JMeter
8 2 (1.13%) Mockito
8 2 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.13%) TestRail
8 2 (1.13%) Vite
8 2 (1.13%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.56%) GitLab
9 1 (0.56%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (30.51%) Banking
2 50 (28.25%) Finance
3 41 (23.16%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.56%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Health Technology
5 14 (7.91%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Publishing
5 14 (7.91%) Tech for Good
6 12 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.78%) Retail
7 11 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.52%) Retail Banking
9 7 (3.95%) Front Office
10 6 (3.39%) Legal
10 6 (3.39%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.82%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.26%) Back Office
12 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (40.11%) Developer
2 55 (31.07%) Senior
3 53 (29.94%) Lead
4 32 (18.08%) Software Engineer
5 21 (11.86%) Lead Developer
6 18 (10.17%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) Python Developer
7 17 (9.60%) Development Engineer
7 17 (9.60%) Senior Developer
7 17 (9.60%) Software Development Engineer
8 16 (9.04%) React Developer
9 14 (7.91%) Android Engineer
9 14 (7.91%) AWS Developer
9 14 (7.91%) Lead Python Developer
9 14 (7.91%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (6.21%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.21%) Java Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.56%) .NET
2 23 (12.99%) Kafka
2 23 (12.99%) React
2 23 (12.99%) RESTful
3 22 (12.43%) Akka
4 20 (11.30%) Spring
5 17 (9.60%) Node.js
6 16 (9.04%) Android Jetpack
6 16 (9.04%) Jetpack Compose
7 15 (8.47%) REST
8 14 (7.91%) Spring Boot
9 12 (6.78%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.52%) HTML
10 8 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.52%) Vue
11 7 (3.95%) CSS
11 7 (3.95%) Playwright
12 6 (3.39%) CSS3
12 6 (3.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.43%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.17%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (9.60%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (8.47%) Cloud Native
6 14 (7.91%) Mobile Banking
7 12 (6.78%) Mobile App
8 9 (5.08%) Data Structures
8 9 (5.08%) Public Cloud
9 8 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (3.95%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.82%) Mobile Payment
12 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.13%) Reinsurance
13 2 (1.13%) SIMD
14 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.86%) Android
2 9 (5.08%) Linux
3 6 (3.39%) Unix
4 5 (2.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (72.88%) Agile
2 90 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 51 (28.81%) DevOps
3 51 (28.81%) Microservices
4 50 (28.25%) Scrum
4 50 (28.25%) Software Engineering
5 43 (24.29%) Pair Programming
6 42 (23.73%) BDD
6 42 (23.73%) Roadmaps
7 41 (23.16%) Mentoring
7 41 (23.16%) Test Automation
8 33 (18.64%) Acceptance Criteria
8 33 (18.64%) Kanban
9 31 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.82%) Open Source
12 26 (14.69%) Code Quality
12 26 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.81%) Java
2 48 (27.12%) Python
3 32 (18.08%) JavaScript
4 29 (16.38%) C#
5 23 (12.99%) Scala
5 23 (12.99%) SQL
6 22 (12.43%) Kotlin
6 22 (12.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.39%) Rust
8 4 (2.26%) C++
8 4 (2.26%) PHP
8 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.26%) VBA
9 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.13%) Ruby
10 2 (1.13%) Swift
11 1 (0.56%) Delphi
11 1 (0.56%) F#
11 1 (0.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 12 (6.78%) Degree
2 11 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.13%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) ISEB
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.12%) QA
2 5 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.13%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (24.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.13%) Ansible
3 2 (1.13%) Kibana
3 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.82%) Databricks
2 5 (2.82%) Google
3 4 (2.26%) Blue Prism
3 4 (2.26%) Pega
4 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle
5 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.13%) SendGrid
5 2 (1.13%) Splunk
6 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.56%) IBM
6 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Talend