TDD Job Trends in the Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 194 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 -82 +11
Permanent jobs citing TDD 51 70 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.88% 0.80% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.97% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 29 34 112
10th Percentile £45,750 £40,125 £32,875
25th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,232 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +18.60% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,600 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £84,989 £77,500
England median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% -3.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,797 7,233 4,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.76% 82.37% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 3,169 3,628
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the Midlands

TDD
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in the Midlands

TDD
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
West Midlands +41 46 £65,000 -0.71% 32
East Midlands +18 5 £55,200 -8.00% 18
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) NServiceBus
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) Azure
2 25 (49.02%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) Serverless
5 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (13.73%) PowerApps
6 6 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 5 (9.80%) GitHub
7 5 (9.80%) OpenShift
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (7.84%) AWS KMS
8 4 (7.84%) Route 53
9 3 (5.88%) SaaS
10 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.92%) GCP
10 2 (3.92%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.84%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) Data Hub
5 2 (3.92%) SQL CLR
6 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.96%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) JUnit
2 12 (23.53%) Git
3 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (19.61%) Mockito
5 8 (15.69%) Maven
6 7 (13.73%) GitLab
7 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
8 5 (9.80%) Selenium
9 4 (7.84%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (7.84%) Cucumber
9 4 (7.84%) DbUnit
9 4 (7.84%) jMock
10 3 (5.88%) JIRA
11 2 (3.92%) JMeter
12 1 (1.96%) Gatling
12 1 (1.96%) NUnit
12 1 (1.96%) Postman
General
1 18 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Back Office
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
4 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Legal
4 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (64.71%) Developer
2 19 (37.25%) Senior
3 16 (31.37%) Java Developer
4 14 (27.45%) Senior Developer
5 7 (13.73%) .NET Developer
5 7 (13.73%) C# Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Applications Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Automation Developer
7 5 (9.80%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (9.80%) CRM Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Lead
7 5 (9.80%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Power Apps Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (43.14%) Spring
2 19 (37.25%) .NET
3 15 (29.41%) Spring Boot
4 10 (19.61%) REST
5 9 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 9 (17.65%) React
6 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (13.73%) Hibernate
7 7 (13.73%) RESTful
7 7 (13.73%) Web Services
8 6 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
9 4 (7.84%) Bootstrap
9 4 (7.84%) JPA
9 4 (7.84%) PowerMock
9 4 (7.84%) SOAP
9 4 (7.84%) Spring Batch
9 4 (7.84%) Spring Integration
10 3 (5.88%) Dapper ORM
10 3 (5.88%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
1 7 (13.73%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.96%) IoT
7 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.96%) Life Science
7 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (78.43%) Agile
2 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
3 29 (56.86%) DevOps
4 23 (45.10%) Microservices
5 17 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (31.37%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
8 13 (25.49%) BDD
8 13 (25.49%) Scrum
9 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
9 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
10 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (17.65%) Clean Code
11 9 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
11 9 (17.65%) SOA
12 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
12 8 (15.69%) Migration
13 7 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (13.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Java
2 21 (41.18%) C#
3 13 (25.49%) TypeScript
4 12 (23.53%) SQL
5 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
6 8 (15.69%) Python
7 5 (9.80%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.88%) Delphi
8 3 (5.88%) Scala
9 2 (3.92%) Bash
9 2 (3.92%) Go
9 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (43.14%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) Kibana
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.92%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.92%) Pega
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.96%) Jaspersoft