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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 206 111
Rank change year-on-year +63 -95 -10
Permanent jobs citing TDD 97 80 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.73% 0.79% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.01% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 34 46 111
10th Percentile £52,000 £36,875 £40,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,563 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 4,808 7,918 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.61% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,883 4,035 3,831
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,893 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the Midlands

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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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in the Midlands

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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 September 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 +42 60 £64,000 +0.39% 16
East Midlands +53 37 £60,000 +26.32% 10
TDD
England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (52.58%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) IIS
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (79.38%) AWS
2 70 (72.16%) Azure
3 56 (57.73%) GCP
4 10 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (7.22%) Serverless
7 6 (6.19%) AWS KMS
7 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.19%) Route 53
8 4 (4.12%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.09%) GitHub
9 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (53.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (8.25%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.09%) Data Hub
6 3 (3.09%) Hazelcast
6 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) SQL CLR
7 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (57.73%) SonarQube
2 55 (56.70%) Maven
3 52 (53.61%) GitLab
4 51 (52.58%) JIRA
5 48 (49.48%) Selenium
6 47 (48.45%) Bitbucket
6 47 (48.45%) Cucumber
6 47 (48.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
8 11 (11.34%) Git
9 9 (9.28%) JUnit
9 9 (9.28%) Mockito
10 6 (6.19%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (6.19%) DbUnit
10 6 (6.19%) jMock
11 2 (2.06%) JMeter
12 1 (1.03%) NUnit
General
1 55 (56.70%) Finance
2 48 (49.48%) Banking
2 48 (49.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Back Office
6 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (59.79%) Software Engineer
2 29 (29.90%) Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Java Developer
4 11 (11.34%) Senior
5 10 (10.31%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Lead
6 9 (9.28%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.19%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (4.12%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Head of Development
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (78.35%) Spring
2 64 (65.98%) Spring Boot
3 58 (59.79%) Hibernate
4 55 (56.70%) JPA
5 53 (54.64%) React
6 49 (50.52%) HTML
7 47 (48.45%) CSS
7 47 (48.45%) Kafka
7 47 (48.45%) Redux
8 13 (13.40%) .NET
9 12 (12.37%) AngularJS
9 12 (12.37%) Web Services
10 11 (11.34%) REST
11 10 (10.31%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (10.31%) RESTful
12 8 (8.25%) SOAP
13 7 (7.22%) Bootstrap
14 6 (6.19%) PowerMock
14 6 (6.19%) Spring Batch
14 6 (6.19%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 50 (51.55%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (50.52%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (2.06%) IoT
7 2 (2.06%) Life Science
7 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (84.54%) Agile
2 79 (81.44%) Microservices
3 78 (80.41%) CI/CD
4 77 (79.38%) DevOps
5 65 (67.01%) Containerisation
6 63 (64.95%) Software Engineering
7 62 (63.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (60.82%) Test Automation
9 56 (57.73%) Clean Code
9 56 (57.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 51 (52.58%) SDLC
11 48 (49.48%) Front End Development
12 47 (48.45%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (21.65%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (14.43%) BDD
15 12 (12.37%) Code Quality
15 12 (12.37%) Continuous Delivery
15 12 (12.37%) Software Architecture
16 11 (11.34%) Design Patterns
17 10 (10.31%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 80 (82.47%) Java
2 60 (61.86%) SQL
3 53 (54.64%) JavaScript
4 17 (17.53%) C#
5 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.15%) Python
7 3 (3.09%) Go
7 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.09%) Scala
8 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (52.58%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (76.29%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 68 (70.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Grafana
2 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.06%) Kibana
3 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (48.45%) Solace
2 6 (6.19%) Atlassian
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.09%) Splunk
3 3 (3.09%) VMware
4 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.03%) Salesforce