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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 136 190
Rank change year-on-year -92 +54 -82
Permanent jobs citing TDD 32 94 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.24% 1.93% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 2.15% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 122
10th Percentile £54,750 £48,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,625 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £74,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & 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 9,635 4,366 9,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.52% 89.47% 80.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 2,375 7,358
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,897 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 May 2026.

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 28 May 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
West Midlands -60 29 £62,500 - 7
East Midlands -60 3 £65,000 +85.71% 13
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 6 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 24 (75.00%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) MySQL
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (50.00%) JUnit
2 13 (40.63%) Maven
2 13 (40.63%) Mockito
3 6 (18.75%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 2 (6.25%) Gatling
5 2 (6.25%) Postman
5 2 (6.25%) Selenium
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Lead
3 11 (34.38%) Senior
4 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (28.13%) Java Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Team Leader
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) React
1 12 (37.50%) REST
1 12 (37.50%) Spring
2 9 (28.13%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) RESTful
3 7 (21.88%) Node.js
4 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
6 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (6.25%) CSS
7 2 (6.25%) HTML
7 2 (6.25%) MassTransit
7 2 (6.25%) Playwright
7 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.25%) Vue
8 1 (3.13%) Flask
8 1 (3.13%) NumPy
8 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Agile
2 21 (65.63%) Microservices
3 20 (62.50%) Scrum
4 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
5 17 (53.13%) Mentoring
6 15 (46.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
8 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
9 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (31.25%) SDLC
9 10 (31.25%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (25.00%) Coaching
10 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
12 6 (18.75%) Emotional Intelligence
12 6 (18.75%) SOA
12 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
12 6 (18.75%) Time Management
13 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Java
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (40.63%) PL/SQL
4 10 (31.25%) C#
5 9 (28.13%) Bash
6 4 (12.50%) C
6 4 (12.50%) R
7 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.25%) C++
9 1 (3.13%) Python
9 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft