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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 190 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 -52 -12
Permanent jobs citing TDD 35 50 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 0.81% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.88% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 136
10th Percentile £42,655 £42,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,425 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £84,721 £67,500
England median annual salary £68,500 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +9.60% -10.71%

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 6,554 5,657 6,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.06% 91.15% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,655 2,516 5,442
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,027 £34,518
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +6 30 £56,350 -9.84% 20
East Midlands -9 5 £55,200 +13.23% 6
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 (17.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.71%) NServiceBus
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) AWS
3 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) Power Automate
4 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 6 (17.14%) PowerApps
5 5 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 5 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) JUnit
2 8 (22.86%) Maven
2 8 (22.86%) Mockito
3 6 (17.14%) GitLab
4 5 (14.29%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (14.29%) Selenium
5 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.86%) Gatling
7 1 (2.86%) JIRA
7 1 (2.86%) PHPUnit
7 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (65.71%) Developer
2 19 (54.29%) Senior
3 14 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Java Developer
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Developer
5 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Applications Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Automation Developer
6 5 (14.29%) C# Application Developer
6 5 (14.29%) CRM Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) .NET
2 8 (22.86%) React
2 8 (22.86%) REST
3 7 (20.00%) Spring
4 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.57%) Django
6 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.57%) Flask
6 3 (8.57%) pytest
6 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.71%) Apache Cordova
7 2 (5.71%) Vue
8 1 (2.86%) Alpine.js
8 1 (2.86%) JSON
8 1 (2.86%) LAMP
8 1 (2.86%) Laravel
8 1 (2.86%) Playwright
8 1 (2.86%) Symfony
8 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Agile
2 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
3 20 (57.14%) DevOps
4 12 (34.29%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (34.29%) Microservices
4 12 (34.29%) SDLC
5 11 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (31.43%) Scrum
5 11 (31.43%) SOA
6 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
7 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.71%) Unit Testing
8 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (20.00%) Migration
9 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (17.14%) CRM
10 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
11 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) C#
1 14 (40.00%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) TypeScript
3 8 (22.86%) PL/SQL
4 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) C
5 4 (11.43%) R
6 3 (8.57%) Delphi
6 3 (8.57%) Python
7 2 (5.71%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) VBA
8 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.71%) Blue Prism
2 2 (5.71%) Pega
2 2 (5.71%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Zend