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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 203 111
Rank change year-on-year +38 -92 +24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 45 70 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 0.81% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.96% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24 35 108
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £32,125
25th Percentile £50,313 £53,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,465 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +20.67% -9.58%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,600 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,375 £84,985 £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 4,954 7,262 4,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.56% 84.33% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 3,241 3,513
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,250 £26,750
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% -3.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 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 28 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 +42 40 £65,000 -3.70% 19
East Midlands +14 5 £55,200 -4.00% 8
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 2 (4.44%) NServiceBus
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 20 (44.44%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.78%) Serverless
5 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.56%) PowerApps
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (13.33%) Power Automate
7 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 4 (8.89%) GitHub
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.44%) PaaS
10 2 (4.44%) SaaS
11 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.22%) Data Hub
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.22%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) JUnit
2 8 (17.78%) Git
2 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.56%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) Mockito
4 5 (11.11%) Maven
4 5 (11.11%) Selenium
5 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.44%) JIRA
7 2 (4.44%) JMeter
8 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.22%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.22%) Gatling
8 1 (2.22%) jMock
8 1 (2.22%) NUnit
8 1 (2.22%) PHPUnit
8 1 (2.22%) Postman
General
1 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Legal
3 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Back Office
4 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (66.67%) Developer
2 19 (42.22%) Senior
3 14 (31.11%) Senior Developer
4 12 (26.67%) Java Developer
5 7 (15.56%) .NET Developer
5 7 (15.56%) C# Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Applications Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Automation Developer
7 5 (11.11%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (11.11%) CRM Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) .NET
2 16 (35.56%) Spring
3 11 (24.44%) Spring Boot
4 9 (20.00%) React
4 9 (20.00%) REST
5 7 (15.56%) .NET Framework
6 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (8.89%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.89%) RESTful
7 4 (8.89%) Web Services
8 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (6.67%) Django
8 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.67%) Flask
8 3 (6.67%) JSON
8 3 (6.67%) pytest
8 3 (6.67%) XML
9 2 (4.44%) Vue
9 2 (4.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Cloud Native
1 7 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.22%) IoT
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (80.00%) Agile
2 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 26 (57.78%) DevOps
4 17 (37.78%) Microservices
5 16 (35.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 11 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (22.22%) BDD
8 10 (22.22%) Scrum
9 9 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (20.00%) SOA
10 8 (17.78%) Clean Code
10 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
10 8 (17.78%) Migration
10 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
11 7 (15.56%) CRM
11 7 (15.56%) SDLC
11 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
12 6 (13.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) C#
2 19 (42.22%) Java
3 13 (28.89%) TypeScript
4 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
5 10 (22.22%) SQL
6 8 (17.78%) Python
7 5 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.67%) Delphi
8 3 (6.67%) Scala
9 2 (4.44%) Bash
9 2 (4.44%) Go
9 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.44%) VBA
10 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) Kibana
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.44%) Blue Prism
3 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.44%) Pega
3 2 (4.44%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Zend