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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 195 113
Rank change year-on-year +53 -82 +7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 78 74 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.39% 0.84% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.03% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 34 37 111
10th Percentile £47,875 £36,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £48,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% -5.83%
75th Percentile £73,563 £79,600 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,978 £77,500
England median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% -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 4,787 7,173 4,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.45% 81.04% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,957 3,231 3,627
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,965
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 4 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 4 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 +48 60 £67,500 +3.11% 26
East Midlands +31 18 £53,750 +7.50% 26
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 26 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) IIS
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.56%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.10%) AWS
1 50 (64.10%) Azure
2 26 (33.33%) GCP
3 10 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.97%) PowerApps
7 6 (7.69%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 6 (7.69%) Route 53
8 3 (3.85%) SaaS
9 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.56%) GitHub
9 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.56%) Data Hub
7 2 (2.56%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.56%) SQL CLR
8 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (42.31%) Maven
2 31 (39.74%) SonarQube
3 27 (34.62%) GitLab
4 26 (33.33%) JIRA
5 24 (30.77%) Selenium
6 23 (29.49%) Cucumber
7 22 (28.21%) Bitbucket
7 22 (28.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (16.67%) Git
9 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
9 12 (15.38%) JUnit
9 12 (15.38%) Mockito
10 6 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (7.69%) DbUnit
10 6 (7.69%) jMock
11 2 (2.56%) JMeter
12 1 (1.28%) Gatling
12 1 (1.28%) NUnit
12 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 32 (41.03%) Finance
2 24 (30.77%) Banking
3 22 (28.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (28.21%) Public Sector
4 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Back Office
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Advertising
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (46.15%) Developer
2 29 (37.18%) Software Engineer
3 21 (26.92%) Java Developer
4 17 (21.79%) Senior
5 12 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.54%) Lead
7 8 (10.26%) Lead Developer
8 7 (8.97%) .NET Developer
8 7 (8.97%) C# Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Applications Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Automation Developer
10 5 (6.41%) C# Application Developer
10 5 (6.41%) CRM Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (61.54%) Spring
2 39 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 32 (41.03%) Hibernate
3 32 (41.03%) React
4 30 (38.46%) JPA
5 24 (30.77%) HTML
6 22 (28.21%) CSS
6 22 (28.21%) Kafka
6 22 (28.21%) Redux
7 19 (24.36%) .NET
8 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 13 (16.67%) REST
9 11 (14.10%) Web Services
10 10 (12.82%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (12.82%) RESTful
11 8 (10.26%) .NET Framework
11 8 (10.26%) SOAP
12 7 (8.97%) Bootstrap
13 6 (7.69%) Spring Batch
13 6 (7.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.90%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (30.77%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.56%) IoT
7 2 (2.56%) Life Science
7 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (84.62%) Agile
2 55 (70.51%) CI/CD
3 53 (67.95%) DevOps
4 51 (65.38%) Microservices
5 40 (51.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (44.87%) Containerisation
6 35 (44.87%) Test Automation
7 32 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (41.03%) Software Engineering
8 31 (39.74%) Clean Code
9 28 (35.90%) SDLC
10 23 (29.49%) Front End Development
11 22 (28.21%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (24.36%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (20.51%) Scrum
14 15 (19.23%) BDD
15 9 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
15 9 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
16 8 (10.26%) Migration
16 8 (10.26%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 51 (65.38%) Java
2 36 (46.15%) SQL
3 32 (41.03%) JavaScript
4 21 (26.92%) C#
5 13 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.41%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.41%) Python
7 3 (3.85%) Go
7 3 (3.85%) Scala
8 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.56%) VBA
9 1 (1.28%) Bash
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (60.26%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Postfix
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (51.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Grafana
2 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.56%) Kibana
3 2 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Solace
2 6 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) Splunk
4 2 (2.56%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.56%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (2.56%) Pega
4 2 (2.56%) VMware
4 2 (2.56%) Xamarin