TDD Job Trends in the North of England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 116 85
Rank change year-on-year -57 -31 -17
Permanent jobs citing TDD 121 152 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.84% 2.24% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.36% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 98 114 394
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,188 £82,751 £73,438
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% +7.14% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,888 6,448 12,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.74% 95.09% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,319 3,637 10,159
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

TDD job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TDD

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
North West -27 90 £70,000 +7.69% 40
Yorkshire -49 22 £58,565 -16.34% 13
North East -24 9 £57,600 +4.73% 14
TDD
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (9.92%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.96%) Confluence
3 3 (2.48%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 76 (62.81%) AWS
2 62 (51.24%) Azure
3 38 (31.40%) Serverless
4 18 (14.88%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (12.40%) GCP
6 13 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (9.92%) SaaS
8 10 (8.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (8.26%) Azure Functions
8 10 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (7.44%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.79%) GitHub
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.13%) ChatGPT
13 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.10%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (19.01%) NoSQL
3 17 (14.05%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.57%) MySQL
5 12 (9.92%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.31%) Metadata
7 3 (2.48%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.48%) GIS
7 3 (2.48%) QGIS
7 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.65%) Redis
9 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Git
2 20 (16.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.44%) JIRA
4 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.48%) JUnit
6 2 (1.65%) Appium
6 2 (1.65%) GitLab
6 2 (1.65%) JMeter
6 2 (1.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.65%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.65%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) Protractor
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (22.31%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.92%) Finance
4 6 (4.96%) Banking
5 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (40.50%) Developer
2 47 (38.84%) Senior
3 41 (33.88%) Software Engineer
4 21 (17.36%) Java Developer
4 21 (17.36%) Senior Developer
5 18 (14.88%) Lead
6 14 (11.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (11.57%) Java Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) .NET Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Python Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.40%) .NET
2 30 (24.79%) REST
2 30 (24.79%) Spring
3 29 (23.97%) Node.js
3 29 (23.97%) Spring Boot
4 27 (22.31%) React
5 19 (15.70%) RESTful
5 19 (15.70%) Web Services
6 13 (10.74%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (9.09%) CSS
7 11 (9.09%) Django
8 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
8 10 (8.26%) HTML
9 9 (7.44%) .NET Core
10 8 (6.61%) FastAPI
10 8 (6.61%) Kafka
10 8 (6.61%) Vue
11 7 (5.79%) Mustache
12 6 (4.96%) OAuth
12 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (14.05%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.79%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.65%) Linux
1 2 (1.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (66.12%) Agile
2 73 (60.33%) CI/CD
3 50 (41.32%) Microservices
3 50 (41.32%) Software Engineering
4 46 (38.02%) Mentoring
5 38 (31.40%) DevOps
6 34 (28.10%) BDD
7 31 (25.62%) Scrum
8 30 (24.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (23.97%) Containerisation
9 29 (23.97%) SDLC
10 28 (23.14%) Coaching
11 27 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (21.49%) Test Automation
13 21 (17.36%) Kanban
14 20 (16.53%) SOLID
15 19 (15.70%) Event-Driven
15 19 (15.70%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (14.88%) AI
16 18 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (49.59%) Java
2 41 (33.88%) JavaScript
3 28 (23.14%) Python
3 28 (23.14%) SQL
4 26 (21.49%) C#
5 21 (17.36%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.79%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.31%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.65%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) Swift
9 1 (0.83%) Delphi
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (5.79%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (37.19%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.88%) Terraform
3 7 (5.79%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (1.65%) Packer
4 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) Pega
2 5 (4.13%) WSO2
3 4 (3.31%) Databricks
3 4 (3.31%) Google
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle
5 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Veracode