TDD Jobs in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 70 79
Rank change year-on-year -101 +9 -37
Permanent jobs citing TDD 133 310 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.69% 2.98% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 3.68% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 72 289 208
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £86,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TDD in the North West.

Salary trend for TDD in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Manchester -29 98 £70,000 +16.18% 94
Cheshire 0 22 £47,500 -32.14% 16
Merseyside +19 7 £59,750 +19.50% 11
Lancashire -73 6 - - 44
TDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (42.11%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) GemFire
3 2 (1.50%) CMS
3 2 (1.50%) IIS
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (56.39%) AWS
2 67 (50.38%) Azure
3 61 (45.86%) GCP
4 15 (11.28%) SaaS
5 13 (9.77%) Serverless
6 12 (9.02%) GitHub
7 11 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (3.01%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.26%) Apigee
9 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.75%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.75%) Firebase
11 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (37.59%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.28%) NoSQL
3 13 (9.77%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.51%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.76%) MySQL
7 3 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (2.26%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.26%) Redis
7 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.50%) Big Data
8 2 (1.50%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (1.50%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.50%) SQL CLR
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.75%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 56 (42.11%) JIRA
2 51 (38.35%) SonarQube
3 47 (35.34%) Cucumber
4 45 (33.83%) GitLab
4 45 (33.83%) Selenium
5 42 (31.58%) Maven
5 42 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 39 (29.32%) Bitbucket
7 23 (17.29%) Git
8 4 (3.01%) Jasmine
8 4 (3.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
9 3 (2.26%) JUnit
9 3 (2.26%) NUnit
10 2 (1.50%) Storybook
General
1 76 (57.14%) Finance
2 63 (47.37%) Banking
3 39 (29.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (18.05%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Games
6 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Law
6 4 (3.01%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.50%) Back Office
8 2 (1.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (51.13%) Software Engineer
2 42 (31.58%) Developer
3 29 (21.80%) Senior
4 20 (15.04%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.03%) .NET Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Lead
6 9 (6.77%) Java Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Lead Developer
6 9 (6.77%) Senior .NET Developer
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
12 3 (2.26%) React Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (54.14%) React
2 65 (48.87%) Spring
3 56 (42.11%) Spring Boot
4 52 (39.10%) Kafka
5 51 (38.35%) CSS
6 47 (35.34%) HTML
7 42 (31.58%) Hibernate
8 40 (30.08%) Redux
9 39 (29.32%) JPA
10 26 (19.55%) .NET
11 22 (16.54%) Node.js
12 17 (12.78%) .NET Core
13 13 (9.77%) RESTful
14 7 (5.26%) Playwright
14 7 (5.26%) REST
15 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
15 6 (4.51%) GraphQL
15 6 (4.51%) Next.js
16 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
16 5 (3.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 39 (29.32%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.26%) Wiki
6 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.76%) e-Learning
6 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) Derivative
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.50%) Equities
9 2 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.50%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.50%) Replication
9 2 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (71.43%) Agile
2 93 (69.92%) Software Engineering
3 87 (65.41%) DevOps
4 77 (57.89%) CI/CD
5 72 (54.14%) Microservices
6 68 (51.13%) Test Automation
7 65 (48.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (41.35%) Clean Code
9 53 (39.85%) Front End Development
10 48 (36.09%) SDLC
11 47 (35.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (34.59%) Containerisation
13 39 (29.32%) Performance Optimisation
14 30 (22.56%) Code Quality
15 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
16 18 (13.53%) Event-Driven
16 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (11.28%) Pair Programming
18 14 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 79 (59.40%) Java
2 65 (48.87%) JavaScript
3 52 (39.10%) SQL
4 36 (27.07%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.04%) C#
6 9 (6.77%) Python
7 6 (4.51%) Go
8 5 (3.76%) PHP
9 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.75%) Dart
Qualifications
1 2 (1.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (30.08%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (53.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (51.88%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.53%) Terraform
3 3 (2.26%) Istio
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Solace
2 11 (8.27%) Google
3 3 (2.26%) Oracle
3 3 (2.26%) Sage
3 3 (2.26%) SAP
3 3 (2.26%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.50%) IBM
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow