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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -106 -3 -27
Permanent jobs citing TDD 133 304 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.67% 3.09% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 3.73% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 80 284 239
10th Percentile £47,450 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -17.24% +7.41%

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 7,653 8,153 7,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.85% 82.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,004 6,185 3,939
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,966
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 £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 14 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 14 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 -30 96 £70,000 +16.67% 117
Cheshire -4 25 £72,500 -9.38% 11
Merseyside +23 6 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Lancashire -71 6 - - 46
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 51 (38.35%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) GemFire
3 2 (1.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.75%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 76 (57.14%) Azure
2 70 (52.63%) AWS
3 61 (45.86%) GCP
4 17 (12.78%) SaaS
5 9 (6.77%) Serverless
6 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.51%) GitHub
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 DevOps
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (40.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.77%) MySQL
2 9 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.01%) Redis
5 3 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.26%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.50%) Big Data
6 2 (1.50%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.75%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.75%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 52 (39.10%) SonarQube
2 51 (38.35%) JIRA
3 42 (31.58%) Maven
3 42 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 41 (30.83%) Cucumber
5 39 (29.32%) Bitbucket
5 39 (29.32%) GitLab
5 39 (29.32%) Selenium
6 28 (21.05%) Git
7 4 (3.01%) Jasmine
7 4 (3.01%) JUnit
7 4 (3.01%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.26%) NUnit
9 2 (1.50%) Storybook
10 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.75%) Mockito
10 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (51.88%) Finance
2 63 (47.37%) Banking
3 39 (29.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.01%) Games
5 4 (3.01%) Law
6 3 (2.26%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Automotive
7 2 (1.50%) Front Office
7 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Back Office
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (55.64%) Software Engineer
2 40 (30.08%) Developer
3 33 (24.81%) Senior
4 18 (13.53%) Lead
4 18 (13.53%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.28%) .NET Developer
6 14 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Lead Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (3.76%) React Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.01%) PHP Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 3 (2.26%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Java Engineer
12 3 (2.26%) Java Server Engineer
12 3 (2.26%) Senior React Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (57.14%) React
2 60 (45.11%) Spring
3 54 (40.60%) CSS
4 51 (38.35%) HTML
5 50 (37.59%) Spring Boot
6 46 (34.59%) Kafka
7 42 (31.58%) Hibernate
8 40 (30.08%) Redux
9 39 (29.32%) JPA
10 36 (27.07%) .NET
11 25 (18.80%) Node.js
12 20 (15.04%) .NET Core
13 15 (11.28%) RESTful
14 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
15 10 (7.52%) Next.js
16 8 (6.02%) .NET Framework
16 8 (6.02%) Laravel
16 8 (6.02%) REST
17 7 (5.26%) GraphQL
17 7 (5.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (30.08%) Enterprise Software
1 40 (30.08%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) Derivative
6 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Blog
7 2 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.50%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.50%) Equities
7 2 (1.50%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.50%) Replication
8 1 (0.75%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
3 4 (3.01%) Android
3 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 94 (70.68%) Agile
3 84 (63.16%) DevOps
4 73 (54.89%) CI/CD
5 70 (52.63%) Microservices
6 64 (48.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (45.11%) Test Automation
8 51 (38.35%) Front End Development
9 50 (37.59%) SDLC
10 49 (36.84%) Clean Code
11 46 (34.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (30.08%) Containerisation
13 39 (29.32%) Performance Optimisation
14 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
15 23 (17.29%) Code Quality
16 18 (13.53%) Pair Programming
17 16 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (11.28%) BDD
19 14 (10.53%) Event-Driven
20 12 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 71 (53.38%) JavaScript
2 70 (52.63%) Java
3 50 (37.59%) SQL
4 37 (27.82%) TypeScript
5 27 (20.30%) C#
6 10 (7.52%) PHP
7 8 (6.02%) Python
8 5 (3.76%) Go
9 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.75%) Dart
Qualifications
1 2 (1.50%) Degree
2 1 (0.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (29.32%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (48.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (45.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.28%) Terraform
3 3 (2.26%) Istio
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Solace
2 12 (9.02%) 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%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.75%) EMC
5 1 (0.75%) IBM
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) VMware