TDD Job Trends in Reading

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 31 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +16
Permanent jobs citing TDD 20 48 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.43% 6.53% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 7.40% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 20
10th Percentile - £44,750 £54,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £70,000 £84,375
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 649 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.07% 88.30% 91.41%
Number of salaries quoted 297 281 638
10th Percentile £30,750 £38,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -7.56%
75th Percentile £69,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £111,250 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -5.98%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Reading

TDD
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (30.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 17 (85.00%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (85.00%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (85.00%) Serverless
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (85.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (55.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (60.00%) JUnit
3 11 (55.00%) JMeter
3 11 (55.00%) Mockito
4 6 (30.00%) Git
5 2 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
1 17 (85.00%) Java Developer
2 14 (70.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (70.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 11 (55.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) Spring
2 17 (85.00%) REST
2 17 (85.00%) Spring Boot
3 16 (80.00%) Web Services
4 12 (60.00%) Hibernate
5 11 (55.00%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (55.00%) Apache Camel
5 11 (55.00%) HTML
5 11 (55.00%) jQuery
5 11 (55.00%) JSON
5 11 (55.00%) WireMock
5 11 (55.00%) XML
6 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (30.00%) Kafka
6 6 (30.00%) Mustache
6 6 (30.00%) Node.js
6 6 (30.00%) React
7 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
1 19 (95.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (85.00%) Microservices
2 17 (85.00%) SDLC
3 15 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (65.00%) BDD
5 11 (55.00%) Process Management
5 11 (55.00%) Workflow
6 6 (30.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) ATDD
7 2 (10.00%) Coaching
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Open Source
7 2 (10.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
8 1 (5.00%) Mobile First
8 1 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (55.00%) Python
3 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (55.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (55.00%) Splunk