TDD Job Trends in Salford

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 23 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +19
Permanent jobs citing TDD 1 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 0.62% 2.25% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 2.44% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69,563 £71,200 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £75,400 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +34.04% -2.17%
75th Percentile £79,040 £79,600 £65,838
90th Percentile - - £79,600
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 82 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 77.16% 92.13% 86.05%
Number of salaries quoted 81 20 50
10th Percentile £28,750 £39,825 £32,576
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +3.36% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,099 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,156 £80,007
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Salford

TDD
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google