TDD Jobs in the South East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 112 78
Rank change year-on-year -58 -34 -16
Permanent jobs citing TDD 149 419 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.55% 2.39% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 2.86% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 84 344 351
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,625 £83,750 £112,500
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,872 14,647 13,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.08% 83.51% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 10,075 7,715
10th Percentile £29,175 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TDD in the South East.

Salary trend for TDD in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +11 65 £70,000 +16.67% 209
Berkshire +18 49 £72,500 +16.00% 124
Hampshire -4 33 £65,000 +8.33% 74
Surrey +31 21 £65,000 +8.33% 61
Middlesex -10 10 £62,500 -
East Sussex +18 9 £52,500 -8.70% 37
Buckinghamshire -19 9 £47,500 -19.15% 55
Oxfordshire +36 7 £95,000 +72.73% 31
West Sussex +4 5 £72,500 +26.09% 29
Kent -4 4 - - 52
TDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (10.07%) JBoss
2 14 (9.40%) Red Hat Fuse
3 13 (8.72%) Confluence
4 6 (4.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (3.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) Apache
6 1 (0.67%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.65%) AWS
2 33 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
2 33 (22.15%) Amazon EKS
2 33 (22.15%) Serverless
3 25 (16.78%) Azure
4 20 (13.42%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (13.42%) SaaS
5 13 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.38%) Azure API Management
7 11 (7.38%) GitHub
8 10 (6.71%) GCP
9 6 (4.03%) AWS KMS
10 5 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.36%) Route 53
11 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Broadband
1 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.54%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (22.82%) Relational Database
3 17 (11.41%) SQL Server
4 14 (9.40%) MySQL
4 14 (9.40%) NoSQL
4 14 (9.40%) RDBMS
5 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
6 10 (6.71%) Redis
7 7 (4.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.36%) SQLite
9 4 (2.68%) Couchbase
10 3 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (40.27%) Jenkins
2 41 (27.52%) Git
3 38 (25.50%) JUnit
4 20 (13.42%) Mockito
5 17 (11.41%) JIRA
6 16 (10.74%) Maven
7 15 (10.07%) SonarQube
8 14 (9.40%) JMeter
9 10 (6.71%) GitLab
9 10 (6.71%) Octopus Deploy
9 10 (6.71%) Selenium
10 8 (5.37%) Bitbucket
10 8 (5.37%) Cucumber
10 8 (5.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (4.03%) DbUnit
11 6 (4.03%) jMock
12 5 (3.36%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (2.01%) PHPUnit
14 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
15 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 34 (22.82%) Public Sector
2 19 (12.75%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.07%) Finance
4 13 (8.72%) Tech for Good
5 9 (6.04%) Banking
6 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Games
9 2 (1.34%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.67%) Front Office
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (73.83%) Developer
2 45 (30.20%) Java Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Software Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Software Engineer
4 25 (16.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (12.08%) Lead
6 17 (11.41%) Senior
7 13 (8.72%) Lead Developer
8 12 (8.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) C# Developer
9 11 (7.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (6.71%) .NET Developer
10 10 (6.71%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (4.70%) Lead Java Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Ruby Engineer
14 5 (3.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 4 (2.68%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (40.94%) REST
2 55 (36.91%) Spring Boot
3 54 (36.24%) Spring
4 40 (26.85%) Web Services
5 38 (25.50%) React
6 36 (24.16%) .NET
7 30 (20.13%) Hibernate
8 28 (18.79%) HTML
9 27 (18.12%) Apache Camel
9 27 (18.12%) RESTful
10 24 (16.11%) AngularJS
11 22 (14.77%) ActiveMQ
11 22 (14.77%) Kafka
11 22 (14.77%) SOAP
12 16 (10.74%) JPA
12 16 (10.74%) jQuery
13 15 (10.07%) CSS
14 14 (9.40%) J2EE
15 13 (8.72%) Middleware
15 13 (8.72%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.52%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (23.49%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.34%) Derivative
6 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Equities
7 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (83.89%) Agile
2 81 (54.36%) Microservices
3 62 (41.61%) CI/CD
4 60 (40.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (30.20%) Scrum
6 43 (28.86%) BDD
7 42 (28.19%) DevOps
8 35 (23.49%) Software Engineering
9 34 (22.82%) Kanban
10 26 (17.45%) Sprint Planning
11 25 (16.78%) Sprint Retrospective
12 24 (16.11%) Acceptance Criteria
12 24 (16.11%) User Stories
13 20 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (12.08%) Containerisation
15 17 (11.41%) SDLC
16 16 (10.74%) Design Patterns
17 15 (10.07%) Architectural Design
17 15 (10.07%) Pair Programming
18 14 (9.40%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.99%) Java
2 47 (31.54%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.19%) SQL
4 37 (24.83%) C#
5 35 (23.49%) Python
6 16 (10.74%) PHP
7 13 (8.72%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.03%) Go
8 6 (4.03%) Ruby
9 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (18.12%) SC Cleared
1 27 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.01%) Degree
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.42%) QA
2 14 (9.40%) SLA
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (52.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 62 (41.61%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.07%) Ansible
3 13 (8.72%) Kibana
4 4 (2.68%) Terraform
5 3 (2.01%) Grafana
5 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Splunk
2 13 (8.72%) Databricks
2 13 (8.72%) Dynatrace
2 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.04%) Solace
4 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle
6 3 (2.01%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.67%) TIBCO