TDD Job Trends in the South East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 171 125
Rank change year-on-year -36 -46 -21
Permanent jobs citing TDD 126 119 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.73% 1.33% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.51% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 106 58 219
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,150 £44,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

All Process & 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 12,297 7,866 11,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.48% 88.03% 80.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,782 4,199 7,214
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the South East

TDD
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the South East over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 2026. 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 +3 55 £63,000 -10.00% 5
Hampshire -37 30 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Buckinghamshire +14 21 £63,500 +32.29% 1
Oxfordshire -11 19 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Kent -5 15 £55,000 - 4
Berkshire -17 15 £82,500 +13.79% 2
East Sussex -10 12 £46,250 -40.32% 1
West Sussex -13 8 £57,500 -20.69% 2
Surrey -38 5 £67,500 +3.85% 2
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.79%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 80 (63.49%) AWS
2 74 (58.73%) Azure
3 31 (24.60%) GitHub
4 27 (21.43%) GitHub Copilot
5 21 (16.67%) Serverless
6 18 (14.29%) GCP
7 14 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (10.32%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (7.14%) SaaS
11 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (4.76%) Azure AI
13 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (1.59%) Figma
16 1 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
16 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (32.54%) MongoDB
2 38 (30.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (25.40%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (13.49%) MySQL
5 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 8 (6.35%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.35%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.97%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (22.22%) Git
2 14 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.73%) JUnit
4 10 (7.94%) Mockito
5 8 (6.35%) Postman
6 7 (5.56%) JMeter
7 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.17%) PHPUnit
7 4 (3.17%) Selenium
7 4 (3.17%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.59%) JIRA
9 1 (0.79%) GitLab
9 1 (0.79%) NUnit
9 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (17.46%) Finance
2 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.35%) Advertising
5 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Retail
7 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 83 (65.87%) Developer
2 45 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 23 (18.25%) Backend Developer
4 20 (15.87%) Software Engineer
5 19 (15.08%) Senior
6 17 (13.49%) Lead
6 17 (13.49%) Senior Developer
7 16 (12.70%) Senior Backend Developer
8 12 (9.52%) Java Developer
9 11 (8.73%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 6 (4.76%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (4.76%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
13 5 (3.97%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (54.76%) .NET
2 46 (36.51%) AngularJS
3 45 (35.71%) .NET Core
4 42 (33.33%) React
5 41 (32.54%) ASP.NET
6 40 (31.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 34 (26.98%) Node.js
8 25 (19.84%) Vue
9 23 (18.25%) .NET Framework
9 23 (18.25%) HTML
10 22 (17.46%) REST
11 21 (16.67%) Spring
12 20 (15.87%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (14.29%) Blazor
13 18 (14.29%) Spring Boot
14 17 (13.49%) jQuery
15 16 (12.70%) CSS
16 14 (11.11%) Web Services
17 11 (8.73%) Hibernate
17 11 (8.73%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.25%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.59%) AS400
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (87.30%) Agile
2 63 (50.00%) BDD
3 62 (49.21%) Microservices
4 60 (47.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (44.44%) Scrum
6 46 (36.51%) CI/CD
7 45 (35.71%) Kanban
8 32 (25.40%) Software Engineering
9 27 (21.43%) AI
10 25 (19.84%) OOP
11 21 (16.67%) DevOps
12 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
13 18 (14.29%) Containerisation
14 16 (12.70%) Mentoring
15 14 (11.11%) OO
16 12 (9.52%) Design Patterns
16 12 (9.52%) Migration
17 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 11 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
18 10 (7.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.14%) C#
2 53 (42.06%) SQL
3 38 (30.16%) TypeScript
4 32 (25.40%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.84%) Java
6 19 (15.08%) PHP
6 19 (15.08%) Python
7 9 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.35%) C++
9 4 (3.17%) C
9 4 (3.17%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.38%) Go
11 2 (1.59%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.79%) Groovy
12 1 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (15.08%) Degree
2 13 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.38%) PhD
5 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 68 (53.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.73%) Kibana
3 10 (7.94%) Terraform
4 6 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 7 (5.56%) Splunk
3 5 (3.97%) AppDynamics
3 5 (3.97%) Google
3 5 (3.97%) Oracle
3 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.17%) IBM
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAI