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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 112 75
Rank change year-on-year -35 -37 -15
Permanent jobs citing TDD 170 411 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.82% 2.44% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.89% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 104 333 363
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £100,750
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
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 8,550 14,220 13,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.62% 84.55% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,911 7,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -1 71 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Berkshire +20 54 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Hampshire +6 41 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Surrey +39 23 £65,000 +8.33% 7
East Sussex +26 13 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Middlesex -5 12 £62,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire -10 11 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Oxfordshire +34 6 £95,000 +72.73% 6
West Sussex +4 5 £72,500 +26.09% 3
Kent -4 4 - - 6
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England

TDD
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 14 (8.24%) JBoss
2 13 (7.65%) Red Hat Fuse
3 11 (6.47%) Confluence
4 6 (3.53%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) Apache
6 1 (0.59%) GemFire
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (48.82%) AWS
2 38 (22.35%) Amazon ECS
2 38 (22.35%) Amazon EKS
2 38 (22.35%) Serverless
3 31 (18.24%) Azure
4 29 (17.06%) SaaS
5 27 (15.88%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (9.41%) GitHub
7 15 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (7.65%) GCP
9 12 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.88%) Azure API Management
11 9 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.94%) AWS KMS
14 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.76%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
16 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Broadband
1 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (24.71%) Relational Database
3 20 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 18 (10.59%) SQL Server
5 17 (10.00%) MySQL
6 16 (9.41%) NoSQL
7 13 (7.65%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.65%) Redis
8 8 (4.71%) SQLite
9 6 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.76%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.59%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (42.94%) Jenkins
2 43 (25.29%) Git
3 42 (24.71%) JUnit
4 25 (14.71%) Mockito
5 20 (11.76%) JMeter
6 15 (8.82%) JIRA
6 15 (8.82%) Maven
7 14 (8.24%) SonarQube
8 12 (7.06%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (6.47%) Cucumber
10 10 (5.88%) GitLab
10 10 (5.88%) Selenium
11 8 (4.71%) Bitbucket
11 8 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.94%) DbUnit
12 5 (2.94%) jMock
13 4 (2.35%) Visual Studio
14 3 (1.76%) Artifactory
14 3 (1.76%) Gradle
14 3 (1.76%) PHPUnit
General
1 38 (22.35%) Public Sector
2 29 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.35%) Finance
4 15 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.06%) Banking
5 12 (7.06%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Law
8 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Games
10 1 (0.59%) Front Office
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (74.12%) Developer
2 51 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 32 (18.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (15.88%) Software Developer
5 24 (14.12%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.59%) C# Developer
6 18 (10.59%) Senior
7 16 (9.41%) Lead
8 14 (8.24%) .NET Developer
8 14 (8.24%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (40.59%) REST
2 58 (34.12%) Spring Boot
3 56 (32.94%) Spring
4 46 (27.06%) .NET
5 44 (25.88%) Web Services
6 38 (22.35%) React
7 37 (21.76%) HTML
8 35 (20.59%) Hibernate
9 33 (19.41%) Apache Camel
10 26 (15.29%) ActiveMQ
10 26 (15.29%) RESTful
11 24 (14.12%) Kafka
12 23 (13.53%) AngularJS
12 23 (13.53%) jQuery
13 20 (11.76%) SOAP
14 19 (11.18%) WireMock
15 18 (10.59%) CSS
16 17 (10.00%) Laravel
16 17 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (8.82%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.65%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.18%) Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.59%) Equities
8 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.59%) NHS
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (78.82%) Agile
2 88 (51.76%) Microservices
3 76 (44.71%) CI/CD
4 66 (38.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (28.24%) BDD
6 46 (27.06%) Scrum
7 41 (24.12%) DevOps
8 36 (21.18%) Kanban
9 31 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (18.24%) Software Engineering
10 26 (15.29%) Sprint Planning
11 25 (14.71%) Design Patterns
11 25 (14.71%) SDLC
11 25 (14.71%) Sprint Retrospective
12 24 (14.12%) Acceptance Criteria
12 24 (14.12%) User Stories
13 19 (11.18%) Pair Programming
13 19 (11.18%) Process Management
13 19 (11.18%) Workflow
14 18 (10.59%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.29%) Java
2 52 (30.59%) JavaScript
3 51 (30.00%) SQL
4 47 (27.65%) C#
5 45 (26.47%) Python
6 21 (12.35%) PHP
7 19 (11.18%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.12%) Go
9 4 (2.35%) Ruby
9 4 (2.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.59%) C
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 30 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 5 (2.94%) Degree
3 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.76%) OCP
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.76%) QA
2 13 (7.65%) SLA
3 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 85 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 73 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.18%) Kibana
3 17 (10.00%) Ansible
4 7 (4.12%) Terraform
5 2 (1.18%) Grafana
5 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (11.76%) Splunk
2 19 (11.18%) Dynatrace
3 15 (8.82%) Databricks
4 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.29%) Solace
6 4 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle
8 2 (1.18%) Google
8 2 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.59%) TIBCO