TDD Jobs in the South West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 179 119
Rank change year-on-year +31 -60 -55
Permanent jobs citing TDD 31 117 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.87% 1.19% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.47% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 100 85
10th Percentile £54,750 £40,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £48,125 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,013 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £84,500 £77,715
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,300 7,971 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.04% 81.38% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 5,719 3,481
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for TDD in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +44 15 £68,525 +5.42% 24
Gloucestershire +55 6 £78,750 +40.00% 17
Dorset +28 5 £62,500 +3.31% 3
Devon -6 3 £52,500 +2.44% 3
Somerset +5 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
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England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Drupal
1 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.23%) Elementor
1 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.45%) Apigee
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.23%) Figma
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JUnit
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.13%) Git
4 4 (12.90%) Maven
5 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 3 (9.68%) Selenium
6 2 (6.45%) Mockito
6 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.23%) CMake
7 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.23%) GDB
7 1 (3.23%) git-flow
7 1 (3.23%) NUnit
7 1 (3.23%) Postman
7 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.23%) Subversion
7 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
7 1 (3.23%) WiX
General
1 9 (29.03%) Banking
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.90%) Law
3 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Lead
2 9 (29.03%) Software Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Test Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.23%) C++ Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.23%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
7 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) React
2 8 (25.81%) RESTful
2 8 (25.81%) Spring
3 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 5 (16.13%) CSS
4 5 (16.13%) Kafka
5 4 (12.90%) Express.js
5 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
5 4 (12.90%) Next.js
5 4 (12.90%) Node.js
5 4 (12.90%) REST
5 4 (12.90%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (9.68%) .NET
6 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 3 (9.68%) HTML
7 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.45%) gRPC
7 2 (6.45%) HTML5
7 2 (6.45%) Java EE
7 2 (6.45%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
1 4 (12.90%) N-Tier
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Microservices
2 16 (51.61%) Software Engineering
3 15 (48.39%) Test Automation
4 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
5 9 (29.03%) DevOps
5 9 (29.03%) SOLID
6 8 (25.81%) BDD
6 8 (25.81%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (25.81%) Unit Testing
7 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
8 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (19.35%) Design Patterns
8 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
8 6 (19.35%) Scrum
8 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
9 4 (12.90%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Java
2 13 (41.94%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) Python
5 7 (22.58%) TypeScript
6 6 (19.35%) C#
7 5 (16.13%) PHP
8 2 (6.45%) C
8 2 (6.45%) C++
8 2 (6.45%) Go
9 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (19.35%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Sybase
3 1 (3.23%) Netlify
3 1 (3.23%) SAP