TDD Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 126 121
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -43
Permanent jobs citing TDD 56 65 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.98% 1.90% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.05% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 20 97
10th Percentile £50,600 £51,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -22.58%
75th Percentile £79,375 £80,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,089 3,178 5,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.71% 93.03% 82.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,819 1,203 3,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the Thames Valley

TDD
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Buckinghamshire 0 20 £67,500 +42.11% 3
Oxfordshire +3 18 £62,500 -24.24% 5
Berkshire -22 18 £82,500 +13.79% 8
TDD
South East

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (8.93%) OpenStack
2 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) JBoss
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) AWS
2 28 (50.00%) Azure
3 24 (42.86%) Serverless
4 17 (30.36%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 7 (12.50%) SaaS
9 6 (10.71%) GitHub
10 5 (8.93%) iPaaS
11 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) Relational Database
2 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.93%) RDBMS
3 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) Git
3 8 (14.29%) JUnit
3 8 (14.29%) Postman
4 7 (12.50%) JMeter
4 7 (12.50%) Mockito
5 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Software Engineer
2 18 (32.14%) Developer
3 13 (23.21%) Java Developer
4 12 (21.43%) C# Software Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Lead
5 9 (16.07%) C++ Software Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Python Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Python Software Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Applications Architect
6 7 (12.50%) Architect
7 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Integration Architect
7 5 (8.93%) Java Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (50.00%) REST
2 21 (37.50%) .NET
3 18 (32.14%) Spring
4 17 (30.36%) React
5 16 (28.57%) Spring Boot
6 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
7 14 (25.00%) Web Services
8 12 (21.43%) JSON
8 12 (21.43%) XML
9 9 (16.07%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (16.07%) SOAP
10 8 (14.29%) .NET Framework
10 8 (14.29%) Apache Camel
10 8 (14.29%) Hibernate
10 8 (14.29%) Middleware
11 7 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (12.50%) HTML
11 7 (12.50%) jQuery
11 7 (12.50%) Mustache
11 7 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.57%) AS400
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.57%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (78.57%) Agile
2 29 (51.79%) CI/CD
3 28 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 26 (46.43%) BDD
5 25 (44.64%) Microservices
6 19 (33.93%) Scrum
7 15 (26.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (23.21%) AI
8 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
9 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
10 11 (19.64%) Design Patterns
10 11 (19.64%) DevOps
10 11 (19.64%) Kanban
11 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 9 (16.07%) Integration Testing
12 9 (16.07%) SDLC
13 8 (14.29%) API Development
13 8 (14.29%) API Testing
13 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) C#
2 24 (42.86%) Java
3 17 (30.36%) JavaScript
3 17 (30.36%) Python
4 16 (28.57%) SQL
5 10 (17.86%) TypeScript
6 9 (16.07%) C++
7 8 (14.29%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.14%) C
8 4 (7.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.79%) Groovy
9 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Degree
2 18 (32.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.14%) PhD
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.36%) QA
System Software
1 28 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (19.64%) Kibana
3 10 (17.86%) Terraform
4 6 (10.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 7 (12.50%) Splunk
3 5 (8.93%) AppDynamics
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 4 (7.14%) IBM