TDD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 138 114
Rank change year-on-year -163 -24 -28
Permanent jobs citing TDD 264 654 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 2.18% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 2.37% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 189 424 1,156
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +8.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,109 27,634 48,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.71% 92.20% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23,201 13,546 36,192
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

TDD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TDD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
North of England -48 121 £68,500 +9.60% 78
North West -28 89 £70,000 +14.29% 50
South East -93 79 £60,000 - 45
Midlands -15 29 £55,200 -6.44% 24
West Midlands -5 24 £56,350 -11.61% 20
South West -47 24 £55,000 -19.74% 35
Yorkshire -53 22 £52,130 -25.53% 13
North East -16 10 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Scotland -65 8 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East Midlands -23 5 £55,200 +29.88% 4
East of England -69 5 £45,000 -33.33% 17
Wales -19 3 £73,801 +23.00% 3
Northern Ireland -30 1 £73,801 +51.39% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
TDD
UK

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.65%) Confluence
3 6 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.52%) nginx
5 3 (1.14%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.76%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.00%) AWS
2 102 (38.64%) Azure
3 49 (18.56%) Serverless
4 28 (10.61%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (10.61%) GCP
5 22 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (6.44%) SaaS
7 15 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (5.30%) GitHub
9 12 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (4.17%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.79%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.41%) PaaS
12 9 (3.41%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Broadband
1 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.14%) VPN
3 2 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (13.26%) MySQL
3 31 (11.74%) NoSQL
4 25 (9.47%) Relational Database
5 24 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.95%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.27%) Redis
9 5 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.52%) Metadata
11 3 (1.14%) GIS
11 3 (1.14%) QGIS
12 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.76%) Power BI
13 1 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.38%) Big Data
13 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (15.15%) Git
2 38 (14.39%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.47%) JUnit
4 19 (7.20%) Mockito
5 14 (5.30%) JIRA
6 13 (4.92%) Cucumber
7 11 (4.17%) GitLab
7 11 (4.17%) Maven
8 10 (3.79%) Selenium
9 9 (3.41%) JMeter
10 6 (2.27%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.52%) Postman
11 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.14%) Appium
12 3 (1.14%) Gradle
12 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
General
1 47 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.77%) Public Sector
3 27 (10.23%) Finance
4 15 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.55%) Banking
6 7 (2.65%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.27%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Legal
9 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.14%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.76%) Games
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 130 (49.24%) Developer
2 96 (36.36%) Senior
3 67 (25.38%) Software Engineer
4 52 (19.70%) Senior Developer
5 42 (15.91%) Java Developer
6 34 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (10.23%) Lead
8 26 (9.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 20 (7.58%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (6.82%) Software Developer
11 17 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (6.06%) .NET Developer
13 15 (5.68%) Backend Developer
13 15 (5.68%) Java Engineer
13 15 (5.68%) Python Engineer
14 14 (5.30%) Senior Backend Developer
15 11 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
16 10 (3.79%) C# Developer
16 10 (3.79%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (27.27%) React
2 67 (25.38%) .NET
3 59 (22.35%) REST
4 57 (21.59%) Spring
5 54 (20.45%) Spring Boot
6 46 (17.42%) HTML
7 40 (15.15%) CSS
8 36 (13.64%) AngularJS
9 34 (12.88%) Node.js
10 30 (11.36%) Web Services
11 26 (9.85%) RESTful
12 22 (8.33%) jQuery
13 21 (7.95%) Kafka
14 20 (7.58%) Django
15 18 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (5.68%) .NET Framework
17 14 (5.30%) JSON
18 13 (4.92%) Hibernate
18 13 (4.92%) XML
19 12 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 28 (10.61%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.52%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.14%) IoT
10 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
10 3 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.68%) Linux
2 4 (1.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (66.29%) Agile
2 128 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 96 (36.36%) Microservices
4 89 (33.71%) Software Engineering
5 80 (30.30%) DevOps
6 73 (27.65%) Scrum
7 64 (24.24%) Mentoring
8 62 (23.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 56 (21.21%) SDLC
10 55 (20.83%) Test Automation
11 54 (20.45%) BDD
11 54 (20.45%) Containerisation
12 47 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (11.74%) Coaching
15 28 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (10.23%) SOLID
17 26 (9.85%) Event-Driven
17 26 (9.85%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 112 (42.42%) Java
2 89 (33.71%) JavaScript
3 62 (23.48%) Python
4 57 (21.59%) C#
5 51 (19.32%) SQL
6 43 (16.29%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.58%) PHP
8 11 (4.17%) Go
9 9 (3.41%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.03%) Delphi
11 7 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.27%) Bash
12 6 (2.27%) C
12 6 (2.27%) C++
12 6 (2.27%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.89%) VBA
14 4 (1.52%) R
14 4 (1.52%) Rust
15 3 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.33%) Degree
3 19 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.98%) QA
2 9 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (31.44%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.71%) Terraform
3 7 (2.65%) Kibana
4 6 (2.27%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Grafana
5 4 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.76%) Packer
6 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (6.82%) Oracle
2 13 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.79%) Google
4 9 (3.41%) Pega
5 8 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.65%) Splunk
7 5 (1.89%) Blue Prism
7 5 (1.89%) Databricks
7 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.52%) WSO2
9 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.76%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.38%) Veracode
10 1 (0.38%) Zend