TDD Job Trends in Wales

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 49 83
Rank change year-on-year -41 +34 -13
Permanent jobs citing TDD 11 8 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.57% 1.51% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.79% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 30
10th Percentile £39,221 £57,040 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £64,466 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +47.37% +72.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,787 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,758 £80,500 £70,923
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,251 447 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.38% 84.18% 71.42%
Number of salaries quoted 869 280 1,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,240 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Wales

TDD
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in Wales over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in Wales

TDD
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales -35 9 £63,500 -9.29% 6
West Wales - 2 £73,750 - 2
TDD
UK

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 1 (9.09%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (9.09%) Mocha
4 1 (9.09%) Moq
4 1 (9.09%) RSpec
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Software Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior
4 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Consultant
5 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Software Consultant
6 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
6 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (18.18%) Tester
7 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) HTML5
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) CSS3
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 1 (9.09%) Express.js
4 1 (9.09%) hapi
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) NestJS
4 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Acoustics
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) AIX
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
5 3 (27.27%) User Stories
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) OneLogin
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle