TDD Job Trends in the West Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 152 104
Rank change year-on-year +4 -48 +24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 32 46 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.61% 1.06% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.17% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 65
10th Percentile £42,655 £50,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £57,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,482 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% +32.96% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,941 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £84,967 £80,500
England median annual salary £69,750 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,343 3,932 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.57% 90.66% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,772 2,527
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TDD

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Birmingham +21 24 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Coventry -4 3 £47,500 - 1
Solihull - 2 - -
Staffordshire -12 1 £60,000 - 1
Tipton - 1 £42,500 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - -
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England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.25%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 6 (18.75%) PowerApps
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 5 (15.63%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) JUnit
2 6 (18.75%) Maven
2 6 (18.75%) Mockito
3 4 (12.50%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) Selenium
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.13%) Gatling
6 1 (3.13%) JIRA
6 1 (3.13%) NUnit
6 1 (3.13%) PHPUnit
6 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Developer
2 17 (53.13%) Senior
3 13 (40.63%) Senior Developer
4 8 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 7 (21.88%) .NET Developer
6 6 (18.75%) C# Developer
6 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (15.63%) Applications Developer
7 5 (15.63%) Automation Developer
7 5 (15.63%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (15.63%) CRM Developer
7 5 (15.63%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 5 (15.63%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) .NET
2 8 (25.00%) Spring
3 7 (21.88%) React
3 7 (21.88%) REST
4 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Cordova
7 2 (6.25%) Django
7 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (6.25%) Flask
7 2 (6.25%) pytest
7 2 (6.25%) Vue
8 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.13%) Alpine.js
8 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (3.13%) Dapper ORM
8 1 (3.13%) Laravel
8 1 (3.13%) Playwright
8 1 (3.13%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Agile
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 17 (53.13%) DevOps
4 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (31.25%) SOA
6 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 8 (25.00%) Migration
7 8 (25.00%) Scrum
8 7 (21.88%) CRM
8 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.88%) SDLC
9 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.75%) Data Migration
9 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
11 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) C#
2 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 11 (34.38%) Java
4 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
5 6 (18.75%) SQL
6 4 (12.50%) Bash
6 4 (12.50%) Python
7 2 (6.25%) C
7 2 (6.25%) Delphi
7 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 2 (6.25%) R
7 2 (6.25%) Scala
7 2 (6.25%) VBA
8 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Blue Prism
2 2 (6.25%) Pega
2 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Zend