TDD Job Trends in the East Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 122 77
Rank change year-on-year -8 -45 +33
Permanent jobs citing TDD 5 6 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.27% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.31% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 46
10th Percentile £47,480 £36,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £49,325 £39,375 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.23% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,750 £64,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,600 £75,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% +3.85% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,987 1,955 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.86% 88.62% 85.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 824 1,284
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,575 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,125 £35,000 £36,131
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
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 East Midlands

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing TDD

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TDD in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Nottinghamshire +22 2 £56,250 -18.18% 5
Northamptonshire - 2 - - 2
Leicestershire +1 1 £55,200 +38.00% 2
TDD
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) API Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Business Case
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle