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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 111 164
Rank change year-on-year -54 +53 -103
Permanent jobs citing TDD 5 37 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.086% 1.61% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 1.89% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 17
10th Percentile £56,375 £35,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -18.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £60,000 £66,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

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 4,131 1,960 3,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.19% 85.48% 75.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,704 1,090 1,848
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,988 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,313 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -16 5 £65,000 +85.71% 9
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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 3 (60.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) MassTransit
2 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Coaching
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Physics
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI