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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 144 73
Rank change year-on-year +40 -71 +30
Permanent jobs citing TDD 38 15 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.67% 0.43% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.55% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 42
10th Percentile £47,375 £40,625 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,250 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -10.31% +1.36%
75th Percentile £59,063 £64,688 £62,375
90th Percentile £61,125 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -

All Process and 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 1,965 2,742 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.18% 79.07% 92.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,156 1,075
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £27,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +41 27 - -
Leicestershire +26 7 £60,000 - 7
Derbyshire -12 2 - - 9
Nottinghamshire -1 1 £47,500 -19.15% 11
Lincolnshire -8 1 - - 2
TDD
England

TDD
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 34 (89.47%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
2 36 (94.74%) Azure
3 34 (89.47%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (94.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (94.74%) GitLab
1 36 (94.74%) SonarQube
2 34 (89.47%) Bitbucket
2 34 (89.47%) Cucumber
2 34 (89.47%) JIRA
2 34 (89.47%) Maven
2 34 (89.47%) Selenium
2 34 (89.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (92.11%) Finance
2 34 (89.47%) Banking
2 34 (89.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (89.47%) Software Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) Developer
2 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) C# Developer
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (2.63%) Senior
3 1 (2.63%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (89.47%) CSS
1 34 (89.47%) Hibernate
1 34 (89.47%) HTML
1 34 (89.47%) JPA
1 34 (89.47%) Kafka
1 34 (89.47%) React
1 34 (89.47%) Redux
1 34 (89.47%) Spring
1 34 (89.47%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) OpenID
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (92.11%) Product Ownership
2 34 (89.47%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (97.37%) Agile
2 37 (97.37%) CI/CD
2 37 (97.37%) Test Automation
3 36 (94.74%) SDLC
4 35 (92.11%) Clean Code
4 35 (92.11%) Microservices
5 34 (89.47%) Containerisation
5 34 (89.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (89.47%) Front End Development
5 34 (89.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (89.47%) Performance Optimisation
5 34 (89.47%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (5.26%) Observability
7 1 (2.63%) AI
7 1 (2.63%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.63%) Scrum
7 1 (2.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) Java
2 35 (92.11%) JavaScript
2 35 (92.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (92.11%) QA
System Software
1 37 (97.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (94.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (89.47%) Solace
2 2 (5.26%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft