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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 158 83
Rank change year-on-year +51 -75 +8
Permanent jobs citing TDD 37 17 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.60% 0.43% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.56% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 38
10th Percentile - £37,875 £41,900
25th Percentile £57,500 £39,063 £49,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -18.10% +5.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,375 £58,563
90th Percentile - £68,625 £67,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 1,972 3,051 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.11% 76.81% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 1,472 1,063
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,713 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,300 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TDD 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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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 17 September 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 +37 27 - - 1
Leicestershire +40 7 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Derbyshire 0 2 - - 1
Lincolnshire -3 1 - - 1
TDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (91.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (94.59%) Azure
3 34 (91.89%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.41%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (94.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (97.30%) GitLab
1 36 (97.30%) SonarQube
2 34 (91.89%) Bitbucket
2 34 (91.89%) Cucumber
2 34 (91.89%) JIRA
2 34 (91.89%) Maven
2 34 (91.89%) Selenium
2 34 (91.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 34 (91.89%) Banking
1 34 (91.89%) Finance
1 34 (91.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (91.89%) Software Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (2.70%) C# Developer
3 1 (2.70%) Developer
3 1 (2.70%) Senior
3 1 (2.70%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (91.89%) CSS
1 34 (91.89%) Hibernate
1 34 (91.89%) HTML
1 34 (91.89%) JPA
1 34 (91.89%) Kafka
1 34 (91.89%) React
1 34 (91.89%) Redux
1 34 (91.89%) Spring
1 34 (91.89%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.70%) OAuth
2 1 (2.70%) OpenID
2 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (94.59%) Product Ownership
2 34 (91.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
1 37 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 36 (97.30%) Agile
2 36 (97.30%) SDLC
3 35 (94.59%) Clean Code
3 35 (94.59%) Microservices
4 34 (91.89%) Containerisation
4 34 (91.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (91.89%) Front End Development
4 34 (91.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (91.89%) Performance Optimisation
4 34 (91.89%) Software Engineering
5 2 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (5.41%) Observability
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (2.70%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (2.70%) Design Patterns
6 1 (2.70%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 36 (97.30%) Java
2 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
3 34 (91.89%) SQL
4 2 (5.41%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Python
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (94.59%) QA
System Software
1 37 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (97.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (91.89%) Solace
2 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft