Real-world coding for UK developers
You already know tests are good. What you don't have is a spare afternoon to write them. This is a field guide to testing strategies that survive standups, stakeholder calls, and the third context switch of the morning — including the 90-second suite that changed how our team works.
Most UK SMEs don't have a security team — they have a CTO who also does the hiring. Here's a practical, no-fluff approach to dependency hygiene that fits into a Friday afternoon, drawing on the npm and PyPI incidents that should have taught us all a lesson by now.
We spent twelve months combing through software projects from SMEs across Britain — from Manchester's .NET holdouts to Shoreditch's Node.js shops. The patterns we found say a lot about how the UK really builds software.
Brexit, a pandemic, a hiring boom, a bust — the UK developer job market has been through the wringer. Here's our honest read on where salaries, remote work and in-demand skills actually stand in 2025.