TDD Contracts in London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 63 48
Rank change year-on-year -19 -15 -19
Contract jobs citing TDD 507 953 2,006
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.87% 3.79% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 4.17% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 711 1,558
10th Percentile £363 £463 £452
25th Percentile £463 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +12.92%
75th Percentile £750 £759 £713
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 24
10th Percentile £54.29 £64.50 -
25th Percentile £56.97 £71.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.43 £75.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +61.29% -29.55%
75th Percentile £63.72 £82.03 £74.63
90th Percentile £65.09 £90.00 £75.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £68.17
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.69% +4.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in London.

Daily rate trend for TDD in London

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in London.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -32 48 £625 -1.96% 48
West London +16 29 £330 -47.20% 2
South London -4 15 £500 -41.18% 2
East London 0 12 £738 -13.24% 5
TDD
England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (3.75%) CMS
2 14 (2.76%) Confluence
3 9 (1.78%) Apache
3 9 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.58%) nginx
5 7 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.38%) SAS
6 4 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) Drupal
7 3 (0.59%) IIS
8 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.20%) GemFire
9 1 (0.20%) Jadu
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) NEC Housing
1 6 (1.18%) Shopify
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 183 (36.09%) Azure
2 162 (31.95%) AWS
3 86 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (14.79%) GCP
5 71 (14.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 51 (10.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 40 (7.89%) Serverless
8 39 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (5.52%) GitHub
10 21 (4.14%) Azure API Management
11 19 (3.75%) Azure Pipelines
12 17 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (3.35%) Azure Storage
12 17 (3.35%) PaaS
13 16 (3.16%) Entra ID
13 16 (3.16%) Power Platform
14 15 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.96%) Azure Functions
15 14 (2.76%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.90%) HTTP
2 9 (1.78%) FTP
2 9 (1.78%) SSH
3 5 (0.99%) Internet
4 4 (0.79%) SSL
5 2 (0.39%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) DNS
6 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.20%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.20%) SNMP
6 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (20.12%) SQL Server
2 45 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 41 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 37 (7.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 36 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (6.11%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.56%) KDB
8 12 (2.37%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.17%) Redis
10 10 (1.97%) Power BI
11 9 (1.78%) Big Data
12 8 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.38%) MySQL
14 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.18%) OLTP
15 4 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
15 4 (0.79%) Mixpanel
15 4 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 118 (23.27%) Git
2 56 (11.05%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.48%) JIRA
4 37 (7.30%) JUnit
5 33 (6.51%) Cucumber
6 32 (6.31%) Postman
7 26 (5.13%) Selenium
8 25 (4.93%) Mockito
9 21 (4.14%) SpecFlow
10 19 (3.75%) TeamCity
11 17 (3.35%) Cypress.io
12 16 (3.16%) Gradle
12 16 (3.16%) Maven
13 15 (2.96%) Visual Studio
14 13 (2.56%) JMeter
15 12 (2.37%) SoapUI
16 10 (1.97%) TestNG
16 10 (1.97%) WebDriver
17 9 (1.78%) Appium
17 9 (1.78%) eggPlant
General
1 157 (30.97%) Finance
2 89 (17.55%) Social Skills
3 70 (13.81%) Front Office
4 64 (12.62%) Banking
5 43 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.89%) Back Office
7 30 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (5.13%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.94%) Retail
10 8 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.58%) Marketing
11 7 (1.38%) Advertising
11 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.79%) Local Government
14 3 (0.59%) Electronics
14 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.59%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 331 (65.29%) Developer
2 134 (26.43%) Senior
3 98 (19.33%) Senior Developer
4 92 (18.15%) Java Developer
5 53 (10.45%) Software Engineer
6 51 (10.06%) Lead
7 43 (8.48%) Scala Developer
8 41 (8.09%) .NET Developer
9 35 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 33 (6.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 32 (6.31%) Python Developer
12 31 (6.11%) C# Developer
13 22 (4.34%) Finance Manager
14 21 (4.14%) .NET Software Developer
15 20 (3.94%) .NET Software Engineer
15 20 (3.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 19 (3.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 19 (3.75%) Software Asset Manager
16 19 (3.75%) Software Manager
17 17 (3.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (31.16%) .NET
2 98 (19.33%) React
3 96 (18.93%) .NET Core
4 86 (16.96%) Kafka
5 81 (15.98%) REST
6 75 (14.79%) Spring
7 67 (13.21%) RESTful
8 61 (12.03%) HTML
9 58 (11.44%) CSS
10 55 (10.85%) Web Services
11 46 (9.07%) Spring Boot
12 45 (8.88%) AngularJS
13 40 (7.89%) Akka
14 39 (7.69%) Node.js
14 39 (7.69%) Redux
15 32 (6.31%) ASP.NET
16 31 (6.11%) XML
17 29 (5.72%) JSON
18 26 (5.13%) SOAP
19 24 (4.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.45%) Derivative
2 48 (9.47%) Fixed Income
3 33 (6.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (5.33%) Hedge funds
5 26 (5.13%) Equities
6 24 (4.73%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.14%) Algorithms
7 21 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.56%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.56%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.58%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
15 4 (0.79%) Market Risk
15 4 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.62%) Linux
2 53 (10.45%) Unix
3 16 (3.16%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.78%) Android
5 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.18%) Windows
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (68.05%) Agile
2 222 (43.79%) DevOps
3 166 (32.74%) CI/CD
4 164 (32.35%) Microservices
5 145 (28.60%) BDD
6 131 (25.84%) Test Automation
7 129 (25.44%) Software Engineering
8 112 (22.09%) Continuous Integration
9 97 (19.13%) Pair Programming
10 95 (18.74%) Clean Code
11 90 (17.75%) Scrum
12 82 (16.17%) OO
13 72 (14.20%) Full Stack Development
14 62 (12.23%) API Management
15 61 (12.03%) Unit Testing
16 57 (11.24%) OOD
17 49 (9.66%) Continuous Deployment
18 46 (9.07%) Kanban
19 40 (7.89%) Design Patterns
20 39 (7.69%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 169 (33.33%) Java
2 157 (30.97%) C#
3 120 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 98 (19.33%) SQL
4 98 (19.33%) TypeScript
5 92 (18.15%) Python
6 56 (11.05%) Scala
7 52 (10.26%) Bicep
8 25 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.14%) PHP
10 20 (3.94%) Go
11 17 (3.35%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.78%) C++
14 7 (1.38%) BeanShell
15 6 (1.18%) Perl
15 6 (1.18%) Ruby
16 5 (0.99%) C
16 5 (0.99%) Groovy
17 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.30%) Degree
4 16 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.99%) ISTQB
6 5 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.59%) PMP
8 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) OCP
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.86%) QA
2 33 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.34%) WCAG
4 9 (1.78%) MiFID
5 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.39%) HL7
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (11.44%) Docker
2 47 (9.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) GridGain
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 98 (19.33%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.69%) Terraform
3 21 (4.14%) Grafana
4 15 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.37%) Ansible
6 8 (1.58%) Kibana
7 6 (1.18%) Puppet
8 3 (0.59%) logstash
8 3 (0.59%) Netcool
8 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Istio
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Salt
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.93%) Oracle
3 21 (4.14%) Typelevel
4 13 (2.56%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.58%) Google
5 8 (1.58%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.58%) SAP
6 7 (1.38%) Splunk
7 6 (1.18%) NEC
7 6 (1.18%) TIBCO
8 5 (0.99%) Adobe
8 5 (0.99%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.99%) Databricks
8 5 (0.99%) New Relic
8 5 (0.99%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.79%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.79%) Informatica
9 4 (0.79%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.79%) Solace
10 2 (0.39%) Dell