TDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for TDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TDD over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 100 92
Rank change year-on-year -73 -8 -25
Contract jobs citing TDD 252 548 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 2.41% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.70% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 406 570
10th Percentile £356 £410 £399
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £585
90th Percentile £625 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.65% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 31 29
10th Percentile - £60.00 £49.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £61.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -6.43% +18.14%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £78.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.92% +5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

TDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,470 20,263 27,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.91% 89.11% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,284 13,881 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £260 £244
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £583
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 1,254 1,348
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.67 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.58 £74.25 £63.08
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -62 71 £550 -4.35% 114
East of England +5 61 £500 -14.24% 29
South East -33 51 £413 -28.57% 63
Yorkshire -25 39 £550 -8.33% 14
South West -10 29 £585 +11.43% 38
Scotland -24 26 £463 -3.60% 30
North West -50 26 £538 -2.27% 96
Midlands -15 14 £450 -24.37% 43
West Midlands -17 13 £450 -24.37% 28
North East -1 6 £375 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -6 1 £398 -43.21% 15
TDD
UK

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (3.17%) Confluence
2 6 (2.38%) Apache
2 6 (2.38%) Drupal
3 4 (1.59%) Appian
4 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.79%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Jadu
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.17%) AWS
2 44 (17.46%) Azure
3 33 (13.10%) Serverless
4 21 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.94%) GitHub
6 15 (5.95%) GCP
7 14 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.17%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.38%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.98%) PaaS
11 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 4 (1.59%) Unqork
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.49%) Modbus
1 34 (13.49%) RS-422
1 34 (13.49%) RS-485
2 17 (6.75%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.37%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.38%) HTTP
5 2 (0.79%) Firewall
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.51%) NoSQL
1 29 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.94%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.75%) MySQL
4 14 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.98%) Flink
9 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.59%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.79%) Power BI
11 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.79%) Redis
11 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 55 (21.83%) Git
2 37 (14.68%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.92%) JIRA
4 21 (8.33%) JUnit
5 20 (7.94%) Visual Studio
6 14 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 13 (5.16%) Selenium
8 11 (4.37%) Eclipse
8 11 (4.37%) Mockito
9 9 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.57%) Postman
10 8 (3.17%) JMeter
10 8 (3.17%) NUnit
11 7 (2.78%) GitLab
11 7 (2.78%) Subversion
12 6 (2.38%) WebDriver
13 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.59%) Gatling
14 4 (1.59%) Maven
14 4 (1.59%) TestRail
General
1 77 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.29%) Electronics
3 31 (12.30%) Finance
4 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.37%) Military
7 9 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.98%) Automotive
9 5 (1.98%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.59%) Banking
10 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.19%) Marketing
12 2 (0.79%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Back Office
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (51.19%) Developer
2 64 (25.40%) Software Engineer
3 55 (21.83%) Java Developer
4 35 (13.89%) C++ Software Engineer
5 34 (13.49%) Senior
6 22 (8.73%) Test Engineer
7 17 (6.75%) Full Stack Developer
8 15 (5.95%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.16%) Lead
9 13 (5.16%) Software Developer
10 11 (4.37%) Architect
10 11 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Senior Test Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.97%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) .NET Developer
13 8 (3.17%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.17%) Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.78%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.22%) Spring
2 49 (19.44%) React
3 45 (17.86%) Spring Boot
4 39 (15.48%) REST
5 33 (13.10%) Node.js
6 31 (12.30%) .NET
7 30 (11.90%) CSS
7 30 (11.90%) Kafka
7 30 (11.90%) Web Services
8 26 (10.32%) HTML
9 25 (9.92%) RESTful
10 17 (6.75%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.56%) AWS CDK
12 11 (4.37%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (3.57%) OAuth
14 8 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (3.17%) Next.js
14 8 (3.17%) SAML
14 8 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.79%) IoT
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.40%) Mashup
10 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.51%) Linux
2 18 (7.14%) Unix
3 15 (5.95%) Windows
4 7 (2.78%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.19%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (70.24%) Agile
2 84 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 83 (32.94%) Software Engineering
4 81 (32.14%) DevOps
5 75 (29.76%) Continuous Integration
6 70 (27.78%) Microservices
7 68 (26.98%) Test Automation
8 67 (26.59%) BDD
9 66 (26.19%) Unit Testing
10 65 (25.79%) Pair Programming
11 50 (19.84%) Scrum
12 45 (17.86%) Software Testing
13 43 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
15 40 (15.87%) Customer Requirements
16 32 (12.70%) Kanban
17 24 (9.52%) Mentoring
18 23 (9.13%) SDLC
19 22 (8.73%) SOLID
19 22 (8.73%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 109 (43.25%) Java
2 75 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 74 (29.37%) C#
4 71 (28.17%) SQL
5 52 (20.63%) C++
6 42 (16.67%) C
7 32 (12.70%) TypeScript
8 26 (10.32%) Python
9 17 (6.75%) PHP
10 14 (5.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.97%) Scala
12 9 (3.57%) Groovy
13 8 (3.17%) Bash
14 5 (1.98%) Go
15 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.79%) VB
17 2 (0.79%) VBA
17 2 (0.79%) VBScript
18 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (7.94%) Degree
2 18 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.59%) HNC
8 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.79%) ISEB
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) OCP
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.35%) QA
3 3 (1.19%) PMO
4 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (18.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) zsh
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.75%) Grafana
3 11 (4.37%) Terraform
4 7 (2.78%) Ansible
5 5 (1.98%) Kibana
6 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.56%) Oracle
3 9 (3.57%) Google
4 6 (2.38%) IBM
5 4 (1.59%) OpenText
5 4 (1.59%) Pega
5 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.59%) SAP
6 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.79%) Atmel
7 2 (0.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Embarcadero
8 1 (0.40%) Okta
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Typelevel