TDD Contracts in the Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 108 108
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -21
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 50 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.43% 1.53% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.74% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 39 72
10th Percentile £399 £363 £367
25th Percentile £414 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £595 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% +19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £469 £700 £575
90th Percentile £525 - £625
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.51
25th Percentile - - £56.54
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £58.14
75th Percentile - - £59.82
90th Percentile - - £59.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.76
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.30% +5.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,867 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 87.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 2,015 3,259
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands -16 11 £450 -24.37% 29
East Midlands -7 1 £398 -43.21% 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SonarCloud
3 1 (8.33%) Boomi
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) Moq
3 2 (16.67%) NUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Ant
4 1 (8.33%) Gradle
4 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
4 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (33.33%) React
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (16.67%) Swagger
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) WSDL
4 1 (8.33%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) XSD
4 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) SOA
4 5 (41.67%) BDD
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (16.67%) API Development
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) R
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow