TDD Contracts in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 62 34
Rank change year-on-year -45 -28 +37
Contract jobs citing TDD 28 104 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 3.45% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 3.85% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 89 139
10th Percentile £463 £410 £400
25th Percentile £500 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £659 £653 £675
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile £77.50 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £82.50 - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £81.00
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
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the North West 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
Manchester -28 25 £550 -2.22% 75
Cheshire -33 2 £475 -13.64% 8
Lancashire +3 1 £475 -24.00% 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.57%) Firebase
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.57%) DataStage
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.71%) JMeter
2 3 (10.71%) Selenium
2 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.14%) Gatling
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.14%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) Crashlytics
4 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Gradle
4 1 (3.57%) Mercurial
4 1 (3.57%) Mockito
4 1 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Senior
4 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Spring
2 7 (25.00%) React
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js
4 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (14.29%) Kafka
4 4 (14.29%) Web Services
5 3 (10.71%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (10.71%) HTML
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
6 2 (7.14%) .NET
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.14%) CSS
6 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
6 2 (7.14%) REST
6 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.57%) Dagger
7 1 (3.57%) JAX-RS
7 1 (3.57%) Jest
7 1 (3.57%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.71%) Derivative
3 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Unix
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) BDD
3 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 9 (32.14%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) OO
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
7 5 (17.86%) OOP
7 5 (17.86%) Pair Programming
7 5 (17.86%) SDLC
8 4 (14.29%) Low Latency
8 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (14.29%) Web Development
9 3 (10.71%) B2B
9 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) C#
5 3 (10.71%) PHP
6 2 (7.14%) Groovy
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Embarcadero
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle