TDD Contracts in Manchester

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 55 23
Rank change year-on-year -21 -32 +16
Contract jobs citing TDD 25 65 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.63% 3.43% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.73% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 51 141
10th Percentile £500 £410 -
25th Percentile £506 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £575
90th Percentile £668 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Salford -5 1 - -
Bolton - 1 £525 -
TDD
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.00%) Datadog
5 1 (4.00%) Firebase
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Google Play
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.00%) DataStage
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) JMeter
3 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.00%) Gatling
4 2 (8.00%) Gradle
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 2 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Crashlytics
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Postman
5 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Android Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Developer in Test
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (4.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Node.js
2 6 (24.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.00%) Kafka
3 5 (20.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) CSS
4 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 4 (16.00%) Web Services
5 3 (12.00%) HTML
5 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.00%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (4.00%) CSS3
7 1 (4.00%) Jest
7 1 (4.00%) Material Design
7 1 (4.00%) Next.js
7 1 (4.00%) Playwright
7 1 (4.00%) REST
7 1 (4.00%) Sass
7 1 (4.00%) SOAP
7 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Android
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (28.00%) BDD
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (20.00%) Pair Programming
7 4 (16.00%) Web Development
8 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
8 3 (12.00%) Mob Programming
8 3 (12.00%) OO
8 3 (12.00%) OOP
8 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) SDLC
8 3 (12.00%) User Experience
9 2 (8.00%) Code Quality
9 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) Groovy
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) Scala
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Confluent
2 1 (4.00%) Embarcadero
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) New Relic