TDD Contracts in the North East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing TDD 4 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.18% 6.84% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 7.47% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +23.08% +4.84%
75th Percentile £388 £725 £546
90th Percentile - £758 £556
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 273 388 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.29% 91.51% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 301 338
10th Percentile £228 £255 £176
25th Percentile £363 £410 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £679
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £11.81 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%
75th Percentile £47.47 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear -4 4 £375 -37.50% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) BrowserStack
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Full Stack Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Next.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Full Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana