TDD Contracts in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 110 57 36
Rank change year-on-year -53 -21 +22
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 113 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.98% 3.52% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 3.88% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 96 161
10th Percentile £463 £412 -
25th Percentile £500 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £664 £669 £675
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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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 27 April 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 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
Manchester -21 25 £550 -4.35% 71
Cheshire -32 2 £475 -13.64% 13
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England

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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 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Firebase
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Google Play
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.70%) DataStage
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JMeter
3 3 (11.11%) Selenium
3 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (7.41%) Gatling
4 2 (7.41%) Gradle
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) Crashlytics
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
5 1 (3.70%) Mercurial
5 1 (3.70%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Android Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.70%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Node.js
2 6 (22.22%) React
2 6 (22.22%) Spring
3 5 (18.52%) Kafka
4 4 (14.81%) CSS
4 4 (14.81%) RESTful
4 4 (14.81%) Web Services
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 2 (7.41%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.70%) CSS3
7 1 (3.70%) Dagger
7 1 (3.70%) Material Design
7 1 (3.70%) Sass
7 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Derivative
3 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 7 (25.93%) BDD
5 7 (25.93%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (25.93%) Pair Programming
6 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (18.52%) OO
7 5 (18.52%) SDLC
8 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
8 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (14.81%) DevOps
8 4 (14.81%) Web Development
9 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 3 (11.11%) OOP
9 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) Groovy
5 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.41%) PHP
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Confluent
2 1 (3.70%) Embarcadero
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) New Relic