TDD Contracts in Reading

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -27
Contract jobs citing TDD 15 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.27% 2.50% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.78% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 21
10th Percentile £438 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £453 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £470 £538
90th Percentile £493 £500 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £458 £525
% change year-on-year +3.83% -12.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Jadu
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (6.67%) Mockito
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) Spring
1 11 (73.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (46.67%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (40.00%) Kafka
3 6 (40.00%) Node.js
4 5 (33.33%) RESTful
4 5 (33.33%) SOAP
4 5 (33.33%) Symfony
5 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (20.00%) J2EE
7 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
7 2 (13.33%) Mustache
7 2 (13.33%) React
8 1 (6.67%) .NET
8 1 (6.67%) HTML
8 1 (6.67%) Twig
8 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (33.33%) Kanban
6 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
6 4 (26.67%) SOLID
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Workflow
8 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
8 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
8 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
8 1 (6.67%) Performance Improvement
8 1 (6.67%) Process Management
8 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
8 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (6.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Java
1 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk