TDD Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 113 93 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 -21
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 60 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.01% 2.04% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 2.23% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 47
10th Percentile £358 £438 £410
25th Percentile £431 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £563 £675 £538
90th Percentile £618 - £581
South East median daily rate £475 £580 £500
% change year-on-year -18.10% +16.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.08
25th Percentile - - £65.58
Median hourly rate - - £66.83
75th Percentile - - £67.75
90th Percentile - - £68.05
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +14.50% -0.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -19 19 £475 +3.83% 5
Buckinghamshire +17 8 £469 -27.88% 7
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Jadu
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure API Management
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) IP Telephony
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
6 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.70%) Redis
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
4 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Mockito
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Back Office
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Marketing
2 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) .NET Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.70%) CRM Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) CRM Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.70%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Spring
1 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 9 (33.33%) .NET
2 9 (33.33%) REST
3 8 (29.63%) Web Services
4 7 (25.93%) Kafka
5 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (22.22%) Node.js
6 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (18.52%) RESTful
6 5 (18.52%) SOAP
6 5 (18.52%) Symfony
7 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET
8 3 (11.11%) HTML
8 3 (11.11%) J2EE
8 3 (11.11%) React
9 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
9 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
9 2 (7.41%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Microservices
2 14 (51.85%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) BDD
5 9 (33.33%) SOLID
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (18.52%) Kanban
8 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
8 4 (14.81%) OO
9 3 (11.11%) API Management
9 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.11%) Workflow
10 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
10 2 (7.41%) Creative Thinking
10 2 (7.41%) Domain-Driven Design
10 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
10 2 (7.41%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) PHP
5 2 (7.41%) C
5 2 (7.41%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) Bicep
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Atmel
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk