Feature Driven Development Contracts

Feature Driven Development (FDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Feature Driven Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Feature Driven Development over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 705 826
Rank change year-on-year +118 +121 -147
Contract jobs citing Feature Driven Development 4 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.022% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.024% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £428 £335 £356
25th Percentile £450 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £575
90th Percentile £573 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Feature Driven Development 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Feature Driven Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Feature Driven Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Feature Driven Development.

Daily rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Driven Development over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Feature Driven Development.

Hourly rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Driven Development within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
UK excluding London +63 4 £500 +5.26% 1
England +101 2 £575 +21.05% 2
Scotland - 2 £425 -
Work from Home +122 1 £425 -10.53% 1
North of England +24 1 £575 +21.05%
South East +21 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £575 -

Feature Driven Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) ATDD
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) V-Model
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VBA
1 2 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft