TDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 68 54
Rank change year-on-year -62 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing TDD 241 843 2,021
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.60% 3.36% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.74% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 652 1,439
10th Percentile £325 £430 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £713 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 27
10th Percentile £66.25 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £68.13 £64.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £67.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +48.89% +3.45%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £80.75 - £72.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -5.11% +4.52% +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

TDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TDD.

TDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

TDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TDD.

TDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

TDD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (6.64%) nginx
2 9 (3.73%) CMS
2 9 (3.73%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.24%) Drupal
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.41%) GemFire
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) RMDS
2 2 (0.83%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Endur
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.02%) AWS
2 81 (33.61%) Azure
3 46 (19.09%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.20%) Serverless
5 24 (9.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 22 (9.13%) GCP
7 17 (7.05%) Azure Functions
8 16 (6.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 14 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.81%) GitHub
10 13 (5.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.73%) Azure API Management
15 8 (3.32%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.32%) Azure Pipelines
16 7 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.66%) FTP
2 3 (1.24%) HTTP
2 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.41%) VLAN
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.60%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.56%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.90%) MySQL
10 6 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.49%) Power BI
11 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (1.66%) OLTP
12 4 (1.66%) Power Query
12 4 (1.66%) Redis
12 4 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (21.58%) Git
2 23 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.47%) JIRA
4 12 (4.98%) Visual Studio
5 10 (4.15%) JUnit
6 9 (3.73%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.73%) Selenium
7 8 (3.32%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.32%) JMeter
7 8 (3.32%) Postman
7 8 (3.32%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.90%) GitLab
9 6 (2.49%) Mockito
10 5 (2.07%) Moq
11 4 (1.66%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.66%) Gradle
11 4 (1.66%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.66%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio Team System
11 4 (1.66%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (16.18%) Finance
1 39 (16.18%) Public Sector
2 31 (12.86%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.39%) Banking
4 12 (4.98%) Back Office
5 10 (4.15%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.32%) Front Office
6 8 (3.32%) Marketing
6 8 (3.32%) Retail
7 7 (2.90%) Electronics
7 7 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Automotive
10 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 145 (60.17%) Developer
2 51 (21.16%) Senior
3 36 (14.94%) Senior Developer
4 35 (14.52%) Java Developer
5 27 (11.20%) Full Stack Developer
6 26 (10.79%) C# Developer
7 22 (9.13%) Software Engineer
8 21 (8.71%) Lead
9 16 (6.64%) .NET Developer
10 15 (6.22%) Senior Java Developer
11 13 (5.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 12 (4.98%) Azure Developer
12 12 (4.98%) C# .NET Developer
13 11 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.56%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.73%) PHP Developer
14 9 (3.73%) Scala Developer
15 8 (3.32%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (25.73%) .NET
2 49 (20.33%) React
3 46 (19.09%) HTML
4 43 (17.84%) CSS
5 37 (15.35%) REST
6 33 (13.69%) Spring
7 31 (12.86%) Node.js
8 29 (12.03%) Spring Boot
9 27 (11.20%) .NET Core
10 26 (10.79%) Laravel
11 25 (10.37%) Kafka
12 20 (8.30%) AngularJS
12 20 (8.30%) Sass
13 18 (7.47%) GraphQL
14 16 (6.64%) .NET Framework
15 15 (6.22%) ASP.NET
16 12 (4.98%) WebSockets
17 11 (4.56%) jQuery
17 11 (4.56%) Web Services
18 10 (4.15%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.98%) Derivative
3 9 (3.73%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.07%) NHS
6 4 (1.66%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.66%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Equities
7 3 (1.24%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.45%) Linux
2 25 (10.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.24%) Android
3 3 (1.24%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (51.04%) Agile
2 82 (34.02%) DevOps
3 78 (32.37%) Test Automation
4 65 (26.97%) CI/CD
5 64 (26.56%) BDD
5 64 (26.56%) Microservices
6 55 (22.82%) Software Engineering
7 46 (19.09%) Scrum
8 44 (18.26%) Full Stack Development
9 36 (14.94%) Clean Code
10 31 (12.86%) Unit Testing
11 29 (12.03%) Pair Programming
12 28 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (11.62%) OO
13 26 (10.79%) SOLID
14 24 (9.96%) Kanban
15 22 (9.13%) API Management
15 22 (9.13%) Web Development
16 20 (8.30%) OOD
16 20 (8.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.20%) Java
2 79 (32.78%) JavaScript
3 64 (26.56%) C#
4 50 (20.75%) TypeScript
5 45 (18.67%) SQL
6 34 (14.11%) Python
7 33 (13.69%) PHP
8 19 (7.88%) Bicep
9 13 (5.39%) Scala
10 9 (3.73%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.32%) Bash
11 8 (3.32%) C++
11 8 (3.32%) Ruby
11 8 (3.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.07%) Go
13 4 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.66%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.83%) C
14 2 (0.83%) Groovy
15 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.64%) Degree
4 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.07%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) ISEB
7 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) HNC
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.86%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.22%) QA
3 8 (3.32%) WCAG
4 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.66%) MiFID
5 3 (1.24%) PMO
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (12.86%) Docker
2 11 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) zsh
4 1 (0.41%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 28 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.54%) Terraform
3 11 (4.56%) Grafana
4 9 (3.73%) Kibana
5 5 (2.07%) Ansible
6 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.83%) logstash
7 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.05%) Oracle
3 12 (4.98%) Google
4 9 (3.73%) SAP
5 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.66%) Databricks
6 4 (1.66%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.24%) Solace
8 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.83%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) New Relic
8 2 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.41%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica
9 1 (0.41%) NEC
9 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.41%) Sitecore