TDD Contracts in Birmingham

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing TDD 7 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 1.16% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.40% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 22
10th Percentile £418 £335 £414
25th Percentile £425 £410 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -32.08% +38.74%
75th Percentile £485 - £700
90th Percentile £487 £465 -
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £595
% change year-on-year +2.22% -24.37% +19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) Mockito
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) Ant
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) jMock
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (14.29%) PowerMock
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase