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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing TDD 15 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.63% 1.05% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 1.32% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 13
10th Percentile £425 £415 £383
25th Percentile £463 £421 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -35.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £500 £456 -
90th Percentile - £468 -
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +6.67% -20.00% +7.14%
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 498 604 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.22% 79.37% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 414 518
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £620
90th Percentile £689 £700 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 28 29
10th Percentile - £13.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.16 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £25.33 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +5.52% +38.33%
75th Percentile £22.08 £41.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.05% -24.00% +42.86%

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (40.00%) AWS KMS
4 6 (40.00%) Route 53
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) DynamoDB
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) JUnit
2 10 (66.67%) Maven
3 8 (53.33%) Git
3 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (46.67%) Mockito
5 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (26.67%) DbUnit
6 4 (26.67%) jMock
7 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (20.00%) Gradle
8 1 (6.67%) Ant
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Back Office
6 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) Spring
2 9 (60.00%) RESTful
3 8 (53.33%) REST
3 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (53.33%) Web Services
4 7 (46.67%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (46.67%) SOAP
5 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (40.00%) JPA
5 6 (40.00%) Spring Batch
5 6 (40.00%) Spring Integration
6 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (26.67%) Bootstrap
6 4 (26.67%) Kafka
6 4 (26.67%) PowerMock
6 4 (26.67%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (20.00%) Gherkin
8 2 (13.33%) Node.js
9 1 (6.67%) Mustache
9 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Microservices
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Kanban
6 4 (26.67%) Open Source
6 4 (26.67%) SDLC
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 1 (6.67%) Batch Processing
9 1 (6.67%) Biometrics
9 1 (6.67%) Pair Programming
9 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
9 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
9 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (26.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.67%) Sybase