TDD Contracts in Cardiff

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 24 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing TDD 6 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.75% - 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% - 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £343 - £413
25th Percentile £370 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.06%
75th Percentile £406 - £675
90th Percentile £418 - -
South Wales median daily rate £395 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +47.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) React
3 3 (50.00%) Jest
3 3 (50.00%) Puppeteer
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG