TDD Contracts in Central London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 93 95 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 -46 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 36 38 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.80% 1.55% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.72% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 124
10th Percentile £392 £403 £500
25th Percentile £545 £451 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £705 £778
90th Percentile - £750 £834
London median daily rate £615 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate - £60.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -19.33% +10.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +5 33 £638 +2.00% 27
TDD
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.78%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 6 (16.67%) Route 53
4 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.22%) Redis
3 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
3 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (16.67%) DocumentDB
5 4 (11.11%) CockroachDB
5 4 (11.11%) MySQL
6 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.78%) Power BI
7 1 (2.78%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Git
2 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) JIRA
3 6 (16.67%) JUnit
4 4 (11.11%) Postman
4 4 (11.11%) TeamCity
5 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.56%) Mockito
6 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.56%) Selenium
6 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
6 2 (5.56%) Subversion
6 2 (5.56%) Xcode
6 2 (5.56%) XCTest
7 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.78%) Serenity BDD
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.78%) Back Office
8 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Django Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) REST
2 8 (22.22%) RESTful
3 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
3 7 (19.44%) Kafka
3 7 (19.44%) Spring
4 6 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 5 (13.89%) CSS
5 5 (13.89%) HTML
6 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.11%) Web Services
7 3 (8.33%) .NET
7 3 (8.33%) CSS3
7 3 (8.33%) HTML5
7 3 (8.33%) React
7 3 (8.33%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (8.33%) Swagger
8 2 (5.56%) J2EE
8 2 (5.56%) SOAP
8 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Derivative
2 6 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (8.33%) Blockchain
4 3 (8.33%) Equities
4 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Replication
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.78%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.78%) PKI
6 1 (2.78%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (36.11%) SOLID
4 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 11 (30.56%) Microservices
4 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
5 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (25.00%) SDLC
5 9 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (22.22%) BDD
7 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
7 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 6 (16.67%) Secure Coding
8 5 (13.89%) Scrum
9 4 (11.11%) API Design
9 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.11%) Pair Programming
9 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (41.67%) Python
3 14 (38.89%) SQL
4 11 (30.56%) C#
5 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.33%) DAML
8 2 (5.56%) Groovy
8 2 (5.56%) Scala
9 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.78%) Bash
9 1 (2.78%) COBOL
9 1 (2.78%) JCL
9 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) SAP