TDD Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 47 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 4.12% 0.89% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 1.00% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 0 3
10th Percentile £341 - £466
25th Percentile £364 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.07%
75th Percentile £470 - £494
90th Percentile £560 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £508
% change year-on-year - -11.33% -7.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 402 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.72% 89.14% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 234 236
10th Percentile £268 £311 £265
25th Percentile £358 £373 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £527 £574 £550
90th Percentile £686 £639 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -2.52% +83.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.56
90th Percentile £70.55 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

TDD job vacancy trend in Cheshire

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing TDD

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Cheshire

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing TDD

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Knutsford -5 19 £402 -
Warrington - 5 £545 - 3
Wilmslow - 1 £650 -
Chester - 1 £725 - 4
TDD
North West

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (3.70%) Mule
3 1 (3.70%) Mule ESB
3 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) GitHub
2 5 (18.52%) GitHub Copilot
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) PowerApps
4 3 (11.11%) npm
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (62.96%) Git
2 13 (48.15%) GitLab
3 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 9 (33.33%) JUnit
5 8 (29.63%) JIRA
6 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
7 3 (11.11%) Gradle
7 3 (11.11%) Grunt
7 3 (11.11%) gulp
7 3 (11.11%) Xcode
8 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (7.41%) Maven
8 2 (7.41%) Mockito
8 2 (7.41%) Selenium
8 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Developer
2 14 (51.85%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Developer
4 2 (7.41%) iOS Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) UI Developer
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Android Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 13 (48.15%) Spring
3 12 (44.44%) React
3 12 (44.44%) RESTful
4 9 (33.33%) REST
5 8 (29.63%) CSS
5 8 (29.63%) HTML
6 7 (25.93%) Hibernate
6 7 (25.93%) Kafka
7 5 (18.52%) Jest
7 5 (18.52%) Node.js
7 5 (18.52%) Redux
8 4 (14.81%) JSON
8 4 (14.81%) Spring MVC
8 4 (14.81%) Spring Security
9 3 (11.11%) Ajax
9 3 (11.11%) HTML5
9 3 (11.11%) jQuery
9 3 (11.11%) Sass
9 3 (11.11%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 3 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Android
1 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Agile
2 16 (59.26%) Microservices
3 15 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
5 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (44.44%) Scrum
6 9 (33.33%) AI
7 8 (29.63%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (29.63%) Unit Testing
8 6 (22.22%) API Development
8 6 (22.22%) Front End Development
8 6 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (18.52%) API Design
9 5 (18.52%) BDD
9 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
9 5 (18.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (18.52%) Migration
9 5 (18.52%) MVC
9 5 (18.52%) Release Management
9 5 (18.52%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.93%) Python
5 3 (11.11%) C
5 3 (11.11%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 3 (11.11%) Objective-C
5 3 (11.11%) Ruby
5 3 (11.11%) Scala
5 3 (11.11%) Swift
6 2 (7.41%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Perforce
4 2 (7.41%) Veracode
5 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk