TDD Contracts in the City of London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 89 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 -25
Contract jobs citing TDD 32 37 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.82% 1.68% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.86% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 120
10th Percentile £420 £390 £500
25th Percentile £560 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £775
90th Percentile - £750 £826
Central London median daily rate £626 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +0.20% -3.85% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -54.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.13%) Camunda
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 6 (18.75%) CloudFront
3 6 (18.75%) Route 53
4 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (18.75%) DocumentDB
3 6 (18.75%) Redis
3 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.50%) MySQL
5 3 (9.38%) CockroachDB
6 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.13%) Power BI
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) JUnit
3 4 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.25%) Postman
5 2 (6.25%) Selenium
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.13%) Gatling
6 1 (3.13%) GitLab
6 1 (3.13%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.13%) Jasmine
6 1 (3.13%) JBehave
6 1 (3.13%) Liquibase
6 1 (3.13%) Maven
6 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Banking
3 6 (18.75%) Retail Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Django Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) RESTful
2 7 (21.88%) REST
3 6 (18.75%) GraphQL
4 5 (15.63%) Kafka
4 5 (15.63%) Spring
5 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (9.38%) CSS
6 3 (9.38%) HTML
6 3 (9.38%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (6.25%) .NET
7 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.25%) Node.js
7 2 (6.25%) React
7 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.25%) Web Services
7 2 (6.25%) ZK
8 1 (3.13%) Akka
8 1 (3.13%) CSS3
8 1 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (3.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (18.75%) Derivative
2 6 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Blockchain
3 3 (9.38%) Equities
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Replication
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.13%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.13%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Sports Betting
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (37.50%) SOLID
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) BDD
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.88%) SDLC
7 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Asset Management
8 6 (18.75%) Secure Coding
9 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
9 5 (15.63%) Scrum
10 4 (12.50%) Analytics
10 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 3 (9.38%) API Design
11 3 (9.38%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Java
2 14 (43.75%) Python
3 10 (31.25%) C#
3 10 (31.25%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) DAML
6 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.13%) Bash
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk