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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 87 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 -25
Contract jobs citing TDD 30 40 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.72% 1.85% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.04% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 107
10th Percentile £417 £395 £500
25th Percentile £556 £448 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £781
90th Percentile £715 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £625 £644
% change year-on-year -6.40% -2.91% +0.98%
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 1,635 1,957 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.39% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,377 2,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £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 18 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.33%) Camunda
2 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 5 (16.67%) Route 53
4 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (16.67%) DocumentDB
3 5 (16.67%) Redis
4 3 (10.00%) CockroachDB
4 3 (10.00%) MySQL
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.33%) Power BI
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
1 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 3 (10.00%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.67%) Postman
5 2 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.33%) Gatling
6 1 (3.33%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.33%) JBehave
6 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Angular Developer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) REST
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 5 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 5 (16.67%) Kafka
4 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 3 (10.00%) CSS
5 3 (10.00%) HTML
5 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 3 (10.00%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.67%) React
6 2 (6.67%) Web Services
6 2 (6.67%) ZK
7 1 (3.33%) .NET
7 1 (3.33%) CSS3
7 1 (3.33%) Django
7 1 (3.33%) HTML5
7 1 (3.33%) JSON
7 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Derivative
2 5 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 3 (10.00%) Equities
3 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.33%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) Sports Betting
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) SOLID
4 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (30.00%) Microservices
6 7 (23.33%) SDLC
6 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
7 6 (20.00%) BDD
7 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (16.67%) Secure Coding
9 4 (13.33%) Analytics
9 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (10.00%) Kanban
10 3 (10.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) C#
3 9 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) DAML
6 2 (6.67%) Scala
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) CloudHub
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk