TDD Contracts in Croydon

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 11 23 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing TDD 16 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 17.58% 7.59% 11.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.28% 7.91% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £438 £324 £452
25th Percentile £463 £360 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £456
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +1.92% -27.00%
75th Percentile £488 £581 £497
90th Percentile £491 £593 £524
South London median daily rate £475 £510 £850
% change year-on-year -6.86% -40.00% +70.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 6 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) JUnit
2 7 (43.75%) Mockito
3 6 (37.50%) JIRA
4 5 (31.25%) Gradle
4 5 (31.25%) Liquibase
5 2 (12.50%) JMeter
6 1 (6.25%) Postman
6 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Electronics
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
2 5 (31.25%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Java Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Tester
5 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Integration Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
2 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 5 (31.25%) OpenAPI
3 5 (31.25%) React
3 5 (31.25%) Swagger
4 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
4 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) WireMock
4 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Microservices
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
4 5 (31.25%) Programme Management
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) BDD
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) CQRS
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk