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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing TDD 19 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 23.46% 10.42% 10.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.03% 11.36% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £468 £340 £376
25th Percentile £498 £380 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £390 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.26% -17.89% -22.45%
75th Percentile £549 £475 £500
90th Percentile £575 £550 £595
South London median daily rate £528 £500 £750
% change year-on-year +5.50% -33.33% +25.00%

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 73 88 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.12% 91.67% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 54 99
10th Percentile £313 £386 £423
25th Percentile £478 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £505 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -4.36% -8.17%
75th Percentile £632 £538 £600
90th Percentile £707 £567 £684
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £51.31
% change year-on-year -18.77% -61.99% +16.31%

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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 14 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (52.63%) JUnit
2 10 (52.63%) Mockito
3 5 (26.32%) Gradle
3 5 (26.32%) Liquibase
4 4 (21.05%) Git
5 3 (15.79%) Maven
5 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (10.53%) JMeter
7 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (5.26%) DbUnit
7 1 (5.26%) jMock
7 1 (5.26%) Storybook
General
1 13 (68.42%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Electronics
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
2 5 (26.32%) Marketing
2 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
1 13 (68.42%) Java Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) Spring Boot
3 6 (31.58%) React
3 6 (31.58%) REST
4 5 (26.32%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (26.32%) Kafka
4 5 (26.32%) OpenAPI
4 5 (26.32%) Swagger
5 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 3 (15.79%) Bootstrap
6 3 (15.79%) JPA
6 3 (15.79%) SOAP
6 3 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (15.79%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) Apache Camel
7 2 (10.53%) jQuery
7 2 (10.53%) JSON
7 2 (10.53%) WireMock
7 2 (10.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Microservices
2 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
3 15 (78.95%) Containerisation
4 13 (68.42%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (57.89%) Agile
6 9 (47.37%) DevOps
7 8 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (42.11%) CQRS
7 8 (42.11%) Design Patterns
7 8 (42.11%) Domain-Driven Design
8 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
9 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (26.32%) Migration
9 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
9 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
10 3 (15.79%) BDD
10 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
10 3 (15.79%) Scrum
10 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) SC Cleared
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Jaspersoft