TDD Contract Job Trends in East London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing TDD 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in East London 4.46% 1.40% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 1.48% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £478 £530 £570
25th Percentile £520 £547 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £584 £838
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -30.30% +30.35%
75th Percentile - £612 £925
90th Percentile - £623 -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% -0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 135 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.75% 94.41% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 116 233
10th Percentile £190 £300 £340
25th Percentile £381 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £629 £588 £650
90th Percentile £925 £638 £760
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £23.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +25.16% -77.97%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £18.93
90th Percentile £75.89 - -
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.33% - -

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

TDD job vacancy trend in East London

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing TDD

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Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing TDD

TDD
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the East London region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Tower Hamlets +5 5 £540 -14.29%
TDD
London

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Backend Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Sass
4 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (20.00%) JSP
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Process Management
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) UML
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Marketo