TDD Contracts in the East Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 49 65 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing TDD 7 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.31% 0.13% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.17% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 18
10th Percentile £269 - £370
25th Percentile £319 £389 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £398 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -43.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £469 £406 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leicestershire - 4 £463 - 5
Northamptonshire +1 3 £270 -32.08% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) Grunt
4 1 (14.29%) gulp
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Android Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (57.14%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) JPA
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Redux
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) LESS
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Sass
4 1 (14.29%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Android Development
4 4 (57.14%) API Integration
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Kotlin
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Veracode
2 1 (14.29%) Perforce