TDD Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 60 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing TDD 16 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.78% 0.14% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 0.17% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 8
10th Percentile £245 - £447
25th Percentile £340 £360 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £370 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -43.08% +14.04%
75th Percentile £432 £380 £700
90th Percentile £469 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 772 603 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.06% 84.57% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 358 477
10th Percentile £191 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £628 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +4.38% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing TDD

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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 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing TDD

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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 21 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £303 - 4
Nottinghamshire - 5 £380 - 7
Leicestershire -6 4 £463 +25.00% 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (31.25%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) Mockito
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) RESTful
2 5 (31.25%) Django
2 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
2 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
3 4 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
4 3 (18.75%) Spring
5 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) Jest
5 2 (12.50%) JPA
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) React
5 2 (12.50%) Redux
6 1 (6.25%) Kafka
6 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (6.25%) SOAP
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
2 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
6 5 (31.25%) Pair Programming
6 5 (31.25%) SDLC
7 4 (25.00%) Android Development
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Microservices
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Scrum
8 3 (18.75%) API Integration
9 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
9 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (12.50%) iOS Development
9 2 (12.50%) User Experience
10 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
10 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Swift
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Veracode