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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing TDD 19 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.44% - 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% - 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 19
10th Percentile £258 - £371
25th Percentile £286 - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.93%
75th Percentile £469 - £700
90th Percentile £473 - -
England median daily rate £530 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +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 666 645 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.49% 82.38% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 400 545
10th Percentile £221 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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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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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 16 September 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 16 September 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 - 8 £463 - 4
Northamptonshire - 7 £270 -
Nottinghamshire - 4 £380 - 1
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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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
1 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (21.05%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
2 5 (26.32%) Selenium
3 4 (21.05%) Bitbucket
3 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 4 (21.05%) JUnit
3 4 (21.05%) Maven
3 4 (21.05%) Mockito
3 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
3 4 (21.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Android Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) RESTful
2 8 (42.11%) Android Jetpack
2 8 (42.11%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 5 (26.32%) Hibernate
5 4 (21.05%) CSS
5 4 (21.05%) Django
5 4 (21.05%) GraphQL
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) Jest
5 4 (21.05%) JPA
5 4 (21.05%) Node.js
5 4 (21.05%) React
5 4 (21.05%) Redux
6 2 (10.53%) Spring
7 1 (5.26%) jQuery
7 1 (5.26%) Kafka
7 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
7 1 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) Test Automation
3 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
4 10 (52.63%) Unit Testing
5 8 (42.11%) Android Development
5 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
5 8 (42.11%) Scrum
6 6 (31.58%) API Integration
7 5 (26.32%) Microservices
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) SDLC
8 4 (21.05%) Pair Programming
9 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
11 1 (5.26%) API Testing
11 1 (5.26%) Architectural Patterns
11 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
11 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Kotlin
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Veracode
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft