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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 54 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing TDD 9 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.00% 0.18% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.20% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £313 - £575
25th Percentile £357 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £370 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -43.08% +8.56%
75th Percentile £405 £380 £700
90th Percentile £456 - -
England median daily rate £525 £562 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% -6.42% -4.00%

All Process & 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 767 488 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.32% 87.14% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 296 429
10th Percentile £188 £240 £211
25th Percentile £350 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £565
90th Percentile £625 £631 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 23 43
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 £385 - 5
Northamptonshire - 3 £355 - 2
Leicestershire -7 1 £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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) iOS Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Android Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
2 4 (44.44%) Django
2 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (11.11%) Express.js
4 1 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) MERN Stack
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Pair Programming
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) iOS Development
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Android Development
6 1 (11.11%) API Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Kanban
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Swift
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft