TDD Contracts in the East of England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing TDD 23 62 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.12% 3.22% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.81% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 26
10th Percentile £464 £362 £388
25th Percentile £465 £457 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £493 £528
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -6.64% -11.34%
75th Percentile £515 £547 £700
90th Percentile £516 £577 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 41 17
10th Percentile £61.25 - £58.50
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £73.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -5.45% -1.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 965 1,626 1,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.10% 84.42% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 651 1,013
10th Percentile £210 £200 £231
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 609 349
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Hertfordshire +2 16 £490 -10.91% 34
Essex +15 7 £488 +0.62% 28
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) Ethernet
1 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (17.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Eclipse
1 11 (47.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (47.83%) Military
1 11 (47.83%) Presentation Skills
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Software Engineer
2 11 (47.83%) Developer
3 10 (43.48%) C# Software Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Backend Developer
7 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Programmer
8 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Agile Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Java Programmer
8 1 (4.35%) Linux Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Software Programmer
8 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Node.js
1 11 (47.83%) Web Services
2 5 (21.74%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Blazor
3 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) jQuery
3 1 (4.35%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) Software Engineering
3 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Continuous Delivery
4 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (47.83%) Digital Twin
4 11 (47.83%) Synthetic Environment
4 11 (47.83%) Unit Testing
5 10 (43.48%) Validation
5 10 (43.48%) Verification and Validation
5 10 (43.48%) Visualisation
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) OO
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.70%) DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Microservices
8 2 (8.70%) Multithreading
9 1 (4.35%) Event-Driven
9 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) C#
2 13 (56.52%) C++
3 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
4 11 (47.83%) Java
5 4 (17.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google