TDD Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 70 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 -17 +3
Contract jobs citing TDD 28 15 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.26% 1.53% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.70% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £493 £464 £362
25th Percentile £498 £465 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £489 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -0.80% -12.83%
75th Percentile £600 £515 £569
90th Percentile £613 - £597
England median daily rate £500 £530 £565
% change year-on-year -5.66% -6.19% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 40
10th Percentile £63.50 £62.00 -
25th Percentile - £63.13 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.11%

All Process & 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 1,739 883 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.12% 90.19% 85.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 468 670
10th Percentile £198 £229 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £676
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 178 610
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £85.00 £75.03
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the East of England

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the East of England

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

TDD
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 18 May 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
Hertfordshire -17 11 £625 +27.55% 5
Essex -8 9 £510 +4.51%
Suffolk - 8 £495 - 4
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (28.57%) GCP
1 8 (28.57%) GitHub
2 3 (10.71%) Apple Pay
2 3 (10.71%) Google Ads
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Ethernet
2 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.71%) Modbus
3 3 (10.71%) RS-232
3 3 (10.71%) RS-422
3 3 (10.71%) RS-485
3 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Git
2 8 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 8 (28.57%) GitLab
2 8 (28.57%) JUnit
2 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 8 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 7 (25.00%) Gradle
4 6 (21.43%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
1 7 (25.00%) Military
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Automotive
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 3 (10.71%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) GCP Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (7.14%) GCP Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Java Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Java Software Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Software Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Spring Boot
2 13 (46.43%) Spring
3 11 (39.29%) Node.js
4 7 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) React
6 1 (3.57%) .NET
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Express.js
6 1 (3.57%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) Jest
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) CI/CD
2 22 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 21 (75.00%) Agile
4 14 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 12 (42.86%) Unit Testing
6 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
7 8 (28.57%) BDD
7 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (28.57%) Digital Twin
7 8 (28.57%) Microservices
7 8 (28.57%) Synthetic Environment
8 7 (25.00%) User Stories
9 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (21.43%) Open Source
9 6 (21.43%) Security Testing
9 6 (21.43%) Validation
9 6 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
9 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) C#
2 11 (39.29%) C++
3 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.86%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) C
5 3 (10.71%) Go
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Checkmarx
1 8 (28.57%) Google
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft