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 21 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	94	68	60
Rank change year-on-year	-26	-8	+8
Contract jobs citing TDD	29	28	35
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England	1.21%	2.00%	2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.53%	2.23%	3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	15	3	5
10^th Percentile	£485	£371	£394
25^th Percentile	£493	£384	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£530	£413	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+28.48%	-17.50%	-17.63%
75^th Percentile	£558	£472	£538
90^th Percentile	£558	£504	£545
England median daily rate	£490	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	-6.67%	-4.55%	-9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	21	17
10^th Percentile	-	-	£62.50
25^th Percentile	-	-	-
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00
75^th Percentile	-	£65.25	-
90^th Percentile	£71.75	£67.00	£66.00
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£64.25	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+1.17%	-1.15%	-

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	1,897	1,253	1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England	79.11%	89.69%	80.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	750	542	445
10^th Percentile	£190	£198	£220
25^th Percentile	£350	£367	£315
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£500	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-	+11.11%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£600	£588	£563
90^th Percentile	£713	£682	£648
England median daily rate	£525	£510	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.94%	-2.86%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	534	341	255
10^th Percentile	£14.22	£14.25	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£17.03	£16.00	£15.62
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£21.00	£27.67
Median % change year-on-year	+126.19%	-24.11%	+39.68%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£59.00	£63.75
90^th Percentile	£80.00	£75.00	£69.50
England median hourly rate	£38.00	£25.15	£41.50
% change year-on-year	+51.09%	-39.40%	-6.74%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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 21 October 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.

TDD Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TDD in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TDD in the East of England

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 21 October 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	-35	10	£388	-15.07%	9
Essex	-	9	£530	-	2
Suffolk	-9	7	£495	+32.00%	2
Bedfordshire	-	2	£555	-	1
Cambridgeshire	-	1	-	-	12
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TDD Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing TDD also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region with a requirement for TDD.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	79.3%	23
2	Java	65.5%	19
3	CI/CD	62.1%	18
3	Microservices	62.1%	18
5	Agile	58.6%	17
6	Azure	37.9%	11
6	Continuous Integration	37.9%	11
6	Customer Experience	37.9%	11
6	GCP	37.9%	11
6	Identity Access Management	37.9%	11
11	AWS	34.5%	10
11	OAuth	34.5%	10
11	OpenID	34.5%	10
11	SDLC	34.5%	10
11	Single Sign-On	34.5%	10
16	C++	31.0%	9
16	Git	31.0%	9
16	Linux	31.0%	9
19	C#	27.6%	8
19	Continuous Delivery	27.6%	8
19	Digital Twin	27.6%	8
19	Eclipse	27.6%	8
19	Ethernet	27.6%	8
19	JavaScript	27.6%	8
19	Microsoft	27.6%	8
19	Node.js	27.6%	8
19	Spring Boot	27.6%	8
19	Synthetic Environment	27.6%	8
19	TCP/IP	27.6%	8
19	Unit Testing	27.6%	8

TDD Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	79.3%	23
2	CI/CD	62.1%	18
2	Microservices	62.1%	18
4	Agile	58.6%	17
5	Continuous Integration	37.9%	11
5	Customer Experience	37.9%	11
5	Identity Access Management	37.9%	11
8	SDLC	34.5%	10
9	Continuous Delivery	27.6%	8
9	Digital Twin	27.6%	8
9	Synthetic Environment	27.6%	8
9	Unit Testing	27.6%	8
13	Containerisation	24.1%	7
13	Test Automation	24.1%	7
13	User Stories	24.1%	7
16	DevOps	20.7%	6
16	Validation	20.7%	6
16	Verification and Validation	20.7%	6
16	Visualisation	20.7%	6
20	Collaborative Engineering	13.8%	4