TDD Contract Job Trends in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs citing TDD 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.27% - 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% - 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £501 - £467
25th Percentile £503 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £549
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.40%
75th Percentile £515 - £600
90th Percentile - - £601
East of England median daily rate £510 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +4.08% -2.00% -13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 70 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 71.97% 81.40% 81.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 108
10th Percentile £240 £223 £188
25th Percentile £300 £314 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £325 £458
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -28.96% -3.68%
75th Percentile £443 £500 £551
90th Percentile £500 £600 £602
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 42
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £15.32 £33.75 £14.17
Median hourly rate £22.00 £117.50 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year -81.28% +244.83% -21.90%
75th Percentile £54.06 £200.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £62.50 - £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.90 £54.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -59.44% +41.66% +18.55%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Essex

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing TDD

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing TDD

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Essex region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Basildon - 3 £510 - 1
Brentwood - 1 £500 -
TDD
East of England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (100.00%) Google