TDD Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing TDD 8 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.39% 2.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile £383 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £378 - £488
% change year-on-year - - +9.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 99 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.46% 96.12% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 83 68
10th Percentile £310 £342 £450
25th Percentile £354 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £390 £529
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -26.28% +14.25%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £583
90th Percentile £551 £638 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% -7.00% +61.79%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Knutsford

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 5 (62.50%) GitHub
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (12.50%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Gradle
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Xcode
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Grunt
4 1 (12.50%) gulp
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) iOS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Security
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) LESS
4 1 (12.50%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) Sass
4 1 (12.50%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) API Design
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) MVC
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) AI
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
5 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (25.00%) API Development
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Perforce