TDD Contracts in Leeds

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 37 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing TDD 21 26 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.52% 3.25% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 3.76% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 57
10th Percentile £400 £400 £469
25th Percentile £438 £469 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £623 £688
90th Percentile £780 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -12.39% -2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Slack
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Apigee
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) npm
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) MongoDB
1 13 (61.90%) MySQL
2 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (47.62%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 8 (38.10%) Cucumber
2 8 (38.10%) Jasmine
2 8 (38.10%) JIRA
2 8 (38.10%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Babel
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
3 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) React Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Scala Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Spring Boot
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
3 9 (42.86%) Spring Security
4 8 (38.10%) RESTful
4 8 (38.10%) Spring Batch
4 8 (38.10%) Swagger
5 6 (28.57%) OpenAPI
6 4 (19.05%) React
7 3 (14.29%) .NET
7 3 (14.29%) Akka
7 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (14.29%) Laravel
7 3 (14.29%) Play Framework
7 3 (14.29%) React Native
7 3 (14.29%) Vue
7 3 (14.29%) WPF
8 1 (4.76%) CSS
8 1 (4.76%) HTML
8 1 (4.76%) JSON
8 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 10 (47.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Android
3 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) BDD
2 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 14 (66.67%) Microservices
4 12 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 12 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (52.38%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
6 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (42.86%) Coaching
7 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 7 (33.33%) API Design
8 7 (33.33%) Kernel Tuning
8 7 (33.33%) OWASP
8 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 6 (28.57%) Agile
9 6 (28.57%) Operational Stability
10 5 (23.81%) High Availability
10 5 (23.81%) Integration Testing
11 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
11 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 10 (47.62%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) PHP
4 3 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform