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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 37 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing TDD 19 29 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.06% 3.66% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.23% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 68
10th Percentile £400 £400 £496
25th Percentile £413 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £615 £700
90th Percentile £731 £625 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +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 431 686 1,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.09% 86.62% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 414 832
10th Percentile £263 £300 £364
25th Percentile £375 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.62% +8.25%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 15
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £24.27 £12.15 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -45.33% -0.10%
75th Percentile £100.28 £12.53 £66.88
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%

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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 17 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (10.53%) GitHub
1 2 (10.53%) Slack
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) Apigee
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.26%) npm
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MongoDB
2 6 (31.58%) MySQL
3 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (21.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 6 (31.58%) JUnit
3 5 (26.32%) Cypress.io
3 5 (26.32%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) GitLab
3 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (26.32%) JMeter
3 5 (26.32%) Postman
3 5 (26.32%) REST Assured
3 5 (26.32%) Selenium
3 5 (26.32%) TestNG
4 4 (21.05%) Maven
5 3 (15.79%) Jasmine
5 3 (15.79%) JIRA
6 1 (5.26%) Babel
6 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Test Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Scala Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) React Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Scala Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Playwright
1 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Batch
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Security
3 3 (15.79%) Akka
3 3 (15.79%) Play Framework
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) RESTful
3 3 (15.79%) Swagger
4 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) Laravel
4 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (10.53%) pytest
4 2 (10.53%) React Native
4 2 (10.53%) Vue
4 2 (10.53%) WPF
5 1 (5.26%) CSS
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) BDD
2 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
4 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (36.84%) Microservices
5 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
7 5 (26.32%) API Testing
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) API Development
9 3 (15.79%) API Integration
9 3 (15.79%) Coaching
9 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
9 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
9 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
9 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
9 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) Scala
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Accessibility
1 5 (26.32%) WCAG
2 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform