TDD Contract Job Trends in London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 147 94
Rank change year-on-year -3 -53 -41
Contract jobs citing TDD 271 279 472
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.86% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.06% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 177 320
10th Percentile £343 £385 £413
25th Percentile £425 £505 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% -4.38% -4.92%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £778
90th Percentile £975 £860 £848
England median daily rate £520 £562 £600
% change year-on-year -7.39% -6.42% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.80
25th Percentile - - £67.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

TDD job vacancy trend in London

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TDD

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in London

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TDD

TDD
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Central London 0 38 £455 -26.65% 26
South London -1 10 £537 +41.32% 3
East London +7 5 £540 -7.49% 7
West London -19 3 - - 8
TDD
England

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.01%) Confluence
2 3 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.11%) Apache
3 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.74%) WordPress
4 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) CICS
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Drupal
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (4.43%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Shopify
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (43.91%) AWS
2 96 (35.42%) Azure
3 52 (19.19%) GitHub
4 42 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.81%) GCP
6 28 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.96%) Serverless
8 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.17%) Power Platform
10 12 (4.43%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.43%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.95%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (1.48%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.11%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.74%) DHCP
3 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 2 (0.74%) HTTP
3 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) MQTT
4 1 (0.37%) Multicast
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.28%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.90%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.69%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.32%) Redis
7 7 (2.58%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.21%) Power BI
9 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.48%) Big Data
10 4 (1.48%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.48%) Metadata
10 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.11%) DataStage
11 3 (1.11%) MySQL
11 3 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (21.03%) Git
2 47 (17.34%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.96%) JIRA
4 24 (8.86%) JUnit
5 18 (6.64%) Cucumber
5 18 (6.64%) GitLab
6 16 (5.90%) Maven
7 15 (5.54%) Postman
8 14 (5.17%) Cypress.io
9 13 (4.80%) Mockito
10 12 (4.43%) Selenium
11 9 (3.32%) Liquibase
11 9 (3.32%) REST Assured
11 9 (3.32%) SonarQube
11 9 (3.32%) SpecFlow
12 8 (2.95%) Bitbucket
12 8 (2.95%) Subversion
13 7 (2.58%) Gradle
14 6 (2.21%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.85%) XCTest
General
1 64 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.25%) Finance
3 43 (15.87%) Banking
4 31 (11.44%) Investment Banking
5 26 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.69%) Front Office
7 10 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.48%) Military
9 3 (1.11%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Publishing
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (47.60%) Developer
2 61 (22.51%) Java Developer
3 59 (21.77%) Senior
4 36 (13.28%) Senior Developer
5 26 (9.59%) Senior Java Developer
6 22 (8.12%) AWS Developer
7 21 (7.75%) Kafka Developer
8 20 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.64%) Analytics Developer
9 18 (6.64%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 17 (6.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (6.27%) Java Engineer
10 17 (6.27%) Lead
11 14 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.80%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Angular Developer
15 9 (3.32%) QA Engineer
16 8 (2.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (20.66%) Kafka
2 52 (19.19%) React
3 42 (15.50%) REST
3 42 (15.50%) Spring
4 36 (13.28%) Node.js
5 35 (12.92%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.44%) RESTful
7 28 (10.33%) .NET
8 23 (8.49%) AngularJS
8 23 (8.49%) CSS
9 18 (6.64%) HTML
10 17 (6.27%) SOAP
11 13 (4.80%) Hibernate
11 13 (4.80%) Jest
11 13 (4.80%) Playwright
11 13 (4.80%) Web Services
12 12 (4.43%) JPA
12 12 (4.43%) JSON
12 12 (4.43%) XML
13 10 (3.69%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.96%) Derivative
3 18 (6.64%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.64%) Market Risk
4 17 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.32%) Equities
7 8 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.58%) TWAP
8 7 (2.58%) VWAP
9 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.85%) NHS
10 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.81%) Linux
2 21 (7.75%) Unix
3 4 (1.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Android
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (63.47%) Agile
2 147 (54.24%) CI/CD
3 92 (33.95%) DevOps
4 91 (33.58%) Test Automation
5 85 (31.37%) Microservices
6 66 (24.35%) BDD
7 58 (21.40%) Scrum
8 49 (18.08%) Continuous Integration
8 49 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (17.71%) Containerisation
10 43 (15.87%) Design Patterns
11 42 (15.50%) Software Engineering
12 40 (14.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 37 (13.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (12.92%) Kanban
15 31 (11.44%) SOLID
16 30 (11.07%) Code Quality
17 28 (10.33%) Unit Testing
18 27 (9.96%) Continuous Delivery
18 27 (9.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 159 (58.67%) Java
2 104 (38.38%) SQL
3 83 (30.63%) Python
4 57 (21.03%) TypeScript
5 47 (17.34%) JavaScript
6 37 (13.65%) C#
7 23 (8.49%) Go
8 14 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.32%) Scala
10 8 (2.95%) Ruby
11 6 (2.21%) Bash
11 6 (2.21%) JSX
11 6 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.85%) Groovy
12 5 (1.85%) Perl
13 4 (1.48%) PHP
14 3 (1.11%) C
14 3 (1.11%) C++
14 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.74%) DAML
Qualifications
1 58 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.69%) Degree
4 7 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.21%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.70%) QA
2 9 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) HL7
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (29.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.81%) Terraform
3 7 (2.58%) Ansible
4 6 (2.21%) Grafana
5 5 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.37%) Control-M
6 1 (0.37%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.37%) logstash
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (8.86%) Microsoft
1 24 (8.86%) Oracle
2 12 (4.43%) Databricks
3 8 (2.95%) MuleSoft
3 8 (2.95%) Splunk
4 5 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.11%) Adobe
5 3 (1.11%) Charles River
5 3 (1.11%) Google
5 3 (1.11%) Murex
5 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.74%) IBM
6 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.74%) VMware
7 1 (0.37%) Marketo
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.37%) UiPath