TDD Contracts in London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for TDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TDD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 486 1,081 2,110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.75% 4.04% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 4.44% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 804 1,635
10th Percentile £384 £463 £450
25th Percentile £475 £567 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £758 £713
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
England median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 29
10th Percentile £53.85 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £55.88 £49.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £75.00 £70.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +5.78% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63.88 - £77.00
90th Percentile £65.15 £90.00 £79.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.50 £65.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +4.55% +1.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

TDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in London

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in London

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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 5 May 2024. 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 -39 39 £625 -3.85% 41
West London +18 29 £330 -47.20% 7
South London -11 14 £510 -40.00% 3
East London +2 12 £738 +50.51% 5
TDD
England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (3.91%) CMS
2 15 (3.09%) Confluence
2 15 (3.09%) nginx
3 8 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.44%) Apache
4 7 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.23%) SAS
6 4 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.62%) Drupal
7 3 (0.62%) IIS
7 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.41%) JBoss
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.41%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.21%) GemFire
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) NEC Housing
1 6 (1.23%) Shopify
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) RMDS
4 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.21%) Endur
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 181 (37.24%) Azure
2 161 (33.13%) AWS
3 90 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (14.40%) GCP
5 64 (13.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 48 (9.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 44 (9.05%) Serverless
8 39 (8.02%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (4.94%) GitHub
10 20 (4.12%) Azure API Management
11 18 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
12 17 (3.50%) Power Platform
13 16 (3.29%) Azure Functions
13 16 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (3.29%) Azure Storage
13 16 (3.29%) PaaS
14 15 (3.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 13 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (2.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.35%) HTTP
2 10 (2.06%) FTP
3 5 (1.03%) Internet
3 5 (1.03%) SSH
4 4 (0.82%) SSL
5 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.21%) DHCP
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.21%) SNMP
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (20.58%) SQL Server
2 41 (8.44%) Relational Database
3 39 (8.02%) NoSQL
4 33 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 30 (6.17%) MongoDB
7 29 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.26%) Power BI
11 9 (1.85%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.85%) KDB
12 7 (1.44%) Big Data
12 7 (1.44%) Redis
13 6 (1.23%) MySQL
13 6 (1.23%) OLTP
14 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 109 (22.43%) Git
2 60 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.05%) JIRA
4 31 (6.38%) JUnit
5 30 (6.17%) Postman
6 28 (5.76%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.35%) TeamCity
8 25 (5.14%) Mockito
8 25 (5.14%) Selenium
9 22 (4.53%) Cypress.io
10 19 (3.91%) SpecFlow
11 15 (3.09%) Visual Studio
12 12 (2.47%) SoapUI
13 11 (2.26%) JMeter
14 10 (2.06%) Gradle
14 10 (2.06%) Maven
14 10 (2.06%) TestNG
14 10 (2.06%) WebDriver
15 9 (1.85%) eggPlant
15 9 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 143 (29.42%) Finance
2 84 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.61%) Front Office
4 54 (11.11%) Banking
5 45 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 41 (8.44%) Back Office
7 29 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (4.32%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.91%) Retail
10 13 (2.67%) Marketing
11 10 (2.06%) Advertising
12 9 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.44%) Law
13 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.82%) Electronics
15 4 (0.82%) Local Government
15 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.62%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.62%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 307 (63.17%) Developer
2 123 (25.31%) Senior
3 83 (17.08%) Senior Developer
4 74 (15.23%) Java Developer
5 53 (10.91%) Software Engineer
6 48 (9.88%) Lead
7 47 (9.67%) .NET Developer
8 42 (8.64%) Full Stack Developer
9 37 (7.61%) Scala Developer
10 36 (7.41%) C# Developer
11 29 (5.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (5.76%) Finance Manager
13 27 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
13 27 (5.56%) Python Developer
14 26 (5.35%) .NET Software Engineer
15 25 (5.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 25 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 25 (5.14%) Software Asset Manager
15 25 (5.14%) Software Manager
16 17 (3.50%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (33.33%) .NET
2 106 (21.81%) React
3 101 (20.78%) .NET Core
4 76 (15.64%) Kafka
5 72 (14.81%) REST
6 70 (14.40%) Spring
7 65 (13.37%) CSS
8 60 (12.35%) HTML
9 58 (11.93%) Redux
10 52 (10.70%) RESTful
11 49 (10.08%) Web Services
12 48 (9.88%) Node.js
12 48 (9.88%) Spring Boot
13 47 (9.67%) AngularJS
14 38 (7.82%) ASP.NET
15 31 (6.38%) Akka
16 27 (5.56%) .NET Framework
17 26 (5.35%) JSON
17 26 (5.35%) Sass
18 25 (5.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.52%) Derivative
2 53 (10.91%) Fixed Income
3 40 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (6.79%) Hedge funds
5 28 (5.76%) Equities
6 24 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (4.53%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.70%) Algorithms
9 15 (3.09%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.23%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.96%) Linux
2 52 (10.70%) Unix
3 16 (3.29%) Mac OS X
4 6 (1.23%) Android
4 6 (1.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (68.52%) Agile
2 218 (44.86%) DevOps
3 158 (32.51%) CI/CD
4 150 (30.86%) Microservices
5 141 (29.01%) BDD
6 122 (25.10%) Test Automation
7 115 (23.66%) Software Engineering
8 112 (23.05%) Continuous Integration
9 93 (19.14%) Clean Code
10 89 (18.31%) Full Stack Development
11 88 (18.11%) Scrum
12 82 (16.87%) Pair Programming
13 81 (16.67%) OO
14 62 (12.76%) API Management
15 59 (12.14%) Unit Testing
16 58 (11.93%) OOD
17 51 (10.49%) Kanban
18 46 (9.47%) Continuous Deployment
19 39 (8.02%) Design Patterns
19 39 (8.02%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 168 (34.57%) C#
2 154 (31.69%) Java
3 135 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 113 (23.25%) TypeScript
5 96 (19.75%) SQL
6 88 (18.11%) Python
7 53 (10.91%) Bicep
8 46 (9.47%) Scala
9 24 (4.94%) PHP
10 18 (3.70%) Kotlin
11 16 (3.29%) Go
12 14 (2.88%) PowerShell
13 10 (2.06%) C++
14 6 (1.23%) C
15 5 (1.03%) Perl
15 5 (1.03%) Ruby
15 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.82%) Groovy
16 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.76%) Degree
4 12 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.62%) PMP
9 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.21%) ISEB
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.32%) QA
2 38 (7.82%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.12%) WCAG
4 10 (2.06%) MiFID
5 4 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.41%) HL7
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (12.55%) Docker
2 48 (9.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) GridGain
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 89 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.61%) Terraform
3 20 (4.12%) Grafana
4 12 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.26%) Ansible
6 8 (1.65%) Kibana
7 5 (1.03%) Puppet
8 3 (0.62%) logstash
8 3 (0.62%) Netcool
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.35%) Oracle
3 17 (3.50%) Typelevel
4 9 (1.85%) ION Trading
4 9 (1.85%) SAP
5 8 (1.65%) Databricks
5 8 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.44%) Google
6 7 (1.44%) Splunk
7 6 (1.23%) NEC
8 5 (1.03%) Adobe
8 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.03%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.82%) New Relic
9 4 (0.82%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.41%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.41%) Dell
10 2 (0.41%) Intel
10 2 (0.41%) Planview