Test-First Development Contract Job Trends in London

Test-First Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Test-First Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 - 387
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test-First Development 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £700 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £800
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 - £800

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Test-First Development 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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

Test-First Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test-First Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Test-First Development job vacancy trend in London

Test-First Development
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test-First Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test-First Development

Test-First Development
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 Test-First Development within the London region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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 - 1 - - 2
Test-First Development
England

Test-First Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Run
2 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Front Office
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Mob Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google