TDD Contracts in Manchester

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 -28
Contract jobs citing TDD 23 20 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.29% 1.64% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 1.88% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 53
10th Percentile £342 £507 £390
25th Percentile £400 £513 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £545 £634 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -17.36% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 884 1,063 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 86.92% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 687 1,184
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.12 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.19 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.45 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Salford - 1 £400 - 6
TDD
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (21.74%) Serverless
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (56.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.70%) DocumentDB
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Gradle
1 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
1 10 (43.48%) JUnit
1 10 (43.48%) Liquibase
1 10 (43.48%) Mockito
2 5 (21.74%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) XCTest
3 1 (4.35%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Electronics
2 10 (43.48%) Manufacturing
2 10 (43.48%) Marketing
2 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Java Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Java Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) React Developer
4 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Android Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
7 1 (4.35%) iOS Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Kafka
1 12 (52.17%) Spring
1 12 (52.17%) Spring Boot
2 10 (43.48%) OpenAPI
2 10 (43.48%) React
2 10 (43.48%) Swagger
3 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.04%) .NET
5 2 (8.70%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (8.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.35%) CarPlay
6 1 (4.35%) Pandas
6 1 (4.35%) pytest
6 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
6 1 (4.35%) SwiftUI
6 1 (4.35%) UIKit
6 1 (4.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Software Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 17 (73.91%) Containerisation
3 14 (60.87%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Microservices
4 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (43.48%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (43.48%) Migration
4 10 (43.48%) Programme Management
5 8 (34.78%) Event-Driven
5 8 (34.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (30.43%) Clean Code
7 5 (21.74%) Build Automation
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (8.70%) Android Development
9 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 2 (8.70%) Open Source
9 2 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) TypeScript
3 12 (52.17%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle