TDD Contracts in the Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 121 103
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 +13
Contract jobs citing TDD 28 12 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.46% 0.44% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.53% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 46
10th Percentile £338 £337 £363
25th Percentile £411 £394 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £435 £585
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -25.64% +17.00%
75th Percentile £473 £450 £700
90th Percentile £491 £463 -
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +24 21 £460 +2.22% 34
East Midlands +16 7 £463 +16.35% 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.14%) Open Workbench
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Amazon S3
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (21.43%) AWS KMS
5 6 (21.43%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Route 53
6 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Serverless
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) npm
8 1 (3.57%) PaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) DynamoDB
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) JUnit
2 12 (42.86%) Mockito
3 11 (39.29%) Maven
4 9 (32.14%) Git
4 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
5 6 (21.43%) JIRA
5 6 (21.43%) SonarQube
6 5 (17.86%) Cucumber
7 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (10.71%) DbUnit
7 3 (10.71%) Gradle
7 3 (10.71%) jMock
8 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
8 2 (7.14%) GitLab
8 2 (7.14%) Selenium
8 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (3.57%) Ant
9 1 (3.57%) Grunt
9 1 (3.57%) gulp
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Back Office
6 1 (3.57%) Automotive
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Android Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Engagement Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
7 1 (3.57%) Java Web Developer
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.57%) UI Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) Spring
2 11 (39.29%) Hibernate
2 11 (39.29%) REST
2 11 (39.29%) RESTful
2 11 (39.29%) Spring Boot
3 9 (32.14%) HTML
3 9 (32.14%) Web Services
4 8 (28.57%) JPA
5 6 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 6 (21.43%) SOAP
6 5 (17.86%) Bootstrap
6 5 (17.86%) CSS
6 5 (17.86%) Node.js
6 5 (17.86%) Spring Batch
6 5 (17.86%) Spring Integration
7 4 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (14.29%) jQuery
7 4 (14.29%) React
7 4 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Android
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) Scrum
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
4 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 8 (28.57%) BDD
7 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (21.43%) Kanban
9 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (14.29%) Android Development
10 4 (14.29%) API Integration
10 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
10 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 4 (14.29%) Pair Programming
10 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
10 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Java
2 15 (53.57%) SQL
3 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 5 (17.86%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (7.14%) Veracode
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Perforce
4 1 (3.57%) Sybase