TDD Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 27 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -5
Contract jobs citing TDD 9 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.04% 1.90% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 2.26% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 22
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £400 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -37.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £490 £388 £725
90th Percentile £550 - £758
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £480 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +28.00% -37.50% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Electronics
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
1 6 (66.67%) Jest
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
1 6 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (22.22%) Akka
2 2 (22.22%) Play Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Functional Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP