TDD Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring TDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing TDD 11 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.19% 5.00% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 5.37% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £449 £382 £450
25th Percentile £470 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £555 £625
90th Percentile £575 £600 £693
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £520 £470 £600
% change year-on-year +10.64% -21.67% +9.09%

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 181 149 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.38% 93.13% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 73 89
10th Percentile £200 £329 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -14.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £570 £585 £644
90th Percentile £626 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TDD

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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 16 September 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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Flink
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Mockito
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (27.27%) JAX-RS
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) Sass
4 1 (9.09%) JPA
4 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Mac OS X
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Continuous Deployment
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (27.27%) Web Design
4 3 (27.27%) Web Development
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) SOLID
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) Go
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) WCAG
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform