TDD Contract Job Trends in the North East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 32 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing TDD 23 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 7.42% 2.77% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 3.01% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 5
10th Percentile £425 £478 £450
25th Percentile £443 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £625
90th Percentile - £614 £693
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -0.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 266 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.19% 92.04% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 98 158
10th Percentile £188 £321 £313
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

TDD job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the North East over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Tyne and Wear +8 22 £520 -5.45% 12
Durham - 1 - -
TDD
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Cucumber
1 7 (30.43%) REST Assured
2 5 (21.74%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) Mockito
4 3 (13.04%) Selenium
5 2 (8.70%) Mocha
6 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.35%) JMeter
6 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Test Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Spring Boot
2 8 (34.78%) REST
3 6 (26.09%) WireMock
4 4 (17.39%) Kafka
4 4 (17.39%) Spring
5 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (13.04%) JAX-RS
6 2 (8.70%) CSS
6 2 (8.70%) Express.js
6 2 (8.70%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) Jest
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) React
7 1 (4.35%) JPA
7 1 (4.35%) Next.js
7 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
7 1 (4.35%) Playwright
7 1 (4.35%) RESTful
7 1 (4.35%) Swagger
7 1 (4.35%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Mac OS X
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) BDD
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
3 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 16 (69.57%) Microservices
4 15 (65.22%) Test Automation
5 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
6 9 (39.13%) Functional Testing
6 9 (39.13%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
8 6 (26.09%) API Testing
8 6 (26.09%) Performance Testing
9 5 (21.74%) Coaching
9 5 (21.74%) DevOps
9 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (21.74%) Integration Testing
9 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (21.74%) Web Development
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) Go
3 4 (17.39%) Perl
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Swift
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Accessibility
2 5 (21.74%) WCAG
3 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible