TDD Contracts in the North of England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 85 124 53
Rank change year-on-year +39 -71 -10
Contract jobs citing TDD 83 62 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.52% 1.30% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 1.52% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 48 183
10th Percentile £389 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £641 £647 £700
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £77.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile - £82.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +27 37 £513 -2.24% 130
Yorkshire +14 37 £520 -11.15% 36
North East +6 10 £480 +28.00% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (18.07%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) CMS
2 1 (1.20%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) GitHub
2 12 (14.46%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) Azure
4 9 (10.84%) Slack
5 8 (9.64%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (9.64%) Serverless
6 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.02%) CloudBees
7 5 (6.02%) GCP
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.41%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) HTTP
2 2 (2.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.33%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (26.51%) MongoDB
3 16 (19.28%) MySQL
4 14 (16.87%) Relational Database
5 13 (15.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.20%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.20%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (34.94%) Git
2 28 (33.73%) JUnit
3 23 (27.71%) Jenkins
4 15 (18.07%) Cucumber
4 15 (18.07%) Gradle
4 15 (18.07%) Jasmine
4 15 (18.07%) JIRA
5 11 (13.25%) Mockito
6 10 (12.05%) Liquibase
7 7 (8.43%) Selenium
8 6 (7.23%) GitLab
9 5 (6.02%) Maven
9 5 (6.02%) Mocha
10 4 (4.82%) HP UFT
10 4 (4.82%) IntelliJ
11 3 (3.61%) Grunt
11 3 (3.61%) gulp
11 3 (3.61%) Subversion
12 2 (2.41%) TestNG
13 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (37.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Electronics
3 12 (14.46%) Manufacturing
3 12 (14.46%) Marketing
3 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (61.45%) Developer
2 22 (26.51%) Java Developer
3 17 (20.48%) Senior
4 13 (15.66%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 11 (13.25%) Software Engineer
7 10 (12.05%) Lead
7 10 (12.05%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (10.84%) Java Engineer
9 8 (9.64%) React Developer
10 7 (8.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) Scala Developer
13 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 4 (4.82%) Lead Developer
13 4 (4.82%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.96%) Spring Boot
2 29 (34.94%) Spring
3 20 (24.10%) Swagger
4 18 (21.69%) Node.js
4 18 (21.69%) OpenAPI
5 17 (20.48%) React
5 17 (20.48%) RESTful
6 15 (18.07%) Kafka
7 13 (15.66%) CSS
7 13 (15.66%) HTML
8 11 (13.25%) Jest
8 11 (13.25%) Sass
8 11 (13.25%) Spring Security
9 10 (12.05%) Spring Batch
10 8 (9.64%) .NET
10 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.02%) Akka
11 5 (6.02%) HTML5
11 5 (6.02%) Play Framework
12 4 (4.82%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (6.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.48%) Linux
2 12 (14.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.23%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.02%) Android
5 3 (3.61%) Mac OS X
5 3 (3.61%) Unix
6 1 (1.20%) Windows
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.01%) CI/CD
1 44 (53.01%) Microservices
2 43 (51.81%) Agile
3 40 (48.19%) Software Engineering
4 39 (46.99%) BDD
5 29 (34.94%) DevOps
6 27 (32.53%) Containerisation
7 22 (26.51%) Test Automation
8 21 (25.30%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (20.48%) Continuous Delivery
9 17 (20.48%) Mentoring
10 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (16.87%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (15.66%) Front End Development
13 12 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
13 12 (14.46%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (14.46%) Programme Management
13 12 (14.46%) Scrum
14 11 (13.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 52 (62.65%) Java
2 27 (32.53%) SQL
3 23 (27.71%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.07%) Bash
5 12 (14.46%) Python
5 12 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.84%) Kotlin
7 6 (7.23%) Scala
8 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.61%) PHP
9 3 (3.61%) Swift
10 2 (2.41%) C#
10 2 (2.41%) Groovy
10 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) WCAG
2 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.02%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (42.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Kibana
3 4 (4.82%) Progress Chef
3 4 (4.82%) Terraform
4 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.41%) Ansible
5 2 (2.41%) Grafana
5 2 (2.41%) Puppet
5 2 (2.41%) vRealize
6 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) SAP
2 2 (2.41%) 3PAR
2 2 (2.41%) Brocade
2 2 (2.41%) Cisco
2 2 (2.41%) EMC
2 2 (2.41%) Google
2 2 (2.41%) HP
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle
2 2 (2.41%) VMware
3 1 (1.20%) Confluent
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.20%) New Relic