TDD Contracts in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 103 79
Rank change year-on-year +30 -24 -46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing TDD 63 21 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.85% 0.86% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 1.02% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 14 60
10th Percentile £309 £425 £409
25th Percentile £375 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £516 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% -8.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £511 £588 £625
90th Percentile £581 £611 £676
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,959 2,049 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.72% 84.08% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 1,229 1,719
10th Percentile £297 £311 £288
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £590
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 147 161
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.16 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the North West over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing TDD

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +16 33 £500 -6.98% 58
Cheshire +6 28 £413 -13.16% 4
Merseyside - 1 £300 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) JBoss
2 1 (1.59%) Mule
2 1 (1.59%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) GitHub
3 12 (19.05%) Serverless
4 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (12.70%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (12.70%) Azure
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
7 7 (11.11%) Datadog
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (9.52%) GCP
8 6 (9.52%) SaaS
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (7.94%) Apigee
9 5 (7.94%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (7.94%) Loggly
9 5 (7.94%) Route 53
10 4 (6.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.98%) Relational Database
3 10 (15.87%) MySQL
3 10 (15.87%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (11.11%) MongoDB
7 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (9.52%) RDBMS
8 5 (7.94%) BigQuery
8 5 (7.94%) Redis
9 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (3.17%) DocumentDB
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (50.79%) Jenkins
2 23 (36.51%) Git
2 23 (36.51%) Gradle
3 21 (33.33%) JUnit
4 16 (25.40%) Mockito
5 14 (22.22%) GitLab
6 12 (19.05%) SonarQube
7 11 (17.46%) Cucumber
7 11 (17.46%) JIRA
8 10 (15.87%) Liquibase
9 8 (12.70%) Maven
10 7 (11.11%) Xcode
11 5 (7.94%) SonarLint
12 4 (6.35%) Selenium
13 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
13 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
13 3 (4.76%) Grunt
13 3 (4.76%) gulp
13 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (26.98%) Public Sector
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.87%) Electronics
4 10 (15.87%) Manufacturing
4 10 (15.87%) Marketing
4 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
5 9 (14.29%) Banking
6 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (61.90%) Developer
2 19 (30.16%) Java Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Software Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) iOS Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Java Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Java Technical Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) React Developer
5 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Android Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (47.62%) Spring Boot
2 23 (36.51%) React
3 22 (34.92%) Kafka
4 21 (33.33%) Spring
5 17 (26.98%) RESTful
6 14 (22.22%) CSS
6 14 (22.22%) HTML
7 10 (15.87%) OpenAPI
7 10 (15.87%) Swagger
8 9 (14.29%) REST
9 8 (12.70%) Node.js
10 7 (11.11%) J2EE
11 6 (9.52%) .NET
11 6 (9.52%) Dropwizard
11 6 (9.52%) Jest
11 6 (9.52%) Micronaut
11 6 (9.52%) Redux
12 5 (7.94%) Celery
12 5 (7.94%) JWT
13 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.70%) Mobile App
3 7 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (9.52%) N-Tier
5 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.17%) PKI
6 2 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Android
2 8 (12.70%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.35%) Linux
4 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Windows
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (71.43%) Agile
2 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 36 (57.14%) Microservices
3 24 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 24 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 21 (33.33%) BDD
5 20 (31.75%) DevOps
6 15 (23.81%) Migration
6 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 14 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 14 (22.22%) Scrum
8 13 (20.63%) Clean Code
8 13 (20.63%) Unit Testing
9 12 (19.05%) Front End Development
9 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
10 11 (17.46%) Technology Roadmap
11 10 (15.87%) Continuous Deployment
11 10 (15.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (68.25%) Java
2 29 (46.03%) SQL
3 22 (34.92%) Python
4 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
5 14 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (14.29%) Kotlin
7 8 (12.70%) Ruby
7 8 (12.70%) Swift
8 7 (11.11%) C
8 7 (11.11%) C++
8 7 (11.11%) Objective-C
8 7 (11.11%) Scala
9 4 (6.35%) C#
10 3 (4.76%) Bash
11 1 (1.59%) PHP
11 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (39.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) SAP
2 5 (7.94%) Gigya
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Perforce
3 3 (4.76%) Veracode
4 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Virgin Media