TDD Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TDD 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.64% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £214 - -
25th Percentile £220 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - -
75th Percentile £305 - -
90th Percentile £374 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £380 £370 £650
% change year-on-year +2.70% -43.08% +15.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 208 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.39% 88.89% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 156 124
10th Percentile £306 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.99% -0.52%
75th Percentile £451 £520 £538
90th Percentile £550 £598 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £480
% change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 15
10th Percentile - - £13.60
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.95
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +56.92%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing TDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Northamptonshire

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing TDD

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Northampton - 5 £270 - 4
TDD
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Mockito
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Jest
3 2 (40.00%) JPA
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) Redux
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) BPMN
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Veracode
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft