TDD Contracts in Reading

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 56 76 61
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing TDD 4 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.26% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.40% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 16
10th Percentile £502 £438 £450
25th Percentile £504 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +3.26% -12.38%
75th Percentile £513 £488 £470
90th Percentile £515 £493 £500
Berkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £458
% change year-on-year +1.32% +3.83% -10.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Reading.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (25.00%) jMock
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) ADO
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft