TDD Contract Job Trends in Salford

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Salford requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Salford 12.50% 3.03% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 3.03% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16 33 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 100.00% 100.00% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 16
10th Percentile £252 - £248
25th Percentile £353 - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £294 £394
Median % change year-on-year +35.88% -25.24% -28.41%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £441
90th Percentile £663 £700 £463
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15.58 - -
25th Percentile £17.30 - -
Median hourly rate £23.65 - -
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +25.00% -36.59%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Salford

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Salford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CocoaPods
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Core Media
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Swift