TDD Contracts in Sheffield

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 37 51 36
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing TDD 13 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.08% 1.06% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 1.14% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 17
10th Percentile £399 £431 £413
25th Percentile £466 £491 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.53% -16.07% +70.73%
75th Percentile £538 £638 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -11.53% -16.07% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) CloudBees
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Git
1 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Selenium
3 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
3 4 (30.77%) Gradle
3 4 (30.77%) HP UFT
3 4 (30.77%) IntelliJ
3 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 4 (30.77%) JUnit
3 4 (30.77%) Maven
4 2 (15.38%) TestNG
5 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) pytest
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) Jest
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) BDD
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
4 5 (38.46%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Case Management
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (30.77%) Data Privacy
5 4 (30.77%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
4 6 (46.15%) Kotlin
5 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Bash
6 2 (15.38%) Groovy
6 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) 3PAR
1 2 (15.38%) Brocade
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) EMC
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) HP
1 2 (15.38%) VMware