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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 51 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +19
Contract jobs citing TDD 17 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.01% 1.46% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 1.65% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 14
10th Percentile £351 £336 £608
25th Percentile £378 £390 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.85% -42.86% +18.14%
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £550 £580 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £400 £700
% change year-on-year +22.85% -42.86% +20.69%

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 535 363 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.69% 88.11% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 196 237
10th Percentile £294 £395 £400
25th Percentile £374 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £688
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -9.51% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

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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 18 August 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) CloudBees
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) npm
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Git
1 14 (82.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 3 (17.65%) Babel
4 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 3 (17.65%) Gradle
4 3 (17.65%) HP UFT
4 3 (17.65%) IntelliJ
4 3 (17.65%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) Maven
4 3 (17.65%) Postman
4 3 (17.65%) webpack
5 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (11.76%) TestNG
6 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Jest
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) CSS3
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) HTML5
2 4 (23.53%) React
3 3 (17.65%) Bootstrap
3 3 (17.65%) lodash
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) Redux
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) DOM
4 2 (11.76%) pytest
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) Material-UI
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) BDD
4 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
6 5 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
6 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
6 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) Case Management
8 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
8 3 (17.65%) QA Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Scrum
8 3 (17.65%) User Experience
8 3 (17.65%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) Python
4 7 (41.18%) Kotlin
5 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) Groovy
6 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) 3PAR
1 2 (11.76%) Brocade
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) EMC
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) HP
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics