ATDD Contract Job Trends in the South East

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ATDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ATDD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.026% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £480 £750 £640
% change year-on-year -36.00% +17.19% -1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

ATDD 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,402 3,529 4,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.91% 84.65% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,148 2,151 3,178
10th Percentile £219 £258 £221
25th Percentile £389 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £616
90th Percentile £655 £688 £696
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 168 248
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £66.30
90th Percentile £68.50 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ATDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

ATDD job vacancy trend in the South East

ATDD
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ATDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ATDD

ATDD
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hampshire - 1 £550 - 1
ATDD
England

ATDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA