TDD Contracts in the South East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for TDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TDD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 120 111
Rank change year-on-year -24 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing TDD 57 103 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 1.77% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.99% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 60 105
10th Percentile £325 £425 £379
25th Percentile £350 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +16.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £540
90th Percentile £723 £825 £633
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 7
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.75
25th Percentile - £70.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.50% -
75th Percentile - - £65.90
90th Percentile - - £67.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

TDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the South East.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the South East

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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 TDD within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -26 27 £475 -5.00% 19
Berkshire -17 19 £475 +3.83% 7
West Sussex +6 12 £675 +16.38% 8
Buckinghamshire +15 8 £469 -27.88% 6
Hampshire -8 8 £350 -39.13% 41
Surrey +18 7 £463 - 14
Middlesex -3 2 - -
TDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 5 (8.77%) Drupal
3 3 (5.26%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.75%) Jadu
4 1 (1.75%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.51%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.51%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.28%) MySQL
3 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.51%) Redis
6 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Git
2 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.79%) JIRA
4 5 (8.77%) JUnit
5 4 (7.02%) GitLab
6 3 (5.26%) Subversion
6 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.51%) Postman
7 2 (3.51%) TestRail
7 2 (3.51%) VersionOne
8 1 (1.75%) JMeter
8 1 (1.75%) Mockito
General
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.51%) Automotive
4 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.75%) Aviation
4 1 (1.75%) Back Office
4 1 (1.75%) Banking
4 1 (1.75%) Marketing
4 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Java Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) Drupal Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (7.02%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) SQL Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead
9 2 (3.51%) Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) IAM Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Java Scala Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Scala Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) REST
1 15 (26.32%) Spring
2 14 (24.56%) .NET
2 14 (24.56%) Spring Boot
3 10 (17.54%) CSS
3 10 (17.54%) Kafka
3 10 (17.54%) Web Services
4 8 (14.04%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.28%) Node.js
5 7 (12.28%) React
6 6 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (10.53%) HTML
6 6 (10.53%) RESTful
7 5 (8.77%) GraphQL
7 5 (8.77%) Sass
7 5 (8.77%) SOAP
7 5 (8.77%) Symfony
8 4 (7.02%) ASP.NET
9 3 (5.26%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) IoT
4 1 (1.75%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) Agile
2 24 (42.11%) Scrum
3 22 (38.60%) Microservices
4 21 (36.84%) BDD
5 15 (26.32%) SOLID
6 14 (24.56%) DevOps
6 14 (24.56%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
8 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 11 (19.30%) Kanban
10 8 (14.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
12 6 (10.53%) SDLC
13 5 (8.77%) Clean Code
13 5 (8.77%) OO
13 5 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (8.77%) Waterfall
13 5 (8.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) JavaScript
2 20 (35.09%) Java
3 17 (29.82%) C#
4 13 (22.81%) SQL
5 11 (19.30%) PHP
6 3 (5.26%) Go
6 3 (5.26%) Python
6 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) C
7 2 (3.51%) Scala
7 2 (3.51%) VB
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Bicep
8 1 (1.75%) C++
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) HNC
5 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) PMO
2 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle
2 2 (3.51%) Atmel
3 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.75%) Splunk