TDD Contracts in the South East

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 139 116
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 -2
Contract jobs citing TDD 21 58 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 1.05% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.25% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 39 64
10th Percentile £288 £325 £425
25th Percentile £311 £350 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.79% +7.70%
75th Percentile £509 £588 £675
90th Percentile £550 £692 £810
England median daily rate £530 £565 £620
% change year-on-year -6.19% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% -4.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 4,656 5,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.28% 84.39% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 2,720 3,497
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -1.81% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 436 222
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £16.31
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.31 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

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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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
Thames Valley +24 9 £450 -5.26% 21
Berkshire +18 6 £509 +7.05% 8
Hampshire +25 5 £500 +42.86% 10
West Sussex +6 5 £350 -41.67% 3
Buckinghamshire +9 2 £311 -33.76% 10
Surrey +7 2 - - 8
Oxfordshire +3 1 £450 +28.57% 6
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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 5 (23.81%) CMS
1 5 (23.81%) Confluence
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
2 4 (19.05%) Drupal
2 4 (19.05%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 5 (23.81%) MySQL
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.52%) DocumentDB
5 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
6 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 10 (47.62%) JIRA
3 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (14.29%) JUnit
5 3 (14.29%) Mockito
6 2 (9.52%) JMeter
6 2 (9.52%) Subversion
7 1 (4.76%) DbUnit
7 1 (4.76%) GitLab
7 1 (4.76%) jMock
7 1 (4.76%) Maven
7 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Law
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) REST
2 8 (38.10%) HTML
2 8 (38.10%) Web Services
3 6 (28.57%) CSS
3 6 (28.57%) jQuery
4 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (23.81%) SOAP
5 4 (19.05%) Ajax
5 4 (19.05%) CodeIgniter
5 4 (19.05%) Kafka
5 4 (19.05%) LAMP
5 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
6 3 (14.29%) .NET
6 3 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 3 (14.29%) gRPC
6 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (14.29%) RESTful
6 3 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Legacy Code
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) Scrum
3 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 11 (52.38%) BDD
4 11 (52.38%) Kanban
5 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (42.86%) Microservices
6 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
7 7 (33.33%) DevOps
8 6 (28.57%) Design Patterns
8 6 (28.57%) OO
9 5 (23.81%) MVC
9 5 (23.81%) SDLC
10 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
10 4 (19.05%) OOP
10 4 (19.05%) Secure Coding
11 3 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
11 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
11 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) Go
4 4 (19.05%) PHP
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) C#
6 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.76%) Bicep
7 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Zend
3 3 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Jaspersoft