TDD Contracts in South London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing TDD 18 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 10.17% 4.72% 11.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.61% 4.93% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 29
10th Percentile - £340 £454
25th Percentile £463 £410 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £900
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -43.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £491 £564 -
90th Percentile £540 £588 £960
London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 223 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 95.71% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 154 264
10th Percentile £273 £259 £300
25th Percentile £463 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £575 £649
90th Percentile £781 £630 £757
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +9.21%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 -
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.22
London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
% change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in South London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Croydon +13 18 £475 +2.15% 3
TDD
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (27.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) JUnit
2 9 (50.00%) Mockito
3 5 (27.78%) Gradle
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Liquibase
4 3 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (11.11%) JMeter
5 2 (11.11%) Maven
5 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.56%) Storybook
General
1 10 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Electronics
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Marketing
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Java Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Spring
2 9 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) React
4 5 (27.78%) Kafka
4 5 (27.78%) OpenAPI
4 5 (27.78%) REST
4 5 (27.78%) Swagger
5 4 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (16.67%) Hibernate
7 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 2 (11.11%) Apache Camel
7 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
7 2 (11.11%) HTML
7 2 (11.11%) JPA
7 2 (11.11%) jQuery
7 2 (11.11%) JSON
7 2 (11.11%) SOAP
7 2 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (11.11%) Web Services
7 2 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Microservices
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 8 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (27.78%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Programme Management
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 3 (16.67%) CQRS
7 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 3 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
8 2 (11.11%) BDD
8 2 (11.11%) Process Management
8 2 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk