TDD Contracts in the South West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 129 92
Rank change year-on-year +34 -37 +6
Contract jobs citing TDD 16 28 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 0.88% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.05% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 66
10th Percentile - £376 £409
25th Percentile £355 £481 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +3.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £605 £600 £675
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +13 11 £370 -24.10% 9
Devon +13 1 £500 -16.67% 6
Somerset +3 1 £610 +1.67% 1
Dorset +2 1 - - 3
Wiltshire - 1 £538 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) NUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Electronics
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 10 (62.50%) Marketing
2 10 (62.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Applications Support
3 7 (43.75%) Applications Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) C# Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
4 6 (37.50%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (31.25%) Senior
6 3 (18.75%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (6.25%) Lead .NET Developer
8 1 (6.25%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) Playwright
5 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
5 2 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Django
6 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js
6 1 (6.25%) React
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
6 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
3 10 (62.50%) Programme Management
3 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 9 (56.25%) Web Development
5 8 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 8 (50.00%) Service Delivery
5 8 (50.00%) Service Management
5 8 (50.00%) Software Delivery
5 8 (50.00%) User Experience
6 7 (43.75%) Agile
7 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) BDD
8 5 (31.25%) DevOps
9 3 (18.75%) Microservices
10 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) OCA
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) SAP
2 8 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (6.25%) ESRI
5 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) VMware