TDD Contracts in the South West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 95 95
Rank change year-on-year -33 0 -37
Contract jobs citing TDD 24 82 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.76% 2.25% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 2.51% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 66 50
10th Percentile £434 £409 £403
25th Percentile £494 £469 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £569
90th Percentile £623 £675 £625
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Bristol +1 13 £506 -3.57% 14
Dorset - 3 £525 - 3
Gloucestershire +3 2 £538 +4.88% 7
Devon -18 2 £600 +9.09% 4
Somerset -4 1 £600 -7.69% 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 (4.17%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
3 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (20.83%) Postman
3 4 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (16.67%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) NUnit
4 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) Selenium
5 2 (8.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.17%) GitLab
6 1 (4.17%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (4.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Tech for Good
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Test Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Django Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) .NET
1 7 (29.17%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.83%) Node.js
2 5 (20.83%) React
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) CSS3
4 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.50%) HTML5
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Playwright
4 3 (12.50%) Web Services
5 2 (8.33%) Django
5 2 (8.33%) Jest
5 2 (8.33%) React Native
6 1 (4.17%) Laravel
6 1 (4.17%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) Spring
6 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 15 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 13 (54.17%) BDD
4 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
5 9 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (37.50%) DevOps
5 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
7 6 (25.00%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (20.83%) Kanban
8 5 (20.83%) SOLID
9 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
10 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL
6 1 (4.17%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) VMware