TDD Contract Job Trends in Telford

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing TDD 10 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 3.29% 4.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 5.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £472 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £562 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - -
75th Percentile £562 £567 -
90th Percentile £604 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £562 -
% change year-on-year -12.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 276 75 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 90.79% 85.23% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 58 17
10th Percentile £400 £307 £328
25th Percentile £449 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £410
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +18.05% -22.64%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £495
90th Percentile £555 £567 £520
Shropshire median daily rate £506 £481 £400
% change year-on-year +5.31% +20.13% -24.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +157.02% - -

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

TDD job vacancy trend in Telford

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing TDD

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Telford over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Telford

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Engagement Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Scala Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Bid Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Play Framework
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Application Security
6 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Project Management
6 3 (30.00%) Servant Leadership
6 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (30.00%) User Research
6 3 (30.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Scala
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat