TDD Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 113 114
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -42
Contract jobs citing TDD 7 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.52% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.59% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile £197 £377 £356
25th Percentile £261 £390 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £408 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -18.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £481 £468 £598
90th Percentile £573 £479 £634
South East median daily rate £525 £444 £550
% change year-on-year +18.38% -19.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

TDD job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TDD

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire -6 4 £468 +14.72% 18
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £197 -64.20% 8
TDD
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
1 1 (14.29%) Gunicorn
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Application Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Web Application Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Django Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Application Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Web Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) Django
1 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) SFIA
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) User Stories
5 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce