TDD Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 28 28 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing TDD 9 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.69% 1.65% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 1.92% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 22
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £400 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -37.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £490 £388 £725
90th Percentile £550 - £758
North East median daily rate £480 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +28.00% -37.50% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 9 £480 +28.00% 17
TDD
North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Electronics
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
1 6 (66.67%) Jest
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
1 6 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (22.22%) Akka
2 2 (22.22%) Play Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Functional Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP