TDD Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring TDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.24% 4.44% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 4.76% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £434 £382 £450
25th Percentile £470 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £625
90th Percentile £575 £600 £693
North East median daily rate £520 £470 £600
% change year-on-year +10.64% -21.67% +4.35%

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 195 168 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.15% 93.33% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 80 99
10th Percentile £200 £325 £350
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £653 £720
North East median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -41.89% +48.85% +14.29%

TDD
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

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing TDD

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Tyne and Wear

TDD
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 16 September 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 11 £520 +10.64% 3
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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Flink
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (25.00%) JAX-RS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) Jest
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) Sass
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) JPA
4 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
4 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (25.00%) Web Design
5 3 (25.00%) Web Development
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
7 1 (8.33%) Backlog Refinement
7 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (8.33%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Go
3 4 (33.33%) Perl
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform