ATDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ATDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ATDD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 - 492
Rank change year-on-year - - -62
Contract jobs citing ATDD 4 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% - 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% - 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 16
10th Percentile £368 - £413
25th Percentile £384 - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £556
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.85%
75th Percentile £469 - £620
90th Percentile £488 - -
UK median daily rate £444 £900 £559
% change year-on-year -50.69% +61.07% -12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ATDD 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ATDD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ATDD in the UK excluding London

ATDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ATDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ATDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ATDD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ATDD in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Scotland - 2 £425 -
East of England - 1 £363 - 1
North of England - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £500 -
ATDD
UK

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) V-Model
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) VBA
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian