ATDD Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ATDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 359 395
Rank change year-on-year -39 +36 +94
Contract jobs citing ATDD 1 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.018% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.021% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £401 -
25th Percentile £525 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £575 £428 £500
90th Percentile - £434 £793
UK median daily rate £480 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -31.43% +40.00% -18.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ATDD 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,064 14,107 18,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.46% 83.88% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 8,084 11,988
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 888 1,294
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.15 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £72.50 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ATDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ATDD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ATDD
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD

ATDD
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD

ATDD
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 7 November 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
South East - 1 £550 - 8
ATDD
UK

ATDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA