Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 676 732
Rank change year-on-year +122 +56 -83
Contract jobs citing ATDD 33 30 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.058% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 63
10th Percentile - £543 £411
25th Percentile £325 £825 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £900 £575
Median % change year-on-year -50.69% +56.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £531 - £625
90th Percentile £625 - £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £556
% change year-on-year - -23.60% +30.88%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Daily rate trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ATDD over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Hourly rate trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +107 17 £450 -50.00% 4
London +76 15 £450 -50.00% 1
Work from Home +98 4 £452 -49.78% 3
UK excluding London +65 4 £425 - 3
Scotland +36 2 £425 -
North West - 1 £500 -
North of England - 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 £363 - 1

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) Azure
1 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (6.06%) IaaS
1 2 (6.06%) PaaS
1 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 30 (90.91%) Cucumber
2 12 (36.36%) Git
2 12 (36.36%) Selenium
3 11 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 10 (30.30%) Postman
4 10 (30.30%) SoapUI
5 9 (27.27%) Appium
5 9 (27.27%) eggPlant
5 9 (27.27%) JUnit
5 9 (27.27%) REST Assured
5 9 (27.27%) SOAtest
5 9 (27.27%) TestNG
6 5 (15.15%) SpecFlow
7 3 (9.09%) JIRA
7 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
8 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
8 2 (6.06%) Subversion
9 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.03%) JMeter
General
1 21 (63.64%) Banking
2 14 (42.42%) Investment Banking
3 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Developer
1 16 (48.48%) Scala Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Agile Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Scrum Master
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Test Automation Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) .NET
2 9 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) Playwright
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.06%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (96.97%) BDD
2 17 (51.52%) Test Automation
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 16 (48.48%) OO
4 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 15 (45.45%) TDD
5 11 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 11 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 10 (30.30%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (30.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 10 (30.30%) User Stories
7 9 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
7 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
8 4 (12.12%) ETL
8 4 (12.12%) Microservices
8 4 (12.12%) SDET
9 3 (9.09%) Kanban
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
10 2 (6.06%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Java
1 16 (48.48%) Scala
2 12 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) VBA
4 2 (6.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) ISEB
3 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.03%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft