TDD Contract Job Trends in West London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -21 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing TDD 6 9 30
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.47% 3.78% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 4.11% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile £574 £510 £141
25th Percentile £591 £525 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £550 £340
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +61.76% -47.29%
75th Percentile £609 £552 £378
90th Percentile £612 £553 £499
London median daily rate £525 £611 £591
% change year-on-year -14.08% +3.43% -9.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 354 219 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.98% 92.02% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 133 238
10th Percentile £256 £226 £250
25th Percentile £400 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -13.16% -17.39%
75th Percentile £666 £512 £588
90th Percentile £788 £598 £650
London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 27
10th Percentile £23.55 £20.24 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.70 £20.45 £20.22
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% -16.61% -53.60%
75th Percentile £30.59 £30.98 £58.75
90th Percentile £34.35 £53.20 £65.80
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -25.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

TDD job vacancy trend in West London

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Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing TDD

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Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing TDD

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Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the West London region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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
Hounslow +2 2 £594 -
TDD
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JSUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lambda Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (100.00%) Next.js
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Media Streaming
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
4 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Customer Acquisition
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft