TDD Contracts in the West Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 100 82
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 +22
Contract jobs citing TDD 21 11 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 0.56% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.67% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 40
10th Percentile £410 £335 £374
25th Percentile £419 £410 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -24.37% +19.00%
75th Percentile £486 - £700
90th Percentile £500 £465 -
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the West Midlands

TDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the West Midlands

TDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the West Midlands

TDD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +15 7 £450 - 23
Solihull - 6 £420 -
Shropshire - 5 £463 - 4
TDD
England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Open Workbench
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 8 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (28.57%) AWS KMS
5 6 (28.57%) Route 53
6 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.52%) Azure
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) PaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.76%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) JUnit
2 10 (47.62%) Mockito
3 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 9 (42.86%) Maven
4 4 (19.05%) Git
4 4 (19.05%) JIRA
5 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (14.29%) DbUnit
5 3 (14.29%) Gradle
5 3 (14.29%) jMock
5 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.76%) Ant
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Back Office
6 1 (4.76%) Automotive
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 12 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Engagement Manager
5 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Engagement Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) REST
3 9 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 9 (42.86%) Web Services
4 7 (33.33%) RESTful
5 6 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (28.57%) HTML
5 6 (28.57%) JPA
5 6 (28.57%) SOAP
6 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
6 5 (23.81%) Bootstrap
6 5 (23.81%) Spring Batch
6 5 (23.81%) Spring Integration
7 4 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (14.29%) jQuery
8 3 (14.29%) PowerMock
8 3 (14.29%) WireMock
9 2 (9.52%) CSS
9 2 (9.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Microservices
3 10 (47.62%) Scrum
4 8 (38.10%) BDD
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (28.57%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) Business Analysis
8 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
8 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
8 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 3 (14.29%) Open Source
9 3 (14.29%) Project Management
9 3 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (4.76%) PHP
6 1 (4.76%) R
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) Postfix
3 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 5 (23.81%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Sybase