TDD Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring TDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 101 109
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing TDD 23 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.25% 0.58% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.70% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 15
10th Percentile £475 £513 £363
25th Percentile £489 £525 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +20.37%
75th Percentile - £571 £700
90th Percentile £530 £575 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1,638 1,564 1,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.26% 82.45% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 983 1,190
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 39 53
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.85
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £32.44 £35.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.16%

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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

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TDD

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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 28 September 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 +14 13 £500 -10.95% 8
Shropshire -22 5 £492 -12.38% 3
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
TDD
England

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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 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (47.83%) Amazon S3
3 10 (43.48%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (30.43%) AWS KMS
4 7 (30.43%) Route 53
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.70%) Azure
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (47.83%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (43.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (34.78%) DynamoDB
5 6 (26.09%) MongoDB
6 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (4.35%) Power BI
8 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) JUnit
2 13 (56.52%) Git
3 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
4 10 (43.48%) Maven
5 9 (39.13%) SonarQube
6 7 (30.43%) Mockito
7 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (21.74%) DbUnit
7 5 (21.74%) jMock
8 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (4.35%) Gatling
8 1 (4.35%) GitLab
8 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Retail Banking
5 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
1 17 (73.91%) Java Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Lead Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Bid Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Spring
2 12 (52.17%) REST
2 12 (52.17%) Spring Boot
3 10 (43.48%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (43.48%) SOAP
4 9 (39.13%) AngularJS
4 9 (39.13%) JPA
4 9 (39.13%) Web Services
5 8 (34.78%) RESTful
6 7 (30.43%) Bootstrap
6 7 (30.43%) Hibernate
6 7 (30.43%) Spring Batch
6 7 (30.43%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (30.43%) Spring Integration
7 6 (26.09%) Kafka
8 5 (21.74%) Gherkin
8 5 (21.74%) PowerMock
9 3 (13.04%) React
10 2 (8.70%) .NET
10 2 (8.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
1 18 (78.26%) Microservices
2 16 (69.57%) Scrum
3 11 (47.83%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) BDD
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (30.43%) SDLC
7 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
7 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
8 5 (21.74%) Kanban
8 5 (21.74%) Open Source
8 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
10 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (13.04%) Migration
10 3 (13.04%) Project Management
10 3 (13.04%) Servant Leadership
11 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
11 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Grafana
1 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Atlassian
1 5 (21.74%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks