TDD Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 46 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 +21
Contract jobs citing TDD 18 31 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.22% 3.17% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.65% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 68
10th Percentile £400 £400 £496
25th Percentile £409 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £541 £615 £700
90th Percentile £556 £625 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.33% -4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 514 850 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.95% 87.00% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 496 962
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% +7.25%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £600 £662 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leeds -9 18 £488 -15.22% 33
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (11.11%) GitHub
1 2 (11.11%) Slack
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) Apigee
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) npm
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (27.78%) MySQL
3 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Cucumber
2 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) JMeter
2 5 (27.78%) JUnit
2 5 (27.78%) Postman
2 5 (27.78%) REST Assured
2 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 5 (27.78%) TestNG
3 4 (22.22%) Git
3 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (11.11%) Jasmine
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) Babel
5 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Scala Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (11.11%) React Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Playwright
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) Akka
3 3 (16.67%) Play Framework
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Security
3 3 (16.67%) Swagger
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) Laravel
4 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.11%) pytest
4 2 (11.11%) React Native
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Vue
4 2 (11.11%) WPF
5 1 (5.56%) JWT
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) BDD
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (38.89%) Microservices
5 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) API Testing
7 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
8 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (16.67%) API Development
9 3 (16.67%) API Integration
9 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 3 (16.67%) Functional Programming
9 3 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (16.67%) Test Planning
9 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) Scala
5 2 (11.11%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
1 5 (27.78%) WCAG
2 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform