TDD Contracts in the West Midlands

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for TDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TDD over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 84 102
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 11 58 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 2.40% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 2.72% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 40 51
10th Percentile £335 £374 £375
25th Percentile £410 £422 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £595 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% +19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £700 £545
90th Percentile £465 - £600
England median daily rate £575 £625 £595
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.04% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

TDD 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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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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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

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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 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the West Midlands

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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

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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 24 April 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
Birmingham -5 9 £450 -32.08% 11
Coventry -3 2 - - 4
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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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) SonarCloud
4 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (9.09%) Boomi
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Moq
3 2 (18.18%) NUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Ant
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Applications Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) WSDL
4 1 (9.09%) XSD
4 1 (9.09%) XSLT
4 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) SOA
5 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Conversational UI
6 1 (9.09%) Data Development
6 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) R
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) UiPath