ATDD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ATDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ATDD 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 302 341 458
Rank change year-on-year +39 +117 +123
Contract jobs citing ATDD 2 4 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.026% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.030% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £452 £900
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -49.78% +50.00%
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £900
% change year-on-year -11.11% -50.00% +58.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

ATDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ATDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ATDD.

ATDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ATDD.

ATDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) V-Model
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA