TDD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 135 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 -66 -17
Contract jobs citing TDD 196 245 853
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.98% 1.61% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.83% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 180 662
10th Percentile £386 £325 £440
25th Percentile £439 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £703
90th Percentile £800 £703 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £605
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.09% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 25
10th Percentile £35.63 £66.25 £61.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £68.13 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +10.69% +45.56%
75th Percentile - £78.13 £75.00
90th Percentile - £80.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

TDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

TDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

TDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

TDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing TDD over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

TDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

TDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing TDD over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

TDD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (12.76%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) Apache
3 5 (2.55%) CMS
4 4 (2.04%) Drupal
4 4 (2.04%) WordPress
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Trello
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.88%) AWS
2 80 (40.82%) Azure
3 35 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (17.86%) GCP
4 23 (11.73%) Serverless
5 14 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.10%) GitHub
7 8 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.08%) SaaS
8 7 (3.57%) PaaS
9 6 (3.06%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.06%) IaaS
9 6 (3.06%) Slack
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.53%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.53%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) HTTP
2 4 (2.04%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.04%) Internet
2 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.53%) IPsec
3 3 (1.53%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.53%) SSL
4 2 (1.02%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) Firewall
5 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.90%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (10.20%) Relational Database
3 16 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.65%) MySQL
5 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.10%) Redis
8 9 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.53%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.51%) Flink
12 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.84%) JIRA
3 32 (16.33%) Git
4 25 (12.76%) JUnit
5 15 (7.65%) Cypress.io
6 13 (6.63%) Mockito
7 11 (5.61%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.61%) GitLab
7 11 (5.61%) Postman
8 10 (5.10%) Selenium
9 9 (4.59%) Gradle
9 9 (4.59%) Liquibase
10 8 (4.08%) Jasmine
10 8 (4.08%) NUnit
11 6 (3.06%) Maven
11 6 (3.06%) REST Assured
11 6 (3.06%) Subversion
11 6 (3.06%) Visual Studio
12 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (2.04%) Eclipse
General
1 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.92%) Finance
3 37 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.71%) Banking
4 21 (10.71%) Front Office
5 16 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.06%) Back Office
7 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Electronics
8 5 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.55%) Marketing
8 5 (2.55%) Military
8 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (59.18%) Developer
2 41 (20.92%) Java Developer
2 41 (20.92%) Senior
3 40 (20.41%) Lead
4 33 (16.84%) Software Engineer
5 26 (13.27%) Lead Developer
5 26 (13.27%) Senior Developer
6 23 (11.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (11.22%) .NET Developer
8 18 (9.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 17 (8.67%) Lead Java Developer
9 17 (8.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 16 (8.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 16 (8.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) C# Developer
13 8 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
14 7 (3.57%) React Developer
15 6 (3.06%) Data Engineer
15 6 (3.06%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.96%) React
2 40 (20.41%) Spring Boot
3 37 (18.88%) .NET
4 35 (17.86%) AngularJS
4 35 (17.86%) Spring
5 30 (15.31%) Kafka
6 27 (13.78%) Node.js
7 26 (13.27%) REST
8 25 (12.76%) Redux
9 21 (10.71%) RESTful
10 19 (9.69%) HTML
10 19 (9.69%) Swagger
11 18 (9.18%) CSS
11 18 (9.18%) Vue
12 16 (8.16%) OpenAPI
12 16 (8.16%) Web Services
13 14 (7.14%) .NET Core
13 14 (7.14%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.61%) GraphQL
15 10 (5.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 16 (8.16%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.61%) Equities
5 9 (4.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.55%) Derivative
8 5 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.04%) Legacy Code
9 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.53%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.73%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Unix
3 8 (4.08%) Windows
4 7 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (70.41%) Agile
2 87 (44.39%) CI/CD
3 79 (40.31%) DevOps
4 64 (32.65%) Microservices
5 62 (31.63%) Software Engineering
6 55 (28.06%) BDD
7 47 (23.98%) Test Automation
8 45 (22.96%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (19.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (18.37%) Scrum
11 28 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
11 28 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (13.78%) Design Patterns
12 27 (13.78%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.76%) Analytics
13 25 (12.76%) Containerisation
14 23 (11.73%) Kanban
15 22 (11.22%) OO
16 21 (10.71%) Pair Programming
17 19 (9.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 98 (50.00%) Java
2 78 (39.80%) JavaScript
3 60 (30.61%) SQL
4 50 (25.51%) TypeScript
5 46 (23.47%) Python
6 41 (20.92%) C#
7 13 (6.63%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.59%) C++
10 8 (4.08%) Scala
11 7 (3.57%) Bash
12 5 (2.55%) F#
13 4 (2.04%) Groovy
13 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.04%) PHP
14 3 (1.53%) DAML
15 2 (1.02%) Go
15 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.02%) VBA
15 2 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Degree
4 8 (4.08%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.55%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.02%) ISEB
8 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) MCAD
9 1 (0.51%) MCPD
9 1 (0.51%) MCSA
9 1 (0.51%) MCSD
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) OCA
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) Accessibility
2 17 (8.67%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.53%) WCAG
5 2 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) RACF
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (17.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Terraform
3 8 (4.08%) Ansible
4 5 (2.55%) Grafana
5 4 (2.04%) Kibana
6 3 (1.53%) Packer
6 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.12%) Oracle
3 6 (3.06%) SAP
4 4 (2.04%) Splunk
4 4 (2.04%) Zend
5 3 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.53%) Databricks
5 3 (1.53%) Google
6 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.51%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.51%) Veeam
7 1 (0.51%) Veracode
7 1 (0.51%) VMware