TDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 70 53
Rank change year-on-year -66 -17 -5
Contract jobs citing TDD 234 774 2,031
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.60% 3.18% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.55% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 609 1,420
10th Percentile £325 £429 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £719
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 34
10th Percentile £66.25 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £68.13 £64.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £72.50 £60.27
Median % change year-on-year - +20.29% +3.91%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.75 - £77.24
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.92% +6.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,850 21,794 40,408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.71% 89.60% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,458 29,341
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 505 526
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.13
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.95 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

TDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 15 (6.41%) nginx
2 9 (3.85%) CMS
3 8 (3.42%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.28%) Drupal
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.85%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) GemFire
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) RMDS
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Endur
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.62%) AWS
2 74 (31.62%) Azure
3 42 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (10.68%) Serverless
5 23 (9.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 22 (9.40%) GCP
7 15 (6.41%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 14 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (5.98%) GitHub
9 13 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (5.56%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.42%) Azure API Management
13 8 (3.42%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) HTTP
2 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.43%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.70%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.70%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (2.99%) MySQL
6 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.14%) Power BI
9 4 (1.71%) Big Data
9 4 (1.71%) OLTP
9 4 (1.71%) Redis
10 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 49 (20.94%) Git
2 25 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.26%) JIRA
4 11 (4.70%) Visual Studio
5 10 (4.27%) JUnit
6 9 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.85%) Selenium
7 8 (3.42%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.42%) JMeter
7 8 (3.42%) SpecFlow
8 7 (2.99%) GitLab
8 7 (2.99%) Postman
9 6 (2.56%) Mockito
10 5 (2.14%) Moq
11 4 (1.71%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.71%) Gradle
11 4 (1.71%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.71%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.71%) Visual Studio Team System
11 4 (1.71%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (15.81%) Public Sector
2 33 (14.10%) Finance
3 32 (13.68%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.13%) Back Office
5 11 (4.70%) Banking
6 8 (3.42%) Front Office
6 8 (3.42%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.99%) Retail
8 6 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.56%) Marketing
9 5 (2.14%) Electronics
9 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Automotive
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 142 (60.68%) Developer
2 49 (20.94%) Senior
3 36 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 34 (14.53%) Senior Developer
5 28 (11.97%) Full Stack Developer
6 24 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 22 (9.40%) C# Developer
8 20 (8.55%) Lead
9 14 (5.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 13 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.56%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (4.70%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.85%) Azure Developer
13 9 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (3.85%) PHP Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Scala Developer
15 7 (2.99%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.64%) .NET
2 49 (20.94%) HTML
3 44 (18.80%) CSS
3 44 (18.80%) React
4 40 (17.09%) REST
5 33 (14.10%) Spring
6 31 (13.25%) Spring Boot
7 28 (11.97%) Node.js
8 26 (11.11%) .NET Core
9 25 (10.68%) Laravel
10 24 (10.26%) Kafka
11 19 (8.12%) Sass
12 16 (6.84%) AngularJS
13 15 (6.41%) ASP.NET
13 15 (6.41%) GraphQL
14 13 (5.56%) .NET Framework
15 11 (4.70%) AWS CDK
15 11 (4.70%) jQuery
15 11 (4.70%) Web Services
15 11 (4.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.13%) Derivative
3 9 (3.85%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.14%) NHS
8 4 (1.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.28%) Equities
9 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.28%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) Social Media
10 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.85%) Contactless
10 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.97%) Linux
2 25 (10.68%) Unix
3 7 (2.99%) Android
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.71%) Windows
5 3 (1.28%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.28%) Agile
2 78 (33.33%) DevOps
3 75 (32.05%) Test Automation
4 64 (27.35%) Microservices
5 61 (26.07%) BDD
5 61 (26.07%) CI/CD
6 57 (24.36%) Software Engineering
7 44 (18.80%) Full Stack Development
8 42 (17.95%) Scrum
9 34 (14.53%) Clean Code
10 33 (14.10%) Pair Programming
11 30 (12.82%) Unit Testing
12 27 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (11.54%) OO
13 25 (10.68%) Kanban
14 22 (9.40%) SOLID
14 22 (9.40%) Web Development
15 21 (8.97%) API Management
15 21 (8.97%) Mentoring
16 20 (8.55%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 86 (36.75%) Java
2 79 (33.76%) JavaScript
3 59 (25.21%) C#
4 48 (20.51%) TypeScript
5 42 (17.95%) SQL
6 35 (14.96%) PHP
7 30 (12.82%) Python
8 19 (8.12%) Bicep
9 12 (5.13%) Scala
10 11 (4.70%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.27%) C++
12 8 (3.42%) Bash
12 8 (3.42%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.99%) Ruby
14 6 (2.56%) Go
15 5 (2.14%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.71%) C
17 3 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.85%) BeanShell
18 2 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) HNC
7 1 (0.43%) ISEB
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.10%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.13%) QA
3 8 (3.42%) WCAG
4 4 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) MiFID
5 3 (1.28%) PMO
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (12.39%) Docker
2 11 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) zsh
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.55%) Terraform
3 13 (5.56%) Grafana
4 9 (3.85%) Kibana
5 4 (1.71%) Ansible
6 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.85%) logstash
7 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.41%) Oracle
3 11 (4.70%) Google
4 7 (2.99%) SAP
5 5 (2.14%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.71%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.28%) Databricks
7 3 (1.28%) Solace
8 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.85%) IBM
8 2 (0.85%) New Relic
8 2 (0.85%) Splunk
8 2 (0.85%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.43%) Informatica
9 1 (0.43%) NEC
9 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore