TDD Contracts in Yorkshire

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 64 45
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +37
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 36 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.86% 2.24% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.68% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 69
10th Percentile £361 £391 £460
25th Percentile £414 £444 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £688
90th Percentile £550 £623 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £623
% change year-on-year -4.55% -11.65% +3.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,336 1,343 1,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.20% 83.52% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 823 1,221
10th Percentile £263 £300 £280
25th Percentile £375 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 53 30
10th Percentile £16.28 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.15 £16.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.31% +5.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.50
90th Percentile £30.14 £45.75 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South Yorkshire 0 15 £506 +26.57% 3
West Yorkshire -12 11 £475 -13.64% 26
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) GitHub
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) CloudBees
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Azure
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (48.15%) Git
3 11 (40.74%) Selenium
4 9 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 8 (29.63%) Maven
5 8 (29.63%) TestNG
6 7 (25.93%) GitLab
6 7 (25.93%) Postman
7 6 (22.22%) Cypress.io
7 6 (22.22%) JMeter
7 6 (22.22%) JUnit
7 6 (22.22%) REST Assured
8 5 (18.52%) JIRA
9 3 (11.11%) Gradle
9 3 (11.11%) HP UFT
9 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
10 1 (3.70%) Babel
10 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
10 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
10 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Test Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Playwright
2 5 (18.52%) pytest
3 4 (14.81%) React
4 3 (11.11%) Jest
4 3 (11.11%) Node.js
4 3 (11.11%) REST
4 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.41%) CSS
5 2 (7.41%) CSS3
5 2 (7.41%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) HTML5
5 2 (7.41%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.70%) DOM
6 1 (3.70%) lodash
6 1 (3.70%) Pandas
6 1 (3.70%) Redux
6 1 (3.70%) Spring
6 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 19 (70.37%) Agile
3 14 (51.85%) Test Automation
4 12 (44.44%) BDD
4 12 (44.44%) DevOps
5 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (25.93%) Test Strategy
7 6 (22.22%) API Testing
7 6 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
8 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
9 4 (14.81%) Analytics
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Java
2 16 (59.26%) JavaScript
3 14 (51.85%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) Kotlin
5 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.11%) Bash
6 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.41%) Groovy
7 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.70%) Go
8 1 (3.70%) Perl
8 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) QA
2 7 (25.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (22.22%) WCAG
4 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
4 2 (7.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) 3PAR
1 2 (7.41%) Brocade
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco
1 2 (7.41%) EMC
1 2 (7.41%) Google
1 2 (7.41%) HP
1 2 (7.41%) VMware