TDD Contracts in Birmingham

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 56 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -14
Contract jobs citing TDD 7 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.94% 2.34% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.70% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 16
10th Percentile £415 £401 £334
25th Percentile £421 £566 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £440
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +59.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £456 - £625
90th Percentile £468 - £638
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £595 £519
% change year-on-year -24.37% +14.70% +15.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - £58.14

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 778 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.85% 86.73% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 509 859
10th Percentile £237 £263 £231
25th Percentile £375 £398 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £581 £631 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 20
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.00 £12.59
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +20.10% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.38 £18.18
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Boomi
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Ant
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Lead
5 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) WSDL
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSD
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow