TDD Contracts in Central London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 93 56 31
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 44 145 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 3.91% 6.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 4.28% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 113 240
10th Percentile £401 £500 £463
25th Percentile £454 £563 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +7.44%
75th Percentile £731 £788 £738
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
London median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.55% -
London median hourly rate £61.43 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.09% +114.29% -46.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London -31 42 £625 -1.96% 41
TDD
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (4.55%) CMS
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 19 (43.18%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) AWS
2 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.82%) Serverless
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) Datadog
9 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DHCP
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) SSH
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.45%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.09%) KDB
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.55%) Redis
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.27%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.27%) DataStage
7 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) Mockito
2 5 (11.36%) Selenium
3 4 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) JUnit
3 4 (9.09%) Maven
3 4 (9.09%) Mercurial
3 4 (9.09%) Postman
3 4 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.55%) Gradle
6 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.27%) Darcs
6 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Back Office
4 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Front Office
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Developer
2 15 (34.09%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Senior
4 6 (13.64%) Lead
5 5 (11.36%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Scrum Master
8 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.55%) C++ Developer
8 2 (4.55%) C++/Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Java Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Market Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Market Data Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) REST
2 11 (25.00%) .NET
3 9 (20.45%) .NET Core
4 7 (15.91%) CSS
4 7 (15.91%) HTML
4 7 (15.91%) Spring
5 6 (13.64%) Kafka
5 6 (13.64%) Spring Boot
6 5 (11.36%) JAX-RS
6 5 (11.36%) React
6 5 (11.36%) RESTful
7 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.09%) Web Services
8 3 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.82%) Django
8 3 (6.82%) Playwright
8 3 (6.82%) pytest
8 3 (6.82%) XML
9 2 (4.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) CBDC
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Contactless
2 1 (2.27%) Digital Currency
2 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.27%) PKI
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Unix
3 4 (9.09%) Mac OS X
4 2 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Microservices
3 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
4 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
5 11 (25.00%) BDD
5 11 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (20.45%) OO
7 8 (18.18%) OOD
8 6 (13.64%) Pair Programming
9 5 (11.36%) API Management
9 5 (11.36%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
9 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Unit Testing
10 4 (9.09%) Analytics
10 4 (9.09%) Clean Code
10 4 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) C#
3 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.18%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) SQL
4 5 (11.36%) Bicep
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) C++
6 3 (6.82%) Go
7 2 (4.55%) C
8 1 (2.27%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Rust
8 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.55%) PMP
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
1 5 (11.36%) WCAG
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Kibana
3 1 (2.27%) logstash
3 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.27%) Confluent
4 1 (2.27%) Embarcadero
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) New Relic
4 1 (2.27%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk