TDD Contracts in the East of England

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 56 73
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing TDD 59 69 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.12% 3.51% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 4.00% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 37
10th Percentile £362 £378 £470
25th Percentile £457 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £565 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% -2.59% +16.00%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £630
90th Percentile £597 - £637
England median daily rate £565 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 15 7
10th Percentile - £57.75 £48.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £57.15
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -3.50% +49.69%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £76.64
90th Percentile - £73.75 £76.79
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% -2.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,726 2,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.08% 87.79% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 998 1,280
10th Percentile £205 £205 £187
25th Percentile £325 £326 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £677 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 332 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £45.05
90th Percentile £75.03 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Hertfordshire +6 43 £550 +51.72% 9
Cambridgeshire +3 8 £363 -30.79% 15
Essex -6 7 £485 -3.48% 3
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) GCP
2 4 (6.78%) GitHub
3 3 (5.08%) AWS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure
5 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.69%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 35 (59.32%) Modbus
1 35 (59.32%) RS-422
1 35 (59.32%) RS-485
2 6 (10.17%) Ethernet
2 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.69%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) JUnit
2 7 (11.86%) Mockito
3 6 (10.17%) Eclipse
3 6 (10.17%) Visual Studio
4 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
General
1 36 (61.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (59.32%) Electronics
3 6 (10.17%) Military
3 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Automotive
5 1 (1.69%) Finance
5 1 (1.69%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) Law
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (72.88%) Software Engineer
2 30 (50.85%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (28.81%) Developer
4 7 (11.86%) C Software Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.08%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (5.08%) React Developer
8 2 (3.39%) E-Commerce Developer
8 2 (3.39%) E-Commerce Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.39%) GCP Developer
8 2 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) GCP Software Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) RESTful
2 8 (13.56%) Spring
2 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
3 7 (11.86%) Drools
3 7 (11.86%) Quarkus
3 7 (11.86%) Web Services
4 6 (10.17%) Node.js
4 6 (10.17%) React
5 2 (3.39%) Kafka
6 1 (1.69%) .NET
6 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.69%) Akka
6 1 (1.69%) CSS
6 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.69%) HTML
6 1 (1.69%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (47.46%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.69%) FMCG
2 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (79.66%) Continuous Integration
2 45 (76.27%) Software Engineering
3 44 (74.58%) Agile
4 41 (69.49%) Pair Programming
4 41 (69.49%) Unit Testing
5 38 (64.41%) DevOps
6 36 (61.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (59.32%) Customer Requirements
7 35 (59.32%) Software Testing
8 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
8 9 (15.25%) Microservices
9 8 (13.56%) Scrum
10 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (11.86%) Decision Table
11 6 (10.17%) Digital Twin
11 6 (10.17%) Synthetic Environment
11 6 (10.17%) Validation
11 6 (10.17%) Verification and Validation
11 6 (10.17%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (72.88%) C#
2 41 (69.49%) C++
3 35 (59.32%) C
4 11 (18.64%) Java
4 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) SQL
6 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.78%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Google
3 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.69%) IBM
3 1 (1.69%) OpenText
3 1 (1.69%) Pega
3 1 (1.69%) Typelevel