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 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 55 57 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing TDD 62 62 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.20% 3.18% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.63% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 36
10th Percentile £371 £413 £481
25th Percentile £472 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £578
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +0.91% +13.28%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £631
90th Percentile £595 - £640
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 8
10th Percentile - £57.38 £49.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £59.48
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £68.93
Median % change year-on-year - -5.70% +53.18%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £76.64
90th Percentile - £73.75 £76.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.76
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.30% +5.88%

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 1,628 1,707 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.13% 87.54% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 1,004 1,308
10th Percentile £201 £206 £194
25th Percentile £315 £343 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 322 382
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £44.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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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 1 June 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 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
Hertfordshire +10 42 £550 +29.41% 5
Cambridgeshire +9 9 £363 -32.24% 11
Essex -3 7 £485 -3.48% 2
Norfolk - 4 £500 - 2
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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 4 (6.45%) Appian
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) GCP
2 4 (6.45%) GitHub
2 4 (6.45%) Unqork
3 3 (4.84%) AWS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (54.84%) Modbus
1 34 (54.84%) RS-422
1 34 (54.84%) RS-485
2 6 (9.68%) Ethernet
2 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) HTTP
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.61%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) JUnit
2 7 (11.29%) Mockito
3 6 (9.68%) Eclipse
3 6 (9.68%) Visual Studio
4 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.84%) JIRA
General
1 38 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (54.84%) Electronics
3 6 (9.68%) Military
3 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.23%) Games
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Automotive
6 1 (1.61%) Finance
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (67.74%) Software Engineer
2 29 (46.77%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (27.42%) Developer
4 6 (9.68%) C Software Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Appian Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (4.84%) React Developer
8 2 (3.23%) E-Commerce Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.23%) GCP Developer
8 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) RESTful
2 10 (16.13%) Web Services
3 8 (12.90%) Spring
3 8 (12.90%) Spring Boot
4 7 (11.29%) Drools
4 7 (11.29%) Quarkus
5 6 (9.68%) Node.js
5 6 (9.68%) React
6 4 (6.45%) SOAP
7 2 (3.23%) Kafka
8 1 (1.61%) .NET
8 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.61%) Akka
8 1 (1.61%) CSS
8 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.61%) HTML
8 1 (1.61%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 28 (45.16%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.61%) FMCG
2 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
1 6 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (80.65%) Continuous Integration
2 44 (70.97%) Agile
2 44 (70.97%) Software Engineering
3 40 (64.52%) Pair Programming
3 40 (64.52%) Unit Testing
4 37 (59.68%) DevOps
5 35 (56.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (54.84%) Customer Requirements
6 34 (54.84%) Software Testing
7 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
7 9 (14.52%) Microservices
8 8 (12.90%) Scrum
9 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (11.29%) Decision Table
10 6 (9.68%) Digital Twin
10 6 (9.68%) Synthetic Environment
10 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.68%) Verification and Validation
10 6 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (67.74%) C#
2 40 (64.52%) C++
3 34 (54.84%) C
4 11 (17.74%) Java
4 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.29%) SQL
6 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Google
2 4 (6.45%) IBM
2 4 (6.45%) OpenText
2 4 (6.45%) Pega
3 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.61%) Typelevel