ATDD Contracts in England

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ATDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ATDD 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 533 617 702
Rank change year-on-year +84 +85 -90
Contract jobs citing ATDD 18 20 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.042% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 49
10th Percentile - £773 £432
25th Percentile £325 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £900 £575
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +56.52% -10.16%
75th Percentile £563 - £650
90th Percentile £625 - £718
UK median daily rate £444 £900 £559
% change year-on-year -50.69% +61.07% -14.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ATDD 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ATDD in England.

Daily rate trend for ATDD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ATDD in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ATDD in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the 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
London +90 15 £450 -50.00% 2
East of England - 2 £363 -
North of England - 1 £500 - 1
North West - 1 £500 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Cucumber
2 10 (55.56%) Git
2 10 (55.56%) Postman
2 10 (55.56%) Selenium
2 10 (55.56%) SoapUI
3 9 (50.00%) Appium
3 9 (50.00%) eggPlant
3 9 (50.00%) JUnit
3 9 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 9 (50.00%) SOAtest
3 9 (50.00%) TestNG
3 9 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 5 (27.78%) SpecFlow
5 2 (11.11%) JIRA
6 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (5.56%) JMeter
6 1 (5.56%) Mercurial
6 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) .NET
1 9 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) BDD
1 16 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 14 (77.78%) TDD
3 11 (61.11%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (61.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 11 (61.11%) User Stories
4 9 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 9 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 4 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) SDET
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft