TDD Contracts in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 42 54
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing TDD 25 35 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.19% 4.66% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 5.27% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile £513 £472 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £265
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +83.96% -42.39%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £298
90th Percentile - £499 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £607 £625
% change year-on-year -17.63% -2.88% +20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 13
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.75
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +3.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 398 664 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 82.57% 88.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 363 430
10th Percentile £250 £273 £260
25th Percentile £313 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £635 £775 £750
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 155 158
10th Percentile £15.10 £18.85 £15.70
25th Percentile £32.50 £43.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £70.75
East of England median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Stevenage -1 23 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £525 - 1
TDD
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (84.00%) Ethernet
1 21 (84.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) Modbus
2 1 (4.00%) RS-422
2 1 (4.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (88.00%) Eclipse
1 22 (88.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (92.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (88.00%) Presentation Skills
3 21 (84.00%) Military
4 3 (12.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (12.00%) Aviation
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Software Engineer
2 18 (72.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 14 (56.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Developer
5 4 (16.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) Node.js
1 21 (84.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) FMCG
1 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Linux
1 22 (88.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Agile
1 23 (92.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 23 (92.00%) Continuous Integration
1 23 (92.00%) Unit Testing
2 22 (88.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (88.00%) Digital Twin
2 22 (88.00%) Synthetic Environment
3 19 (76.00%) Software Engineering
4 18 (72.00%) Validation
4 18 (72.00%) Verification and Validation
4 18 (72.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (4.00%) Event-Driven
6 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.00%) Microservices
6 1 (4.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (92.00%) C++
3 21 (84.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Twitter