TDD Contracts in London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 62 48
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 502 963 2,026
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.86% 3.82% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.20% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 723 1,573
10th Percentile £363 £463 £450
25th Percentile £463 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £761 £713
90th Percentile £838 £858 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 24
10th Percentile £54.29 £58.60 -
25th Percentile £56.97 £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.43 £75.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +61.29% -31.19%
75th Percentile £63.72 - £74.63
90th Percentile £65.09 £90.00 £75.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.76
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.30% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,950 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 90.92% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 16,613 26,332
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +5.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in London

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in London

TDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London -36 46 £625 -1.96% 47
West London +20 29 £330 -47.20% 1
South London -7 15 £500 -41.18% 2
East London +2 12 £738 -13.24% 2
TDD
England

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (3.78%) CMS
2 14 (2.79%) Confluence
3 9 (1.79%) Apache
3 9 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.59%) nginx
5 7 (1.39%) SAS
6 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.60%) Drupal
8 3 (0.60%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.20%) GemFire
10 1 (0.20%) Jadu
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) NEC Housing
1 6 (1.20%) Shopify
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 183 (36.45%) Azure
2 163 (32.47%) AWS
3 86 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (15.14%) GCP
5 71 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 51 (10.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 39 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
7 39 (7.77%) Serverless
8 28 (5.58%) GitHub
9 21 (4.18%) Azure API Management
10 19 (3.78%) Azure Pipelines
11 17 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (3.39%) Azure Storage
11 17 (3.39%) PaaS
12 16 (3.19%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (2.99%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.99%) Power Platform
14 14 (2.79%) Amazon S3
15 13 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.97%) HTTP
2 9 (1.79%) FTP
2 9 (1.79%) SSH
3 5 (1.00%) Internet
4 4 (0.80%) SSL
5 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) DNS
6 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.20%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.20%) SNMP
6 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.12%) SQL Server
2 45 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 41 (8.17%) Relational Database
4 37 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 35 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (5.98%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.39%) KDB
9 11 (2.19%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.99%) Redis
11 9 (1.79%) Big Data
11 9 (1.79%) Power BI
12 8 (1.59%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.39%) MySQL
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.20%) OLTP
15 4 (0.80%) Mixpanel
15 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 114 (22.71%) Git
2 57 (11.35%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.57%) JIRA
4 38 (7.57%) JUnit
5 33 (6.57%) Cucumber
6 32 (6.37%) Postman
7 26 (5.18%) Mockito
7 26 (5.18%) Selenium
8 21 (4.18%) SpecFlow
9 19 (3.78%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.99%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.99%) Visual Studio
11 13 (2.59%) JMeter
12 12 (2.39%) Gradle
12 12 (2.39%) Maven
12 12 (2.39%) SoapUI
13 10 (1.99%) TestNG
13 10 (1.99%) WebDriver
14 9 (1.79%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.79%) SOAtest
General
1 160 (31.87%) Finance
2 86 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 68 (13.55%) Front Office
4 61 (12.15%) Banking
5 42 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.97%) Back Office
7 31 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (4.58%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.98%) Retail
10 8 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.59%) Marketing
11 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Advertising
12 5 (1.00%) Law
12 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.80%) Local Government
14 3 (0.60%) Electronics
14 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.60%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 329 (65.54%) Developer
2 134 (26.69%) Senior
3 98 (19.52%) Senior Developer
4 89 (17.73%) Java Developer
5 54 (10.76%) Software Engineer
6 52 (10.36%) Lead
7 43 (8.57%) Scala Developer
8 42 (8.37%) .NET Developer
9 35 (6.97%) Full Stack Developer
10 34 (6.77%) Senior Java Developer
11 32 (6.37%) Python Developer
12 31 (6.18%) C# Developer
13 23 (4.58%) Finance Manager
14 22 (4.38%) .NET Software Developer
15 21 (4.18%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (3.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 20 (3.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 20 (3.98%) Software Asset Manager
16 20 (3.98%) Software Manager
17 18 (3.59%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (31.47%) .NET
2 99 (19.72%) React
3 96 (19.12%) .NET Core
4 85 (16.93%) Kafka
5 81 (16.14%) REST
6 76 (15.14%) Spring
7 67 (13.35%) RESTful
8 61 (12.15%) HTML
9 58 (11.55%) CSS
10 55 (10.96%) Web Services
11 47 (9.36%) Spring Boot
12 45 (8.96%) AngularJS
13 40 (7.97%) Akka
14 38 (7.57%) Redux
15 37 (7.37%) Node.js
16 33 (6.57%) ASP.NET
17 31 (6.18%) XML
18 29 (5.78%) JSON
19 26 (5.18%) SOAP
20 24 (4.78%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.56%) Derivative
2 50 (9.96%) Fixed Income
3 33 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (5.58%) Hedge funds
5 25 (4.98%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.58%) Equities
7 21 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (3.59%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.79%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.59%) Mobile App
12 12 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.59%) Cloud Native
15 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.39%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 4 (0.80%) Credit Derivative
17 4 (0.80%) Equity Derivative
17 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.75%) Linux
2 53 (10.56%) Unix
3 16 (3.19%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.79%) Android
5 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.20%) Windows
7 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (68.13%) Agile
2 225 (44.82%) DevOps
3 168 (33.47%) CI/CD
4 165 (32.87%) Microservices
5 145 (28.88%) BDD
6 132 (26.29%) Test Automation
7 127 (25.30%) Software Engineering
8 112 (22.31%) Continuous Integration
9 95 (18.92%) Pair Programming
10 93 (18.53%) Clean Code
11 89 (17.73%) Scrum
12 78 (15.54%) OO
13 72 (14.34%) Full Stack Development
14 62 (12.35%) API Management
15 60 (11.95%) Unit Testing
16 57 (11.35%) OOD
17 50 (9.96%) Continuous Deployment
18 44 (8.76%) Kanban
19 39 (7.77%) Coaching
19 39 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 164 (32.67%) Java
2 158 (31.47%) C#
3 120 (23.90%) JavaScript
4 98 (19.52%) SQL
5 97 (19.32%) TypeScript
6 91 (18.13%) Python
7 56 (11.16%) Scala
8 52 (10.36%) Bicep
9 24 (4.78%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.18%) PHP
11 20 (3.98%) Go
12 17 (3.39%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.99%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.79%) C++
15 7 (1.39%) Ruby
16 6 (1.20%) BeanShell
16 6 (1.20%) Perl
17 5 (1.00%) C
17 5 (1.00%) Groovy
18 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.37%) Degree
4 16 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.60%) PMP
8 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) OCP
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.16%) QA
2 33 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.38%) WCAG
4 9 (1.79%) MiFID
5 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) HL7
6 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (11.75%) Docker
2 47 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) GridGain
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 99 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.77%) Terraform
3 21 (4.18%) Grafana
4 15 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.39%) Ansible
6 8 (1.59%) Kibana
7 6 (1.20%) Puppet
8 3 (0.60%) logstash
8 3 (0.60%) Netcool
8 3 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Salt
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.18%) Oracle
3 21 (4.18%) Typelevel
4 13 (2.59%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.59%) Google
5 8 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.59%) SAP
6 7 (1.39%) Splunk
7 6 (1.20%) NEC
8 5 (1.00%) Adobe
8 5 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.00%) Databricks
8 5 (1.00%) New Relic
8 5 (1.00%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.00%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.80%) Informatica
9 4 (0.80%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.60%) Solace
11 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft