TDD Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 125 50 45
Rank change year-on-year -75 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing TDD 61 228 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.31% 4.08% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 4.50% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 186 230
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £491 £477 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +11.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £615 £647 £584
90th Percentile £639 £700 £675
England median daily rate £565 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile £77.50 £61.25 £70.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £82.50 - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £81.00
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
North 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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
Yorkshire -30 36 £575 -4.17% 24
North West -61 21 £525 -4.55% 82
North East -3 4 £375 -28.57% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 6 (9.84%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) AWS
2 10 (16.39%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) GitHub
4 7 (11.48%) Serverless
5 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.56%) BrowserStack
7 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.92%) GCP
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.28%) CloudBees
8 2 (3.28%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.64%) Firebase
9 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.84%) Flink
3 6 (9.84%) MySQL
3 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.64%) DataStage
6 1 (1.64%) Power BI
6 1 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.11%) Selenium
4 6 (9.84%) Cucumber
4 6 (9.84%) JIRA
4 6 (9.84%) JMeter
4 6 (9.84%) JUnit
5 5 (8.20%) Cypress.io
6 4 (6.56%) Gatling
6 4 (6.56%) WebDriver
7 3 (4.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (3.28%) Mockito
8 2 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.64%) GitLab
9 1 (1.64%) Gradle
9 1 (1.64%) Postman
9 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (54.10%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (16.39%) Senior
3 10 (16.39%) Test Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Python Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Full Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) React Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) React
1 10 (16.39%) Spring
2 8 (13.11%) Kafka
2 8 (13.11%) Web Services
3 7 (11.48%) FastAPI
3 7 (11.48%) RESTful
4 6 (9.84%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (9.84%) Flask
4 6 (9.84%) Gherkin
4 6 (9.84%) Node.js
4 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.20%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) Next.js
6 4 (6.56%) .NET
7 3 (4.92%) CSS
8 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.28%) J2EE
8 2 (3.28%) JSP
8 2 (3.28%) SAML
8 2 (3.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.64%) Mashup
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Unix
2 6 (9.84%) Mac OS X
3 4 (6.56%) Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Android
4 2 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (67.21%) Agile
2 25 (40.98%) Test Automation
3 21 (34.43%) BDD
3 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
4 12 (19.67%) Data Modelling
4 12 (19.67%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (19.67%) Microservices
5 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.39%) Scrum
6 10 (16.39%) SDLC
7 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
7 9 (14.75%) Test Strategy
8 8 (13.11%) Analytics
8 8 (13.11%) Software Delivery
9 7 (11.48%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (11.48%) Data Governance
9 7 (11.48%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
9 7 (11.48%) Process Improvement
9 7 (11.48%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 35 (57.38%) Java
2 24 (39.34%) SQL
3 15 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.75%) Python
5 7 (11.48%) C#
6 6 (9.84%) Groovy
6 6 (9.84%) Scala
6 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.20%) PHP
8 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.28%) C
9 2 (3.28%) C++
9 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.84%) Grafana
3 4 (6.56%) Terraform
4 3 (4.92%) Ansible
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) Ariba
3 1 (1.64%) Embarcadero
3 1 (1.64%) Okta
3 1 (1.64%) SAP