TDD Contracts in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 56 32
Rank change year-on-year -61 -24 +31
Contract jobs citing TDD 21 114 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 3.71% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 4.10% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 96 155
10th Percentile £463 £410 £400
25th Percentile £500 £449 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £581
90th Percentile £656 £650 £675
England median daily rate £565 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile £77.50 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,778 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.98% 90.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,599
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +54.23% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.24 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -36 18 £538 -2.27% 66
Cheshire -38 2 £475 -13.64% 8
Lancashire +7 1 £475 -24.00% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.76%) Firebase
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
4 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.76%) DataStage
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) JMeter
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (9.52%) Gatling
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Crashlytics
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) ERwin
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) Mercurial
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) C# Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 4 (19.05%) Node.js
2 4 (19.05%) Web Services
3 3 (14.29%) Kafka
3 3 (14.29%) React
3 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
4 2 (9.52%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.76%) Dagger
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (28.57%) BDD
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (23.81%) OO
5 5 (23.81%) SDLC
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
7 3 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) OOP
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) SOLID
7 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) C#
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) PHP
5 2 (9.52%) Groovy
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) Scala
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Embarcadero