TDD Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 113 96 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing TDD 19 54 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 1.89% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 2.08% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 53
10th Percentile £323 £430 £408
25th Percentile £363 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% +9.77%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £538
90th Percentile £558 - £605
South East median daily rate £413 £578 £500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +15.50% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.43
25th Percentile - - £67.54
Median hourly rate - - £67.76
75th Percentile - - £68.03
90th Percentile - - £68.16
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.77
% change year-on-year - +29.83% -11.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -20 12 £475 +3.54% 7
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £450 -25.00% 4
Oxfordshire -1 1 £350 -44.00% 5
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Jadu
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) Mockito
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) CRM Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) CRM Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Spring
1 10 (52.63%) Spring Boot
2 7 (36.84%) Kafka
3 6 (31.58%) .NET
4 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (26.32%) REST
4 5 (26.32%) Symfony
4 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
6 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (15.79%) HTML
6 3 (15.79%) Node.js
7 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
7 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (10.53%) Apache Camel
7 2 (10.53%) CSS
7 2 (10.53%) Mustache
7 2 (10.53%) React
7 2 (10.53%) RESTful
7 2 (10.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Microservices
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) SOLID
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) BDD
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) OO
7 2 (10.53%) API Management
7 2 (10.53%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 2 (10.53%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (10.53%) Kanban
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Workflow
7 2 (10.53%) YAGNI
8 1 (5.26%) API Development
8 1 (5.26%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 1 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) C#
4 5 (26.32%) PHP
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 2 (10.53%) C
6 2 (10.53%) Python
7 1 (5.26%) Bicep
7 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Atmel
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk