TDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 168 96 87
Rank change year-on-year -72 -9 -20
Contract jobs citing TDD 244 602 892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 2.62% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 2.93% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 445 591
10th Percentile £352 £410 £400
25th Percentile £423 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £575
90th Percentile £625 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 31 25
10th Percentile - £61.25 £47.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £61.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - £75.00 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £68.17
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.69% +17.53%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -75 61 £550 -1.12% 114
East of England +3 59 £493 -12.83% 31
South East -23 56 £475 -17.39% 106
Yorkshire -30 36 £575 -4.17% 24
South West -35 30 £585 +8.84% 40
Scotland -14 27 £463 -7.50% 24
North West -61 21 £525 -4.55% 82
Midlands -15 11 £450 -23.08% 50
West Midlands -14 10 £450 -24.37% 32
North East -3 4 £375 -28.57% 9
East Midlands -5 1 £398 -43.21% 18
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UK

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (4.10%) Confluence
2 8 (3.28%) Apache
3 6 (2.46%) Drupal
4 3 (1.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Appian
6 1 (0.41%) Jadu
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.82%) AWS
2 43 (17.62%) Azure
3 29 (11.89%) Serverless
4 22 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.38%) GitHub
6 16 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (6.15%) GCP
8 12 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.87%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.46%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.46%) PaaS
12 4 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.64%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.34%) Modbus
1 35 (14.34%) RS-422
1 35 (14.34%) RS-485
2 16 (6.56%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.51%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.82%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.41%) DNS
6 1 (0.41%) Firewall
6 1 (0.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.07%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.97%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.15%) MySQL
5 14 (5.74%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.87%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.46%) Flink
9 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.64%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.82%) Power BI
12 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.82%) Redis
12 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 56 (22.95%) Git
2 36 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.25%) JIRA
4 22 (9.02%) JUnit
5 19 (7.79%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.33%) Selenium
7 12 (4.92%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.92%) Postman
8 11 (4.51%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.51%) Eclipse
9 10 (4.10%) Mockito
10 8 (3.28%) JMeter
10 8 (3.28%) NUnit
11 7 (2.87%) Subversion
12 6 (2.46%) GitLab
12 6 (2.46%) WebDriver
13 5 (2.05%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.64%) Gatling
14 4 (1.64%) Maven
15 3 (1.23%) TestRail
General
1 76 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.16%) Electronics
3 27 (11.07%) Finance
4 19 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.51%) Military
7 10 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.05%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.64%) Automotive
9 4 (1.64%) Banking
9 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 123 (50.41%) Developer
2 64 (26.23%) Software Engineer
3 51 (20.90%) Java Developer
4 36 (14.75%) C++ Software Engineer
5 34 (13.93%) Senior
6 20 (8.20%) Test Engineer
7 14 (5.74%) Lead
7 14 (5.74%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.74%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.33%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (4.51%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (4.10%) Architect
10 10 (4.10%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (3.28%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.87%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.95%) Spring
2 47 (19.26%) Spring Boot
3 44 (18.03%) React
4 38 (15.57%) REST
5 33 (13.52%) Node.js
6 32 (13.11%) Kafka
7 31 (12.70%) .NET
8 29 (11.89%) CSS
9 27 (11.07%) Web Services
10 23 (9.43%) HTML
11 20 (8.20%) RESTful
12 15 (6.15%) AngularJS
13 13 (5.33%) AWS CDK
14 12 (4.92%) GraphQL
15 11 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (2.87%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.87%) Drools
16 7 (2.87%) OAuth
16 7 (2.87%) Quarkus
16 7 (2.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.75%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (9.02%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.64%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.82%) Derivative
9 2 (0.82%) IoT
9 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.41%) Mashup
10 1 (0.41%) PKI
10 1 (0.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.43%) Linux
2 15 (6.15%) Windows
3 13 (5.33%) Unix
4 6 (2.46%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.82%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (71.31%) Agile
2 84 (34.43%) Software Engineering
3 81 (33.20%) CI/CD
4 80 (32.79%) DevOps
5 73 (29.92%) Continuous Integration
6 66 (27.05%) Microservices
6 66 (27.05%) Test Automation
7 64 (26.23%) Unit Testing
8 63 (25.82%) Pair Programming
9 62 (25.41%) BDD
10 52 (21.31%) Scrum
11 46 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (18.44%) Software Testing
13 41 (16.80%) Customer Requirements
14 36 (14.75%) Full Stack Development
15 31 (12.70%) Kanban
16 23 (9.43%) Mentoring
17 22 (9.02%) SOLID
18 21 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (8.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 99 (40.57%) Java
2 77 (31.56%) C#
3 70 (28.69%) JavaScript
4 69 (28.28%) SQL
5 52 (21.31%) C++
6 42 (17.21%) C
7 32 (13.11%) TypeScript
8 24 (9.84%) Python
9 17 (6.97%) PHP
10 13 (5.33%) Shell Script
11 10 (4.10%) Scala
12 9 (3.69%) Bash
13 7 (2.87%) Groovy
14 5 (2.05%) Go
15 4 (1.64%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.82%) VB
17 2 (0.82%) VBA
17 2 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.38%) Degree
3 15 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.05%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.23%) HNC
9 2 (0.82%) ISEB
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.20%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.74%) QA
3 3 (1.23%) PMO
4 2 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (18.44%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) zsh
3 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (14.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.33%) Grafana
3 9 (3.69%) Terraform
4 5 (2.05%) Kibana
5 4 (1.64%) Ansible
5 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.15%) Oracle
3 10 (4.10%) Google
4 4 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.64%) SAP
5 3 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.82%) Atmel
6 2 (0.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.41%) Ariba
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) Embarcadero
7 1 (0.41%) Okta
7 1 (0.41%) OpenText
7 1 (0.41%) Pega
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.41%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.41%) VMware