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 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 175 107 93
Rank change year-on-year -68 -14 -28
Contract jobs citing TDD 252 548 876
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 2.41% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.70% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 405 571
10th Percentile £354 £410 £389
25th Percentile £425 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £575
90th Percentile £625 £708 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 27 28
10th Percentile - £60.75 £48.88
25th Percentile £61.25 - £60.52
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +20.69%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.13
90th Percentile - £75.00 £78.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.92% +6.92%

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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TDD in the UK excluding London

TDD
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 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
North of England -60 69 £550 -4.35% 115
East of England +2 62 £500 -14.24% 20
South East -28 52 £413 -28.57% 63
Yorkshire -20 40 £550 -8.33% 15
South West -18 29 £585 +11.43% 40
Scotland -21 28 £463 -5.13% 23
North West -52 24 £525 -4.55% 94
Midlands -15 12 £450 -24.37% 44
West Midlands -17 11 £450 -24.37% 29
North East -2 5 £375 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -5 1 £398 -43.21% 15
TDD
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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 8 (3.17%) Apache
3 6 (2.38%) Drupal
4 4 (1.59%) Appian
5 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.79%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) Jadu
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.38%) AWS
2 43 (17.06%) Azure
3 32 (12.70%) Serverless
4 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.94%) GitHub
5 16 (6.35%) GCP
6 14 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.17%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.98%) BrowserStack
10 5 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.98%) PaaS
10 5 (1.98%) SaaS
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.59%) Unqork
12 3 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.49%) Modbus
1 34 (13.49%) RS-422
1 34 (13.49%) RS-485
2 17 (6.75%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.37%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.38%) HTTP
5 2 (0.79%) Firewall
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 28 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.54%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.35%) MySQL
4 14 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.38%) Flink
9 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.59%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.79%) Power BI
12 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.79%) Redis
12 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 58 (23.02%) Git
2 38 (15.08%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.71%) JIRA
4 23 (9.13%) JUnit
5 20 (7.94%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.16%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.16%) Selenium
7 11 (4.37%) Cucumber
7 11 (4.37%) Eclipse
7 11 (4.37%) Mockito
7 11 (4.37%) Postman
8 8 (3.17%) JMeter
8 8 (3.17%) NUnit
9 7 (2.78%) GitLab
9 7 (2.78%) Subversion
10 6 (2.38%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.59%) Gatling
12 4 (1.59%) Maven
12 4 (1.59%) TestRail
General
1 76 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.29%) Electronics
3 29 (11.51%) Finance
4 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.37%) Military
7 8 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Automotive
8 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.98%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.59%) Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
11 2 (0.79%) Games
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 131 (51.98%) Developer
2 64 (25.40%) Software Engineer
3 55 (21.83%) Java Developer
4 35 (13.89%) C++ Software Engineer
4 35 (13.89%) Senior
5 22 (8.73%) Test Engineer
6 16 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 15 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 12 (4.76%) Lead
10 11 (4.37%) Architect
10 11 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Senior Test Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.97%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) .NET Developer
13 8 (3.17%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.17%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 7 (2.78%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.41%) Spring
2 48 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 46 (18.25%) React
4 41 (16.27%) REST
5 33 (13.10%) Kafka
5 33 (13.10%) Node.js
6 31 (12.30%) .NET
7 30 (11.90%) CSS
7 30 (11.90%) Web Services
8 26 (10.32%) HTML
9 24 (9.52%) RESTful
10 15 (5.95%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.56%) AWS CDK
12 12 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.37%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.57%) OAuth
15 8 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (3.17%) SAML
15 8 (3.17%) SOAP
16 7 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.19%) Derivative
10 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
10 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.40%) Mashup
11 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.71%) Linux
2 18 (7.14%) Unix
3 15 (5.95%) Windows
4 7 (2.78%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.19%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (69.84%) Agile
2 84 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 83 (32.94%) Software Engineering
4 78 (30.95%) DevOps
5 77 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
6 69 (27.38%) Microservices
6 69 (27.38%) Test Automation
7 66 (26.19%) Pair Programming
7 66 (26.19%) Unit Testing
8 64 (25.40%) BDD
9 50 (19.84%) Scrum
10 45 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (17.86%) Software Testing
11 40 (15.87%) Customer Requirements
11 40 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
12 32 (12.70%) Kanban
13 24 (9.52%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.73%) SDLC
14 22 (8.73%) SOLID
14 22 (8.73%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 109 (43.25%) Java
2 75 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 74 (29.37%) C#
4 72 (28.57%) SQL
5 52 (20.63%) C++
6 42 (16.67%) C
7 32 (12.70%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.92%) Python
9 17 (6.75%) PHP
10 14 (5.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.97%) Scala
12 9 (3.57%) Bash
13 7 (2.78%) Groovy
14 5 (1.98%) Go
15 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.79%) VB
17 2 (0.79%) VBA
17 2 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (7.94%) Degree
2 16 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.59%) HNC
8 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.79%) ISEB
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) OCP
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.13%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.35%) QA
3 3 (1.19%) PMO
4 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (19.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) zsh
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.35%) Grafana
3 9 (3.57%) Terraform
4 5 (1.98%) Ansible
4 5 (1.98%) Kibana
5 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.95%) Oracle
3 10 (3.97%) Google
4 6 (2.38%) IBM
5 4 (1.59%) OpenText
5 4 (1.59%) Pega
5 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.59%) SAP
6 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.79%) Atmel
7 2 (0.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Embarcadero
8 1 (0.40%) Okta
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Typelevel