ATDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for ATDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ATDD over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 443 572
Rank change year-on-year +101 +129 -104
Contract jobs citing ATDD 4 22 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.091% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 27
10th Percentile £424 £711 £435
25th Percentile £441 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £900 £600
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +50.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £466 - £681
90th Percentile £486 - £723
UK median daily rate £444 £900 £559
% change year-on-year -50.69% +61.07% -14.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

ATDD 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ATDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ATDD.

ATDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ATDD.

ATDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) SoapUI
2 3 (75.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (50.00%) Appium
3 2 (50.00%) eggPlant
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (50.00%) SOAtest
3 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (50.00%) TestNG
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA