TDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
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 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 143 73 53
Rank change year-on-year -70 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing TDD 232 747 2,023
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 3.10% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 3.46% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 588 1,414
10th Percentile £325 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £596 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% +8.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £653
90th Percentile £725 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 34
10th Percentile £66.25 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £68.13 £64.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £72.50 £60.27
Median % change year-on-year - +20.29% +3.91%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.75 - £77.24
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
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
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 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £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 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

TDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

TDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
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 TDD.

TDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

TDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
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 TDD.

TDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TDD over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

TDD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.74%) nginx
2 9 (3.88%) CMS
3 8 (3.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.29%) Drupal
5 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) GemFire
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) RMDS
2 2 (0.86%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Endur
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.62%) AWS
2 76 (32.76%) Azure
3 42 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.21%) Serverless
5 24 (10.34%) GCP
6 23 (9.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (6.03%) GitHub
8 13 (5.60%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.74%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 11 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.88%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.88%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.45%) Azure API Management
12 8 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) HTTP
2 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.86%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (4.31%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.02%) MySQL
8 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.16%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.16%) Power BI
10 4 (1.72%) Big Data
10 4 (1.72%) OLTP
11 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (1.29%) Redis
11 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 49 (21.12%) Git
2 25 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.33%) JIRA
4 11 (4.74%) Visual Studio
5 10 (4.31%) JUnit
6 9 (3.88%) Selenium
7 8 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.45%) JMeter
7 8 (3.45%) SpecFlow
8 7 (3.02%) GitLab
8 7 (3.02%) Postman
9 6 (2.59%) Mockito
10 5 (2.16%) Moq
11 4 (1.72%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.72%) Gradle
11 4 (1.72%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.72%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio Team System
11 4 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (14.66%) Finance
1 34 (14.66%) Public Sector
2 32 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.17%) Back Office
4 11 (4.74%) Banking
5 8 (3.45%) Front Office
5 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Marketing
6 6 (2.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.16%) Electronics
7 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Automotive
9 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.86%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 140 (60.34%) Developer
2 52 (22.41%) Senior
3 36 (15.52%) Java Developer
3 36 (15.52%) Senior Developer
4 27 (11.64%) Full Stack Developer
5 25 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.91%) C# Developer
7 19 (8.19%) Lead
8 14 (6.03%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (5.60%) .NET Developer
9 13 (5.60%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.88%) Azure Developer
11 9 (3.88%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.45%) PHP Developer
12 8 (3.45%) Scala Developer
13 7 (3.02%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (26.72%) .NET
2 45 (19.40%) HTML
2 45 (19.40%) React
3 40 (17.24%) CSS
3 40 (17.24%) REST
4 32 (13.79%) Spring
5 31 (13.36%) Spring Boot
6 29 (12.50%) Node.js
7 26 (11.21%) .NET Core
8 23 (9.91%) Kafka
9 21 (9.05%) Laravel
10 16 (6.90%) AngularJS
11 15 (6.47%) ASP.NET
11 15 (6.47%) GraphQL
11 15 (6.47%) Sass
12 13 (5.60%) .NET Framework
13 11 (4.74%) AWS CDK
13 11 (4.74%) jQuery
13 11 (4.74%) Web Services
14 10 (4.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.60%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.17%) Derivative
3 9 (3.88%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) NHS
7 4 (1.72%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.29%) Equities
8 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) Social Media
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.86%) Contactless
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.34%) Linux
2 21 (9.05%) Unix
3 7 (3.02%) Android
4 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.72%) Windows
5 3 (1.29%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.72%) Agile
2 80 (34.48%) DevOps
3 71 (30.60%) Test Automation
4 63 (27.16%) Microservices
5 61 (26.29%) BDD
6 60 (25.86%) CI/CD
7 58 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 42 (18.10%) Full Stack Development
8 42 (18.10%) Scrum
9 34 (14.66%) Clean Code
9 34 (14.66%) Pair Programming
10 31 (13.36%) Unit Testing
11 28 (12.07%) OO
12 27 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (10.78%) Kanban
14 23 (9.91%) SOLID
15 22 (9.48%) Mentoring
16 21 (9.05%) API Management
17 20 (8.62%) OOD
18 19 (8.19%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (36.64%) Java
2 77 (33.19%) JavaScript
3 61 (26.29%) C#
4 49 (21.12%) TypeScript
5 41 (17.67%) SQL
6 31 (13.36%) PHP
7 30 (12.93%) Python
8 19 (8.19%) Bicep
9 12 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 12 (5.17%) Scala
10 10 (4.31%) C++
11 8 (3.45%) Bash
11 8 (3.45%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.02%) Go
12 7 (3.02%) Ruby
13 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.72%) C
15 3 (1.29%) BeanShell
15 3 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.90%) Degree
4 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.72%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) HNC
7 1 (0.43%) ISEB
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.36%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.60%) QA
3 8 (3.45%) WCAG
4 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.29%) MiFID
5 3 (1.29%) PMO
6 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (12.50%) Docker
2 11 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) zsh
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 26 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.05%) Terraform
3 12 (5.17%) Grafana
4 8 (3.45%) Kibana
5 4 (1.72%) Ansible
6 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.86%) logstash
7 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.03%) Oracle
3 11 (4.74%) Google
4 7 (3.02%) SAP
5 5 (2.16%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.72%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.29%) Databricks
7 3 (1.29%) Solace
8 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.86%) IBM
8 2 (0.86%) New Relic
8 2 (0.86%) Splunk
8 2 (0.86%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.43%) Informatica
9 1 (0.43%) NEC
9 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore