Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 666 753
Rank change year-on-year +115 +87 -104
Contract jobs citing ATDD 36 29 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.052% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.058% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 53
10th Percentile - £543 £402
25th Percentile £325 £825 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £900 £563
Median % change year-on-year -50.69% +60.00% -13.46%
75th Percentile £531 - £625
90th Percentile £625 - £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £550
% change year-on-year - -22.73% +29.41%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Daily rate trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ATDD over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Hourly rate trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +97 18 £450 -50.00% 3
London +80 15 £450 -50.00% 1
UK excluding London +55 5 £425 - 2
Work from Home +103 4 £452 -49.78% 2
Scotland +31 2 £425 -
East of England - 2 £363 -
North of England - 1 £500 - 1
North West - 1 £500 - 1

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (5.56%) IaaS
1 2 (5.56%) PaaS
1 2 (5.56%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 32 (88.89%) Cucumber
2 12 (33.33%) Git
2 12 (33.33%) Selenium
3 11 (30.56%) WebDriver
4 10 (27.78%) Postman
4 10 (27.78%) SoapUI
5 9 (25.00%) Appium
5 9 (25.00%) eggPlant
5 9 (25.00%) JUnit
5 9 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 9 (25.00%) SOAtest
5 9 (25.00%) TestNG
6 5 (13.89%) SpecFlow
7 4 (11.11%) JIRA
8 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
9 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
9 2 (5.56%) Subversion
10 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.78%) JMeter
General
1 23 (63.89%) Banking
2 16 (44.44%) Investment Banking
3 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Games
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
1 18 (50.00%) Scala Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Agile Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Automation Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Scrum Master
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Test Automation Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) .NET
2 9 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
1 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) BDD
2 18 (50.00%) OO
2 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 16 (44.44%) TDD
4 11 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (30.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 11 (30.56%) Software Testing
4 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
4 11 (30.56%) User Stories
5 9 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 9 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 4 (11.11%) ETL
6 4 (11.11%) Kanban
6 4 (11.11%) Microservices
6 4 (11.11%) Scrum
6 4 (11.11%) SDET
6 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Scala
2 16 (44.44%) Java
3 12 (33.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) C++
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) VBA
5 2 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) ISEB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft