The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.299% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.905% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £359
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
105 129 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 68.18% 67.19% 71.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 55
Average daily rate £375 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
Average hourly rate £26.25 £14.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -53.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.15 £14.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £64.50 £35.20 £40.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
Scotland

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Aberdeen TDD Jobs Demand Trend

TDD
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TDD.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#