The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Basingstoke 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 27 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 13.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 27 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 115 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 69.85% 62.50% 64.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 37 59
Average daily rate £350 £380 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 17
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.83% +4.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
BDD
Hampshire

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BDD across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BDD across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basingstoke BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing BDD 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 BDD.

1 53 (86.89%) SQL
1 53 (86.89%) MVC
2 52 (85.25%) Web Services
3 51 (83.61%) SQL Server
4 48 (78.69%) Git (software)
5 46 (75.41%) jQuery
6 45 (73.77%) Java
7 44 (72.13%) SOAP
8 42 (68.85%) JavaScript
9 41 (67.21%) EJB
9 41 (67.21%) JMS
9 41 (67.21%) JAXB
9 41 (67.21%) Hibernate
9 41 (67.21%) Spring
9 41 (67.21%) JTA
9 41 (67.21%) Spring Security
9 41 (67.21%) Spring Web Flow
9 41 (67.21%) Web Development
9 41 (67.21%) Java EE
9 41 (67.21%) JSON
9 41 (67.21%) Spring MVC
9 41 (67.21%) JPA
9 41 (67.21%) REST
10 38 (62.30%) HTML
11 37 (60.66%) Software Architecture
12 35 (57.38%) Maven
12 35 (57.38%) Pair Programming
13 34 (55.74%) CSS
13 34 (55.74%) JUnit
13 34 (55.74%) Mockito

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing BDD 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 BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 52 (85.25%) Web Services
2 46 (75.41%) jQuery
3 44 (72.13%) SOAP
4 41 (67.21%) EJB
4 41 (67.21%) JMS
4 41 (67.21%) JAXB
4 41 (67.21%) Hibernate
4 41 (67.21%) Spring
4 41 (67.21%) JTA
4 41 (67.21%) Spring Security
4 41 (67.21%) Spring Web Flow
4 41 (67.21%) Java EE
4 41 (67.21%) JSON
4 41 (67.21%) Spring MVC
4 41 (67.21%) JPA
4 41 (67.21%) REST
5 38 (62.30%) HTML
6 34 (55.74%) CSS
7 29 (47.54%) JSP
7 29 (47.54%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 27 (44.26%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.279%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (83.61%) SQL Server
2 34 (55.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 34 (55.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (27.87%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (22.95%) NoSQL
5 12 (19.67%) MySQL
6 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2000
6 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 48 (78.69%) Git (software)
2 35 (57.38%) Maven
3 34 (55.74%) JUnit
3 34 (55.74%) Mockito
4 33 (54.10%) Selenium
5 17 (27.87%) SpecFlow
6 12 (19.67%) Subversion
6 12 (19.67%) ReSharper
6 12 (19.67%) JBehave
7 5 (8.197%) WebDriver
8 4 (6.557%) WATIR
8 4 (6.557%) FitNesse
9 3 (4.918%) NUnit
10 1 (1.639%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.639%) Hudson
General
1 6 (9.836%) Finance
2 2 (3.279%) Manufacturing
2 2 (3.279%) Electronics
2 2 (3.279%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.279%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (78.69%) Developer
2 34 (55.74%) Java Developer
3 12 (19.67%) C# Developer
3 12 (19.67%) Agile C# Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Technical Leader
5 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (13.11%) .NET Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Agile .NET Developer
5 8 (13.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 8 (13.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (11.48%) Software Architect
7 6 (9.836%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.197%) Analyst
8 5 (8.197%) Test Analyst
9 4 (6.557%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.557%) Team Leader
9 4 (6.557%) Test Team Leader
9 4 (6.557%) Java Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.557%) Java Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (8.197%) SaaS
3 2 (3.279%) DTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (86.89%) MVC
2 41 (67.21%) Web Development
3 37 (60.66%) Software Architecture
4 35 (57.38%) Pair Programming
5 33 (54.10%) TDD
6 31 (50.82%) OOD
6 31 (50.82%) UML
7 29 (47.54%) Agile Software Development
8 22 (36.07%) Scrum
9 21 (34.43%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (26.23%) Dependency Injection
11 15 (24.59%) OO
12 13 (21.31%) Kanban
12 13 (21.31%) SOA
13 4 (6.557%) OOP
13 4 (6.557%) Technical Architecture
14 3 (4.918%) Integration Testing
15 2 (3.279%) Business Intelligence
15 2 (3.279%) Programme Management
15 2 (3.279%) Change Data Capture
Programming Languages
1 53 (86.89%) SQL
2 45 (73.77%) Java
3 42 (68.85%) JavaScript
4 26 (42.62%) C#
5 10 (16.39%) T-SQL
6 8 (13.11%) C++
6 8 (13.11%) Python
7 4 (6.557%) C
7 4 (6.557%) Perl
8 1 (1.639%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.557%) QA
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) JBoss
2 12 (19.67%) Twitter
3 6 (9.836%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.279%) SAP
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