The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 18 34 18
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -16
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 2 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 6.486% 0.709% 7.483%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.163% 1.010% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 14
Average daily rate £338 £300 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £300 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 198 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 79.46% 70.21% 72.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 106 104
Average daily rate £350 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
TDD
East of England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire TDD Jobs Demand Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 6 £325 -
TDD
East of England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 13 (76.47%) C#
3 9 (52.94%) SOA
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
4 8 (47.06%) Web Services
4 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
4 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (41.18%) BDD
5 7 (41.18%) MVC
5 7 (41.18%) Windows
5 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
5 7 (41.18%) E-Commerce
6 6 (35.29%) Internet
6 6 (35.29%) XML
6 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
6 6 (35.29%) SpecFlow
7 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
7 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (29.41%) Change Management
7 5 (29.41%) Refactoring
7 5 (29.41%) Ruby
7 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
8 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
8 4 (23.53%) HTML
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (23.53%) AOP
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
2 8 (47.06%) Web Services
3 6 (35.29%) XML
3 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (23.53%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (23.53%) HTML
6 3 (17.65%) CSS
7 2 (11.76%) jQuery
7 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 2 (11.76%) Ajax
7 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (11.76%) HTML5
7 2 (11.76%) CSS3
8 1 (5.882%) Gherkin
8 1 (5.882%) Mustache
8 1 (5.882%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) NServiceBus
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (5.882%) CMS
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) DOC1
2 1 (5.882%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.882%) GIS
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
2 6 (35.29%) SpecFlow
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) WebDriver
3 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.76%) Subversion
4 2 (11.76%) WATIR
General
1 2 (11.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Web Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
2 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (5.882%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) W3C
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Online Games
4 1 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) SOA
2 7 (41.18%) E-Commerce
2 7 (41.18%) MVC
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (41.18%) BDD
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) Refactoring
4 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) AOP
6 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) Project Management
6 3 (17.65%) OO
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
7 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Ruby
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Varnish
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) Sitecore
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