BDD Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Berkshire 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 92 130 127
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -3
Contract jobs citing BDD 30 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.223% 0.187% 0.103%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.854% 0.295% 0.164%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 3
Average daily rate £350 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
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
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1618 2033 1833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.96% 63.37% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 771 731
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £250 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 61 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £20.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -36.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.40 £13.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
South East

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Reading - 14 £350 -
Slough - 2 - -
Hungerford - 2 £300 -
Newbury - 2 - -
Windsor 0 1 £550 +69.23%
BDD
South East

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 46 (85.19%) TDD
2 44 (81.48%) C#
3 42 (77.78%) .NET
4 37 (68.52%) MVC
5 34 (62.96%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (61.11%) Scrum
7 31 (57.41%) SQL Server
8 30 (55.56%) ASP.NET
9 29 (53.70%) WCF
10 27 (50.00%) SpecFlow
11 24 (44.44%) Telecoms
11 24 (44.44%) Banking
12 21 (38.89%) jQuery
13 20 (37.04%) SOA
14 19 (35.19%) Web Services
15 17 (31.48%) CSS
15 17 (31.48%) ASP.NET MVC
16 15 (27.78%) JIRA
17 14 (25.93%) Team Foundation Server
17 14 (25.93%) HTML5
17 14 (25.93%) SQL
17 14 (25.93%) Finance
18 13 (24.07%) Middleware
18 13 (24.07%) Selenium
19 12 (22.22%) Kanban
19 12 (22.22%) Automation Testing
20 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
20 11 (20.37%) UML
21 10 (18.52%) XML
21 10 (18.52%) ESB

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 42 (77.78%) .NET
2 30 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 29 (53.70%) WCF
4 21 (38.89%) jQuery
5 19 (35.19%) Web Services
6 17 (31.48%) CSS
6 17 (31.48%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (25.93%) HTML5
8 13 (24.07%) Middleware
9 10 (18.52%) XML
10 7 (12.96%) .NET Framework
11 6 (11.11%) HTML
11 6 (11.11%) LINQ
11 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 5 (9.259%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (9.259%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 4 (7.407%) Spring
13 4 (7.407%) Hibernate
13 4 (7.407%) Ajax
13 4 (7.407%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 10 (18.52%) ESB
2 4 (7.407%) Windows Azure
3 3 (5.556%) MSMQ
4 1 (1.852%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (1.852%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.852%) CMS
4 1 (1.852%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (3.704%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (57.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.852%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.852%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.852%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 15 (27.78%) JIRA
3 14 (25.93%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (24.07%) Selenium
5 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
6 7 (12.96%) Visual Studio
7 6 (11.11%) Cucumber
8 4 (7.407%) Maven
8 4 (7.407%) TeamCity
8 4 (7.407%) FitNesse
9 3 (5.556%) Jasmine
9 3 (5.556%) WATIR
9 3 (5.556%) NUnit
9 3 (5.556%) Ant
10 2 (3.704%) JUnit
11 1 (1.852%) NuGet
11 1 (1.852%) Rhino Mocks
11 1 (1.852%) ReSharper
11 1 (1.852%) Eclipse
11 1 (1.852%) IntelliJ
General
1 24 (44.44%) Telecoms
1 24 (44.44%) Banking
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
Job Titles
1 47 (87.04%) Developer
2 25 (46.30%) .NET Developer
3 10 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Programmer
5 8 (14.81%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (7.407%) Senior Programmer
6 4 (7.407%) .NET Programmer
6 4 (7.407%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (7.407%) Front-End Developer
6 4 (7.407%) C# Programmer
7 2 (3.704%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Tester
7 2 (3.704%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.704%) Agile Java Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (3.704%) UI Developer
7 2 (3.704%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.407%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.852%) Open Source
3 1 (1.852%) Blog
3 1 (1.852%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.704%) Linux
2 1 (1.852%) UNIX
2 1 (1.852%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (85.19%) TDD
2 37 (68.52%) MVC
3 34 (62.96%) Agile Software Development
4 33 (61.11%) Scrum
5 20 (37.04%) SOA
6 12 (22.22%) Kanban
6 12 (22.22%) Automation Testing
7 11 (20.37%) UML
8 8 (14.81%) Automated Testing
8 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (9.259%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.407%) Software Architecture
11 3 (5.556%) ATDD
11 3 (5.556%) MVVM
11 3 (5.556%) Use Case
11 3 (5.556%) User Stories
12 2 (3.704%) E-Commerce
12 2 (3.704%) Manual Testing
12 2 (3.704%) Web Development
13 1 (1.852%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 44 (81.48%) C#
2 14 (25.93%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.259%) Java
5 1 (1.852%) Groovy
5 1 (1.852%) Scala
5 1 (1.852%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (1.852%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.407%) SLA
1 4 (7.407%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.852%) Twitter
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