The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 TDD over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 71 107 110
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +3
Contract jobs citing TDD 50 28 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.088% 0.890% 0.638%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.177% 1.404% 1.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 16
Average daily rate £375 £338 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £474 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
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
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1574 1994 1869
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.72% 63.40% 62.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 769 746
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 £270 £250 £225
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 62 77
Average hourly rate £17.33 £19.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.15% -38.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.45 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
South East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire TDD Hourly Rate Trend

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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 +33 25 £375 -
Newbury - 3 - -
Slough -9 2 £325 -20.00%
Hungerford - 2 £300 -
Windsor -2 1 £550 +69.23%
Maidenhead - 1 £370 -
TDD
South East

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 73 (80.22%) .NET
2 71 (78.02%) C#
3 63 (69.23%) MVC
4 52 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 50 (54.95%) Scrum
6 47 (51.65%) ASP.NET
7 46 (50.55%) Agile Software Development
7 46 (50.55%) BDD
8 43 (47.25%) jQuery
9 38 (41.76%) ASP.NET MVC
10 36 (39.56%) CSS
11 35 (38.46%) WCF
12 30 (32.97%) SpecFlow
13 29 (31.87%) SQL
14 28 (30.77%) JavaScript
15 26 (28.57%) Web Services
15 26 (28.57%) Microsoft
15 26 (28.57%) Banking
15 26 (28.57%) Telecoms
16 24 (26.37%) SOA
17 22 (24.18%) .NET Framework
18 21 (23.08%) HTML
19 19 (20.88%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 18 (19.78%) HTML5
20 18 (19.78%) LINQ
21 17 (18.68%) Finance
22 16 (17.58%) JIRA
22 16 (17.58%) Ajax
22 16 (17.58%) ASP.NET MVC 3
23 15 (16.48%) Razor View Engine

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 73 (80.22%) .NET
2 47 (51.65%) ASP.NET
3 43 (47.25%) jQuery
4 38 (41.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 36 (39.56%) CSS
6 35 (38.46%) WCF
7 26 (28.57%) Web Services
8 22 (24.18%) .NET Framework
9 21 (23.08%) HTML
10 19 (20.88%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 18 (19.78%) HTML5
11 18 (19.78%) LINQ
12 16 (17.58%) Ajax
12 16 (17.58%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 15 (16.48%) Razor View Engine
14 14 (15.38%) XML
14 14 (15.38%) Middleware
15 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 9 (9.890%) Spring
17 8 (8.791%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 14 (15.38%) ESB
2 12 (13.19%) Windows Azure
3 10 (10.99%) IIS
4 6 (6.593%) MSMQ
5 3 (3.297%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (2.198%) CMS
6 2 (2.198%) Apache
6 2 (2.198%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.099%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (1.099%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.099%) Alfresco
7 1 (1.099%) Liferay
7 1 (1.099%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 11 (12.09%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.099%) Network Security
1 1 (1.099%) SMS
1 1 (1.099%) HTTP
1 1 (1.099%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.19%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (10.99%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (3.297%) MySQL
5 2 (2.198%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.198%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.099%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.099%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.099%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.099%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.099%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (32.97%) SpecFlow
2 16 (17.58%) JIRA
3 15 (16.48%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.09%) Selenium
5 10 (10.99%) Visual Studio
6 6 (6.593%) Jasmine
7 5 (5.495%) Maven
8 4 (4.396%) NUnit
8 4 (4.396%) TeamCity
8 4 (4.396%) FitNesse
8 4 (4.396%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.297%) Ant
9 3 (3.297%) WATIR
9 3 (3.297%) Subversion
10 2 (2.198%) JUnit
10 2 (2.198%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.198%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.198%) Rhino Mocks
10 2 (2.198%) MSBuild
General
1 26 (28.57%) Banking
1 26 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 17 (18.68%) Finance
3 2 (2.198%) Retail
4 1 (1.099%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.099%) Billing
Job Titles
1 83 (91.21%) Developer
2 50 (54.95%) .NET Developer
3 14 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 12 (13.19%) Programmer
4 12 (13.19%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (10.99%) ASP.NET Developer
6 9 (9.890%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.791%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.791%) Web Developer
8 7 (7.692%) .NET Programmer
9 6 (6.593%) .NET Web Developer
9 6 (6.593%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (5.495%) C# Programmer
11 4 (4.396%) Senior Programmer
11 4 (4.396%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (4.396%) Agile C# Developer
11 4 (4.396%) Agile Java Developer
11 4 (4.396%) UI Developer
11 4 (4.396%) UI Programmer
12 3 (3.297%) ASP.NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.396%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.198%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.198%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.198%) Open Source
2 2 (2.198%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.099%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.099%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.099%) Blog
3 1 (1.099%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.396%) Linux
2 2 (2.198%) UNIX
2 2 (2.198%) Windows
3 1 (1.099%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (69.23%) MVC
2 50 (54.95%) Scrum
3 46 (50.55%) Agile Software Development
3 46 (50.55%) BDD
4 24 (26.37%) SOA
5 13 (14.29%) UML
6 12 (13.19%) Automation Testing
7 11 (12.09%) Kanban
8 9 (9.890%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (8.791%) Automated Testing
10 7 (7.692%) Scalability Testing
11 5 (5.495%) Test Automation
11 5 (5.495%) OO
12 4 (4.396%) Web Development
12 4 (4.396%) E-Commerce
12 4 (4.396%) Software Architecture
13 3 (3.297%) ATDD
13 3 (3.297%) Use Case
13 3 (3.297%) Domain-Driven Design
13 3 (3.297%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 71 (78.02%) C#
2 29 (31.87%) SQL
3 28 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.19%) Java
5 3 (3.297%) Scala
6 2 (2.198%) Ruby
6 2 (2.198%) Groovy
7 1 (1.099%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.099%) C++
7 1 (1.099%) VB
7 1 (1.099%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.593%) QA
2 4 (4.396%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.198%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.198%) SAP
2 2 (2.198%) IBM
3 1 (1.099%) Twitter
3 1 (1.099%) JBoss
3 1 (1.099%) Oracle
3 1 (1.099%) GigaSpaces
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