The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Brighton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 29 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.613% 1.034% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.000% 1.408% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £305
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 213 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 80.65% 73.45% 68.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 109 73
Average daily rate £375 £401 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £310 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £524 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
East Sussex

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Games
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) NUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Billing
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Checkstyle

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
2 1 (16.67%) Grails
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) soapUI
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Checkstyle
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Fiddler
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 1 (16.67%) RSpec
3 1 (16.67%) StyleCop
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
3 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
1 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (16.67%) Heroku
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Process Management
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Web Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) ATDD
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Solvency II