The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 46 60 45
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -15
Contract jobs citing TDD 29 12 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.176% 1.255% 3.575%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.448% 1.858% 6.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 13
Average daily rate £375 £301 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.48% -7.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £299 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £383 £346
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
652 646 627
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 71.41% 67.57% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 299 267
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 53
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £32.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
South East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes +21 22 £375 +25.00% 3
Marlow - 2 £600 -
Aylesbury -7 1 - - 2
High Wycombe - 1 £288 -
Amersham - - - - 1
Chesham - - - - 2
TDD
South East

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 33 (73.33%) Scrum
2 30 (66.67%) C#
2 30 (66.67%) .NET
3 26 (57.78%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (48.89%) SQL
5 20 (44.44%) WCF
6 19 (42.22%) MVC
7 17 (37.78%) ASP.NET
8 16 (35.56%) .NET Framework
9 15 (33.33%) NHibernate
10 14 (31.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 13 (28.89%) QA
12 12 (26.67%) Finance
12 12 (26.67%) Selenium
13 10 (22.22%) Windows
14 8 (17.78%) Linux
14 8 (17.78%) OO
14 8 (17.78%) MySQL
14 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
14 8 (17.78%) T-SQL
14 8 (17.78%) Software Testing
14 8 (17.78%) Automated Testing
14 8 (17.78%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (15.56%) BDD
15 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (15.56%) Automation Testing
15 7 (15.56%) NUnit
15 7 (15.56%) Banking
15 7 (15.56%) Perl

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 30 (66.67%) .NET
2 20 (44.44%) WCF
3 17 (37.78%) ASP.NET
4 16 (35.56%) .NET Framework
5 15 (33.33%) NHibernate
6 14 (31.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (15.56%) SOAP
9 6 (13.33%) soapUI
9 6 (13.33%) KnockoutJS
10 4 (8.889%) Fluent NHibernate
11 3 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 3 (6.667%) WPF
12 2 (4.444%) XML
12 2 (4.444%) CSS
12 2 (4.444%) Ajax
12 2 (4.444%) LINQ
12 2 (4.444%) jQuery
12 2 (4.444%) Razor View Engine
13 1 (2.222%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.222%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.222%) SMTP
1 1 (2.222%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MySQL
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.444%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Selenium
2 8 (17.78%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (15.56%) NUnit
3 7 (15.56%) Visual Studio
4 6 (13.33%) Subversion
4 6 (13.33%) WATIR
4 6 (13.33%) MSTest
4 6 (13.33%) WatiN
4 6 (13.33%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.222%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.222%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.222%) Moq
5 1 (2.222%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (2.222%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (62.22%) Developer
2 20 (44.44%) .NET Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Agile Test Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Agile .NET Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Web Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Analyst Developer
6 4 (8.889%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Report Analyst
6 4 (8.889%) Report Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Architect
7 2 (4.444%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (4.444%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.222%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) ScrumMaster
8 1 (2.222%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.222%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.222%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.222%) iPhone
2 1 (2.222%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 3 (6.667%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.222%) Android
4 1 (2.222%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Scrum
2 26 (57.78%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (42.22%) MVC
4 8 (17.78%) OO
4 8 (17.78%) Software Testing
4 8 (17.78%) Automated Testing
5 7 (15.56%) BDD
5 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (15.56%) Automation Testing
6 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (8.889%) Web Development
8 3 (6.667%) Unit Testing
8 3 (6.667%) SOA
9 2 (4.444%) Data Modelling
9 2 (4.444%) Enterprise Architecture
10 1 (2.222%) Agile Testing
10 1 (2.222%) Web Application Development
10 1 (2.222%) Domain-Driven Design
10 1 (2.222%) Dependency Injection
10 1 (2.222%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) C#
2 22 (48.89%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) T-SQL
4 7 (15.56%) Perl
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.222%) Groovy
6 1 (2.222%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.222%) C++
6 1 (2.222%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) HP
2 4 (8.889%) Dundas
3 1 (2.222%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.222%) VMware
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle
3 1 (2.222%) Microsoft
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