Cambridgeshire TDD Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West Staines Surrey Telford Uckfield UK Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 17 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	36	40	-
Rank change year-on-year	+4 -
Matching contract IT job ads	6	6	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire	1.449 %	1.149 %	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.655 %	2.510 %	-
Daily rates quoted	5	0	0
Average daily rate	£325	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£250	£369
% change year-on-year	+30.00 % -32.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£33.25	£44.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -24.43 %
All Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category	226	239	494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire	54.59 %	45.79 %	44.15 %
Daily rates quoted	90	92	149
Average daily rate	£313	£350	£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-10.71 % -6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£199	£214	£265
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£450	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£363	£375
% change year-on-year	-3.440 % -3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	36	55
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£30.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+8.330 % +9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.90	£19.30	£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£36.65	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£28.22	£30.00
% change year-on-year	-13.18 % -5.930 %
TDD East of England

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.

TDD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

TDD
Daily Rate Trend

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

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. 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	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
Cambridge	+1	2	£500	-
Peterborough	+5	1	£225	-

TDD East of England

TDD
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (42.86 %) Scrum 1 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (28.57 %) XHTML 2 2 (28.57 %) CSS 2 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 2 2 (28.57 %) DHTML 2 2 (28.57 %) HTML 2 2 (28.57 %) Java 2 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 1 (14.29 %) JUnit 3 1 (14.29 %) Back Office 3 1 (14.29 %) Finance

3 1 (14.29 %) JIRA 3 1 (14.29 %) Selenium 3 1 (14.29 %) jMock 3 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) Pair Programming 3 1 (14.29 %) Logistics 3 1 (14.29 %) RUP

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 2 (28.57 %) XHTML 1 2 (28.57 %) CSS 1 2 (28.57 %) AJAX 1 2 (28.57 %) DHTML 1 2 (28.57 %) HTML 2 1 (14.29 %) J2EE	Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) JUnit 1 1 (14.29 %) JIRA 1 1 (14.29 %) Selenium 1 1 (14.29 %) jMock
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Back Office 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Manager 1 3 (42.86 %) Agile Project Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Front-End Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Web Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Applications Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Front-End Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Scrum 1 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (14.29 %) Pair Programming 2 1 (14.29 %) Logistics 2 1 (14.29 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) Java 1 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle