TDD Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 49 54 63
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +9
Contract jobs citing TDD 13 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.778% 1.504% 0.909%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.355% 2.459% 1.324%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
Average daily rate £375 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £275 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £367 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 552 488 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.51% 61.15% 68.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 249 375
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.92% +7.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.57 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.03% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.28 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Chester - 2 £375 -
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 19 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) jQuery
3 15 (68.18%) CSS
4 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (54.55%) Ajax
5 11 (50.00%) HTML
5 11 (50.00%) Java
6 9 (40.91%) MVC
7 8 (36.36%) Spring
7 8 (36.36%) J2EE
8 7 (31.82%) C#
8 7 (31.82%) .NET
8 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
8 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
8 7 (31.82%) Web Services
8 7 (31.82%) XML
8 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
8 7 (31.82%) Scrum
8 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
8 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (31.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (31.82%) CSS3
9 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (27.27%) HTML5
9 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (27.27%) JSON
9 6 (27.27%) Finance
9 6 (27.27%) Apache
9 6 (27.27%) Oracle
10 5 (22.73%) JUnit

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 16 (72.73%) jQuery
2 15 (68.18%) CSS
3 12 (54.55%) Ajax
4 11 (50.00%) HTML
5 8 (36.36%) Spring
5 8 (36.36%) J2EE
6 7 (31.82%) .NET
6 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
6 7 (31.82%) Web Services
6 7 (31.82%) XML
6 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
6 7 (31.82%) CSS3
7 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (27.27%) HTML5
7 6 (27.27%) JSON
8 5 (22.73%) JSP
9 4 (18.18%) WSDL
9 4 (18.18%) JAX-RPC
9 4 (18.18%) Servlets
9 4 (18.18%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 1 (4.545%) ESB
3 1 (4.545%) Mule
3 1 (4.545%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.545%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (9.091%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.545%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.545%) CouchDB
3 1 (4.545%) MySQL
3 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (22.73%) JUnit
3 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
4 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) Eclipse
4 3 (13.64%) Subversion
5 1 (4.545%) Gradle
5 1 (4.545%) Ant
5 1 (4.545%) Maven
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Retail
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.545%) UI Programmer
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (4.545%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.545%) UI Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior UI Developer
7 1 (4.545%) User Experience Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Team Leader
7 1 (4.545%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Web 2.0
2 2 (9.091%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.545%) RIA
3 1 (4.545%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.545%) Android
1 1 (4.545%) UNIX
1 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (40.91%) MVC
3 7 (31.82%) Scrum
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (18.18%) SOA
5 4 (18.18%) MVVM
5 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 3 (13.64%) BDD
6 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.64%) OO
7 2 (9.091%) Pair Programming
7 2 (9.091%) Extreme Programming
7 2 (9.091%) Web Development
8 1 (4.545%) ATDD
8 1 (4.545%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (4.545%) Kanban
8 1 (4.545%) DSDM
8 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 11 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) XPath
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Perforce
3 2 (9.091%) JBoss
3 2 (9.091%) Razor Risk
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Chester, North West
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Software Engineer - Java, J2EE
Chester, North West
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