The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.439% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.802% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 82 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 79.86% 70.09% 68.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 36
Average daily rate £381 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.17% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
Cheshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) DOM
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) JSF

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) DOM
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ICEfaces
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Mule
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Perforce
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013