The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 City of London 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 77 154 206
Rank change year-on-year
+77 +52
Contract jobs citing BDD 157 64 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 2.461% 0.814% 0.398%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.348% 1.134% 0.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 48 30
Average daily rate £400 £413 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £325 £366
10% offered a daily rate of more than £546 £550 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4690 5642 7035
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.52% 71.74% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3529 4083 5194
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 98 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BDD
London

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BDD across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 265 (88.33%) TDD
2 167 (55.67%) Agile Software Development
3 144 (48.00%) Scrum
4 104 (34.67%) JavaScript
5 99 (33.00%) C#
6 98 (32.67%) Java
7 96 (32.00%) .NET
8 91 (30.33%) Selenium
9 82 (27.33%) CSS
10 71 (23.67%) MVC
11 66 (22.00%) Finance
12 64 (21.33%) ASP.NET
12 64 (21.33%) Cucumber
13 60 (20.00%) Web Services
14 59 (19.67%) HTML
15 54 (18.00%) Ruby
16 53 (17.67%) OO
17 51 (17.00%) SQL
18 49 (16.33%) HTML5
18 49 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
19 44 (14.67%) E-Commerce
20 41 (13.67%) ASP.NET MVC
21 39 (13.00%) RESTful
21 39 (13.00%) SQL Server
21 39 (13.00%) Microsoft
22 38 (12.67%) XML
23 37 (12.33%) Derivative
23 37 (12.33%) QA
24 36 (12.00%) JUnit
25 35 (11.67%) Unit Testing

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 96 (32.00%) .NET
2 82 (27.33%) CSS
3 64 (21.33%) ASP.NET
4 60 (20.00%) Web Services
5 59 (19.67%) HTML
6 49 (16.33%) HTML5
7 41 (13.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 39 (13.00%) RESTful
9 38 (12.67%) XML
10 34 (11.33%) jQuery
11 32 (10.67%) CSS3
12 31 (10.33%) Spring
12 31 (10.33%) Hibernate
12 31 (10.33%) REST
13 30 (10.00%) WCF
14 28 (9.333%) J2EE
15 20 (6.667%) JSON
15 20 (6.667%) SOAP
16 19 (6.333%) Ajax
17 18 (6.000%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 19 (6.333%) CMS
2 11 (3.667%) Windows Azure
3 8 (2.667%) Umbraco
4 7 (2.333%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.333%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (2.000%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (2.000%) Kentico
5 6 (2.000%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (2.000%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.000%) Route 53
6 4 (1.333%) Adobe CQ
7 3 (1.000%) Drupal
7 3 (1.000%) IIS
7 3 (1.000%) Apache
7 3 (1.000%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.000%) Apache Pig
7 3 (1.000%) EPiServer CMS
7 3 (1.000%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.667%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.667%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 16 (5.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.000%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.667%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.333%) HTTP
2 18 (6.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.667%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (5.000%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.667%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.000%) Redis
7 11 (3.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (3.667%) MySQL
8 8 (2.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 8 (2.667%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.333%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.333%) DTS
10 6 (2.000%) Big Data
10 6 (2.000%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.667%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.333%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.333%) MarkLogic
13 3 (1.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (1.000%) Data Mart
13 3 (1.000%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 91 (30.33%) Selenium
2 64 (21.33%) Cucumber
3 36 (12.00%) JUnit
4 34 (11.33%) Git (software)
5 29 (9.667%) Jenkins
6 24 (8.000%) WebDriver
6 24 (8.000%) SpecFlow
7 18 (6.000%) Subversion
8 16 (5.333%) Maven
9 14 (4.667%) Mockito
10 12 (4.000%) Hudson
11 10 (3.333%) JIRA
11 10 (3.333%) NUnit
12 9 (3.000%) WATIR
12 9 (3.000%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (2.667%) TestNG
14 7 (2.333%) JBehave
15 5 (1.667%) Ant
15 5 (1.667%) Jasmine
15 5 (1.667%) RSpec
General
1 66 (22.00%) Finance
2 32 (10.67%) Banking
3 18 (6.000%) Front Office
4 14 (4.667%) Financial Institution
5 13 (4.333%) Publishing
6 11 (3.667%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.667%) Retail
8 7 (2.333%) Marketing
8 7 (2.333%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.333%) Advertising
10 3 (1.000%) Electronics
10 3 (1.000%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.000%) Games
11 2 (0.667%) Music
12 1 (0.333%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 192 (64.00%) Developer
2 49 (16.33%) Java Developer
3 37 (12.33%) Analyst
3 37 (12.33%) .NET Developer
4 36 (12.00%) Agile Java Developer
5 29 (9.667%) C# Developer
6 24 (8.000%) Front-End Developer
7 23 (7.667%) Business Analyst
8 14 (4.667%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 14 (4.667%) QA Engineer
9 13 (4.333%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.000%) Test Analyst
10 12 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
11 11 (3.667%) Tester
11 11 (3.667%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (3.000%) Architect
13 8 (2.667%) Mobile Developer
13 8 (2.667%) Web Developer
13 8 (2.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 7 (2.333%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.33%) Derivative
2 20 (6.667%) Open Source
3 17 (5.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (5.667%) Fixed Income
4 16 (5.333%) Wiki
5 15 (5.000%) Equity Derivative
5 15 (5.000%) Credit Derivative
6 14 (4.667%) Reference Data
6 14 (4.667%) Market Risk
7 12 (4.000%) Equities
8 5 (1.667%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.333%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.333%) Heroku
9 4 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.000%) DTV
10 3 (1.000%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.667%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.667%) Blackberry
11 2 (0.667%) IPTV
11 2 (0.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.333%) Linux
2 12 (4.000%) Windows
3 6 (2.000%) UNIX
4 4 (1.333%) Android
4 4 (1.333%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.667%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.667%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.667%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (88.33%) TDD
2 167 (55.67%) Agile Software Development
3 144 (48.00%) Scrum
4 71 (23.67%) MVC
5 53 (17.67%) OO
6 49 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (14.67%) E-Commerce
8 35 (11.67%) Unit Testing
8 35 (11.67%) Pair Programming
9 27 (9.000%) Kanban
10 24 (8.000%) Test Automation
11 22 (7.333%) Software Engineering
12 20 (6.667%) Project Management
13 16 (5.333%) Automated Testing
14 15 (5.000%) SOA
14 15 (5.000%) ETL
15 14 (4.667%) Refactoring
16 13 (4.333%) Dependency Injection
16 13 (4.333%) Analytics
17 12 (4.000%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 104 (34.67%) JavaScript
2 99 (33.00%) C#
3 98 (32.67%) Java
4 54 (18.00%) Ruby
5 51 (17.00%) SQL
6 20 (6.667%) Groovy
7 16 (5.333%) T-SQL
8 15 (5.000%) PHP
9 8 (2.667%) Python
10 7 (2.333%) XPath
11 6 (2.000%) Scala
11 6 (2.000%) C++
12 4 (1.333%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.000%) C
14 2 (0.667%) Bash shell
14 2 (0.667%) ActionScript 3.0
14 2 (0.667%) XQuery
14 2 (0.667%) Perl
14 2 (0.667%) VB
14 2 (0.667%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (6.000%) Degree
2 10 (3.333%) PhD
3 3 (1.000%) ISEB
4 2 (0.667%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.33%) QA
2 1 (0.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.333%) WCAG
2 1 (0.333%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (0.333%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (0.667%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.333%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.333%) Oracle
3 8 (2.667%) Sitecore
4 7 (2.333%) Cadis
5 6 (2.000%) Percona
6 4 (1.333%) Adobe
7 3 (1.000%) SAP
7 3 (1.000%) Symantec
7 3 (1.000%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.667%) Apple
8 2 (0.667%) HP
8 2 (0.667%) Zend
9 1 (0.333%) 29West
City of London
My client is a major digital agencey based in East London, seeking a JavaScript Developer for an initial 3 month contract with a view for extension offering up...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
My client is a major digital agency based in East London, seeking a JavaScript Developer for an initial 3 month contract with a view for extension offering up...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
My client is a leading retail company based in the heart of the city, they require a senior Business Analyst who has previous experience in building technical applications...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
We deal with both Microsoft Partners & End Users globally and we have never had more live requirements & jobs for Microsoft Dynamics professionals. By specialising solely in placing candidates...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Core Java, Agile, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, TDD, Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, CI, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, API Design, REST, HTML5, Javascript.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Core Java, Agile, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, TDD, Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, CI, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, API Design, REST, HTML5, Javascript.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Good knowledge and experience in Web applications using different technologies: JavaScript, HTML, XHTML 5, CSS 3, XML, XSL. *Knowledge of W3C standards... *Good knowledge of Agile Development, Scrum...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £400 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Job Title: UI Developer - OO JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, XML, XSL, jQuery, Angular JS, Jasmine, Grunt, TDD and BDD practices... Excellent knowledge and experience hand coding different technologies:...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Job Title: UI Developer - OO JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, XML, XSL, jQuery, Angular JS, Jasmine, Grunt, TDD and BDD practices... Excellent knowledge and experience hand coding different technologies:...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Job Title: UI Developer - User Interface Developer - OO JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, XML, XSL, jQuery, Angular JS, Jasmine, Grunt, TDD and BDD practices... Must have experience within HTML5,...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Experience of CADIS 8.5 Experience of MS SQL server development (SQL, T-SQL, SSIS/DTS, SSRS, database design) Experience of delivering financial services projects using ETL and...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City Of London
2 Front End Web/Mobile developers - London Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 Front end web/Mobile developers for an initial 6 month contract, for a global...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP275 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
perform root-cause analysis of issues found in software) * Continually enhance testing and development processes to improve defect prevention, development efficiency and quality Required skills: *Strong software testing...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Digital and/or eCommerce experience. Able to adjust analysis techniques to fit both Waterfall and Agile (particularly Scrum) development methodologies... Ability to analyse UAT test scenarios to ensure...
Experis IT
Rate: £375 - £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013