Derbyshire TDD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test-Driven Development (TDD) skills within the Derbyshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks South East South West Surrey UK Walsall West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.952 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£312
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.38	£35.68
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Processes & Methodologies Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	105	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.218 %
Daily rates quoted	12	44
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£304
Average daily rate	£382	£320
% change on same period last year	+19.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.57	£24.46
Average hourly rate	£39.40	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+46.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.23	£29.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.25	£29.44
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
TDD East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	-	1	-	-

TDD East Midlands

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 (100.00 %) WebServices 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (33.33 %) Eclipse 3 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) Sun 3 1 (33.33 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) BEA 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Portal

3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Servlets 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 3 1 (33.33 %) WCF 3 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Java

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 3 (100.00 %) WebServices 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Servlets 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) Hibernate 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 3 1 (33.33 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Portal
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 1 1 (33.33 %) Eclipse 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Workshop
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Java Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Applications Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Java Applications Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Sun Certification	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Sun 1 1 (33.33 %) BEA