The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 22 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 Docklands, 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 28 26 49
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +23
Contract jobs citing TDD 3 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.744% 2.778% 1.871%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.326% 3.550% 2.558%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £475 £525 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.52% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £359
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.40%
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
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
129 169 430
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 75.00% 78.24% 73.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 109 197
Average daily rate £450 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £360 £350
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 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
London

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Banking
4 3 (50.00%) Retail
4 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
4 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) Cognos
4 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (50.00%) Perl
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (33.33%) OOD
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
5 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JDO
3 1 (16.67%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Jetty
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) HTML Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Cognos
2 3 (50.00%) IBM