The first table below looks at the demand for ATDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATDD over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ATDD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £400
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
ATDD
England

ATDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England ATDD Jobs Demand Trend

ATDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ATDD across the East of England region.

East of England ATDD Daily Rate Trend

ATDD
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ATDD 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 ATDD.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SOA

ATDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ATDD 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 ATDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Architect
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Architect
2 1 (50.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#