BDD Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BDD 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 BDD 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 67 120 -
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 48 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.228% 0.305% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.336% 0.471% -
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 0
Average daily rate £450 £384 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.26% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £316 £310
% change year-on-year
+10.67% +2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
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%
BDD
England

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +32 35 £500 +33.33%
Bedfordshire - 9 £344 -
Norfolk - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
BDD
England

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 46 (67.65%) TDD
2 40 (58.82%) C#
3 34 (50.00%) Scrum
4 33 (48.53%) Agile Software Development
5 32 (47.06%) OO
6 30 (44.12%) .NET
7 19 (27.94%) Retail
8 17 (25.00%) Windows
9 16 (23.53%) Java
9 16 (23.53%) JavaScript
9 16 (23.53%) SQL
9 16 (23.53%) Selenium
10 14 (20.59%) WebDriver
10 14 (20.59%) HTML
11 13 (19.12%) MVC
11 13 (19.12%) Domain-Driven Design
11 13 (19.12%) SpecFlow
12 12 (17.65%) Cucumber
12 12 (17.65%) Finance
13 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET
13 11 (16.18%) SOAP
13 11 (16.18%) Web Services
14 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
14 10 (14.71%) AOP
15 9 (13.24%) SOA
15 9 (13.24%) JBehave
16 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
17 7 (10.29%) CMS
17 7 (10.29%) Linux
17 7 (10.29%) CSS

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 30 (44.12%) .NET
2 14 (20.59%) HTML
3 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET
3 11 (16.18%) SOAP
3 11 (16.18%) Web Services
4 7 (10.29%) CSS
4 7 (10.29%) Spring
4 7 (10.29%) jQuery
5 6 (8.824%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (8.824%) HTML5
6 5 (7.353%) RESTful
6 5 (7.353%) CSS3
6 5 (7.353%) Ajax
6 5 (7.353%) NHibernate
6 5 (7.353%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.353%) J2EE
7 4 (5.882%) XML
7 4 (5.882%) JSP
7 4 (5.882%) REST
7 4 (5.882%) JSR 286
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) CMS
2 4 (5.882%) Liferay
2 4 (5.882%) Confluence
3 3 (4.412%) NServiceBus
4 2 (2.941%) Apache Pig
4 2 (2.941%) Apache
4 2 (2.941%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.941%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.471%) Sitefinity
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (4.412%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.941%) HTTP
2 1 (1.471%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.882%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.941%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.941%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.941%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.471%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Selenium
2 14 (20.59%) WebDriver
3 13 (19.12%) SpecFlow
4 12 (17.65%) Cucumber
5 9 (13.24%) JBehave
6 7 (10.29%) Git (software)
7 4 (5.882%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.882%) JIRA
8 3 (4.412%) WatiN
9 2 (2.941%) WATIR
9 2 (2.941%) JUnit
9 2 (2.941%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.941%) MonkeyTalk
10 1 (1.471%) QUnit
10 1 (1.471%) Gradle
10 1 (1.471%) Ant
10 1 (1.471%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.471%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.471%) NUnit
10 1 (1.471%) Subversion
General
1 19 (27.94%) Retail
2 12 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (7.353%) Banking
3 5 (7.353%) Retail Banking
4 3 (4.412%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.941%) Games
6 1 (1.471%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (69.12%) Developer
2 26 (38.24%) C# Developer
3 17 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 15 (22.06%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (16.18%) Agile .NET Developer
5 11 (16.18%) Agile C# Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.824%) Web Developer
7 6 (8.824%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (7.353%) .NET Architect
8 5 (7.353%) Test Consultant
8 5 (7.353%) Test Automation Consultant
8 5 (7.353%) Consultant
8 5 (7.353%) Architect
8 5 (7.353%) C# Architect
9 4 (5.882%) Tester
9 4 (5.882%) J2EE Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Portal Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Test Leader
9 4 (5.882%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.412%) Video on Demand
2 2 (2.941%) Online Games
2 2 (2.941%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.471%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (10.29%) Linux
3 6 (8.824%) Android
4 3 (4.412%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (67.65%) TDD
2 34 (50.00%) Scrum
3 33 (48.53%) Agile Software Development
4 32 (47.06%) OO
5 13 (19.12%) MVC
5 13 (19.12%) Domain-Driven Design
6 10 (14.71%) AOP
6 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
7 9 (13.24%) SOA
8 7 (10.29%) Automated Testing
8 7 (10.29%) Test Scripting
8 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.824%) User Stories
9 6 (8.824%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (8.824%) Web Development
10 5 (7.353%) Unit Testing
11 4 (5.882%) Integration Testing
11 4 (5.882%) Content Management
11 4 (5.882%) Build Automation
12 3 (4.412%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (58.82%) C#
2 16 (23.53%) Java
2 16 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 16 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (4.412%) Ruby
4 2 (2.941%) Python
4 2 (2.941%) PowerHouse
5 1 (1.471%) Groovy
5 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.471%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.882%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) QA
2 1 (1.471%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.353%) Oracle
3 2 (2.941%) Capita
3 2 (2.941%) Atlassian
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