The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 TDD 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 43 77 62
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -15
Contract jobs citing TDD 85 56 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 3.974% 1.895% 2.572%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.957% 2.943% 3.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 38 47
Average daily rate £400 £358 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.88% -11.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £450 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1427 1903 1718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.71% 64.40% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 915 776
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 154 186
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.61% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.08 £12.28 £13.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East of England TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the East of England region.

East of England TDD Hourly Rate Trend

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +25 41 £450 +38.46%
Cambridgeshire +14 18 £363 -10.49%
Bedfordshire +11 13 £350 -3.44%
Essex +2 7 £350 -10.82%
Norfolk +1 4 £200 -50.00%
Suffolk +7 1 £400 +23.07%
TDD
England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 115 (61.83%) C#
2 112 (60.22%) .NET
3 74 (39.78%) Agile Software Development
4 63 (33.87%) Scrum
5 61 (32.80%) OO
6 59 (31.72%) JavaScript
7 51 (27.42%) CSS
8 48 (25.81%) Windows
9 47 (25.27%) SQL Server
9 47 (25.27%) BDD
10 46 (24.73%) SOA
11 41 (22.04%) MVC
12 39 (20.97%) Oracle
12 39 (20.97%) HTML
12 39 (20.97%) ASP.NET
13 36 (19.35%) Retail
14 34 (18.28%) Unit Testing
14 34 (18.28%) Java
15 31 (16.67%) Web Services
15 31 (16.67%) jQuery
16 30 (16.13%) HTML5
17 29 (15.59%) XML
18 27 (14.52%) CSS3
19 26 (13.98%) SQL
20 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
21 22 (11.83%) E-Commerce
21 22 (11.83%) ASP.NET MVC
21 22 (11.83%) .NET Framework
22 21 (11.29%) Finance
23 20 (10.75%) N-Tier

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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
1 112 (60.22%) .NET
2 51 (27.42%) CSS
3 39 (20.97%) HTML
3 39 (20.97%) ASP.NET
4 31 (16.67%) Web Services
4 31 (16.67%) jQuery
5 30 (16.13%) HTML5
6 29 (15.59%) XML
7 27 (14.52%) CSS3
8 22 (11.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 22 (11.83%) .NET Framework
9 15 (8.065%) Spring
10 14 (7.527%) JSON
11 13 (6.989%) J2EE
11 13 (6.989%) WCF
12 11 (5.914%) RESTful
13 10 (5.376%) SAP PI
13 10 (5.376%) SOAP
13 10 (5.376%) Hibernate
13 10 (5.376%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.065%) BizTalk Server
2 14 (7.527%) Drupal
3 13 (6.989%) Apache
4 12 (6.452%) Windows Azure
5 11 (5.914%) SharePoint
5 11 (5.914%) ESB
6 5 (2.688%) Tomcat
6 5 (2.688%) nginx
7 4 (2.151%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.151%) CMS
8 3 (1.613%) NServiceBus
9 2 (1.075%) Apache Pig
9 2 (1.075%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.538%) IIS
10 1 (0.538%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.538%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (4.839%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.613%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.538%) DOC1
3 1 (0.538%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.538%) Exstream
1 1 (0.538%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.914%) Internet
2 3 (1.613%) 802.15
2 3 (1.613%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.075%) CTI
3 2 (1.075%) HTTP
4 1 (0.538%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.452%) MySQL
3 10 (5.376%) VLDB
4 8 (4.301%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (2.688%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (1.613%) GIS
7 3 (1.613%) Redis
8 2 (1.075%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.075%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.075%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.075%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.075%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.538%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.538%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.538%) dBASE
9 1 (0.538%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.538%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 17 (9.140%) Git (software)
2 12 (6.452%) Subversion
3 9 (4.839%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (4.301%) Selenium
4 8 (4.301%) SpecFlow
5 6 (3.226%) Maven
5 6 (3.226%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.151%) WebDriver
6 4 (2.151%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.613%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.075%) QUnit
8 2 (1.075%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.075%) MSTest
8 2 (1.075%) Rhino Mocks
8 2 (1.075%) WATIR
8 2 (1.075%) NUnit
8 2 (1.075%) CruiseControl
8 2 (1.075%) JUnit
9 1 (0.538%) Ant
9 1 (0.538%) ClearCase
General
1 36 (19.35%) Retail
2 21 (11.29%) Finance
3 9 (4.839%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.613%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (1.613%) Banking
5 2 (1.075%) Games
6 1 (0.538%) Advertising
6 1 (0.538%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.538%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 147 (79.03%) Developer
2 65 (34.95%) .NET Developer
3 64 (34.41%) C# Developer
4 46 (24.73%) C# .NET Developer
5 38 (20.43%) Architect
6 21 (11.29%) .NET Architect
6 21 (11.29%) Senior Developer
7 20 (10.75%) Front-End Developer
7 20 (10.75%) C# Architect
8 17 (9.140%) Agile .NET Developer
8 17 (9.140%) Java Developer
9 16 (8.602%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (7.527%) Agile C# Developer
11 12 (6.452%) ScrumMaster
12 11 (5.914%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 10 (5.376%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.376%) Web Developer
13 10 (5.376%) ASP.NET Developer
14 7 (3.763%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.763%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) N-Tier
2 10 (5.376%) Contract for Difference
3 7 (3.763%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.226%) Computer Science
5 4 (2.151%) Informatics
6 3 (1.613%) W3C
6 3 (1.613%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.613%) iPad
6 3 (1.613%) Video on Demand
6 3 (1.613%) iPhone
7 2 (1.075%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.075%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.075%) Inversion of Control
7 2 (1.075%) Online Games
7 2 (1.075%) Biology
7 2 (1.075%) LIMS
8 1 (0.538%) IVR
8 1 (0.538%) Animation
8 1 (0.538%) SaaS
8 1 (0.538%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.81%) Windows
2 14 (7.527%) Linux
3 6 (3.226%) UNIX
4 5 (2.688%) Android
5 3 (1.613%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.613%) Windows Phone 8
5 3 (1.613%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.538%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.78%) Agile Software Development
2 63 (33.87%) Scrum
3 61 (32.80%) OO
4 47 (25.27%) BDD
5 46 (24.73%) SOA
6 41 (22.04%) MVC
7 34 (18.28%) Unit Testing
8 22 (11.83%) E-Commerce
9 20 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (9.677%) AOP
11 14 (7.527%) Domain-Driven Design
12 12 (6.452%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (5.376%) Content Management
14 9 (4.839%) Validation
14 9 (4.839%) Multithreading
14 9 (4.839%) Systems Analysis
14 9 (4.839%) Web Development
15 8 (4.301%) Refactoring
15 8 (4.301%) Change Management
16 7 (3.763%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 115 (61.83%) C#
2 59 (31.72%) JavaScript
3 34 (18.28%) Java
4 26 (13.98%) SQL
5 20 (10.75%) PHP
6 10 (5.376%) Ruby
7 9 (4.839%) Python
8 6 (3.226%) C
9 5 (2.688%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.151%) Lisp
10 4 (2.151%) Perl
11 3 (1.613%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.075%) Groovy
12 2 (1.075%) PowerHouse
13 1 (0.538%) C++
13 1 (0.538%) XAML
13 1 (0.538%) XPath
13 1 (0.538%) CoffeeScript
13 1 (0.538%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (4.839%) Degree
2 4 (2.151%) PhD
3 3 (1.613%) ISEB
4 1 (0.538%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.538%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.538%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.301%) QA
2 1 (0.538%) WCAG
2 1 (0.538%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.151%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.075%) Varnish
Vendors
1 39 (20.97%) Oracle
2 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.376%) SAP
4 4 (2.151%) VMware
5 3 (1.613%) Adobe
6 2 (1.075%) Google
6 2 (1.075%) Mercator
7 1 (0.538%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.538%) JBoss
7 1 (0.538%) HP
7 1 (0.538%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.538%) EPiServer
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