The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Sussex 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 23 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 8 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 3.419% 2.813% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.598% 4.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
174 220 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 74.36% 68.75% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 80
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £510 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
Average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.59% -51.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BDD
South East

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex BDD Daily Rate Trend

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 Sussex 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
Brighton +1 3 £350 +16.66%
Eastbourne - 1 £375 -
BDD
South East

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) HTTP
4 4 (33.33%) MVC
4 4 (33.33%) RESTful
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Azure
5 3 (25.00%) SpecFlow
5 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (25.00%) FitNesse
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) SOAP
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (16.67%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (16.67%) Selenium
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
6 2 (16.67%) jQuery
6 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (8.333%) PaaS
7 1 (8.333%) StyleCop

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 2 (16.67%) jQuery
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (8.333%) soapUI
4 1 (8.333%) REST
4 1 (8.333%) Task Parallel Library
4 1 (8.333%) JPA
4 1 (8.333%) Apache CXF
4 1 (8.333%) Grails
4 1 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) Ajax
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (8.333%) NHibernate
4 1 (8.333%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (25.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (8.333%) StyleCop
3 1 (8.333%) MSTest
3 1 (8.333%) Moq
3 1 (8.333%) JProfiler
3 1 (8.333%) Fiddler
3 1 (8.333%) RSpec
3 1 (8.333%) Gradle
3 1 (8.333%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.333%) TeamCity
3 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
3 1 (8.333%) NUnit
3 1 (8.333%) Subversion
3 1 (8.333%) Maven
3 1 (8.333%) Checkstyle
3 1 (8.333%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Billing
2 1 (8.333%) Games
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Scala Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (8.333%) PaaS
2 1 (8.333%) Heroku
2 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.333%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Load Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Security Testing
4 1 (8.333%) ATDD
4 1 (8.333%) User Stories
4 1 (8.333%) Web Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.333%) Use Case
4 1 (8.333%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Web Development
4 1 (8.333%) Process Management
4 1 (8.333%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) Scala
4 1 (8.333%) Groovy
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) Solvency II
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft