The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 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 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
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 15 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing TDD 16 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 6.838% 5.313% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.195% 7.727% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 0
Average daily rate £350 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
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
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%
TDD
South East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex TDD Daily 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 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 +3 12 £308 -23.12%
Eastbourne - 1 £375 -
TDD
South East

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 21 (75.00%) .NET
2 15 (53.57%) C#
3 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
3 13 (46.43%) MVC
4 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (35.71%) BDD
5 10 (35.71%) Scrum
6 9 (32.14%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (32.14%) Windows Azure
7 8 (28.57%) HTTP
8 7 (25.00%) Selenium
8 7 (25.00%) Gherkin
9 6 (21.43%) QA
9 6 (21.43%) Performance Testing
9 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (21.43%) SQL
10 5 (17.86%) Windows
10 5 (17.86%) jQuery
10 5 (17.86%) Multithreading
10 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (14.29%) SpecFlow
11 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 4 (14.29%) RESTful
11 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (14.29%) CSS
11 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
12 3 (10.71%) Web Services
12 3 (10.71%) XML
12 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
12 3 (10.71%) Ajax

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 21 (75.00%) .NET
2 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
3 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (25.00%) Gherkin
5 5 (17.86%) jQuery
6 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 4 (14.29%) CSS
7 3 (10.71%) Web Services
7 3 (10.71%) XML
7 3 (10.71%) Ajax
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (7.143%) StructureMap
8 2 (7.143%) HTML5
8 2 (7.143%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (7.143%) Castle Windsor
8 2 (7.143%) REST
8 2 (7.143%) LINQ
8 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) Windows Azure
2 2 (7.143%) MSMQ
3 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.143%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.143%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.143%) RavenDB
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.571%) MySQL
4 1 (3.571%) GIS
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Selenium
2 4 (14.29%) SpecFlow
3 3 (10.71%) NUnit
3 3 (10.71%) FitNesse
4 2 (7.143%) WebDriver
4 2 (7.143%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.143%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.571%) JUnit
5 1 (3.571%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.571%) Maven
5 1 (3.571%) Checkstyle
5 1 (3.571%) Subversion
5 1 (3.571%) Fiddler
5 1 (3.571%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.571%) JIRA
5 1 (3.571%) Gradle
5 1 (3.571%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.571%) JProfiler
General
1 2 (7.143%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.571%) Games
2 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) C# Developer
3 7 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 7 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Analyst
4 6 (21.43%) Test Analyst
5 5 (17.86%) Tester
5 5 (17.86%) Automated Tester
6 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.143%) QA Analyst
8 1 (3.571%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.571%) DBA
8 1 (3.571%) Test Team Leader
8 1 (3.571%) SQL Server DBA
8 1 (3.571%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) PaaS
2 2 (7.143%) Open Source
3 1 (3.571%) NHS
3 1 (3.571%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.571%) Informatics
3 1 (3.571%) Health Informatics
3 1 (3.571%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.571%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (3.571%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) MVC
2 10 (35.71%) BDD
2 10 (35.71%) Scrum
3 9 (32.14%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (21.43%) Performance Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Multithreading
5 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (7.143%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.143%) Automated Testing
7 2 (7.143%) Pair Programming
8 1 (3.571%) OO
8 1 (3.571%) Project Management
8 1 (3.571%) Process Management
8 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.571%) Data Modelling
8 1 (3.571%) ETL
8 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (3.571%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) Java
4 1 (3.571%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.571%) Scala
4 1 (3.571%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (3.571%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.143%) DevExpress
2 2 (7.143%) TIBCO
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