BDD Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 20 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 Edinburgh 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.249% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.368% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 544 738 864
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.75% 67.09% 66.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 370 475
Average daily rate £403 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £483 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.07 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
BDD
Scotland

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
2 1 (33.33%) WAI
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) JBehave
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) DOM
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
1 1 (33.33%) SAX
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) TeamSite
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
1 1 (33.33%) JBehave
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) FogBugz
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) W3C
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Kanban
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) WAI
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Section 508
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) HP
Test Anayst - Edinburgh - 3 Month Contract
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Edinburgh based client currently has a requirement for for a Test Analyst for an initial 3 month duration.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
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