The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 42 60 64
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +4
Contract jobs citing TDD 15 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.801% 0.276% 0.309%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.627% 0.413% 0.467%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
Average daily rate £338 - £394
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 - £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 - £468
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
Scotland

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (56.25%) CSS
1 9 (56.25%) HTML5
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) HTML
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (31.25%) MVC
4 5 (31.25%) XHTML
5 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (25.00%) MySQL
5 4 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) PHP
5 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (25.00%) Ruby
5 4 (25.00%) CSS3
6 3 (18.75%) Subversion
6 3 (18.75%) Ajax
6 3 (18.75%) Flash
6 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (18.75%) jQuery
6 3 (18.75%) Web Development
6 3 (18.75%) OO
6 3 (18.75%) Adobe
7 2 (12.50%) Apache
7 2 (12.50%) ERP
7 2 (12.50%) Web Services
7 2 (12.50%) Linux

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (56.25%) CSS
1 9 (56.25%) HTML5
2 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 5 (31.25%) XHTML
4 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (25.00%) CSS3
5 3 (18.75%) Ajax
5 3 (18.75%) Flash
5 3 (18.75%) jQuery
6 2 (12.50%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (6.250%) REST
7 1 (6.250%) Gherkin
7 1 (6.250%) Sass
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 1 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (6.250%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Jadu
2 1 (6.250%) Drupal
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Subversion
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.250%) MSTest
3 1 (6.250%) JBehave
3 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.250%) NUnit
3 1 (6.250%) FitNesse
3 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (12.50%) Multimedia
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Designer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead Designer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.250%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Test Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (31.25%) MVC
3 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (18.75%) Web Development
3 3 (18.75%) OO
4 2 (12.50%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (6.250%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (6.250%) Automation Testing
5 1 (6.250%) BDD
5 1 (6.250%) Automated Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Investment Management
5 1 (6.250%) UML
5 1 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (6.250%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (6.250%) PHP5
4 1 (6.250%) SQL
4 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe
2 1 (6.250%) Cadis
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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