The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 53 53 40
Rank change year-on-year
0 -13
Contract jobs citing TDD 22 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.447% 0.737% 3.117%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.566% 1.103% 4.453%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 21
Average daily rate £500 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
617 544 539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.63% 66.83% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 257 322
Average daily rate £340 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.74% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £249 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 13
Average hourly rate £9.25 £16.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.18% -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
Scotland

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 29 (53.70%) C#
2 25 (46.30%) Java
3 24 (44.44%) Finance
3 24 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (33.33%) MVC
5 17 (31.48%) Spring
5 17 (31.48%) WPF
5 17 (31.48%) Multithreading
6 16 (29.63%) Banking
6 16 (29.63%) SQL
6 16 (29.63%) SQL Server
6 16 (29.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (25.93%) Fixed Income
7 14 (25.93%) Hibernate
8 13 (24.07%) Oracle
9 11 (20.37%) OO
9 11 (20.37%) .NET
9 11 (20.37%) ASP.NET
10 10 (18.52%) UML
10 10 (18.52%) XML
10 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
10 10 (18.52%) Scrum
10 10 (18.52%) SQL Server 2005
11 9 (16.67%) SharePoint
11 9 (16.67%) N-Tier
11 9 (16.67%) BDD
11 9 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
11 9 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (14.81%) CSS
12 8 (14.81%) HTML

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 17 (31.48%) Spring
1 17 (31.48%) WPF
2 14 (25.93%) Hibernate
3 11 (20.37%) .NET
3 11 (20.37%) ASP.NET
4 10 (18.52%) XML
5 8 (14.81%) CSS
5 8 (14.81%) HTML
6 7 (12.96%) SOAP
6 7 (12.96%) JMS
7 6 (11.11%) Web Services
7 6 (11.11%) JDBC
7 6 (11.11%) J2EE
7 6 (11.11%) JSF
8 5 (9.259%) JSP
8 5 (9.259%) Servlets
8 5 (9.259%) JPA
9 4 (7.407%) Java EE
9 4 (7.407%) jQuery
9 4 (7.407%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.259%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.556%) Apache
4 2 (3.704%) Mule
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (1.852%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.852%) ESB
5 1 (1.852%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.852%) GlassFish
5 1 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.852%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.52%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (9.259%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.852%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.852%) MySQL
7 1 (1.852%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.852%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Maven
2 5 (9.259%) JUnit
3 4 (7.407%) ClearCase
3 4 (7.407%) Subversion
4 3 (5.556%) Selenium
5 2 (3.704%) NetAdvantage
5 2 (3.704%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.852%) JMeter
6 1 (1.852%) JIRA
6 1 (1.852%) WATIR
6 1 (1.852%) PVCS
6 1 (1.852%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.852%) RSpec
6 1 (1.852%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.852%) Hudson
6 1 (1.852%) Spring Roo
6 1 (1.852%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (44.44%) Finance
2 16 (29.63%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Front Office
4 2 (3.704%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.704%) Retail
5 1 (1.852%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (85.19%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 17 (31.48%) C# Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.556%) Analyst
5 3 (5.556%) WPF Developer
6 2 (3.704%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (3.704%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (3.704%) Test Analyst
6 2 (3.704%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.704%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (3.704%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (3.704%) .NET Developer
7 1 (1.852%) Data Warehouse Consultant
7 1 (1.852%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (1.852%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (1.852%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (1.852%) Consultant
7 1 (1.852%) Business Analyst
7 1 (1.852%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (25.93%) Fixed Income
3 9 (16.67%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.704%) W3C
5 1 (1.852%) Equities
5 1 (1.852%) Mashup
5 1 (1.852%) RIA
5 1 (1.852%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.852%) Open Source
5 1 (1.852%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.556%) UNIX
2 2 (3.704%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (33.33%) MVC
3 17 (31.48%) Multithreading
4 11 (20.37%) OO
5 10 (18.52%) UML
5 10 (18.52%) Scrum
6 9 (16.67%) BDD
6 9 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (14.81%) Web Development
8 7 (12.96%) SOA
8 7 (12.96%) ETL
8 7 (12.96%) Unit Testing
9 5 (9.259%) Pair Programming
9 5 (9.259%) Data Modelling
10 4 (7.407%) Software Engineering
11 2 (3.704%) Electronic Trading
11 2 (3.704%) Kanban
11 2 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (3.704%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) C#
2 25 (46.30%) Java
3 16 (29.63%) SQL
4 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.556%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.556%) Perl
6 2 (3.704%) C++
6 2 (3.704%) VBScript
7 1 (1.852%) Ruby
7 1 (1.852%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.704%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.852%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.852%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle
2 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.259%) Sybase
3 5 (9.259%) Informatica
4 4 (7.407%) Perforce
5 3 (5.556%) JBoss
6 2 (3.704%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.704%) Infragistics
7 1 (1.852%) VMware
7 1 (1.852%) HP
7 1 (1.852%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.852%) IBM
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