The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Gloucestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 36 62 47
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -15
Contract jobs citing TDD 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.095% 0.720% 0.466%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.667% 0.952% 0.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £401 £325 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.23% -14.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £285 £366
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £329 £396
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
180 525 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.69% 75.65% 61.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 309 104
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 36
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.84 £25.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
TDD
South West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Gloucestershire TDD Daily Rate Histogram

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Gloucester +28 1 £301 -
TDD
South West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
1 8 (72.73%) C
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) JUnit
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) DV Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) EJB
2 7 (63.64%) SOAP
2 7 (63.64%) JavaBeans
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) LINQ
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) MVC
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) IIS
4 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) XML
4 1 (9.091%) XSD
4 1 (9.091%) XSLT

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (63.64%) EJB
1 7 (63.64%) SOAP
1 7 (63.64%) JavaBeans
1 7 (63.64%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) LINQ
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.091%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) XSD
3 1 (9.091%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) jQuery
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (9.091%) JSF
3 1 (9.091%) Ajax
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.091%) WCF
3 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Senior Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (9.091%) UI Developer
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) UI Programmer
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
3 1 (9.091%) V-Model
3 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
3 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle