The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 26 16 20
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Contract jobs citing TDD 6 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.791% 4.202% 0.752%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.027% 7.042% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £425 £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 71 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 69.30% 59.66% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 34 36
Average daily rate £425 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.86% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £325 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TDD
Surrey

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) WPF
2 5 (62.50%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 3 (37.50%) MVC
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (37.50%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) HTML5
4 3 (37.50%) CSS3
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (25.00%) Backbone.js
5 2 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
5 2 (25.00%) Moq
5 2 (25.00%) LINQ
5 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (25.00%) MSI
5 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (25.00%) ESB
5 2 (25.00%) ReSharper

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) WPF
3 4 (50.00%) NHibernate
4 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) HTML5
4 3 (37.50%) CSS3
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Backbone.js
5 2 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
5 2 (25.00%) LINQ
5 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (25.00%) WCF
5 2 (25.00%) ASP
5 2 (25.00%) XML
6 1 (12.50%) J2EE
6 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) ESB
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Moq
1 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (25.00%) MSI
1 2 (25.00%) ReSharper
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) C# Developer
2 3 (37.50%) WPF Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) iOS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared