The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 21 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 Hammersmith 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 6 9 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 5.882% 7.143% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.143% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
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
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
28 30 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 82.35% 71.43% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 5
Average daily rate £325 £375 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -0.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
TDD
London

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Symfony
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) Varnish
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) Symfony
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Varnish