The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Hampshire 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 63 91 104
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +13
Contract jobs citing BDD 43 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 2.753% 0.251% 0.110%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.068% 0.391% 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £265 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1057 1022 1175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.67% 64.20% 64.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 483 533
Average daily rate £365 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £510 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 101 125
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.84 £14.78 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
BDD
South East

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BDD across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BDD across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hampshire BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Basingstoke - 37 £350 -
BDD
South East

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing BDD 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 BDD.

1 60 (84.51%) SQL
1 60 (84.51%) MVC
2 55 (77.46%) SQL Server
2 55 (77.46%) Web Services
3 50 (70.42%) jQuery
3 50 (70.42%) Git (software)
4 49 (69.01%) Java
5 47 (66.20%) SOAP
6 46 (64.79%) JavaScript
7 45 (63.38%) Hibernate
7 45 (63.38%) Spring
8 44 (61.97%) Java EE
8 44 (61.97%) JPA
9 43 (60.56%) JSON
9 43 (60.56%) Spring MVC
9 43 (60.56%) Spring Security
9 43 (60.56%) Spring Web Flow
9 43 (60.56%) Web Development
9 43 (60.56%) JTA
9 43 (60.56%) JMS
9 43 (60.56%) JAXB
9 43 (60.56%) HTML
9 43 (60.56%) EJB
9 43 (60.56%) REST
10 41 (57.75%) TDD
11 39 (54.93%) Software Architecture
12 38 (53.52%) Pair Programming
12 38 (53.52%) CSS
13 37 (52.11%) JUnit
13 37 (52.11%) Maven

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing BDD 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 BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 55 (77.46%) Web Services
2 50 (70.42%) jQuery
3 47 (66.20%) SOAP
4 45 (63.38%) Hibernate
4 45 (63.38%) Spring
5 44 (61.97%) Java EE
5 44 (61.97%) JPA
6 43 (60.56%) JSON
6 43 (60.56%) Spring MVC
6 43 (60.56%) Spring Security
6 43 (60.56%) Spring Web Flow
6 43 (60.56%) JTA
6 43 (60.56%) JMS
6 43 (60.56%) JAXB
6 43 (60.56%) HTML
6 43 (60.56%) EJB
6 43 (60.56%) REST
7 38 (53.52%) CSS
8 31 (43.66%) JSP
9 30 (42.25%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 30 (42.25%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.817%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.408%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.408%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.408%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.042%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.817%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (77.46%) SQL Server
2 36 (50.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 36 (50.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 17 (23.94%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (22.54%) NoSQL
5 12 (16.90%) MySQL
6 8 (11.27%) SQL Server 2000
6 8 (11.27%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 50 (70.42%) Git (software)
2 37 (52.11%) JUnit
2 37 (52.11%) Maven
3 36 (50.70%) Mockito
4 35 (49.30%) Selenium
5 18 (25.35%) SpecFlow
6 14 (19.72%) Subversion
7 13 (18.31%) JBehave
8 12 (16.90%) ReSharper
9 5 (7.042%) FitNesse
9 5 (7.042%) NUnit
9 5 (7.042%) WebDriver
10 4 (5.634%) WATIR
11 2 (2.817%) Visual Studio
12 1 (1.408%) NetAdvantage
12 1 (1.408%) Log4j
12 1 (1.408%) Jenkins
12 1 (1.408%) Hudson
General
1 9 (12.68%) Finance
2 2 (2.817%) Marketing
2 2 (2.817%) Manufacturing
2 2 (2.817%) Electronics
2 2 (2.817%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.408%) Back Office
3 1 (1.408%) Military
3 1 (1.408%) Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (78.87%) Developer
2 37 (52.11%) Java Developer
3 15 (21.13%) C# Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Agile C# Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Technical Leader
6 10 (14.08%) .NET Developer
7 9 (12.68%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (11.27%) ASP.NET Developer
8 8 (11.27%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 8 (11.27%) Agile .NET Developer
9 7 (9.859%) Architect
9 7 (9.859%) Software Architect
10 6 (8.451%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (7.042%) Analyst
11 5 (7.042%) Test Analyst
12 4 (5.634%) Java Solutions Architect
12 4 (5.634%) Team Leader
12 4 (5.634%) Java Architect
12 4 (5.634%) Senior Developer
12 4 (5.634%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (7.042%) SaaS
3 2 (2.817%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (2.817%) DTV
4 1 (1.408%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.408%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (84.51%) MVC
2 43 (60.56%) Web Development
3 41 (57.75%) TDD
4 39 (54.93%) Software Architecture
5 38 (53.52%) Pair Programming
6 35 (49.30%) Agile Software Development
7 33 (46.48%) UML
7 33 (46.48%) OOD
8 27 (38.03%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (35.21%) Scrum
10 19 (26.76%) Dependency Injection
11 16 (22.54%) OO
12 14 (19.72%) Kanban
12 14 (19.72%) SOA
13 4 (5.634%) Technical Architecture
13 4 (5.634%) OOP
14 3 (4.225%) Unit Testing
14 3 (4.225%) Integration Testing
15 2 (2.817%) Change Data Capture
15 2 (2.817%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 60 (84.51%) SQL
2 49 (69.01%) Java
3 46 (64.79%) JavaScript
4 30 (42.25%) C#
5 10 (14.08%) T-SQL
6 9 (12.68%) Python
7 8 (11.27%) C++
8 4 (5.634%) C
8 4 (5.634%) Perl
9 1 (1.408%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.408%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.634%) QA
Vendors
1 31 (43.66%) JBoss
2 13 (18.31%) Twitter
3 7 (9.859%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.817%) SAP
5 1 (1.408%) Oracle
5 1 (1.408%) Infragistics
5 1 (1.408%) TIBCO
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