The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Herefordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 20 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 Herefordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 14.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £255 - -
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
Herefordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
7 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 50.00% 52.63% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
Average daily rate £255 £239 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.80% +36.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £19.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -36.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
TDD
West Midlands

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft