TDD Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 25 50 54
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +4
Contract jobs citing TDD 41 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 6.436% 2.047% 1.142%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.972% 3.091% 1.828%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 5
Average daily rate £450 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £285 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £610 £465 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
East of England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire TDD Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
St Albans +1 4 £388 -22.50%
Hertford - 4 - -
Letchworth - 3 £610 -
Stevenage - 3 - -
Watford +6 1 £600 -
TDD
East of England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 64 (77.11%) C#
2 54 (65.06%) OO
3 53 (63.86%) .NET
4 49 (59.04%) Agile Software Development
5 47 (56.63%) Scrum
6 37 (44.58%) Windows
6 37 (44.58%) BDD
7 36 (43.37%) Retail
8 25 (30.12%) SOA
9 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
10 17 (20.48%) CSS
11 16 (19.28%) HTML
12 14 (16.87%) ASP.NET
12 14 (16.87%) Domain-Driven Design
12 14 (16.87%) AOP
13 12 (14.46%) MVC
14 11 (13.25%) SQL
15 9 (10.84%) CSS3
15 9 (10.84%) HTML5
16 8 (9.639%) jQuery
16 8 (9.639%) Unit Testing
16 8 (9.639%) XML
16 8 (9.639%) Telecoms
17 7 (8.434%) SharePoint
17 7 (8.434%) N-Tier
17 7 (8.434%) Java
18 6 (7.229%) SQL Server
18 6 (7.229%) Microsoft
18 6 (7.229%) Web Services
18 6 (7.229%) Finance

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 53 (63.86%) .NET
2 17 (20.48%) CSS
3 16 (19.28%) HTML
4 14 (16.87%) ASP.NET
5 9 (10.84%) CSS3
5 9 (10.84%) HTML5
6 8 (9.639%) jQuery
6 8 (9.639%) XML
7 6 (7.229%) Web Services
7 6 (7.229%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (7.229%) WCF
8 5 (6.024%) REST
9 4 (4.819%) SOAP
9 4 (4.819%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.819%) Ajax
9 4 (4.819%) KnockoutJS
10 3 (3.614%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (3.614%) NHibernate
10 3 (3.614%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (3.614%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.434%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.614%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.410%) Apache
3 2 (2.410%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.410%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.205%) CMS
4 1 (1.205%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.614%) Photoshop
1 3 (3.614%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.819%) Internet
2 1 (1.205%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.229%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.410%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.410%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.410%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.205%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.819%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.205%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.205%) Gradle
2 1 (1.205%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.205%) Subversion
2 1 (1.205%) Maven
2 1 (1.205%) Checkstyle
2 1 (1.205%) Selenium
2 1 (1.205%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.205%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.205%) JProfiler
2 1 (1.205%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.205%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.205%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.205%) Ant
2 1 (1.205%) JUnit
General
1 36 (43.37%) Retail
2 8 (9.639%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.229%) Finance
4 2 (2.410%) Banking
5 1 (1.205%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (89.16%) Developer
2 48 (57.83%) C# Developer
3 45 (54.22%) .NET Developer
4 35 (42.17%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (28.92%) Architect
6 21 (25.30%) .NET Architect
7 20 (24.10%) C# Architect
8 14 (16.87%) Agile .NET Developer
9 13 (15.66%) Senior Developer
10 12 (14.46%) ScrumMaster
10 12 (14.46%) Agile C# Developer
11 6 (7.229%) Senior C# Developer
11 6 (7.229%) Front-End Developer
12 4 (4.819%) ASP.NET Developer
12 4 (4.819%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 4 (4.819%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 3 (3.614%) Senior .NET Developer
13 3 (3.614%) JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.614%) Java Developer
13 3 (3.614%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.434%) N-Tier
2 3 (3.614%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.614%) iPhone
2 3 (3.614%) Video on Demand
2 3 (3.614%) iPad
2 3 (3.614%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.410%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.410%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.205%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.58%) Windows
2 5 (6.024%) Android
3 3 (3.614%) Windows Phone 8
3 3 (3.614%) Windows Phone
3 3 (3.614%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.614%) UNIX
3 3 (3.614%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) OO
2 49 (59.04%) Agile Software Development
3 47 (56.63%) Scrum
4 37 (44.58%) BDD
5 25 (30.12%) SOA
6 14 (16.87%) Domain-Driven Design
6 14 (16.87%) AOP
7 12 (14.46%) MVC
8 8 (9.639%) Unit Testing
9 5 (6.024%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (6.024%) E-Commerce
10 4 (4.819%) Extreme Programming
10 4 (4.819%) Pair Programming
10 4 (4.819%) Content Management
11 3 (3.614%) Responsive Web Design
11 3 (3.614%) Web Application Development
11 3 (3.614%) Automated Testing
11 3 (3.614%) Refactoring
11 3 (3.614%) Web Development
11 3 (3.614%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (77.11%) C#
2 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.25%) SQL
4 7 (8.434%) Java
5 2 (2.410%) PowerHouse
5 2 (2.410%) Groovy
6 1 (1.205%) CoffeeScript
6 1 (1.205%) C
6 1 (1.205%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (7.229%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.819%) Oracle
3 3 (3.614%) Adobe
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