The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Home Counties region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Home Counties 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 5.263% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
Home Counties
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
24 36 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 63.16% 70.59% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 15
Average daily rate £400 £525 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.80% +31.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £353 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £740 £500
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 £29.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
TDD
South East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) EAI
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) AOP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AutoMapper

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AutoMapper
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) EAI
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#