The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Lancashire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 31 40 29
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -11
Contract jobs citing TDD 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.444% 0.935% 0.412%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.752% 1.434% 0.741%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £190 £255 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.49% -
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
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
133 279 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 59.11% 65.19% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 154 64
Average daily rate £313 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £274 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £501 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 13
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.65% -38.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £18.00 £22.96
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £24.05 £38.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire TDD Daily 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Preston +12 1 £190 -36.66% 4
Blackburn - - - -
Lancaster - - - - 1
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 8 (88.89%) C#
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (77.78%) WCF
3 6 (66.67%) WPF
4 5 (55.56%) SQL
5 4 (44.44%) MVC
5 4 (44.44%) XSD
5 4 (44.44%) WSDL
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (33.33%) MVVM
6 3 (33.33%) LINQ
6 3 (33.33%) XML
6 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (33.33%) VB6
6 3 (33.33%) Document Management
6 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (33.33%) Windows
6 3 (33.33%) UML
6 3 (33.33%) OO
6 3 (33.33%) Workflow
6 3 (33.33%) SOAP
6 3 (33.33%) VB
6 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
6 3 (33.33%) IIS
7 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) WCF
3 6 (66.67%) WPF
4 4 (44.44%) XSD
4 4 (44.44%) WSDL
5 3 (33.33%) LINQ
5 3 (33.33%) SOAP
5 3 (33.33%) XML
5 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (22.22%) Ninject
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
7 1 (11.11%) CSS
7 1 (11.11%) Servlets
7 1 (11.11%) J2EE
7 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
7 1 (11.11%) HTML
7 1 (11.11%) Web Services
7 1 (11.11%) jQuery
7 1 (11.11%) Stripes Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 7
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) WPF Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Workflow
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) Document Management
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) UML
2 3 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) MVVM
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Web Application Development
4 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 3 (33.33%) VB6
4 2 (22.22%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss