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This section looks at the demand for Test-Driven Development (TDD) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkTest-Driven Development (TDD)
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank7467
Rank change on same period last yearDown-7
Matching contract IT job ads51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.007 %0.001 %
As % of the category below0.694 %0.183 %
Daily rates quoted40
Average minimum daily rate£250-
Average daily rate£309-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£369-
UK excluding London average daily rate£308£398
% change on same period last year-22.56 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.50£40.57
% change on same period last year-0.16 %
Processes & Methodologies LeedsProcesses & Methodologies
Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads720546
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.949 %0.579 %
Daily rates quoted205107
Average minimum daily rate£341£337
Average daily rate£363£353
% change on same period last year+2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate£385£369
UK excluding London average daily rate£384£374
% change on same period last year+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted1622
Average minimum hourly rate£21.87£22.54
Average hourly rate£22.92£23.49
% change on same period last year-2.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.98£24.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.40£30.19
% change on same period last year-2.62 %
TDD West YorkshireTDD
West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

TDD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds TDD Demand Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TDD across the Leeds region.

Leeds TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Leeds TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

15 (62.50 %)Agile Software Development
23 (37.50 %)Scrum
23 (37.50 %)Extreme Programming
23 (37.50 %)Finance
23 (37.50 %)QA
32 (25.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
32 (25.00 %)Web Testing
32 (25.00 %)System Testing
32 (25.00 %)Regression Testing
32 (25.00 %)Management Information System
32 (25.00 %).NET
32 (25.00 %)C#
32 (25.00 %)Java
41 (12.50 %)JavaScript
41 (12.50 %)PL/SQL
41 (12.50 %)SQL
41 (12.50 %)J2EE
41 (12.50 %)Oracle
41 (12.50 %)MS Office
41 (12.50 %)CSS
41 (12.50 %)JDBC
41 (12.50 %)UML
41 (12.50 %)OO
41 (12.50 %)Tomcat
41 (12.50 %)XHTML
41 (12.50 %)MS Excel
41 (12.50 %)MS Access
41 (12.50 %)ISEB
41 (12.50 %)Blackberry
41 (12.50 %)MVC

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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
12 (25.00 %).NET
21 (12.50 %)J2EE
21 (12.50 %)CSS
21 (12.50 %)JDBC
21 (12.50 %)XHTML
21 (12.50 %)Hibernate
21 (12.50 %)Spring
21 (12.50 %)AJAX
21 (12.50 %)NHibernate
21 (12.50 %).NET Framework
21 (12.50 %)MonoRail
Application Platforms
11 (12.50 %)Tomcat
11 (12.50 %)Jetty
Applications
11 (12.50 %)MS Office
11 (12.50 %)MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
11 (12.50 %)MS Access
Development Applications
11 (12.50 %)Subversion
General
13 (37.50 %)Finance
21 (12.50 %)Telecoms
Job Titles
12 (25.00 %)Tester
12 (25.00 %)Developer
12 (25.00 %)Analyst
21 (12.50 %)Test Analyst
21 (12.50 %)Web Developer
21 (12.50 %)Java Developer
21 (12.50 %)QA Test Analyst
21 (12.50 %)QA Analyst
21 (12.50 %)Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
12 (25.00 %)Management Information System
21 (12.50 %)PDA
21 (12.50 %)Blackberry
Processes & Methodologies
15 (62.50 %)Agile Software Development
23 (37.50 %)Scrum
23 (37.50 %)Extreme Programming
32 (25.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
32 (25.00 %)Web Testing
32 (25.00 %)System Testing
32 (25.00 %)Regression Testing
41 (12.50 %)MVC
41 (12.50 %)UML
41 (12.50 %)OO
41 (12.50 %)Pair Programming
41 (12.50 %)Web Development
41 (12.50 %)Load Balancing
41 (12.50 %)Use Case
41 (12.50 %)Manual Testing
Programming Languages
12 (25.00 %)C#
12 (25.00 %)Java
21 (12.50 %)JavaScript
21 (12.50 %)PL/SQL
21 (12.50 %)SQL
Qualifications
11 (12.50 %)ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
13 (37.50 %)QA
Vendors
11 (12.50 %)Oracle
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