The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 31 45 50
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +5
Contract jobs citing TDD 46 22 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.225% 2.532% 0.629%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.519% 3.566% 0.932%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 13 3
Average daily rate £290 £280 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £280 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £358 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
West Yorkshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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

Leeds TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 46 (69.70%) Scrum
2 43 (65.15%) Web Services
3 35 (53.03%) Internet
4 34 (51.52%) MySQL
4 34 (51.52%) Amazon EC2
4 34 (51.52%) Amazon S3
4 34 (51.52%) Amazon AWS
4 34 (51.52%) MongoDB
4 34 (51.52%) Route 53
5 33 (50.00%) Redis
5 33 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (45.45%) JavaScript
7 27 (40.91%) Ruby
8 26 (39.39%) Kanban
8 26 (39.39%) PHP
8 26 (39.39%) Linux
8 26 (39.39%) Apache
9 25 (37.88%) C++
9 25 (37.88%) Python
10 24 (36.36%) DNS
10 24 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (36.36%) nginx
11 23 (34.85%) Bash shell
11 23 (34.85%) Node.js
11 23 (34.85%) HTTP
11 23 (34.85%) Oracle
12 22 (33.33%) BDD
13 21 (31.82%) J2EE
13 21 (31.82%) Java
13 21 (31.82%) jQuery

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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
1 43 (65.15%) Web Services
2 23 (34.85%) Node.js
3 21 (31.82%) J2EE
3 21 (31.82%) jQuery
4 20 (30.30%) HTML5
5 19 (28.79%) Hibernate
5 19 (28.79%) Spring
5 19 (28.79%) .NET
5 19 (28.79%) CSS
6 16 (24.24%) POSIX
7 15 (22.73%) CSS3
8 13 (19.70%) REST
9 12 (18.18%) SOAP
10 11 (16.67%) ASP.NET
11 10 (15.15%) Ajax
11 10 (15.15%) .NET Framework
12 7 (10.61%) NHibernate
12 7 (10.61%) Struts
13 6 (9.091%) XML
14 5 (7.576%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 34 (51.52%) Amazon EC2
1 34 (51.52%) Amazon S3
1 34 (51.52%) Amazon AWS
1 34 (51.52%) Route 53
2 26 (39.39%) Apache
3 24 (36.36%) nginx
4 12 (18.18%) Adobe CQ
5 9 (13.64%) Apache Solr
6 7 (10.61%) Tomcat
7 3 (4.545%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.515%) ESB
8 1 (1.515%) Drupal
8 1 (1.515%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (1.515%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.515%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 1 (1.515%) MS Office
1 1 (1.515%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (25.76%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (53.03%) Internet
2 24 (36.36%) DNS
3 23 (34.85%) HTTP
4 3 (4.545%) SSH
4 3 (4.545%) SSL
4 3 (4.545%) DHCP
5 2 (3.030%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.515%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.515%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (51.52%) MySQL
1 34 (51.52%) MongoDB
2 33 (50.00%) Redis
2 33 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 16 (24.24%) RDBMS
4 16 (24.24%) SimpleDB
4 16 (24.24%) Couchbase
5 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
6 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.030%) RavenDB
8 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (30.30%) Git (software)
2 19 (28.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (18.18%) Maven
4 6 (9.091%) Visual Studio
4 6 (9.091%) Selenium
5 5 (7.576%) NUnit
6 3 (4.545%) MSTest
7 2 (3.030%) Subversion
7 2 (3.030%) Xcode
8 1 (1.515%) JIRA
8 1 (1.515%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.515%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.515%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (15.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (63.64%) Developer
2 21 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 19 (28.79%) Software Engineer
4 11 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.576%) Front-End Developer
5 5 (7.576%) Front-End Web Developer
5 5 (7.576%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (7.576%) Web Developer
5 5 (7.576%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (6.061%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (6.061%) Architect
6 4 (6.061%) C# Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Applications Architect
7 3 (4.545%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
8 2 (3.030%) iOS Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Analyst
8 2 (3.030%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (1.515%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.576%) Open Source
3 4 (6.061%) NHS
4 3 (4.545%) Computer Science
5 2 (3.030%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.030%) iPad
5 2 (3.030%) iPhone
6 1 (1.515%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.515%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 26 (39.39%) Linux
2 2 (3.030%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.030%) Android
3 1 (1.515%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.515%) UNIX
3 1 (1.515%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (69.70%) Scrum
2 26 (39.39%) Kanban
3 24 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (33.33%) BDD
5 19 (28.79%) Security Testing
6 16 (24.24%) Configuration Management
6 16 (24.24%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (19.70%) Software Engineering
8 12 (18.18%) SOA
9 10 (15.15%) OO
9 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.12%) Automated Testing
11 7 (10.61%) MVC
12 4 (6.061%) Project Management
12 4 (6.061%) OOP
12 4 (6.061%) Business Analysis
13 3 (4.545%) Web Development
13 3 (4.545%) Data Management
13 3 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (4.545%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 27 (40.91%) Ruby
3 26 (39.39%) PHP
4 25 (37.88%) C++
4 25 (37.88%) Python
5 23 (34.85%) Bash shell
6 21 (31.82%) Java
7 14 (21.21%) C#
8 7 (10.61%) Perl
9 6 (9.091%) SQL
10 4 (6.061%) T-SQL
11 3 (4.545%) PL/SQL
12 2 (3.030%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 6 (9.091%) Degree
2 2 (3.030%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Oracle
2 18 (27.27%) Percona
3 12 (18.18%) hybris
3 12 (18.18%) Adobe
4 1 (1.515%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.515%) Red Hat
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