The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Leicestershire 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 4.091% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.122% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £305
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 144 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 66.82% 62.88% 63.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 62
Average daily rate £413 £328 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.95% -11.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £196 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £413 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.50% -29.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.10 £35.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
East Midlands

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BDD across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BDD across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Leicestershire BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing BDD 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 BDD.

1 12 (100.00%) Retail
2 11 (91.67%) TDD
2 11 (91.67%) E-Commerce
2 11 (91.67%) Scrum
2 11 (91.67%) Extreme Programming
3 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (75.00%) Java
4 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
5 7 (58.33%) Kanban
6 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
7 5 (41.67%) Selenium
8 4 (33.33%) QA
8 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
8 4 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
8 4 (33.33%) UNIX
8 4 (33.33%) Automation Testing
9 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
10 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 2 (16.67%) Linux
10 2 (16.67%) OO
10 2 (16.67%) Service Management
10 2 (16.67%) Migration
10 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
10 2 (16.67%) Middleware
10 2 (16.67%) SQL
10 2 (16.67%) XML
10 2 (16.67%) ITIL
11 1 (8.333%) .NET

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing BDD 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 BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (8.333%) Velocity
3 1 (8.333%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.333%) .NET
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
1 4 (33.33%) Agile Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Coach
3 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (8.333%) Head of Development
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Head of Software Development
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) E-Commerce
1 11 (91.67%) Scrum
1 11 (91.67%) Extreme Programming
1 11 (91.67%) TDD
2 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (58.33%) Kanban
4 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (33.33%) Automation Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat