The first table below looks at the demand for ATDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATDD 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 London 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
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
Rank 382 396 433
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +37
Contract jobs citing ATDD 3 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.037% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.052% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
Average daily rate £306 £300 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.08% -31.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £275 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £495 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £400
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
ATDD
England

ATDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ATDD Jobs Demand Trend

ATDD
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ATDD Daily Rate Trend

ATDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ATDD across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London ATDD Daily Rate Histogram

ATDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ATDD 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 ATDD.

1 34 (100.00%) TDD
2 25 (73.53%) BDD
3 19 (55.88%) Java
4 16 (47.06%) OO
4 16 (47.06%) Scrum
5 15 (44.12%) Oracle
5 15 (44.12%) Ruby
6 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (29.41%) CSS
7 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
7 10 (29.41%) HTML
7 10 (29.41%) Puppet
8 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (26.47%) VMware
8 9 (26.47%) Finance
8 9 (26.47%) Informatica
9 8 (23.53%) C#
9 8 (23.53%) .NET
9 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
9 8 (23.53%) Spring
10 7 (20.59%) Java SE
10 7 (20.59%) Windows
10 7 (20.59%) Hudson
11 6 (17.65%) XML
11 6 (17.65%) iDTV
11 6 (17.65%) Games
12 5 (14.71%) J2EE
12 5 (14.71%) MySQL
12 5 (14.71%) SOA
12 5 (14.71%) JSON

ATDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ATDD 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 ATDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (29.41%) HTML
1 10 (29.41%) CSS
2 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 8 (23.53%) Spring
3 7 (20.59%) Java SE
4 6 (17.65%) XML
5 5 (14.71%) J2EE
5 5 (14.71%) JSON
5 5 (14.71%) JPA
5 5 (14.71%) REST
5 5 (14.71%) JAX-RS
6 4 (11.76%) J2SE
7 1 (2.941%) Java EE
7 1 (2.941%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.941%) RESTful
7 1 (2.941%) HTML5
7 1 (2.941%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.941%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.824%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Hudson
2 5 (14.71%) Subversion
2 5 (14.71%) Maven
3 3 (8.824%) Firebug
3 3 (8.824%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.882%) Selenium
4 2 (5.882%) WebDriver
4 2 (5.882%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.941%) RSpec
5 1 (2.941%) JIRA
5 1 (2.941%) TestPartner
5 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.941%) JMeter
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (82.35%) Developer
2 17 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.76%) ScrumMaster
4 3 (8.824%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (8.824%) Lead Developer
4 3 (8.824%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (8.824%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.824%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Tester
5 2 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Integration Tester
5 2 (5.882%) Tester
5 2 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (2.941%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (2.941%) Analyst
6 1 (2.941%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.941%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) iDTV
2 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
3 3 (8.824%) Semantic Web
4 1 (2.941%) Online Games
4 1 (2.941%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) Linux
2 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) TDD
2 25 (73.53%) BDD
3 16 (47.06%) OO
3 16 (47.06%) Scrum
4 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (14.71%) SOA
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) User Stories
5 5 (14.71%) Kanban
6 3 (8.824%) Web Accessibility
6 3 (8.824%) Business Analysis
6 3 (8.824%) RDF
6 3 (8.824%) Refactoring
7 2 (5.882%) Load Testing
7 2 (5.882%) Security Testing
7 2 (5.882%) Test Automation
7 2 (5.882%) Automation Testing
7 2 (5.882%) Test Scripting
7 2 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.941%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) Ruby
3 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (8.824%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.824%) QA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Informatica
2 9 (26.47%) VMware