The first table below looks at the demand for BDD 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 BDD over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 80 198 292
Rank change year-on-year
+118 +94
Contract jobs citing BDD 540 248 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 2.368% 0.933% 0.493%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.164% 1.300% 0.697%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 211 113
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £305
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +2.45%
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
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
England

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BDD across the London region.

London BDD Hourly Rate Trend

BDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the London region over the 3 months to 19 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
City of London +51 136 £400 -5.88% 35
Docklands, London - 3 £463 -
Ealing - - - -
Canary Wharf - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Twickenham - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
BDD
England

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 878 (84.18%) TDD
2 526 (50.43%) Agile Software Development
3 432 (41.42%) Scrum
4 398 (38.16%) JavaScript
5 395 (37.87%) Java
6 306 (29.34%) C#
7 301 (28.86%) .NET
8 299 (28.67%) CSS
9 259 (24.83%) HTML
10 251 (24.07%) Selenium
11 235 (22.53%) Cucumber
12 227 (21.76%) MVC
13 225 (21.57%) Continuous Integration
14 194 (18.60%) Finance
15 193 (18.50%) Web Services
16 192 (18.41%) Ruby
17 181 (17.35%) SQL
18 177 (16.97%) ASP.NET
18 177 (16.97%) jQuery
19 170 (16.30%) HTML5
20 169 (16.20%) Spring
21 167 (16.01%) E-Commerce
22 158 (15.15%) QA
23 156 (14.96%) OO
24 152 (14.57%) SQL Server
25 145 (13.90%) XML
26 140 (13.42%) WebDriver
27 130 (12.46%) Pair Programming
28 128 (12.27%) Git (software)
28 128 (12.27%) RESTful

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 301 (28.86%) .NET
2 299 (28.67%) CSS
3 259 (24.83%) HTML
4 193 (18.50%) Web Services
5 177 (16.97%) ASP.NET
5 177 (16.97%) jQuery
6 170 (16.30%) HTML5
7 169 (16.20%) Spring
8 145 (13.90%) XML
9 128 (12.27%) RESTful
10 113 (10.83%) Hibernate
11 111 (10.64%) CSS3
12 109 (10.45%) ASP.NET MVC
13 102 (9.779%) Ajax
14 100 (9.588%) REST
15 94 (9.012%) J2EE
16 90 (8.629%) JSON
17 88 (8.437%) SOAP
18 82 (7.862%) WCF
19 52 (4.986%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 74 (7.095%) CMS
2 28 (2.685%) Tomcat
2 28 (2.685%) Windows Azure
3 25 (2.397%) Apache
3 25 (2.397%) Umbraco
4 23 (2.205%) Sitecore CMS
5 14 (1.342%) Adobe CQ
6 13 (1.246%) Kentico
7 12 (1.151%) Apache Solr
7 12 (1.151%) GlassFish
8 11 (1.055%) Apache Pig
8 11 (1.055%) Amazon AWS
9 10 (0.959%) Confluence
9 10 (0.959%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (0.959%) ElasticSearch
9 10 (0.959%) Sitefinity
10 8 (0.767%) ESB
11 7 (0.671%) Drupal
11 7 (0.671%) Route 53
11 7 (0.671%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 32 (3.068%) MS Excel
2 6 (0.575%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.479%) Mingle
4 2 (0.192%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.096%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.671%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.479%) Google Analytics
2 5 (0.479%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 5 (0.479%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.288%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.288%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.096%) Tridion
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.410%) HTTP
2 41 (3.931%) Internet
3 4 (0.384%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.096%) AMQP
4 1 (0.096%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (14.57%) SQL Server
2 59 (5.657%) MySQL
3 43 (4.123%) MongoDB
4 37 (3.547%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (3.452%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.356%) Hadoop
6 35 (3.356%) SQL Server 2008
6 35 (3.356%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (3.068%) SQL Server 2012
8 30 (2.876%) Big Data
9 27 (2.589%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.534%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (1.438%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.438%) Redis
12 14 (1.342%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 14 (1.342%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 13 (1.246%) Data Mart
14 12 (1.151%) SQL Server 2005
15 11 (1.055%) Apache Hive
16 10 (0.959%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 251 (24.07%) Selenium
2 235 (22.53%) Cucumber
3 140 (13.42%) WebDriver
4 128 (12.27%) Git (software)
5 116 (11.12%) JUnit
6 105 (10.07%) Jenkins
7 92 (8.821%) SpecFlow
8 89 (8.533%) Maven
9 72 (6.903%) Subversion
10 61 (5.849%) JIRA
11 57 (5.465%) Team Foundation Server
12 54 (5.177%) Hudson
13 40 (3.835%) Mockito
14 35 (3.356%) TestNG
15 34 (3.260%) Jasmine
16 33 (3.164%) WATIR
16 33 (3.164%) TeamCity
17 31 (2.972%) RSpec
18 30 (2.876%) NUnit
19 28 (2.685%) JBehave
General
1 194 (18.60%) Finance
2 88 (8.437%) Banking
3 52 (4.986%) Games
4 49 (4.698%) Publishing
5 28 (2.685%) Front Office
6 25 (2.397%) Retail
6 25 (2.397%) Investment Banking
7 16 (1.534%) Telecoms
7 16 (1.534%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.151%) Marketing
9 10 (0.959%) Law
10 8 (0.767%) Advertising
11 5 (0.479%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.479%) Electronics
12 4 (0.384%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.288%) Legal
13 3 (0.288%) Back Office
14 2 (0.192%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.192%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.192%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 653 (62.61%) Developer
2 183 (17.55%) Java Developer
3 125 (11.98%) .NET Developer
4 102 (9.779%) Analyst
5 91 (8.725%) C# Developer
6 85 (8.150%) Senior Developer
7 73 (6.999%) Tester
8 58 (5.561%) Front-End Developer
9 52 (4.986%) Agile Java Developer
9 52 (4.986%) Business Analyst
10 42 (4.027%) Senior Java Developer
11 40 (3.835%) ASP.NET Developer
11 40 (3.835%) QA Engineer
11 40 (3.835%) Software Engineer
12 37 (3.547%) Test Analyst
13 34 (3.260%) JavaScript Developer
13 34 (3.260%) Web Developer
14 33 (3.164%) Agile C# Developer
14 33 (3.164%) C# .NET Developer
15 31 (2.972%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.971%) Open Source
2 45 (4.314%) Fixed Income
2 45 (4.314%) Mobile App
3 44 (4.219%) Derivative
4 41 (3.931%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 29 (2.780%) Digital Media
6 25 (2.397%) Equities
6 25 (2.397%) Computer Science
7 21 (2.013%) Wiki
8 17 (1.630%) Equity Derivative
8 17 (1.630%) iPhone
8 17 (1.630%) Video on Demand
9 14 (1.342%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.342%) Credit Derivative
10 13 (1.246%) Market Risk
10 13 (1.246%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.055%) Blackberry
12 10 (0.959%) N-Tier
12 10 (0.959%) IPTV
13 9 (0.863%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.725%) Linux
2 56 (5.369%) Android
3 46 (4.410%) Windows
4 45 (4.314%) Apple iOS
5 39 (3.739%) UNIX
6 6 (0.575%) Windows Phone
7 5 (0.479%) CentOS
8 3 (0.288%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (0.288%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.192%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.192%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.192%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.192%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.096%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (84.18%) TDD
2 526 (50.43%) Agile Software Development
3 432 (41.42%) Scrum
4 227 (21.76%) MVC
5 225 (21.57%) Continuous Integration
6 167 (16.01%) E-Commerce
7 156 (14.96%) OO
8 130 (12.46%) Pair Programming
9 118 (11.31%) Kanban
10 85 (8.150%) Test Automation
11 79 (7.574%) Automated Testing
12 72 (6.903%) Unit Testing
13 62 (5.944%) Domain-Driven Design
14 49 (4.698%) SOA
15 47 (4.506%) Automation Testing
16 44 (4.219%) Web Development
17 41 (3.931%) User Stories
18 40 (3.835%) Refactoring
19 37 (3.547%) Extreme Programming
19 37 (3.547%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 398 (38.16%) JavaScript
2 395 (37.87%) Java
3 306 (29.34%) C#
4 192 (18.41%) Ruby
5 181 (17.35%) SQL
6 55 (5.273%) Groovy
7 54 (5.177%) PHP
8 47 (4.506%) Python
9 32 (3.068%) T-SQL
10 28 (2.685%) Scala
11 21 (2.013%) Perl
12 17 (1.630%) ActionScript
13 13 (1.246%) XPath
14 12 (1.151%) C++
15 10 (0.959%) Objective-C
15 10 (0.959%) C
15 10 (0.959%) XQuery
16 9 (0.863%) Clojure
17 8 (0.767%) ActionScript 3.0
17 8 (0.767%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (5.849%) Degree
2 29 (2.780%) ISEB
3 18 (1.726%) ISTQB
4 10 (0.959%) PhD
5 3 (0.288%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.288%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.192%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.096%) MCTS
7 1 (0.096%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.096%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.096%) PMP
7 1 (0.096%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.096%) MCP
7 1 (0.096%) MCAD
7 1 (0.096%) MCSD
7 1 (0.096%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (15.15%) QA
2 6 (0.575%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.192%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.096%) WCAG
4 1 (0.096%) WAI
System Software
1 7 (0.671%) Varnish
2 6 (0.575%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.384%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.822%) HP Quality Center
2 13 (1.246%) Puppet
3 5 (0.479%) HP SiteScope
4 4 (0.384%) Nagios
5 1 (0.096%) Oozie
Vendors
1 118 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.931%) Oracle
3 37 (3.547%) Sitecore
4 22 (2.109%) HP
5 19 (1.822%) Zend
6 15 (1.438%) Adobe
7 9 (0.863%) Cadis
8 8 (0.767%) Google
8 8 (0.767%) EPiServer
9 7 (0.671%) Percona
10 6 (0.575%) VMware
10 6 (0.575%) Informatica
10 6 (0.575%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.479%) SAP
12 4 (0.384%) RightScale
12 4 (0.384%) Twitter
12 4 (0.384%) JBoss
13 3 (0.288%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.288%) Symantec
13 3 (0.288%) Joyent
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