The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 64 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 11 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.168% 0.762% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.647% 1.196% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 0
Average daily rate £323 £380 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
668 836 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.91% 63.67% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 421 308
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
North West

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester BDD Daily 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Salford +7 8 £323 -4.44%
BDD
North West

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (92.00%) TDD
2 19 (76.00%) Java
3 17 (68.00%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (64.00%) XML
5 15 (60.00%) RESTful
6 14 (56.00%) JSON
7 13 (52.00%) Web Services
8 12 (48.00%) RDF
9 11 (44.00%) XSLT
9 11 (44.00%) Spring
10 10 (40.00%) Pair Programming
10 10 (40.00%) J2EE
10 10 (40.00%) XQuery
10 10 (40.00%) XPath
10 10 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (40.00%) REST
11 9 (36.00%) JAX-RS
11 9 (36.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
12 8 (32.00%) OO
12 8 (32.00%) Benchmarking
12 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
13 7 (28.00%) jQuery
13 7 (28.00%) Scrum
13 7 (28.00%) Content Management
14 6 (24.00%) MVC
14 6 (24.00%) PHP
14 6 (24.00%) CSS
14 6 (24.00%) Android
14 6 (24.00%) Apple iOS

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 16 (64.00%) XML
2 15 (60.00%) RESTful
3 14 (56.00%) JSON
4 13 (52.00%) Web Services
5 11 (44.00%) XSLT
5 11 (44.00%) Spring
6 10 (40.00%) J2EE
6 10 (40.00%) REST
7 9 (36.00%) JAX-RS
8 7 (28.00%) jQuery
9 6 (24.00%) CSS
10 5 (20.00%) HTML5
11 4 (16.00%) HTML
12 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET
12 2 (8.000%) .NET
12 2 (8.000%) JSP
12 2 (8.000%) Struts
13 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC 2
13 1 (4.000%) iOS SDK
13 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.000%) CouchDB
2 2 (8.000%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.00%) QUnit
3 2 (8.000%) Subversion
3 2 (8.000%) Ant
3 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
3 2 (8.000%) PHPUnit
4 1 (4.000%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.000%) Xcode
General
1 4 (16.00%) Publishing
2 1 (4.000%) Retail
2 1 (4.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Android Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (20.00%) Statistics
3 4 (16.00%) Interactive TV
3 4 (16.00%) Streaming Video
3 4 (16.00%) Semantic Web
4 2 (8.000%) BBC
4 2 (8.000%) Smartphone
4 2 (8.000%) Web 2.0
4 2 (8.000%) Social Network
4 2 (8.000%) New Media
4 2 (8.000%) Linked Data
5 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Android
1 6 (24.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.000%) Windows
3 1 (4.000%) Linux
3 1 (4.000%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) TDD
2 17 (68.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (48.00%) RDF
4 10 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 10 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (36.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (32.00%) OO
6 8 (32.00%) Benchmarking
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 7 (28.00%) Content Management
8 6 (24.00%) MVC
9 5 (20.00%) OOP
10 4 (16.00%) Business Analysis
10 4 (16.00%) Use Case
10 4 (16.00%) Kanban
10 4 (16.00%) User Stories
11 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
12 2 (8.000%) Test-First Development
12 2 (8.000%) Competitor Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) XQuery
2 10 (40.00%) XPath
3 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) PHP
5 5 (20.00%) Ruby
6 4 (16.00%) Objective-C
6 4 (16.00%) SPARQL
7 2 (8.000%) C#
8 1 (4.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Apple
2 4 (16.00%) Zend