TDD Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 37 31 43
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +12
Contract jobs citing TDD 38 58 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.073% 4.489% 2.783%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.740% 7.099% 4.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 48 18
Average daily rate £323 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £400 £326
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 662 817 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.95% 63.24% 64.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 407 306
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £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 35 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 £13.03 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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

Manchester TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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 +1 9 £323 +3.20%
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 42 (48.28%) C#
2 41 (47.13%) .NET
2 41 (47.13%) Web Services
3 39 (44.83%) MVC
4 38 (43.68%) Java
5 36 (41.38%) ASP.NET
6 35 (40.23%) SQL Server
7 33 (37.93%) JavaScript
8 28 (32.18%) CSS
8 28 (32.18%) Agile Software Development
9 27 (31.03%) Scrum
10 23 (26.44%) BDD
11 22 (25.29%) XML
12 21 (24.14%) RESTful
13 20 (22.99%) OO
13 20 (22.99%) HTML
14 19 (21.84%) WCF
14 19 (21.84%) jQuery
14 19 (21.84%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (20.69%) Spring
16 17 (19.54%) OOP
17 15 (17.24%) Ajax
17 15 (17.24%) Pair Programming
17 15 (17.24%) JSON
17 15 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
18 14 (16.09%) LINQ
19 13 (14.94%) J2EE
20 12 (13.79%) SQL
20 12 (13.79%) Internet
20 12 (13.79%) RDF

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 41 (47.13%) .NET
1 41 (47.13%) Web Services
2 36 (41.38%) ASP.NET
3 28 (32.18%) CSS
4 22 (25.29%) XML
5 21 (24.14%) RESTful
6 20 (22.99%) HTML
7 19 (21.84%) WCF
7 19 (21.84%) jQuery
8 18 (20.69%) Spring
9 15 (17.24%) Ajax
9 15 (17.24%) JSON
9 15 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (16.09%) LINQ
11 13 (14.94%) J2EE
12 11 (12.64%) XSLT
12 11 (12.64%) .NET Framework
13 10 (11.49%) REST
14 9 (10.34%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 9 (10.34%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 11 (12.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.598%) Apache
3 2 (2.299%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.149%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.149%) ESB
4 1 (1.149%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (1.149%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.149%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.149%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.299%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) Internet
2 5 (5.747%) HTTP
3 1 (1.149%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.149%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (40.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.49%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (11.49%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (6.897%) RavenDB
4 4 (4.598%) MySQL
5 3 (3.448%) CouchDB
5 3 (3.448%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.299%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.299%) MarkLogic
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.149%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.149%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.149%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.149%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.195%) Subversion
1 8 (9.195%) Git (software)
2 7 (8.046%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.897%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.598%) MTASC
5 3 (3.448%) QUnit
5 3 (3.448%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.299%) Maven
6 2 (2.299%) Xcode
6 2 (2.299%) Ant
6 2 (2.299%) Hudson
6 2 (2.299%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.299%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.299%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.149%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.149%) Firebug
7 1 (1.149%) Selenium
7 1 (1.149%) JIRA
7 1 (1.149%) ReSharper
7 1 (1.149%) MSBuild
General
1 4 (4.598%) Publishing
2 1 (1.149%) Finance
2 1 (1.149%) Automotive
2 1 (1.149%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (83.91%) Developer
2 21 (24.14%) .NET Developer
3 15 (17.24%) C# Developer
3 15 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Web Developer
5 8 (9.195%) Agile C# Developer
6 6 (6.897%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.747%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (5.747%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.747%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.747%) Analyst
8 4 (4.598%) Java Web Developer
8 4 (4.598%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (4.598%) Flash Developer
8 4 (4.598%) Agile Java Developer
8 4 (4.598%) Android Developer
9 3 (3.448%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.448%) Flash ActionScript Developer
9 3 (3.448%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.448%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.046%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.747%) Semantic Web
2 5 (5.747%) Interactive TV
2 5 (5.747%) Statistics
3 4 (4.598%) Streaming Video
3 4 (4.598%) NHS
3 4 (4.598%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.448%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.448%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.299%) Web 2.0
5 2 (2.299%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.299%) BBC
5 2 (2.299%) Linked Data
5 2 (2.299%) New Media
5 2 (2.299%) Social Network
5 2 (2.299%) iPhone
5 2 (2.299%) Open Source
6 1 (1.149%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.149%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Android
2 8 (9.195%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.598%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (4.598%) Windows
4 3 (3.448%) Linux
5 2 (2.299%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.299%) bada
5 2 (2.299%) Maemo
6 1 (1.149%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) MVC
2 28 (32.18%) Agile Software Development
3 27 (31.03%) Scrum
4 23 (26.44%) BDD
5 20 (22.99%) OO
6 19 (21.84%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (19.54%) OOP
8 15 (17.24%) Pair Programming
9 12 (13.79%) RDF
10 11 (12.64%) E-Commerce
11 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 9 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
12 8 (9.195%) Benchmarking
13 7 (8.046%) Content Management
14 5 (5.747%) Kanban
14 5 (5.747%) User Stories
14 5 (5.747%) Business Analysis
15 4 (4.598%) Use Case
15 4 (4.598%) Performance Testing
15 4 (4.598%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) C#
2 38 (43.68%) Java
3 33 (37.93%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.79%) SQL
5 11 (12.64%) Ruby
6 10 (11.49%) XPath
6 10 (11.49%) T-SQL
6 10 (11.49%) XQuery
7 6 (6.897%) C++
7 6 (6.897%) PHP
8 5 (5.747%) ActionScript 2.0
8 5 (5.747%) Bash shell
8 5 (5.747%) Groovy
8 5 (5.747%) ActionScript
9 4 (4.598%) Objective-C
9 4 (4.598%) VB.NET
9 4 (4.598%) SPARQL
10 3 (3.448%) Scala
11 2 (2.299%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.299%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.598%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.448%) Sun Certification
3 2 (2.299%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.299%) ISEB
3 2 (2.299%) Degree
4 1 (1.149%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.299%) QA
2 1 (1.149%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.149%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (1.149%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (9.195%) Telerik
2 5 (5.747%) Apple
3 4 (4.598%) Zend
4 2 (2.299%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.299%) Symbian
4 2 (2.299%) Oracle
5 1 (1.149%) Twitter
5 1 (1.149%) JBoss
5 1 (1.149%) Sage
5 1 (1.149%) VMware
.Net Developer
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
.Net Developer
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Java Developer - Central Manchester - Contract
Manchester, North West
Tasks & Responsibilities: Design, development and testing of web applications and web services Review and refactor code and advise/mentor more junior developers Deploy and support solutions through testing...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Software Tester - Manchester - 3 month contract
Manchester, North West
Scrum, XP) and Test Driven Development. * Full Performance Testing Lifecycle exposure and understanding... * Solid understanding of test automation principles and test frameworks. Additional understanding of Java and practical...
Computer Futures
Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (Agile / eCommerce)
Manchester, North West
You will be responsible for working on the functional needs for high profile eCommerce solutions, working with senior members of the business and development teams, hence the need...
Applause IT Ltd
Rate: £320 - £360 per day +
Posted: 8 May 2013
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