The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 43 53 40
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -13
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.264% 1.132% 2.614%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.133% 1.720% 4.665%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 3
Average daily rate £375 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TDD
Buckinghamshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
2 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (75.00%) NHibernate
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
4 4 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Web Development
5 3 (25.00%) Banking
6 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (16.67%) Fluent NHibernate
7 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
2 9 (75.00%) NHibernate
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (16.67%) Fluent NHibernate
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Agile .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
2 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Web Development
5 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript