The first table below looks at the demand for Test-First Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test-First Development over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-First Development
Rank - 133 -
Contract jobs citing Test-First Development 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.063% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.103% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £319 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £319 £375
% change year-on-year
- -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1669 1945 1965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.67% 65.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1005 1027
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 84 96
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £21.12
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £13.35 £12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test-First Development
England

Test-First Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test-First Development across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Test-First Development Jobs Demand Trend

Test-First Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test-First Development across the North West region.

North West Test-First Development Daily Rate Trend

Test-First Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Test-First Development 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 Test-First Development.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) BBC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Android

Test-First Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Test-First Development 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 Test-First Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 2 (100.00%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) BBC
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Web
1 2 (100.00%) Linked Data
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Zend