Northampton TDD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test-Driven Development (TDD) skills within the Northampton region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Canary Wharf City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Norwich Nuneaton Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southwark Stockport Surrey Twickenham UK Wakefield Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£362
% change on same period last year	-9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.60	£40.91
% change on same period last year	-12.98 %
Processes & Methodologies Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	135	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	95	44
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£408
Average daily rate	£455	£437
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£474	£466
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.25	£19.88
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£19.96
% change on same period last year	+57.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.75	£20.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
TDD Northamptonshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

TDD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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