The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Norwich 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 3.125% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.797% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
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
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
69 134 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 53.91% 77.46% 73.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 48 40
Average daily rate £250 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.92% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £675 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
Average hourly rate £22.25 £24.38 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.71% +10.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £18.50 £7.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.00 £29.58 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BDD
Norfolk

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (60.00%) WatiN
3 3 (60.00%) OOP
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) Games
4 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Online Games
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
5 1 (20.00%) AutoMapper
5 1 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (20.00%) Sitefinity
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (20.00%) Inversion of Control

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) AutoMapper
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Sitefinity
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (60.00%) WatiN
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Online Games
2 1 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft