The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 20 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 Nottingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 34 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -2
Contract jobs citing TDD 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.742% 1.345% 0.858%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.525% 1.899% 1.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £340 £273 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.77% -17.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £271 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £275 £386
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
198 158 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 68.99% 70.85% 62.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 78 43
Average daily rate £357 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 7
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
TDD
Nottinghamshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Nottingham TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (85.71%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) WCF
4 3 (42.86%) WPF
4 3 (42.86%) NUnit
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) IIS
4 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) SOA
4 3 (42.86%) MSTest
4 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (28.57%) CSS3
5 2 (28.57%) Modernizr
5 2 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (28.57%) HTML5
5 2 (28.57%) MVVM
5 2 (28.57%) jQuery
5 2 (28.57%) Android
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Facebook
5 2 (28.57%) Twitter
5 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (28.57%) Unity DI Container
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) MSMQ

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
3 3 (42.86%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (28.57%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
4 2 (28.57%) Modernizr
5 1 (14.29%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) IIS
2 2 (28.57%) MSMQ
2 2 (28.57%) CMS
3 1 (14.29%) Drupal
3 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) NUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (42.86%) MSTest
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) WPF Developer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) SEO
2 2 (28.57%) Web Design
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Web Development
2 2 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (28.57%) MVVM
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (28.57%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Facebook
1 2 (28.57%) Twitter