The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 31 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing TDD 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.935% 1.613% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.370% 2.370% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
146 211 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 68.22% 68.06% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 130 44
Average daily rate £376 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.47% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 22 5
Average hourly rate £10.32 £18.75 £17.55
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.96% +6.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
Oxfordshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 14 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (57.14%) Scrum
3 7 (50.00%) .NET
4 6 (42.86%) C++
4 6 (42.86%) OO
4 6 (42.86%) Mathematics
5 5 (35.71%) MVC
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (28.57%) XML
7 3 (21.43%) WinForms
8 2 (14.29%) Workflow
8 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (14.29%) Workflow Management
8 2 (14.29%) Ajax
8 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
8 2 (14.29%) XSL
8 2 (14.29%) XSLT
8 2 (14.29%) Windows
8 2 (14.29%) Python
8 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
8 2 (14.29%) IBM
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 2 (14.29%) CSS
8 2 (14.29%) Web Services
8 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (14.29%) HTML
8 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (14.29%) VB
8 2 (14.29%) Test Automation

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 4 (28.57%) XML
4 3 (21.43%) WinForms
5 2 (14.29%) Ajax
5 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
5 2 (14.29%) XSL
5 2 (14.29%) XSLT
5 2 (14.29%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (7.143%) Caliburn.Micro
6 1 (7.143%) Kendo UI
6 1 (7.143%) HTML5
6 1 (7.143%) JSON
6 1 (7.143%) jQuery
6 1 (7.143%) WCF
6 1 (7.143%) WPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.143%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
2 1 (7.143%) MSI
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) C# Developer
3 6 (42.86%) C++ Developer
3 6 (42.86%) C++/C# Developer
4 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Web Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Agile .NET Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Mathematics
2 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Scrum
2 6 (42.86%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.143%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) VB
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) IBM
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft