The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD 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 Reading 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
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 11 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.250% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.868% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £305
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
589 754 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.93% 65.51% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 313
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
Berkshire

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BDD across the Reading region.

Reading BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 23 (82.14%) TDD
2 22 (78.57%) C#
3 20 (71.43%) .NET
4 19 (67.86%) MVC
5 15 (53.57%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (46.43%) WCF
6 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
6 13 (46.43%) CSS
6 13 (46.43%) SQL Server
7 12 (42.86%) Scrum
8 11 (39.29%) HTML5
9 10 (35.71%) jQuery
10 9 (32.14%) SpecFlow
10 9 (32.14%) Automation Testing
11 8 (28.57%) Banking
11 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
12 7 (25.00%) SOA
12 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
12 7 (25.00%) Web Services
13 6 (21.43%) Middleware
13 6 (21.43%) JIRA
13 6 (21.43%) Kanban
14 5 (17.86%) Selenium
15 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
15 4 (14.29%) Maven
15 4 (14.29%) Automated Testing
15 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
15 4 (14.29%) HTML
15 4 (14.29%) Java
15 4 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 20 (71.43%) .NET
2 13 (46.43%) WCF
2 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
2 13 (46.43%) CSS
3 11 (39.29%) HTML5
4 10 (35.71%) jQuery
5 7 (25.00%) Web Services
6 6 (21.43%) Middleware
7 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 4 (14.29%) HTML
7 4 (14.29%) CSS3
7 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
7 4 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 3 (10.71%) Sass
8 3 (10.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
8 3 (10.71%) Spring
8 3 (10.71%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Windows Azure
2 1 (3.571%) Orchard CMS
2 1 (3.571%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) SpecFlow
2 6 (21.43%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) Selenium
4 4 (14.29%) Maven
4 4 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (10.71%) Jasmine
5 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.71%) Ant
5 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
5 3 (10.71%) FitNesse
5 3 (10.71%) WATIR
6 2 (7.143%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.571%) NuGet
7 1 (3.571%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (3.571%) JUnit
7 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
7 1 (3.571%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.571%) NUnit
7 1 (3.571%) ReSharper
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
1 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (82.14%) Developer
2 14 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Tester
5 2 (7.143%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) UI Developer
5 2 (7.143%) UI Programmer
6 1 (3.571%) Agile Java Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.571%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.571%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.571%) Windows
1 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) TDD
2 19 (67.86%) MVC
3 15 (53.57%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (42.86%) Scrum
5 9 (32.14%) Automation Testing
6 7 (25.00%) SOA
7 6 (21.43%) Kanban
8 4 (14.29%) Automated Testing
9 3 (10.71%) MVVM
9 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
10 2 (7.143%) Test Automation
11 1 (3.571%) ATDD
11 1 (3.571%) CQRS
11 1 (3.571%) User Stories
11 1 (3.571%) Domain-Driven Design
11 1 (3.571%) Pair Programming
11 1 (3.571%) Use Case
11 1 (3.571%) Manual Testing
11 1 (3.571%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) C#
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.571%) Twitter