TDD Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 TDD 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 45 78 82
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +4
Contract jobs citing TDD 25 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.994% 0.538% 0.288%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.529% 0.855% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 2
Average daily rate £375 - £288
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 - £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 - £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
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%
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All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
Berkshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 37 (80.43%) .NET
2 36 (78.26%) C#
3 32 (69.57%) MVC
4 26 (56.52%) Agile Software Development
5 24 (52.17%) BDD
6 23 (50.00%) SQL Server
7 20 (43.48%) ASP.NET
7 20 (43.48%) CSS
7 20 (43.48%) jQuery
8 17 (36.96%) WCF
8 17 (36.96%) Scrum
9 15 (32.61%) HTML5
10 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
11 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
12 12 (26.09%) SpecFlow
13 11 (23.91%) Web Services
14 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
14 10 (21.74%) Banking
15 9 (19.57%) .NET Framework
15 9 (19.57%) SOA
15 9 (19.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 9 (19.57%) Automation Testing
16 8 (17.39%) CSS3
17 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 7 (15.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 7 (15.22%) KnockoutJS
17 7 (15.22%) HTML
18 6 (13.04%) Middleware
18 6 (13.04%) Visual Studio

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 37 (80.43%) .NET
2 20 (43.48%) ASP.NET
2 20 (43.48%) CSS
2 20 (43.48%) jQuery
3 17 (36.96%) WCF
4 15 (32.61%) HTML5
5 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 11 (23.91%) Web Services
7 9 (19.57%) .NET Framework
7 9 (19.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 8 (17.39%) CSS3
9 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 7 (15.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 7 (15.22%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (15.22%) HTML
10 6 (13.04%) Middleware
10 6 (13.04%) Ajax
10 6 (13.04%) Spring
10 6 (13.04%) LINQ
11 5 (10.87%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.696%) MSMQ
1 4 (8.696%) ESB
2 3 (6.522%) Windows Azure
2 3 (6.522%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (4.348%) CMS
3 2 (4.348%) IIS
4 1 (2.174%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) BSS
1 1 (2.174%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.174%) MySQL
3 1 (2.174%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) SpecFlow
2 6 (13.04%) Visual Studio
2 6 (13.04%) Jasmine
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 5 (10.87%) Selenium
3 5 (10.87%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (8.696%) Maven
5 3 (6.522%) FitNesse
5 3 (6.522%) WATIR
5 3 (6.522%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.522%) Ant
6 2 (4.348%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.174%) Gradle
7 1 (2.174%) ReSharper
7 1 (2.174%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (2.174%) Moq
7 1 (2.174%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.174%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.174%) JUnit
7 1 (2.174%) NUnit
General
1 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
1 10 (21.74%) Banking
2 3 (6.522%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Billing
3 1 (2.174%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (86.96%) Developer
2 29 (63.04%) .NET Developer
3 7 (15.22%) C# Developer
4 6 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Agile .NET Developer
5 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.696%) UI Programmer
6 4 (8.696%) Agile C# Developer
6 4 (8.696%) UI Developer
7 3 (6.522%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.522%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.348%) Programmer
8 2 (4.348%) Web Developer
8 2 (4.348%) Tester
8 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.348%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.348%) ASP.NET Programmer
8 2 (4.348%) Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.348%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.174%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (2.174%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.348%) Linux
2 1 (2.174%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) MVC
2 26 (56.52%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (52.17%) BDD
4 17 (36.96%) Scrum
5 9 (19.57%) SOA
5 9 (19.57%) Automation Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Kanban
7 4 (8.696%) Automated Testing
8 3 (6.522%) Web Development
8 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.522%) Domain-Driven Design
9 2 (4.348%) ETL
9 2 (4.348%) OO
9 2 (4.348%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.348%) MVVM
9 2 (4.348%) Test Automation
10 1 (2.174%) User Stories
10 1 (2.174%) Manual Testing
10 1 (2.174%) Refactoring
10 1 (2.174%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 36 (78.26%) C#
2 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.87%) Java
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 1 (2.174%) Ruby
4 1 (2.174%) Scala
4 1 (2.174%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.522%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.174%) Twitter
2 1 (2.174%) JBoss
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle
Senior C# .NET Developer
Reading, Thames Valley
KEY SKILLS - ASP MVC - Very strong - SQL Server - Entity Framework - Very strong - Auto mapper - Design patterns & practises - Agile (Scrum, Kanban) - Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Developement(TDD) -...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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