The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 18 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 Salford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 3 6 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.83% 11.54% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.32% 15.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £323 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £305
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
19 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 79.17% 73.08% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 4
Average daily rate £323 £280 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.17% -34.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
Manchester

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 12 (92.31%) TDD
2 9 (69.23%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) XML
2 9 (69.23%) XSLT
2 9 (69.23%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (61.54%) Spring
3 8 (61.54%) XPath
3 8 (61.54%) JSON
3 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (61.54%) RESTful
3 8 (61.54%) REST
3 8 (61.54%) J2EE
3 8 (61.54%) Web Services
3 8 (61.54%) RDF
3 8 (61.54%) XQuery
3 8 (61.54%) Pair Programming
4 7 (53.85%) OO
4 7 (53.85%) Benchmarking
4 7 (53.85%) JAX-RS
4 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (30.77%) Content Management
5 4 (30.77%) Publishing
5 4 (30.77%) Streaming Video
5 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
5 4 (30.77%) Statistics
5 4 (30.77%) Interactive TV
6 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Ruby
6 3 (23.08%) Use Case

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 9 (69.23%) XML
1 9 (69.23%) XSLT
2 8 (61.54%) Spring
2 8 (61.54%) JSON
2 8 (61.54%) RESTful
2 8 (61.54%) REST
2 8 (61.54%) J2EE
2 8 (61.54%) Web Services
3 7 (53.85%) JAX-RS
4 1 (7.692%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.692%) Robotium
2 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.692%) Xcode
2 1 (7.692%) Selenium
General
1 4 (30.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Streaming Video
1 4 (30.77%) Interactive TV
1 4 (30.77%) Statistics
2 2 (15.38%) Social Network
2 2 (15.38%) Web 2.0
2 2 (15.38%) Semantic Web
2 2 (15.38%) New Media
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.692%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
2 1 (7.692%) bada
2 1 (7.692%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) TDD
2 9 (69.23%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (61.54%) Pair Programming
3 8 (61.54%) RDF
3 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 7 (53.85%) Benchmarking
4 7 (53.85%) OO
5 4 (30.77%) Content Management
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) User Stories
6 3 (23.08%) Use Case
6 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Competitor Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) UML
8 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
8 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) XQuery
2 8 (61.54%) XPath
3 3 (23.08%) SPARQL
3 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.692%) Objective-C
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) PHP