The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 64 93 75
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -18
Contract jobs citing TDD 57 16 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.276% 0.595% 1.299%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.293% 0.933% 1.974%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 5 32
Average daily rate £425 £338 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.92% -8.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £275 £314
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £358 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £29.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1731 1715 1874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.13% 63.78% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 826 1002
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 62 44
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -15.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
UK

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland TDD Daily Rate Histogram

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow 0 22 £500 +48.14% 10
Edinburgh +6 10 £313 - 12
West Lothian - 8 £425 - 2
Fife - 3 - -
Dundee +8 2 - - 2
Aberdeen - 2 £310 - 1
Angus - - - -
Moray - - - -
TDD
UK

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 47 (44.76%) Java
2 45 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 39 (37.14%) C#
4 35 (33.33%) SQL
5 31 (29.52%) Finance
6 30 (28.57%) SQL Server
7 29 (27.62%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (24.76%) MVC
9 25 (23.81%) Spring
9 25 (23.81%) XML
10 24 (22.86%) HTML
11 23 (21.90%) CSS
11 23 (21.90%) Scrum
12 22 (20.95%) Hibernate
13 21 (20.00%) .NET
13 21 (20.00%) OO
14 19 (18.10%) BDD
15 18 (17.14%) WPF
15 18 (17.14%) ASP.NET
16 17 (16.19%) ETL
16 17 (16.19%) Banking
16 17 (16.19%) Multithreading
16 17 (16.19%) SQL Server 2008
17 16 (15.24%) Maven
17 16 (15.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 15 (14.29%) JMS
18 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
18 15 (14.29%) HTML5
19 14 (13.33%) Fixed Income
20 13 (12.38%) Oracle

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (23.81%) Spring
1 25 (23.81%) XML
2 24 (22.86%) HTML
3 23 (21.90%) CSS
4 22 (20.95%) Hibernate
5 21 (20.00%) .NET
6 18 (17.14%) WPF
6 18 (17.14%) ASP.NET
7 15 (14.29%) JMS
7 15 (14.29%) HTML5
8 12 (11.43%) JDBC
9 9 (8.571%) jQuery
9 9 (8.571%) J2EE
9 9 (8.571%) SOAP
9 9 (8.571%) XML Schema
10 8 (7.619%) JSF
10 8 (7.619%) Web Services
10 8 (7.619%) Ext JS
11 7 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (6.667%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 13 (12.38%) Tomcat
2 10 (9.524%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.714%) Apache
4 3 (2.857%) GlassFish
5 2 (1.905%) Mule
5 2 (1.905%) Jadu
6 1 (0.952%) GemFire
6 1 (0.952%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.952%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.952%) ESB
6 1 (0.952%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.952%) Drupal
6 1 (0.952%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.952%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.905%) HTTP
2 2 (1.905%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 17 (16.19%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (11.43%) MySQL
3 12 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (5.714%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.762%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.762%) DTS
7 5 (4.762%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.810%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.857%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.905%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.952%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.952%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Maven
2 11 (10.48%) JUnit
3 10 (9.524%) Selenium
3 10 (9.524%) FitNesse
4 8 (7.619%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.667%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.667%) Subversion
6 6 (5.714%) Ant
7 4 (3.810%) Eclipse
7 4 (3.810%) ClearCase
7 4 (3.810%) CruiseControl
8 3 (2.857%) RSpec
8 3 (2.857%) Git (software)
8 3 (2.857%) Hudson
8 3 (2.857%) JIRA
8 3 (2.857%) WATIR
9 2 (1.905%) NetAdvantage
9 2 (1.905%) NUnit
9 2 (1.905%) Concordion
9 2 (1.905%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (29.52%) Finance
2 17 (16.19%) Banking
3 7 (6.667%) Front Office
4 2 (1.905%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.905%) Multimedia
4 2 (1.905%) Retail
4 2 (1.905%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (79.05%) Developer
2 29 (27.62%) Java Developer
3 20 (19.05%) C# Developer
4 10 (9.524%) Software Developer
5 6 (5.714%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.714%) Analyst
6 5 (4.762%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.810%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.810%) .NET Developer
7 4 (3.810%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (3.810%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.810%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (3.810%) Designer
8 3 (2.857%) Build Engineer
8 3 (2.857%) WPF Developer
8 3 (2.857%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (2.857%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (2.857%) QA Analyst
8 3 (2.857%) Lead Developer
8 3 (2.857%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (13.33%) Fixed Income
3 9 (8.571%) N-Tier
4 6 (5.714%) Equities
5 5 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.762%) Derivative
6 4 (3.810%) Open Source
7 2 (1.905%) W3C
7 2 (1.905%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.952%) SaaS
8 1 (0.952%) Mashup
8 1 (0.952%) RIA
8 1 (0.952%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) UNIX
2 9 (8.571%) Linux
3 5 (4.762%) Windows
4 2 (1.905%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (27.62%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (24.76%) MVC
4 23 (21.90%) Scrum
5 21 (20.00%) OO
6 19 (18.10%) BDD
7 17 (16.19%) ETL
7 17 (16.19%) Multithreading
8 12 (11.43%) Web Development
9 11 (10.48%) Unit Testing
9 11 (10.48%) UML
10 10 (9.524%) Pair Programming
11 9 (8.571%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.571%) SOA
12 6 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (5.714%) Refactoring
13 5 (4.762%) Waterfall
13 5 (4.762%) OOP
13 5 (4.762%) Data Modelling
13 5 (4.762%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.76%) Java
2 39 (37.14%) C#
3 35 (33.33%) SQL
4 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.524%) PHP
6 8 (7.619%) XPath
7 7 (6.667%) Ruby
7 7 (6.667%) C++
8 6 (5.714%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.714%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.857%) Perl
10 2 (1.905%) AWK
10 2 (1.905%) VBScript
10 2 (1.905%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.952%) PHP5
11 1 (0.952%) Smalltalk
11 1 (0.952%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (8.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.810%) QA
2 2 (1.905%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.952%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.857%) Puppet
2 1 (0.952%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Oracle
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.571%) Informatica
4 6 (5.714%) Cadis
5 5 (4.762%) JBoss
5 5 (4.762%) Sybase
6 4 (3.810%) Perforce
6 4 (3.810%) Ab Initio
6 4 (3.810%) Netezza
7 3 (2.857%) Adobe
7 3 (2.857%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.905%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.905%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.952%) IBM
9 1 (0.952%) VMware
9 1 (0.952%) HP
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Rate: £30.00 - £32.00 per hour
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