The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 76 101 124
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +23
Contract jobs citing TDD 186 161 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.386% 1.587% 1.301%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.515% 2.438% 2.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 84 75
Average daily rate £363 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5291 6603 6683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.89% 65.08% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3170 3050
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 323 365
Average hourly rate £26.98 £26.25 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.76% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Berkshire +36 50 £375 +11.11%
Hampshire 0 38 £350 +7.69%
Surrey +6 30 £378 +7.85%
Buckinghamshire +12 20 £325 +8.33%
West Sussex +19 17 £425 +21.42%
East Sussex +9 16 £350 -12.50%
Oxfordshire +12 7 £350 -
Kent -1 3 £450 -
Middlesex +5 2 £288 -
Home Counties - 2 £394 -
Sussex - 1 £463 -
TDD
England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 226 (60.43%) .NET
2 220 (58.82%) C#
3 182 (48.66%) Scrum
4 180 (48.13%) MVC
5 153 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
6 137 (36.63%) ASP.NET
7 134 (35.83%) BDD
8 125 (33.42%) SQL Server
9 115 (30.75%) SQL
10 108 (28.88%) JavaScript
11 106 (28.34%) jQuery
12 101 (27.01%) ASP.NET MVC
13 93 (24.87%) CSS
14 91 (24.33%) WCF
15 88 (23.53%) Java
15 88 (23.53%) Web Services
16 68 (18.18%) XML
16 68 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
17 67 (17.91%) OO
18 62 (16.58%) HTML
19 60 (16.04%) .NET Framework
20 59 (15.78%) Microsoft
21 58 (15.51%) Selenium
22 55 (14.71%) SpecFlow
22 55 (14.71%) Subversion
23 53 (14.17%) Spring
23 53 (14.17%) Hibernate
24 50 (13.37%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
25 49 (13.10%) SOA
26 40 (10.70%) Windows

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 226 (60.43%) .NET
2 137 (36.63%) ASP.NET
3 106 (28.34%) jQuery
4 101 (27.01%) ASP.NET MVC
5 93 (24.87%) CSS
6 91 (24.33%) WCF
7 88 (23.53%) Web Services
8 68 (18.18%) XML
9 62 (16.58%) HTML
10 60 (16.04%) .NET Framework
11 53 (14.17%) Spring
11 53 (14.17%) Hibernate
12 50 (13.37%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 39 (10.43%) NHibernate
13 39 (10.43%) HTML5
14 36 (9.626%) LINQ
15 31 (8.289%) Ajax
16 27 (7.219%) JSON
16 27 (7.219%) SOAP
17 26 (6.952%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 33 (8.824%) ESB
2 29 (7.754%) Windows Azure
3 21 (5.615%) CMS
4 17 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
5 14 (3.743%) Umbraco
6 13 (3.476%) Apache
6 13 (3.476%) Tomcat
7 11 (2.941%) IIS
8 10 (2.674%) MSMQ
9 8 (2.139%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (1.604%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (1.070%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.802%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.802%) Amazon AWS
13 2 (0.535%) TeamSite
14 1 (0.267%) ColdFusion
14 1 (0.267%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.267%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.267%) Liferay
14 1 (0.267%) Mule
Applications
1 13 (3.476%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.267%) MS Office
2 1 (0.267%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.535%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.267%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.674%) HTTP
2 8 (2.139%) Internet
3 5 (1.337%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.802%) BSS
5 2 (0.535%) GSM
6 1 (0.267%) SMTP
6 1 (0.267%) SMS
6 1 (0.267%) CDMA
6 1 (0.267%) GPRS
6 1 (0.267%) Network Security
6 1 (0.267%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (33.42%) SQL Server
2 37 (9.893%) SQL Server 2008
3 27 (7.219%) MySQL
4 25 (6.684%) SQL Server 2005
5 11 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (2.406%) SQL Server 2000
6 9 (2.406%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.070%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.070%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.070%) TOAD
8 3 (0.802%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (0.802%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.802%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.802%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (0.535%) RavenDB
9 2 (0.535%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (0.535%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.535%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.535%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.267%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 58 (15.51%) Selenium
2 55 (14.71%) SpecFlow
2 55 (14.71%) Subversion
3 36 (9.626%) JUnit
3 36 (9.626%) NUnit
4 31 (8.289%) Git (software)
5 26 (6.952%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (6.417%) Maven
7 21 (5.615%) Visual Studio
8 19 (5.080%) JIRA
8 19 (5.080%) ReSharper
9 18 (4.813%) Jenkins
10 17 (4.545%) FitNesse
11 16 (4.278%) Eclipse
12 13 (3.476%) WATIR
12 13 (3.476%) Jasmine
13 12 (3.209%) TeamCity
14 11 (2.941%) Cucumber
15 10 (2.674%) WebDriver
16 8 (2.139%) MSTest
General
1 36 (9.626%) Telecoms
2 35 (9.358%) Finance
3 32 (8.556%) Banking
4 15 (4.011%) Back Office
5 4 (1.070%) Retail
6 3 (0.802%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.535%) Marketing
7 2 (0.535%) Billing
7 2 (0.535%) Electronics
7 2 (0.535%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.267%) Military
8 1 (0.267%) Games
8 1 (0.267%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 297 (79.41%) Developer
2 126 (33.69%) .NET Developer
3 70 (18.72%) C# Developer
4 48 (12.83%) Java Developer
5 47 (12.57%) C# .NET Developer
6 40 (10.70%) ASP.NET Developer
7 28 (7.487%) Agile C# Developer
8 27 (7.219%) Agile .NET Developer
8 27 (7.219%) Web Developer
8 27 (7.219%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.882%) Analyst
10 21 (5.615%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 17 (4.545%) Test Analyst
11 17 (4.545%) Tester
12 15 (4.011%) Programmer
13 13 (3.476%) Senior .NET Developer
14 12 (3.209%) WPF Developer
14 12 (3.209%) C++ Developer
14 12 (3.209%) Architect
15 11 (2.941%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.011%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (3.743%) N-Tier
3 12 (3.209%) Inversion of Control
4 11 (2.941%) Open Source
5 9 (2.406%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.872%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.604%) Mathematics
7 6 (1.604%) SaaS
8 3 (0.802%) EFT
8 3 (0.802%) PaaS
9 2 (0.535%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.535%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (0.535%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.535%) DTV
10 1 (0.267%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.267%) NHS
10 1 (0.267%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.267%) Data Integration
10 1 (0.267%) Blog
10 1 (0.267%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.70%) Windows
2 37 (9.893%) Linux
3 9 (2.406%) UNIX
4 8 (2.139%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.604%) Android
6 4 (1.070%) Solaris
7 1 (0.267%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.267%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.267%) CentOS
7 1 (0.267%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (48.66%) Scrum
2 180 (48.13%) MVC
3 153 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
4 134 (35.83%) BDD
5 68 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 67 (17.91%) OO
7 49 (13.10%) SOA
8 31 (8.289%) Automated Testing
9 30 (8.021%) Web Development
10 29 (7.754%) Kanban
11 27 (7.219%) UML
12 25 (6.684%) E-Commerce
13 24 (6.417%) Automation Testing
14 22 (5.882%) Unit Testing
15 18 (4.813%) Pair Programming
16 16 (4.278%) Test Automation
17 15 (4.011%) OOD
18 13 (3.476%) Dependency Injection
18 13 (3.476%) Software Architecture
19 12 (3.209%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 220 (58.82%) C#
2 115 (30.75%) SQL
3 108 (28.88%) JavaScript
4 88 (23.53%) Java
5 31 (8.289%) C++
6 14 (3.743%) T-SQL
6 14 (3.743%) Python
7 13 (3.476%) Perl
8 10 (2.674%) C
9 6 (1.604%) Ruby
9 6 (1.604%) Objective-C
9 6 (1.604%) PHP
9 6 (1.604%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.337%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.337%) Groovy
10 5 (1.337%) Scala
11 4 (1.070%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.070%) VB
11 4 (1.070%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.070%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 14 (3.743%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (2.674%) Degree
3 3 (0.802%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.802%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.267%) Sun Certification
4 1 (0.267%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.893%) QA
2 4 (1.070%) SLA
3 1 (0.267%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.267%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.604%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 59 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.16%) Oracle
3 16 (4.278%) Google
4 12 (3.209%) JBoss
5 11 (2.941%) IBM
6 8 (2.139%) Sitecore
7 7 (1.872%) webMethods
7 7 (1.872%) Software AG
8 6 (1.604%) HP
9 5 (1.337%) SAP
10 4 (1.070%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.070%) Salesforce.com
11 3 (0.802%) Infragistics
11 3 (0.802%) Dundas
11 3 (0.802%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.535%) DevExpress
12 2 (0.535%) Apple
13 1 (0.267%) Adobe
13 1 (0.267%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.267%) Teradata
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