The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
218 262 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 67.08% 66.33% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 144 123
Average daily rate £375 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
BDD
Wales

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Testing Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce