South Yorkshire TDD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test-Driven Development (TDD) skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Location Alderley Edge Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnham Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nuneaton Peterborough Redhill Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.081 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£405
% change on same period last year	-23.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	-
Average hourly rate	£36.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£40.70
% change on same period last year	-14.00 %
Processes & Methodologies South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	185	210
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.247 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	48	34
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£318
Average daily rate	£358	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.15	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£30.22	£25.80
% change on same period last year	+17.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.29	£26.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
TDD Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Sheffield	-	1	-	-

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) Hibernate 2 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (33.33 %) NUnit 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) Spring 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby

2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby on Rails 2 1 (33.33 %) Use Case 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) Struts 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) Hibernate 2 1 (33.33 %) Spring 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby on Rails 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) Struts 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (33.33 %) NUnit
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby On Rails Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft