The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 10 14 20
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +6
Contract jobs citing TDD 6 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 18.75% 14.71% 1.818%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.69% 19.61% 2.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29 51 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 90.63% 75.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 11
Average daily rate £325 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £253 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £345 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TDD
Staffordshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) VB.NET
2 8 (88.89%) Ajax
2 8 (88.89%) SEO
2 8 (88.89%) XHTML
2 8 (88.89%) E-Commerce
2 8 (88.89%) N-Tier
2 8 (88.89%) SOA
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 8 (88.89%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) Unit Testing
2 8 (88.89%) HTML5
2 8 (88.89%) CSS3
3 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 6 (66.67%) jQuery
3 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) Degree
4 5 (55.56%) JIRA
4 5 (55.56%) Document Management
4 5 (55.56%) AccuRev
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (33.33%) Games
5 3 (33.33%) Blackberry
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) Ajax
2 8 (88.89%) XHTML
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 8 (88.89%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
2 8 (88.89%) HTML5
2 8 (88.89%) CSS3
3 6 (66.67%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 8 (88.89%) VB.NET Developer
2 8 (88.89%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Developer
3 6 (66.67%) .NET Web Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) N-Tier
2 3 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 3 (33.33%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 3 (33.33%) Android
1 3 (33.33%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) SEO
1 8 (88.89%) E-Commerce
1 8 (88.89%) SOA
1 8 (88.89%) Unit Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 5 (55.56%) Document Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) VB.NET
3 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AccuRev