The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 62 93 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 17 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.469% 0.243% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.036% 0.356% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
Average daily rate £401 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
835 1125 1313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.17% 68.35% 72.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 635 678
Average daily rate £415 £350 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -14.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 58 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
South East

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BDD across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey BDD Daily Rate Histogram

BDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Guildford - 6 £425 -
Woking +3 2 - -
BDD
South East

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 23 (62.16%) Scrum
2 21 (56.76%) TDD
3 20 (54.05%) C#
4 17 (45.95%) WPF
5 16 (43.24%) .NET
6 14 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
8 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
8 12 (32.43%) HTML
8 12 (32.43%) CSS
8 12 (32.43%) jQuery
9 11 (29.73%) Windows
10 10 (27.03%) XML
11 8 (21.62%) ISEB
11 8 (21.62%) NHibernate
11 8 (21.62%) Inversion of Control
12 7 (18.92%) Git (software)
12 7 (18.92%) MVC
12 7 (18.92%) SQL
13 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
13 6 (16.22%) OO
13 6 (16.22%) RESTful
13 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (16.22%) HTML5
13 6 (16.22%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (16.22%) .NET Framework
13 6 (16.22%) ReSharper
13 6 (16.22%) Ruby
13 6 (16.22%) CSS3
14 5 (13.51%) Backbone.js

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (45.95%) WPF
2 16 (43.24%) .NET
3 12 (32.43%) HTML
3 12 (32.43%) CSS
3 12 (32.43%) jQuery
4 10 (27.03%) XML
5 8 (21.62%) NHibernate
6 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
6 6 (16.22%) RESTful
6 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (16.22%) HTML5
6 6 (16.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 6 (16.22%) .NET Framework
6 6 (16.22%) CSS3
7 5 (13.51%) Backbone.js
7 5 (13.51%) KnockoutJS
7 5 (13.51%) Caliburn.Micro
7 5 (13.51%) LINQ
8 4 (10.81%) WCF
9 3 (8.108%) StructureMap
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.108%) ESB
2 1 (2.703%) Windows Azure
2 1 (2.703%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.703%) MSMQ
2 1 (2.703%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) CDMA
1 1 (2.703%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (5.405%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.703%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.703%) MySQL
4 1 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git (software)
2 6 (16.22%) ReSharper
3 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
3 5 (13.51%) Moq
3 5 (13.51%) RSpec
3 5 (13.51%) TeamCity
3 5 (13.51%) MSI
4 4 (10.81%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (10.81%) Subversion
4 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.108%) Visual Studio
6 2 (5.405%) NetAdvantage
6 2 (5.405%) Hudson
7 1 (2.703%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.703%) Maven
7 1 (2.703%) Selenium
7 1 (2.703%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.703%) Capistrano
7 1 (2.703%) JUnit
7 1 (2.703%) JMeter
General
1 3 (8.108%) Publishing
2 1 (2.703%) Law
2 1 (2.703%) Legal
2 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) C# Developer
3 6 (16.22%) WPF Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Agile Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.108%) Agile Test Analyst
7 2 (5.405%) Tester
7 2 (5.405%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (5.405%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.405%) SQL Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (5.405%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (5.405%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.81%) Heroku
3 4 (10.81%) Digital Media
4 3 (8.108%) Open Source
5 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Linux
3 1 (2.703%) CentOS
3 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Scrum
2 21 (56.76%) TDD
3 14 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (18.92%) MVC
5 6 (16.22%) OO
6 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
6 5 (13.51%) UML
7 4 (10.81%) Workflow
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.81%) User Stories
8 3 (8.108%) Content Management
8 3 (8.108%) MVVM
9 2 (5.405%) Multithreading
9 2 (5.405%) Unit Testing
10 1 (2.703%) Pair Programming
10 1 (2.703%) Business Analysis
10 1 (2.703%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (2.703%) Integration Testing
10 1 (2.703%) System Testing
10 1 (2.703%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) C#
2 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Ruby
5 4 (10.81%) Java
6 1 (2.703%) Scala
6 1 (2.703%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.703%) PHP
6 1 (2.703%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) ISEB
2 2 (5.405%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.405%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.703%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.108%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (5.405%) Infragistics
1 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.703%) Oracle
2 1 (2.703%) Teradata
2 1 (2.703%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.703%) TIBCO
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