The first table below looks at the demand for TDD 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 TDD 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 48 58 62
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +4
Contract jobs citing TDD 32 39 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.754% 2.403% 2.304%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.828% 3.517% 3.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 33
Average daily rate £380 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £320 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
836 1109 1321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.94% 68.33% 72.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 621 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.55 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
TDD
South East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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 -11 6 £425 +3.03%
Reigate +10 2 £425 -
Staines 0 2 - -
Woking 0 2 - -
Epsom - 2 £345 -
Redhill +4 1 £400 -
TDD
South East

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 39 (50.65%) C#
2 38 (49.35%) .NET
3 33 (42.86%) Scrum
3 33 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
4 24 (31.17%) SQL Server
5 22 (28.57%) Java
6 21 (27.27%) Spring
6 21 (27.27%) WPF
6 21 (27.27%) BDD
7 19 (24.68%) NHibernate
8 18 (23.38%) MVC
8 18 (23.38%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (22.08%) Hibernate
10 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
10 16 (20.78%) ASP.NET
10 16 (20.78%) Oracle
10 16 (20.78%) E-Commerce
11 15 (19.48%) OO
12 13 (16.88%) Windows
13 12 (15.58%) jQuery
13 12 (15.58%) .NET Framework
13 12 (15.58%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (12.99%) HTML5
14 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (12.99%) Linux
14 10 (12.99%) CSS
15 9 (11.69%) Automated Testing
15 9 (11.69%) HTML
15 9 (11.69%) SQL
15 9 (11.69%) WCF

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 38 (49.35%) .NET
2 21 (27.27%) Spring
2 21 (27.27%) WPF
3 19 (24.68%) NHibernate
4 17 (22.08%) Hibernate
5 16 (20.78%) ASP.NET
6 12 (15.58%) jQuery
6 12 (15.58%) .NET Framework
7 10 (12.99%) HTML5
7 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (12.99%) CSS
8 9 (11.69%) HTML
8 9 (11.69%) WCF
9 8 (10.39%) CSS3
9 8 (10.39%) XML
10 7 (9.091%) Web Services
10 7 (9.091%) J2EE
10 7 (9.091%) Backbone.js
11 6 (7.792%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 6 (7.792%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.195%) ESB
1 4 (5.195%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.896%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.299%) Apache
3 1 (1.299%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.299%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.299%) Mule
3 1 (1.299%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (1.299%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.792%) Internet
2 3 (3.896%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.597%) BSS
4 1 (1.299%) CDMA
4 1 (1.299%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (3.896%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.597%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.597%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (2.597%) MySQL
4 2 (2.597%) TOAD
4 2 (2.597%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.299%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.299%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.299%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.091%) Moq
2 6 (7.792%) Maven
2 6 (7.792%) Selenium
2 6 (7.792%) ReSharper
3 5 (6.494%) MSI
3 5 (6.494%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (6.494%) JUnit
3 5 (6.494%) TeamCity
4 4 (5.195%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.195%) Subversion
5 3 (3.896%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.896%) Git (software)
6 2 (2.597%) Hudson
6 2 (2.597%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.597%) PHPUnit
6 2 (2.597%) EasyMock
6 2 (2.597%) jMock
6 2 (2.597%) ClearCase
6 2 (2.597%) NUnit
6 2 (2.597%) NetAdvantage
General
1 5 (6.494%) Finance
2 3 (3.896%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.299%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (75.32%) Developer
2 19 (24.68%) .NET Developer
3 16 (20.78%) C# Developer
4 12 (15.58%) WPF Developer
5 10 (12.99%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Tester
5 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (7.792%) Agile C# Developer
8 6 (7.792%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (7.792%) Senior Tester
8 6 (7.792%) Web Developer
8 6 (7.792%) Applications Developer
9 5 (6.494%) Web Applications Developer
9 5 (6.494%) Agile .NET Developer
10 4 (5.195%) iOS Developer
10 4 (5.195%) Salesforce.com Developer
10 4 (5.195%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.195%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (10.39%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (6.494%) Open Source
4 3 (3.896%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.299%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.299%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.299%) Telematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Windows
2 10 (12.99%) Linux
3 5 (6.494%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.597%) Android
5 1 (1.299%) UNIX
5 1 (1.299%) CentOS
5 1 (1.299%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Scrum
1 33 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (27.27%) BDD
3 18 (23.38%) MVC
3 18 (23.38%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (20.78%) E-Commerce
5 15 (19.48%) OO
6 9 (11.69%) Automated Testing
6 9 (11.69%) MVVM
7 8 (10.39%) Web Development
7 8 (10.39%) Dependency Injection
8 7 (9.091%) Project Management
8 7 (9.091%) Web Application Development
9 5 (6.494%) Unit Testing
10 4 (5.195%) Agile Testing
10 4 (5.195%) Test Strategy
10 4 (5.195%) Data Migration
10 4 (5.195%) Web Testing
10 4 (5.195%) UML
10 4 (5.195%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) C#
2 22 (28.57%) Java
3 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.69%) SQL
5 7 (9.091%) C++
6 5 (6.494%) Objective-C
7 4 (5.195%) Apex Code
7 4 (5.195%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.896%) Ruby
8 3 (3.896%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.896%) PHP
9 2 (2.597%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.597%) Perl
9 2 (2.597%) C
9 2 (2.597%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.597%) Embedded C++
9 2 (2.597%) AWK
10 1 (1.299%) Python
10 1 (1.299%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.299%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.597%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.597%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (5.195%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Oracle
2 4 (5.195%) HP
2 4 (5.195%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (5.195%) IBM
3 3 (3.896%) Google
4 2 (2.597%) JBoss
4 2 (2.597%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.597%) Infragistics
5 1 (1.299%) Teradata
5 1 (1.299%) Telerik
5 1 (1.299%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.299%) TIBCO
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