The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 49 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +3
Contract jobs citing TDD 1800 1543 1681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 3.741% 2.659% 2.700%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.260% 3.894% 4.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1363 1158 1226
Average daily rate £400 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 20
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £37.50 £32.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.40 £40.00 £75.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

TDD Hourly Rate Trend

TDD
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TDD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

TDD Hourly Rate Histogram

TDD
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +10 1704 £403 -5.29% 883
London +10 1213 £425 -7.60% 452
City of London +17 356 £425 -15.00% 116
South East +23 188 £375 +15.38% 123
East of England +43 88 £384 +9.64% 75
Yorkshire +28 66 £288 -10.15% 43
Scotland +29 57 £425 +25.92% 31
West Yorkshire +18 51 £275 -14.06% 20
Leeds +13 50 £273 -15.50% 11
South West +34 49 £301 -15.80% 40
North West -9 45 £335 +21.81% 76
Berkshire +38 43 £375 -9.09% 24
Hampshire -4 37 £355 +18.33% 24
Surrey +16 35 £375 - 27
Hertfordshire +29 29 £500 +37.93% 24
Cambridgeshire +21 29 £363 -5.84% 22
Buckinghamshire +14 29 £375 +24.48% 12
East Midlands +22 28 £425 +57.40% 19
Manchester -12 27 £325 +18.18% 41
Leicestershire - 23 £425 - 4
Milton Keynes +21 22 £375 +25.00% 3
East Sussex +19 22 £350 +9.37% 4
Glasgow 0 22 £500 +48.14% 13
Reading +24 21 £375 - 13
Somerset +13 20 £325 -32.98% 7
West Midlands -13 19 £263 -32.69% 41
Brighton +15 16 £350 +9.37% 4
Hounslow +8 16 £450 -
Bristol +6 16 £288 -23.07% 16
Basingstoke +1 16 £400 +52.38% 6

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1443 (41.55%) C#
2 1376 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
3 1360 (39.16%) .NET
4 1309 (37.69%) Java
5 1213 (34.93%) BDD
6 1212 (34.90%) Scrum
7 1157 (33.31%) JavaScript
8 948 (27.30%) CSS
9 930 (26.78%) MVC
10 794 (22.86%) SQL
11 782 (22.52%) SQL Server
12 751 (21.62%) ASP.NET
13 743 (21.39%) HTML
14 721 (20.76%) OO
15 703 (20.24%) jQuery
16 683 (19.67%) Web Services
17 661 (19.03%) Continuous Integration
18 625 (18.00%) Spring
19 601 (17.30%) Finance
20 538 (15.49%) WCF
21 521 (15.00%) HTML5
22 499 (14.37%) XML
23 466 (13.42%) Banking
24 451 (12.99%) ASP.NET MVC
25 432 (12.44%) Oracle
26 409 (11.78%) Microsoft
27 399 (11.49%) E-Commerce
28 389 (11.20%) Ajax
29 384 (11.06%) Linux
30 382 (11.00%) Hibernate

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1360 (39.16%) .NET
2 948 (27.30%) CSS
3 751 (21.62%) ASP.NET
4 743 (21.39%) HTML
5 703 (20.24%) jQuery
6 683 (19.67%) Web Services
7 625 (18.00%) Spring
8 538 (15.49%) WCF
9 521 (15.00%) HTML5
10 499 (14.37%) XML
11 451 (12.99%) ASP.NET MVC
12 389 (11.20%) Ajax
13 382 (11.00%) Hibernate
14 375 (10.80%) CSS3
15 320 (9.214%) .NET Framework
16 315 (9.070%) WPF
17 314 (9.041%) REST
18 305 (8.782%) J2EE
19 304 (8.753%) RESTful
20 290 (8.350%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 173 (4.981%) Apache
2 142 (4.089%) CMS
3 115 (3.311%) Tomcat
4 88 (2.534%) Windows Azure
5 74 (2.131%) SharePoint
6 67 (1.929%) ESB
6 67 (1.929%) Amazon AWS
7 58 (1.670%) Amazon EC2
8 56 (1.612%) BizTalk Server
9 55 (1.584%) Amazon S3
10 54 (1.555%) nginx
11 52 (1.497%) Route 53
12 38 (1.094%) IIS
13 37 (1.065%) Drupal
14 35 (1.008%) Umbraco
14 35 (1.008%) Apache Solr
15 34 (0.979%) Adobe CQ
16 32 (0.921%) Sitecore CMS
17 31 (0.893%) Apache Pig
18 27 (0.777%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 117 (3.369%) MS Excel
2 25 (0.720%) Photoshop
3 14 (0.403%) MS Office
4 8 (0.230%) Fireworks
5 7 (0.202%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.202%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.173%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.144%) Mingle
8 3 (0.086%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.086%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.029%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (0.691%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (0.461%) RMDS
3 14 (0.403%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.346%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.346%) ION MarketView
5 6 (0.173%) Google Analytics
5 6 (0.173%) Oracle BPM
6 4 (0.115%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.086%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.086%) WebTrends
8 2 (0.058%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.058%) JDE OneWorld
8 2 (0.058%) Bond Adapt
9 1 (0.029%) SiteCatalyst
9 1 (0.029%) AWD
9 1 (0.029%) Tridion
9 1 (0.029%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 155 (4.463%) HTTP
2 140 (4.031%) Internet
3 26 (0.749%) DNS
4 20 (0.576%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.374%) SMPP
6 8 (0.230%) NFC
7 7 (0.202%) SSL
7 7 (0.202%) LDAP
8 4 (0.115%) SMS
8 4 (0.115%) Intranet
8 4 (0.115%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.115%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (0.086%) AMQP
9 3 (0.086%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.086%) 802.15
9 3 (0.086%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.086%) DHCP
9 3 (0.086%) SSH
9 3 (0.086%) BSS
10 2 (0.058%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 782 (22.52%) SQL Server
2 272 (7.832%) MySQL
3 223 (6.421%) SQL Server 2008
4 134 (3.858%) MongoDB
5 121 (3.484%) NoSQL
6 113 (3.254%) RDBMS
7 110 (3.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 98 (2.822%) SQL Server 2005
8 98 (2.822%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (2.016%) Hadoop
9 70 (2.016%) SQL Server 2012
10 60 (1.728%) Big Data
11 59 (1.699%) Redis
12 57 (1.641%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (1.497%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 42 (1.209%) Amazon RDS
15 39 (1.123%) Apache Cassandra
16 36 (1.037%) PostgreSQL
17 32 (0.921%) Apache Hive
18 26 (0.749%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 378 (10.88%) Selenium
2 311 (8.955%) Subversion
3 287 (8.264%) JUnit
4 284 (8.177%) Git (software)
5 253 (7.285%) Maven
6 246 (7.083%) Cucumber
7 195 (5.615%) Jenkins
8 185 (5.327%) Team Foundation Server
9 161 (4.636%) Visual Studio
10 153 (4.405%) WebDriver
11 152 (4.377%) NUnit
12 145 (4.175%) SpecFlow
13 142 (4.089%) JIRA
14 117 (3.369%) Eclipse
15 109 (3.138%) Hudson
16 104 (2.995%) Jasmine
17 85 (2.447%) TeamCity
18 75 (2.160%) Ant
19 65 (1.872%) Mockito
20 57 (1.641%) FitNesse
General
1 601 (17.30%) Finance
2 466 (13.42%) Banking
3 219 (6.306%) Investment Banking
4 205 (5.903%) Front Office
5 142 (4.089%) Retail
6 112 (3.225%) Telecoms
7 95 (2.735%) Games
8 87 (2.505%) Publishing
9 38 (1.094%) Back Office
10 37 (1.065%) Marketing
11 31 (0.893%) Financial Institution
12 21 (0.605%) Law
13 14 (0.403%) Electronics
14 13 (0.374%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.374%) Advertising
15 11 (0.317%) Retail Banking
16 8 (0.230%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.173%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.144%) French Language
18 5 (0.144%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2663 (76.68%) Developer
2 710 (20.44%) Java Developer
3 596 (17.16%) .NET Developer
4 581 (16.73%) C# Developer
5 382 (11.00%) Senior Developer
6 264 (7.601%) C# .NET Developer
7 197 (5.672%) Web Developer
8 173 (4.981%) Analyst
9 159 (4.578%) ASP.NET Developer
10 140 (4.031%) Software Engineer
11 128 (3.686%) Architect
12 126 (3.628%) Front-End Developer
13 122 (3.513%) Senior Java Developer
14 116 (3.340%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 114 (3.282%) Agile C# Developer
16 111 (3.196%) Tester
17 101 (2.908%) Agile .NET Developer
18 100 (2.879%) Agile Java Developer
19 86 (2.476%) WPF Developer
20 85 (2.447%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.133%) Open Source
2 135 (3.887%) Derivative
3 128 (3.686%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 127 (3.657%) Fixed Income
5 112 (3.225%) Computer Science
6 111 (3.196%) N-Tier
7 107 (3.081%) Mobile App
8 76 (2.188%) Enterprise Software
9 61 (1.756%) Equities
9 61 (1.756%) iPhone
10 59 (1.699%) Credit Risk
11 38 (1.094%) Market Risk
12 36 (1.037%) Equity Derivative
13 35 (1.008%) Client/Server
14 34 (0.979%) Blackberry
14 34 (0.979%) Inversion of Control
15 32 (0.921%) W3C
15 32 (0.921%) iPad
15 32 (0.921%) Digital Media
16 31 (0.893%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 384 (11.06%) Linux
2 260 (7.486%) Windows
3 150 (4.319%) UNIX
4 138 (3.974%) Android
5 133 (3.830%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.720%) Solaris
7 20 (0.576%) Mac OS X
8 19 (0.547%) Windows Phone
9 15 (0.432%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.317%) Windows Mobile
11 8 (0.230%) CentOS
12 5 (0.144%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.144%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.115%) AIX
13 4 (0.115%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.115%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.086%) BlackBerry OS
14 3 (0.086%) Windows Phone 8
14 3 (0.086%) Windows CE
15 2 (0.058%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1376 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
2 1213 (34.93%) BDD
3 1212 (34.90%) Scrum
4 930 (26.78%) MVC
5 721 (20.76%) OO
6 661 (19.03%) Continuous Integration
7 399 (11.49%) E-Commerce
8 286 (8.235%) Pair Programming
9 279 (8.033%) Unit Testing
10 271 (7.803%) Multithreading
11 259 (7.458%) Kanban
12 248 (7.141%) SOA
13 195 (5.615%) Web Development
14 168 (4.837%) Automated Testing
15 141 (4.060%) UML
16 127 (3.657%) MVVM
17 124 (3.570%) OOP
18 122 (3.513%) Test Automation
19 121 (3.484%) Software Engineering
20 100 (2.879%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1443 (41.55%) C#
2 1309 (37.69%) Java
3 1157 (33.31%) JavaScript
4 794 (22.86%) SQL
5 350 (10.08%) Ruby
6 199 (5.730%) C++
7 184 (5.298%) PHP
8 172 (4.952%) Python
9 159 (4.578%) T-SQL
10 112 (3.225%) Groovy
11 99 (2.851%) Scala
12 77 (2.217%) Perl
13 70 (2.016%) PL/SQL
14 61 (1.756%) Bash shell
15 53 (1.526%) C
16 51 (1.468%) Objective-C
17 45 (1.296%) VB.NET
18 44 (1.267%) XPath
19 42 (1.209%) VB
20 39 (1.123%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 175 (5.039%) Degree
2 32 (0.921%) Security Cleared
3 31 (0.893%) ISEB
4 24 (0.691%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (0.576%) ISTQB
6 18 (0.518%) PhD
7 13 (0.374%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.346%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.259%) Sun Certification
10 6 (0.173%) CIPD
11 5 (0.144%) MCTS
11 5 (0.144%) MCP
11 5 (0.144%) MCAD
11 5 (0.144%) MCSD
12 4 (0.115%) PMP
12 4 (0.115%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.086%) MCPD
14 2 (0.058%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.058%) CTC Cleared
15 1 (0.029%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (7.486%) QA
2 25 (0.720%) Basel III
3 8 (0.230%) Basel II
4 7 (0.202%) SLA
5 6 (0.173%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.144%) WCAG
7 4 (0.115%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.029%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.029%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.029%) WAI
8 1 (0.029%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.029%) TickIT
System Software
1 20 (0.576%) Varnish
2 15 (0.432%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.259%) Squid
4 4 (0.115%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.115%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.029%) Shibboleth
5 1 (0.029%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (1.152%) HP Quality Center
2 38 (1.094%) Puppet
3 5 (0.144%) HP SiteScope
3 5 (0.144%) Nagios
4 3 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.058%) MOM
5 2 (0.058%) Business Desktop Deployment
6 1 (0.029%) Oozie
Vendors
1 432 (12.44%) Oracle
2 409 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 69 (1.987%) Google
4 60 (1.728%) Sybase
5 59 (1.699%) JBoss
6 52 (1.497%) TIBCO
7 50 (1.440%) IBM
8 46 (1.325%) Adobe
9 43 (1.238%) Sitecore
10 41 (1.181%) HP
11 34 (0.979%) Zend
11 34 (0.979%) Percona
12 27 (0.777%) hybris
13 23 (0.662%) Red Hat
13 23 (0.662%) SAP
14 21 (0.605%) VMware
15 18 (0.518%) Reuters
15 18 (0.518%) Bloomberg
16 17 (0.489%) Informatica
17 16 (0.461%) ION Trading
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Net Developer will need to have a strong background in C# development and have previously designed and developed large scale C# Applications ideally in a web environment using...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
ASP.NET, C#, TDD, MVC3, .NET 3.5, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, London, Contract, 3 Months initial... Essential Skills: *Strong ASP.NET/ C# experience. *MVC 3. *TDD. *...
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
ASP.NET. C# Agile/TDD/BDD/Scrum. JavaScript. HTML. CSS... Ecommerce... (Nservicebus, .NET, ASP.NET MVC 3/4, ASP.NET, C#, Razor, Linq, Agile, Scrum, TDD, BDD, Ajax,...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
SENIOR DEVELOPER C# ASP.NET HIGHLY FUNDED START UP!... The company are now in the most exciting phase and are developing the ecommerce platform from scratch.... The business...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
City, London
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E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: £300 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £700 - £900 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
Croydon, Surrey
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £400 Per Day Upto £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hertford, South East
OPUS
Rate: GBP0 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
North Point Recruitment
Rate: £225 - £275 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, South West
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bristol, South West
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £300 per day + extension
Posted: 31 May 2013
Chelmsford, East Anglia
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Redhill, South East
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 to GBP450 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £400 - £425 per day + BONUS 26 DAYS HOLIDAY!
Posted: 8 June 2013
Redhill, Surrey
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
AB Recruit
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Think IT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
ComputAppoint
Rate: £450 - £451 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Circle Recruitment
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 12 June 2013
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Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West London
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Rate: £400 Per Day Upto £400 per day
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