The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. 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 for the Wales 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 31 52 52
Rank change year-on-year
+21 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 15 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 3.219% 0.673% 1.551%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.644% 1.072% 2.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 4
Average daily rate £290 £315 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.93% +13.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £283 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £335 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
323 373 455
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 69.31% 62.79% 64.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 183 206
Average daily rate £338 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 17
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.35 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.35% -68.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
TDD
UK

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales TDD Daily 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 Wales region 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
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Job
Vacancies
South Wales +10 7 £295 -6.34% 2
West Wales - 6 £225 - 1
North Wales - - - -
TDD
UK

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 13 (81.25%) NHS
1 13 (81.25%) Firebird
1 13 (81.25%) InterBase
2 9 (56.25%) Delphi
3 8 (50.00%) Client/Server
4 7 (43.75%) RDBMS
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
5 5 (31.25%) UML
5 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
5 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (31.25%) MS Office
6 4 (25.00%) Degree
6 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Web Services
8 2 (12.50%) .NET
8 2 (12.50%) C#
8 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (12.50%) REST
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (6.250%) Ruby
9 1 (6.250%) Ajax
9 1 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
9 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (6.250%) Web Development
9 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
9 1 (6.250%) Java SE

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 (12.50%) Web Services
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.250%) Ajax
2 1 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
2 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.250%) Java SE
2 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (6.250%) JSON
2 1 (6.250%) Apache FOP
2 1 (6.250%) WCF
2 1 (6.250%) WPF
2 1 (6.250%) Django
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) XSD
2 1 (6.250%) XSLT
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
1 5 (31.25%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) Firebird
1 13 (81.25%) InterBase
2 7 (43.75%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.250%) MySQL
4 1 (6.250%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Author
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Author
4 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (6.250%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) NHS
2 8 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) UML
2 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
4 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.250%) Kanban
4 1 (6.250%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Delphi
2 2 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) Ruby
3 1 (6.250%) Scala
3 1 (6.250%) Java
3 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
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