The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor 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 Windsor 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 13 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing TDD 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 2.778% 6.410% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.545% 8.772% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £550 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -
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
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
22 57 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 61.11% 73.08% 65.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 12
Average daily rate £400 £369 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.40% -10.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TDD
Berkshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
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Posted: 21 May 2013