The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 18 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 Woking 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 2.899% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.704% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £305
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
54 39 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 78.26% 69.64% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 29
Average daily rate £353 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.15% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £185 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BDD
Surrey

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking BDD Daily Rate Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) WPF
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) ISEB
5 2 (28.57%) CSS3
5 2 (28.57%) Backbone.js
5 2 (28.57%) Task Parallel Library
5 2 (28.57%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (28.57%) Caliburn.Micro
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 2 (28.57%) AutoMapper
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (28.57%) ReSharper
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (28.57%) LINQ
5 2 (28.57%) MonoRail
5 2 (28.57%) jQuery
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
5 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 6 (85.71%) WPF
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) DOM
3 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) LINQ
3 2 (28.57%) MonoRail
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) StructureMap
3 2 (28.57%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) Backbone.js
3 2 (28.57%) Task Parallel Library
3 2 (28.57%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (28.57%) Caliburn.Micro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
1 2 (28.57%) NetAdvantage
1 2 (28.57%) ReSharper
1 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (28.57%) Moq
General
1 2 (28.57%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) WPF Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Agile C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
1 2 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) MVVM
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Content Management
4 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Infragistics