The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 56 82 73
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -9
Contract jobs citing TDD 55 30 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.960% 1.343% 1.367%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.304% 1.906% 2.166%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 19 6
Average daily rate £289 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £280 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £400 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
TDD
England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +23 47 £295 +1.72%
South Yorkshire +4 5 £288 -25.80%
North Yorkshire - 3 £275 -
TDD
England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 54 (52.94%) Scrum
2 49 (48.04%) Web Services
3 38 (37.25%) JavaScript
3 38 (37.25%) MySQL
4 35 (34.31%) Internet
5 34 (33.33%) .NET
5 34 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 34 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
5 34 (33.33%) MongoDB
5 34 (33.33%) Route 53
6 33 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (32.35%) Redis
7 31 (30.39%) C#
8 30 (29.41%) PHP
9 28 (27.45%) jQuery
10 27 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (26.47%) Java
10 27 (26.47%) Oracle
10 27 (26.47%) Linux
10 27 (26.47%) Apache
10 27 (26.47%) Ruby
11 26 (25.49%) Agile Software Development
11 26 (25.49%) Python
11 26 (25.49%) CSS
11 26 (25.49%) Kanban
12 25 (24.51%) HTML5
12 25 (24.51%) BDD
12 25 (24.51%) ASP.NET
12 25 (24.51%) C++

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 49 (48.04%) Web Services
2 34 (33.33%) .NET
3 28 (27.45%) jQuery
4 26 (25.49%) CSS
5 25 (24.51%) HTML5
5 25 (24.51%) ASP.NET
6 23 (22.55%) Node.js
7 22 (21.57%) J2EE
8 21 (20.59%) Spring
9 20 (19.61%) Hibernate
9 20 (19.61%) CSS3
10 17 (16.67%) Ajax
11 16 (15.69%) POSIX
12 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (12.75%) XML
13 13 (12.75%) REST
14 12 (11.76%) .NET Framework
14 12 (11.76%) SOAP
15 11 (10.78%) JSON
15 11 (10.78%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 34 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 34 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 34 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
1 34 (33.33%) Route 53
2 27 (26.47%) Apache
3 24 (23.53%) nginx
4 12 (11.76%) Adobe CQ
5 9 (8.824%) Apache Solr
6 8 (7.843%) Tomcat
7 5 (4.902%) SharePoint
8 3 (2.941%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.980%) ESB
9 1 (0.980%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.980%) Drupal
9 1 (0.980%) WordPress
9 1 (0.980%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.980%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 3 (2.941%) MS Office
2 1 (0.980%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (34.31%) Internet
2 24 (23.53%) DNS
3 23 (22.55%) HTTP
4 3 (2.941%) SSH
4 3 (2.941%) DHCP
4 3 (2.941%) SSL
5 2 (1.961%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.980%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.980%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (37.25%) MySQL
2 34 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 33 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (32.35%) Redis
4 18 (17.65%) NoSQL
5 17 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 16 (15.69%) RDBMS
6 16 (15.69%) Couchbase
6 16 (15.69%) SimpleDB
7 9 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
8 8 (7.843%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (3.922%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.961%) RavenDB
11 2 (1.961%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.961%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.961%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.980%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (0.980%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git (software)
2 19 (18.63%) Jenkins
3 13 (12.75%) Visual Studio
4 12 (11.76%) Maven
5 9 (8.824%) Selenium
6 7 (6.863%) Subversion
7 6 (5.882%) NUnit
8 4 (3.922%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.941%) MSTest
9 3 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (2.941%) JIRA
10 2 (1.961%) Xcode
11 1 (0.980%) JMeter
11 1 (0.980%) JUnit
11 1 (0.980%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.980%) Rational Performance Tester
11 1 (0.980%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (9.804%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.941%) Banking
2 3 (2.941%) Finance
3 1 (0.980%) Financial Institution
3 1 (0.980%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 66 (64.71%) Developer
2 25 (24.51%) Java Developer
2 25 (24.51%) .NET Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
5 10 (9.804%) Architect
6 8 (7.843%) C# Developer
7 7 (6.863%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (5.882%) Test Architect
8 6 (5.882%) Web Developer
9 5 (4.902%) Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Mobile Developer
9 5 (4.902%) Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.902%) Front-End Web Developer
10 4 (3.922%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (2.941%) Business Analyst
11 3 (2.941%) PHP Developer
11 3 (2.941%) Applications Architect
11 3 (2.941%) Agile .NET Developer
12 2 (1.961%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Client/Server
2 5 (4.902%) W3C
2 5 (4.902%) Open Source
3 4 (3.922%) NHS
4 3 (2.941%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.941%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.961%) iPhone
5 2 (1.961%) iPad
6 1 (0.980%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.980%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.47%) Linux
2 4 (3.922%) Windows
3 2 (1.961%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.961%) Android
4 1 (0.980%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.980%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.94%) Scrum
2 27 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (25.49%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (25.49%) Kanban
4 25 (24.51%) BDD
5 22 (21.57%) MVC
6 19 (18.63%) Security Testing
7 18 (17.65%) OO
8 16 (15.69%) Configuration Management
9 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
9 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.76%) OOP
10 12 (11.76%) SOA
11 9 (8.824%) Automated Testing
12 8 (7.843%) Web Development
13 6 (5.882%) Feature Driven Development
13 6 (5.882%) Test Scripting
13 6 (5.882%) Business Analysis
14 5 (4.902%) Data Modelling
14 5 (4.902%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.25%) JavaScript
2 31 (30.39%) C#
3 30 (29.41%) PHP
4 27 (26.47%) Java
4 27 (26.47%) Ruby
5 26 (25.49%) Python
6 25 (24.51%) C++
7 23 (22.55%) Bash shell
8 14 (13.73%) SQL
9 9 (8.824%) T-SQL
10 7 (6.863%) Perl
11 4 (3.922%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.941%) PHP5
13 2 (1.961%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 6 (5.882%) Degree
2 5 (4.902%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.961%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.961%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.980%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.980%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Puppet
2 1 (0.980%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (26.47%) Oracle
2 18 (17.65%) Percona
3 12 (11.76%) hybris
3 12 (11.76%) Adobe
4 8 (7.843%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.980%) IBM
5 1 (0.980%) Informatica
5 1 (0.980%) Red Hat
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