The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 22 18 16
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Permanent jobs citing TDD 28 23 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 11.24% 12.11% 15.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.21% 13.14% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 28 22 24
Average salary £45,000 £53,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.27% +43.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,750 £42,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
197 175 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 79.12% 92.11% 81.53%
Number of salaries quoted 190 165 122
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
Bedfordshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford TDD Jobs Demand Trend

TDD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing TDD across the Bedford region.

Bedford TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedford TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited TDD.

1 62 (93.94%) .NET
2 59 (89.39%) C#
3 58 (87.88%) SQL Server
4 56 (84.85%) WCF
5 53 (80.30%) ASP.NET
6 49 (74.24%) Scrum
7 46 (69.70%) Microsoft
8 39 (59.09%) WPF
9 37 (56.06%) MVC
10 32 (48.48%) Windows
11 29 (43.94%) Team Foundation Server
12 26 (39.39%) SQL
12 26 (39.39%) T-SQL
13 25 (37.88%) .NET Framework
14 23 (34.85%) ASP.NET MVC
14 23 (34.85%) MS Excel
15 22 (33.33%) WinForms
15 22 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
15 22 (33.33%) Kanban
16 21 (31.82%) Visual Studio
17 18 (27.27%) N-Tier
17 18 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
18 17 (25.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 17 (25.76%) LINQ
18 17 (25.76%) CSS
19 16 (24.24%) Agile Software Development
19 16 (24.24%) Subversion
20 15 (22.73%) JavaScript
20 15 (22.73%) SharePoint
20 15 (22.73%) SQL Server 2012

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited TDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 62 (93.94%) .NET
2 56 (84.85%) WCF
3 53 (80.30%) ASP.NET
4 39 (59.09%) WPF
5 25 (37.88%) .NET Framework
6 23 (34.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 22 (33.33%) WinForms
8 17 (25.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 17 (25.76%) LINQ
8 17 (25.76%) CSS
9 14 (21.21%) HTML
10 12 (18.18%) Silverlight
11 11 (16.67%) ASP
12 10 (15.15%) XML
12 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 10 (15.15%) Ninject
13 7 (10.61%) Node.js
13 7 (10.61%) KnockoutJS
14 5 (7.576%) Web Services
14 5 (7.576%) WF
Application Platforms
1 15 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (19.70%) Windows Azure
3 9 (13.64%) SharePoint 2010
4 8 (12.12%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.515%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (34.85%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (87.88%) SQL Server
2 22 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (22.73%) SQL Server 2012
4 11 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (12.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (6.061%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (6.061%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (6.061%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 29 (43.94%) Team Foundation Server
2 21 (31.82%) Visual Studio
3 16 (24.24%) Subversion
4 14 (21.21%) Moq
5 7 (10.61%) MSTest
6 6 (9.091%) Rhino Mocks
7 4 (6.061%) Visual Studio Team System
7 4 (6.061%) JIRA
7 4 (6.061%) PowerBuilder
8 3 (4.545%) NUnit
9 1 (1.515%) JMeter
9 1 (1.515%) Selenium
9 1 (1.515%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (10.61%) Retail
2 1 (1.515%) Billing
2 1 (1.515%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Developer
2 13 (19.70%) C# Developer
3 11 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Agile C# Developer
5 8 (12.12%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (9.091%) ScrumMaster
6 6 (9.091%) Project Manager
6 6 (9.091%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (9.091%) Delivery Project Manager
6 6 (9.091%) Lead Developer
6 6 (9.091%) Lead Project Manager
7 5 (7.576%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.061%) Technical Leader
8 4 (6.061%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.545%) Consultant
9 3 (4.545%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.545%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.27%) N-Tier
2 7 (10.61%) Tandem
3 4 (6.061%) Wiki
4 3 (4.545%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.545%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.515%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (48.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) Scrum
2 37 (56.06%) MVC
3 22 (33.33%) Kanban
4 18 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
5 16 (24.24%) Agile Software Development
6 14 (21.21%) CRM
7 13 (19.70%) OO
8 12 (18.18%) SOA
9 11 (16.67%) Multithreading
10 10 (15.15%) Dependency Injection
10 10 (15.15%) Web Application Development
11 8 (12.12%) OOD
12 7 (10.61%) BDD
13 6 (9.091%) Pair Programming
13 6 (9.091%) Knowledge Management
13 6 (9.091%) E-Commerce
14 5 (7.576%) Business Intelligence
14 5 (7.576%) Continuous Integration
15 4 (6.061%) Unit Testing
16 3 (4.545%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 59 (89.39%) C#
2 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 26 (39.39%) T-SQL
3 15 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.12%) VBScript
5 4 (6.061%) VB6
5 4 (6.061%) VB
5 4 (6.061%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.030%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (15.15%) MCP
1 10 (15.15%) MCAD
1 10 (15.15%) MCSD
1 10 (15.15%) MCTS
2 1 (1.515%) Degree
Vendors
1 46 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.061%) Telerik
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle
3 3 (4.545%) Capita
3 3 (4.545%) Typemock
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Salary: £23000.00 per annum
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
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Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
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