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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 39 37 30
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 4 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 1.646% 1.429% 3.665%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.797% 1.829% 4.730%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
Average salary £75,000 £45,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% +52.54%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
143 164 148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 58.85% 78.10% 77.49%
Number of salaries quoted 97 85 82
Average salary £41,000 £34,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.58% -11.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £15,390 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
County Antrim

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Belfast TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Wiki
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Force.com
3 2 (50.00%) Visualforce
3 2 (50.00%) Apex Code
3 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) Sybase
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) ISEB
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) Visualforce
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Force.com
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Apex Code
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase