The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 43 62 86
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 77 30 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.594% 2.065% 0.602%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.165% 2.985% 0.940%
Number of salaries quoted 76 30 8
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £37,400 £36,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £47,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1249 1005 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.52% 69.17% 63.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 876 728
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
West Midlands

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 86 (81.13%) SQL Server
2 64 (60.38%) MVC
3 60 (56.60%) C#
4 59 (55.66%) .NET
4 59 (55.66%) ASP.NET
5 49 (46.23%) ASP.NET MVC
6 44 (41.51%) SQL Server 2005
7 40 (37.74%) JavaScript
8 39 (36.79%) SQL Server 2008
8 39 (36.79%) jQuery
9 38 (35.85%) SQL
10 36 (33.96%) Ajax
11 35 (33.02%) Scrum
12 33 (31.13%) Unit Testing
12 33 (31.13%) WCF
12 33 (31.13%) BDD
13 31 (29.25%) Agile Software Development
14 29 (27.36%) T-SQL
15 27 (25.47%) CSS
16 26 (24.53%) Java
17 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
18 24 (22.64%) Razor View Engine
18 24 (22.64%) SQL Server 2012
19 23 (21.70%) OO
20 22 (20.75%) Subversion
21 21 (19.81%) HTML5
22 20 (18.87%) VB.NET
22 20 (18.87%) HTML
23 19 (17.92%) Hibernate
23 19 (17.92%) Spring

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 59 (55.66%) .NET
1 59 (55.66%) ASP.NET
2 49 (46.23%) ASP.NET MVC
3 39 (36.79%) jQuery
4 36 (33.96%) Ajax
5 33 (31.13%) WCF
6 27 (25.47%) CSS
7 24 (22.64%) Razor View Engine
8 21 (19.81%) HTML5
9 20 (18.87%) HTML
10 19 (17.92%) Hibernate
10 19 (17.92%) Spring
10 19 (17.92%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 17 (16.04%) J2EE
12 16 (15.09%) SOAP
13 15 (14.15%) JMX
13 15 (14.15%) JMS
13 15 (14.15%) Spring MVC
13 15 (14.15%) Castle Windsor
14 13 (12.26%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 16 (15.09%) Tomcat
2 15 (14.15%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (4.717%) Windows Azure
3 5 (4.717%) MSMQ
4 3 (2.830%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.943%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.943%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (6.604%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.830%) Internet
2 1 (0.943%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (81.13%) SQL Server
2 44 (41.51%) SQL Server 2005
3 39 (36.79%) SQL Server 2008
4 24 (22.64%) SQL Server 2012
5 17 (16.04%) JasperReports
5 17 (16.04%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (6.604%) Redis
7 6 (5.660%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.717%) MySQL
9 4 (3.774%) RavenDB
10 3 (2.830%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.830%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.943%) MS Access
11 1 (0.943%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (0.943%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.943%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (20.75%) Subversion
2 19 (17.92%) Selenium
3 18 (16.98%) Eclipse
4 17 (16.04%) Visual Studio
5 16 (15.09%) Maven
6 15 (14.15%) Apache Continuum
6 15 (14.15%) NUnit
6 15 (14.15%) FitNesse
6 15 (14.15%) TeamCity
7 12 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (10.38%) Rhino Mocks
9 7 (6.604%) Git (software)
10 6 (5.660%) MSBuild
11 5 (4.717%) JUnit
12 3 (2.830%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.830%) Moq
12 3 (2.830%) MSTest
12 3 (2.830%) JIRA
13 1 (0.943%) Hudson
General
1 9 (8.491%) Finance
2 8 (7.547%) Games
3 4 (3.774%) Advertising
4 3 (2.830%) Retail
4 3 (2.830%) Music
4 3 (2.830%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (81.13%) Developer
2 41 (38.68%) .NET Developer
3 34 (32.08%) Senior Developer
4 18 (16.98%) C# Developer
5 16 (15.09%) ASP.NET Developer
6 15 (14.15%) Java Developer
7 13 (12.26%) Senior C# Developer
7 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (8.491%) SQL Developer
8 9 (8.491%) SQL Server Developer
8 9 (8.491%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 9 (8.491%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (8.491%) VB.NET Developer
9 8 (7.547%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.604%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.660%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.660%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (5.660%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (5.660%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (4.717%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.491%) Firmware
2 8 (7.547%) Tandem
3 7 (6.604%) Inversion of Control
4 6 (5.660%) Computer Science
5 4 (3.774%) Social Media
5 4 (3.774%) Heroku
5 4 (3.774%) iPhone
6 3 (2.830%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.830%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.887%) New Media
7 2 (1.887%) Social Network
7 2 (1.887%) Open Source
8 1 (0.943%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.491%) Android
2 4 (3.774%) Windows
3 3 (2.830%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.887%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.38%) MVC
2 35 (33.02%) Scrum
3 33 (31.13%) Unit Testing
3 33 (31.13%) BDD
4 31 (29.25%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (21.70%) OO
6 17 (16.04%) Multithreading
6 17 (16.04%) Web Application Development
7 16 (15.09%) Kanban
8 13 (12.26%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (12.26%) B2B
9 12 (11.32%) E-Commerce
10 10 (9.434%) B2C
10 10 (9.434%) Project Management
10 10 (9.434%) Dependency Injection
11 9 (8.491%) MVVM
11 9 (8.491%) SOA
11 9 (8.491%) Integration Acceptance Testing
12 7 (6.604%) Domain-Driven Design
13 6 (5.660%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.60%) C#
2 40 (37.74%) JavaScript
3 38 (35.85%) SQL
4 29 (27.36%) T-SQL
5 26 (24.53%) Java
6 20 (18.87%) VB.NET
7 9 (8.491%) VB
8 6 (5.660%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.717%) Scala
9 5 (4.717%) PHP
10 3 (2.830%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.887%) PowerHouse
12 1 (0.943%) Ruby
12 1 (0.943%) F#
12 1 (0.943%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) MCP
1 17 (16.04%) MCAD
1 17 (16.04%) MCSD
1 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (16.04%) MCTS
2 9 (8.491%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.887%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.98%) Oracle
3 15 (14.15%) JBoss
4 6 (5.660%) Facebook
5 5 (4.717%) Google
6 3 (2.830%) Adobe
6 3 (2.830%) BT
7 2 (1.887%) Twitter
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