The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 62 - 69
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BDD 2 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.350% - 0.520%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.488% - 0.648%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £37,500 - £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
410 277 463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 71.68% 66.27% 80.24%
Number of salaries quoted 361 258 432
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -6.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
South Wales

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Salary Trend

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

Cardiff BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BDD.

1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) soapUI
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Android
2 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Handset
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Ant
4 2 (40.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) JUnit
5 1 (20.00%) WML
5 1 (20.00%) C
5 1 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (20.00%) OOP
5 1 (20.00%) OO

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) soapUI
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) WML
4 1 (20.00%) UIKit
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) Flash
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
4 1 (20.00%) BREW
4 1 (20.00%) Java ME
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) Google Maps API
4 1 (20.00%) Core Animation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Ant
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (20.00%) Xcode
4 1 (20.00%) CruiseControl
4 1 (20.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (60.00%) Handset
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Animation
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Flash Lite
3 1 (20.00%) Java Card
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Android
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Automating webservice tests with an...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... ISTQB/ISEB qualified to intermediate...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013