The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 37 39 56
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +17
Permanent jobs citing TDD 100 99 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 5.590% 5.138% 3.802%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.331% 6.739% 5.526%
Number of salaries quoted 76 85 62
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -9.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £39,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1364 1469 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.24% 76.23% 68.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1042 1291 967
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester +11 44 £40,000 -11.11%
Warrington -2 23 £30,000 -4.76%
Knutsford -5 10 £30,500 -12.85%
Macclesfield - 3 £55,000 -
Ellesmere Port +4 2 £37,500 -
Runcorn +2 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 £35,000 -
Northwich - 1 £35,000 -
Congleton - 1 £40,000 -
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 162 (66.94%) .NET
2 148 (61.16%) MVC
3 146 (60.33%) C#
4 131 (54.13%) ASP.NET
5 129 (53.31%) Scrum
6 111 (45.87%) SQL Server
7 109 (45.04%) ASP.NET MVC
8 92 (38.02%) Agile Software Development
9 89 (36.78%) JavaScript
10 84 (34.71%) WCF
11 79 (32.64%) MCTS
11 79 (32.64%) MCP
11 79 (32.64%) MCAD
11 79 (32.64%) MCSD
11 79 (32.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 79 (32.64%) Web Application Development
11 79 (32.64%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 78 (32.23%) Java
13 69 (28.51%) HTML
14 68 (28.10%) SQL
15 67 (27.69%) Continuous Integration
16 66 (27.27%) Razor View Engine
17 64 (26.45%) OO
18 63 (26.03%) jQuery
18 63 (26.03%) NUnit
19 62 (25.62%) Dependency Injection
20 59 (24.38%) Windows
20 59 (24.38%) Rhino Mocks
21 58 (23.97%) Kanban
22 56 (23.14%) WinForms

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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
1 162 (66.94%) .NET
2 131 (54.13%) ASP.NET
3 109 (45.04%) ASP.NET MVC
4 84 (34.71%) WCF
5 79 (32.64%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 69 (28.51%) HTML
7 66 (27.27%) Razor View Engine
8 63 (26.03%) jQuery
9 56 (23.14%) WinForms
10 54 (22.31%) CSS
11 53 (21.90%) WPF
11 53 (21.90%) Ninject
12 46 (19.01%) Castle Windsor
12 46 (19.01%) J2EE
13 44 (18.18%) XML
13 44 (18.18%) Spring
13 44 (18.18%) Spring.NET
14 42 (17.36%) Unity DI Container
15 37 (15.29%) .NET Framework
16 31 (12.81%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 18 (7.438%) Apache
2 15 (6.198%) WordPress
3 14 (5.785%) Tomcat
4 13 (5.372%) Drupal
4 13 (5.372%) Apache Solr
5 7 (2.893%) IIS
6 6 (2.479%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (2.479%) Jetty
7 2 (0.826%) Magento
7 2 (0.826%) Joomla!
7 2 (0.826%) CMS
8 1 (0.413%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.413%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.413%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 14 (5.785%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.826%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.98%) HTTP
2 5 (2.066%) Intranet
3 1 (0.413%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (45.87%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.98%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (7.851%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (7.438%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (7.025%) MySQL
6 15 (6.198%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (5.372%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 13 (5.372%) GIS
7 13 (5.372%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 13 (5.372%) Oracle 9i
8 9 (3.719%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (1.240%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.240%) DTS
9 3 (1.240%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.826%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.413%) MS Access
11 1 (0.413%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (26.03%) NUnit
2 59 (24.38%) Rhino Mocks
3 49 (20.25%) Moq
4 42 (17.36%) MSTest
5 18 (7.438%) JUnit
6 14 (5.785%) Subversion
7 11 (4.545%) Maven
7 11 (4.545%) Selenium
8 8 (3.306%) Ant
9 7 (2.893%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.893%) Eclipse
10 6 (2.479%) JIRA
10 6 (2.479%) Log4j
11 5 (2.066%) Git (software)
12 4 (1.653%) PHPUnit
13 3 (1.240%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.240%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.826%) Behat
15 1 (0.413%) QUnit
15 1 (0.413%) Jasmine
General
1 42 (17.36%) Finance
2 11 (4.545%) Music
3 4 (1.653%) Games
3 4 (1.653%) Retail
4 3 (1.240%) Publishing
5 2 (0.826%) Automotive
6 1 (0.413%) Back Office
6 1 (0.413%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.413%) Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (83.06%) Developer
2 116 (47.93%) .NET Developer
3 32 (13.22%) Java Developer
4 22 (9.091%) Junior
5 21 (8.678%) Junior Developer
6 20 (8.264%) Graduate
6 20 (8.264%) Graduate Developer
7 19 (7.851%) Junior .NET Developer
7 19 (7.851%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 18 (7.438%) Web Developer
8 18 (7.438%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.785%) Software Developer
10 12 (4.959%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.545%) PHP Developer
12 10 (4.132%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 9 (3.719%) Agile .NET Developer
14 8 (3.306%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.893%) Analyst
15 7 (2.893%) Team Leader
15 7 (2.893%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.36%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (16.12%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (11.16%) Open Source
4 23 (9.504%) Computer Science
5 15 (6.198%) Client/Server
6 11 (4.545%) Streaming Music
7 4 (1.653%) Mathematics
7 4 (1.653%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.826%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.826%) Tandem
9 1 (0.413%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.413%) W3C
9 1 (0.413%) Blog
9 1 (0.413%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 59 (24.38%) Windows
2 27 (11.16%) Linux
3 19 (7.851%) UNIX
4 6 (2.479%) Solaris
5 3 (1.240%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (61.16%) MVC
2 129 (53.31%) Scrum
3 92 (38.02%) Agile Software Development
4 79 (32.64%) Web Application Development
5 67 (27.69%) Continuous Integration
6 64 (26.45%) OO
7 62 (25.62%) Dependency Injection
8 58 (23.97%) Kanban
9 43 (17.77%) E-Commerce
10 42 (17.36%) MVVM
11 36 (14.88%) Pair Programming
12 28 (11.57%) BDD
13 26 (10.74%) Domain-Driven Design
14 17 (7.025%) UML
15 15 (6.198%) CQRS
16 14 (5.785%) SOA
17 13 (5.372%) OOD
17 13 (5.372%) Use Case
18 9 (3.719%) Unit Testing
18 9 (3.719%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 146 (60.33%) C#
2 89 (36.78%) JavaScript
3 78 (32.23%) Java
4 68 (28.10%) SQL
5 41 (16.94%) PHP
6 19 (7.851%) T-SQL
7 16 (6.612%) Python
8 14 (5.785%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.372%) VB
9 13 (5.372%) PL/SQL
9 13 (5.372%) XPath
10 9 (3.719%) Ruby
11 8 (3.306%) C++
12 4 (1.653%) Perl
12 4 (1.653%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.653%) Bash shell
13 2 (0.826%) Lua
13 2 (0.826%) PHP5
13 2 (0.826%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.413%) VB6
Qualifications
1 79 (32.64%) MCP
1 79 (32.64%) MCAD
1 79 (32.64%) MCSD
1 79 (32.64%) Microsoft Certification
1 79 (32.64%) MCTS
2 9 (3.719%) Degree
2 9 (3.719%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.826%) PhD
4 1 (0.413%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.612%) QA
Vendors
1 41 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.264%) Oracle
3 13 (5.372%) ESRI
4 11 (4.545%) Zend
5 10 (4.132%) hybris
6 9 (3.719%) Apple
7 6 (2.479%) JBoss
8 4 (1.653%) IBM
8 4 (1.653%) Perforce
9 3 (1.240%) Endeca
9 3 (1.240%) ATG
10 2 (0.826%) Twitter
11 1 (0.413%) Sony
Congleton, North West
A great opportunity has come available for a Software Developer specialising in C# development to join an organisation where you can really take your career to the next...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Ultimately the client is looking for talented C# .net developers with exposure to web services technology. Experience of an agile environment is preferred but this is a role...
TEKsystems
Salary: Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Crewe, Cheshire
C# Developer, .Net Developer, VB.Net, Web Developer... Ideal skills: C# / VB.net / ASP.net + MVC/Agile Job: C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, .Net, Visual Studio, Web Developer.....
OCC
Salary: £0 - 45k per year
Posted: 17 May 2013
Chester, North West
My client is looking for someone that has solid experience and would be able to lead the development cycle and mentor junior teams members. This is a great...
Computer Futures
Salary: £37000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Car Park, Health Care
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ellesmere Port, North West
Our client can provide you with Greenfield project work and exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
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TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 23 April 2013
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