The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 22 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BDD 9 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.579% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.072% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
293 114 172
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 83.95% 72.61% 71.07%
Number of salaries quoted 157 95 167
Average salary £38,000 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
Cheshire

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 22 (95.65%) MCTS
2 22 (95.65%) SQL Server
2 22 (95.65%) MCP
2 22 (95.65%) MCAD
2 22 (95.65%) MCSD
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET
2 22 (95.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (95.65%) MVC
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET MVC
2 22 (95.65%) Web Application Development
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 15 (65.22%) WCF
3 15 (65.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (65.22%) Domain-Driven Design
3 15 (65.22%) CQRS
3 15 (65.22%) Razor View Engine
4 8 (34.78%) Kanban
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
5 7 (30.43%) LINQ
5 7 (30.43%) NHibernate
5 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (30.43%) NUnit
5 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2012
5 7 (30.43%) Rhino Mocks
5 7 (30.43%) Moq
6 1 (4.348%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.348%) Hudson

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET MVC
2 22 (95.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 15 (65.22%) WCF
3 15 (65.22%) Razor View Engine
4 7 (30.43%) LINQ
4 7 (30.43%) NHibernate
5 1 (4.348%) CSS3
5 1 (4.348%) HTML5
5 1 (4.348%) jQuery
5 1 (4.348%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (95.65%) SQL Server
2 15 (65.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) NUnit
1 7 (30.43%) Rhino Mocks
1 7 (30.43%) Moq
2 1 (4.348%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.348%) Hudson
2 1 (4.348%) QUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Jasmine
2 1 (4.348%) Selenium
2 1 (4.348%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) .NET Developer
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 1 (4.348%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Blog
1 1 (4.348%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 22 (95.65%) MVC
2 22 (95.65%) Web Application Development
3 15 (65.22%) Domain-Driven Design
3 15 (65.22%) CQRS
4 8 (34.78%) Kanban
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
5 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.348%) Pair Programming
6 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.348%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) MCTS
1 22 (95.65%) MCP
1 22 (95.65%) MCAD
1 22 (95.65%) MCSD
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft Certification
Chester, North West
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD, ORM, LINQ and NHibernate... (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013