The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 147 199 364
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +165
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1921 1511 689
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.899% 1.333% 0.585%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.480% 1.783% 0.796%
Number of salaries quoted 1735 1389 648
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,400 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77473 84750 86518
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.60% 74.76% 73.44%
Number of salaries quoted 64240 72541 72957
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
UK

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BDD across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England BDD Salary Histogram

BDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +62 1241 £55,000 +10.00%
South East +16 328 £40,000 -
North West +48 85 £36,000 +14.28%
East of England -40 85 £40,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +22 65 £40,000 +23.07%
Yorkshire +44 53 £45,000 +28.57%
South West -1 35 £40,000 -
North East +14 17 £35,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -52 6 £35,000 -12.50%
BDD
UK

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 3474 (89.79%) TDD
2 2184 (56.45%) .NET
3 2050 (52.99%) C#
4 1987 (51.36%) Scrum
5 1661 (42.93%) MVC
6 1660 (42.91%) ASP.NET
7 1451 (37.50%) SQL Server
8 1397 (36.11%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1307 (33.78%) Agile Software Development
10 1277 (33.01%) JavaScript
11 1155 (29.85%) Java
12 1110 (28.69%) WCF
13 1018 (26.31%) Kanban
14 937 (24.22%) CSS
15 901 (23.29%) SQL
16 877 (22.67%) Selenium
17 830 (21.45%) HTML
17 830 (21.45%) OO
18 780 (20.16%) NHibernate
19 771 (19.93%) Web Application Development
20 757 (19.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
21 750 (19.38%) E-Commerce
22 746 (19.28%) Cucumber
23 740 (19.13%) Continuous Integration
24 731 (18.89%) NUnit
25 703 (18.17%) MCTS
25 703 (18.17%) MCP
25 703 (18.17%) MCAD
25 703 (18.17%) MCSD
25 703 (18.17%) Microsoft Certification

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 2184 (56.45%) .NET
2 1660 (42.91%) ASP.NET
3 1397 (36.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1110 (28.69%) WCF
5 937 (24.22%) CSS
6 830 (21.45%) HTML
7 780 (20.16%) NHibernate
8 757 (19.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 700 (18.09%) jQuery
10 681 (17.60%) Razor View Engine
11 610 (15.77%) Web Services
12 497 (12.85%) HTML5
13 456 (11.79%) Spring
14 454 (11.73%) LINQ
15 383 (9.899%) .NET Framework
16 361 (9.331%) XML
17 347 (8.969%) WPF
18 345 (8.917%) REST
19 328 (8.478%) Hibernate
20 317 (8.193%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 167 (4.316%) CMS
2 163 (4.213%) Tomcat
3 139 (3.593%) Amazon AWS
4 135 (3.489%) Windows Azure
5 105 (2.714%) Apache
6 92 (2.378%) IIS
7 76 (1.964%) Umbraco
8 62 (1.602%) SharePoint
9 54 (1.396%) MSMQ
10 43 (1.111%) Magento
10 43 (1.111%) nginx
11 39 (1.008%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (0.956%) BizTalk Server
13 30 (0.775%) Sitecore CMS
14 28 (0.724%) Drupal
15 26 (0.672%) Apache Solr
15 26 (0.672%) Kentico
16 25 (0.646%) Sitefinity
17 19 (0.491%) SharePoint Server
18 17 (0.439%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 187 (4.833%) MS Excel
2 14 (0.362%) Mingle
3 10 (0.258%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.129%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (0.078%) MS Office
6 2 (0.052%) Google Apps
7 1 (0.026%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.207%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.181%) Sage 200
2 7 (0.181%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.181%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.181%) Agresso
3 5 (0.129%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.052%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.026%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.026%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 331 (8.555%) Internet
2 148 (3.825%) HTTP
3 19 (0.491%) Ethernet
4 12 (0.310%) AMQP
5 9 (0.233%) Broadband
6 6 (0.155%) SSL
7 4 (0.103%) DHCP
7 4 (0.103%) Modbus
8 3 (0.078%) FTP
8 3 (0.078%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.052%) CDMA
9 2 (0.052%) GSM
9 2 (0.052%) Extranet
9 2 (0.052%) Firewall
9 2 (0.052%) tcpdump
9 2 (0.052%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.026%) NAS
10 1 (0.026%) Network Security
10 1 (0.026%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.026%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1451 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 664 (17.16%) SQL Server 2008
3 361 (9.331%) SQL Server 2012
4 334 (8.633%) MySQL
5 153 (3.955%) SQL Server 2005
6 151 (3.903%) NoSQL
7 121 (3.127%) MongoDB
8 62 (1.602%) Redis
9 61 (1.577%) Big Data
10 59 (1.525%) PostgreSQL
11 48 (1.241%) MarkLogic
12 38 (0.982%) Hadoop
13 29 (0.750%) RDBMS
14 28 (0.724%) Oracle 10g
15 25 (0.646%) CouchDB
16 21 (0.543%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (0.517%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 19 (0.491%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 13 (0.336%) DB2
20 12 (0.310%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 877 (22.67%) Selenium
2 746 (19.28%) Cucumber
3 731 (18.89%) NUnit
4 646 (16.70%) Rhino Mocks
5 466 (12.04%) Moq
6 367 (9.486%) Git (software)
7 328 (8.478%) Subversion
8 286 (7.392%) WebDriver
9 277 (7.159%) SpecFlow
10 255 (6.591%) JUnit
11 249 (6.436%) Maven
12 206 (5.324%) Jenkins
13 183 (4.730%) JIRA
14 179 (4.627%) TeamCity
15 167 (4.316%) Visual Studio
16 143 (3.696%) RSpec
17 138 (3.567%) Hudson
18 115 (2.972%) FitNesse
19 113 (2.921%) Team Foundation Server
19 113 (2.921%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 603 (15.59%) Finance
2 294 (7.599%) Games
3 266 (6.875%) Banking
4 187 (4.833%) Music
5 147 (3.799%) Law
5 147 (3.799%) Retail
6 128 (3.308%) Publishing
7 113 (2.921%) Music Industry
8 100 (2.585%) Back Office
9 79 (2.042%) Investment Banking
10 77 (1.990%) Financial Institution
11 71 (1.835%) Advertising
11 71 (1.835%) Front Office
12 67 (1.732%) Marketing
13 24 (0.620%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.439%) Online Betting
14 17 (0.439%) Legal
15 8 (0.207%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.207%) Interactive Media
16 7 (0.181%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2721 (70.33%) Developer
2 1330 (34.38%) .NET Developer
3 529 (13.67%) Senior Developer
4 444 (11.48%) Java Developer
5 430 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 321 (8.297%) C# .NET Developer
7 284 (7.340%) ASP.NET Developer
8 275 (7.108%) Analyst
9 206 (5.324%) Software Engineer
10 199 (5.143%) Agile .NET Developer
11 197 (5.092%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 189 (4.885%) Senior .NET Developer
13 171 (4.420%) Tester
14 164 (4.239%) Test Analyst
15 141 (3.644%) Software Developer
16 139 (3.593%) Web Developer
17 137 (3.541%) Programmer
18 135 (3.489%) Lead Developer
19 121 (3.127%) Senior Java Developer
20 118 (3.050%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 364 (9.408%) Open Source
2 244 (6.307%) Computer Science
3 172 (4.446%) Mobile App
4 161 (4.161%) Inversion of Control
5 147 (3.799%) Digital Media
6 91 (2.352%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.042%) N-Tier
8 77 (1.990%) Online Games
9 73 (1.887%) Client/Server
10 68 (1.758%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 66 (1.706%) iPhone
12 65 (1.680%) Social Media
13 64 (1.654%) DTV
14 62 (1.602%) Derivative
14 62 (1.602%) Hedge funds
15 59 (1.525%) Equities
16 57 (1.473%) iPad
17 52 (1.344%) Blog
18 51 (1.318%) SaaS
19 41 (1.060%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 373 (9.641%) Windows
2 305 (7.883%) Linux
3 202 (5.221%) UNIX
4 125 (3.231%) Android
5 115 (2.972%) Apple iOS
6 47 (1.215%) Windows 8
7 27 (0.698%) Windows Phone
8 25 (0.646%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (0.594%) Windows Phone 7
10 22 (0.569%) CentOS
11 20 (0.517%) Solaris
12 19 (0.491%) Mac OS X
13 18 (0.465%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (0.388%) Ubuntu
15 14 (0.362%) Windows Mobile
16 12 (0.310%) Windows Server 2003
16 12 (0.310%) Windows Phone 8
17 6 (0.155%) Debian
18 1 (0.026%) AIX
18 1 (0.026%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3474 (89.79%) TDD
2 1987 (51.36%) Scrum
3 1661 (42.93%) MVC
4 1307 (33.78%) Agile Software Development
5 1018 (26.31%) Kanban
6 830 (21.45%) OO
7 771 (19.93%) Web Application Development
8 750 (19.38%) E-Commerce
9 740 (19.13%) Continuous Integration
10 473 (12.23%) Pair Programming
11 470 (12.15%) Domain-Driven Design
12 431 (11.14%) Unit Testing
13 328 (8.478%) Test Automation
14 305 (7.883%) OOP
15 273 (7.056%) Automated Testing
16 262 (6.772%) Web Development
17 201 (5.195%) CQRS
18 188 (4.859%) OOD
19 180 (4.652%) Refactoring
20 173 (4.471%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 2050 (52.99%) C#
2 1277 (33.01%) JavaScript
3 1155 (29.85%) Java
4 901 (23.29%) SQL
5 555 (14.34%) Ruby
6 220 (5.686%) PHP
7 216 (5.583%) Python
8 199 (5.143%) C++
9 191 (4.937%) VB.NET
10 166 (4.291%) T-SQL
11 156 (4.032%) VB
12 120 (3.102%) Scala
13 100 (2.585%) Perl
14 95 (2.455%) Groovy
15 67 (1.732%) C
16 59 (1.525%) Clojure
17 44 (1.137%) PowerShell
17 44 (1.137%) VBScript
18 38 (0.982%) Bash shell
19 37 (0.956%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 703 (18.17%) MCTS
1 703 (18.17%) MCP
1 703 (18.17%) MCAD
1 703 (18.17%) MCSD
1 703 (18.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 385 (9.951%) Degree
3 106 (2.740%) ISEB
4 83 (2.145%) ISTQB
5 25 (0.646%) HND
6 23 (0.594%) PhD
7 6 (0.155%) Postgraduate
7 6 (0.155%) Sun Certification
7 6 (0.155%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.103%) MBA
9 3 (0.078%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.078%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.052%) MCITP
11 1 (0.026%) PMP
11 1 (0.026%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (14.42%) QA
2 8 (0.207%) SLA
3 6 (0.155%) ISO 8583
3 6 (0.155%) Basel III
4 4 (0.103%) WCAG
5 1 (0.026%) WAI
5 1 (0.026%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.026%) IAS 39
System Software
1 33 (0.853%) Varnish
2 16 (0.414%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.129%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.103%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.026%) OpenSSO
6 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.026%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 55 (1.422%) HP Quality Center
2 32 (0.827%) Puppet
3 16 (0.414%) Nagios
4 1 (0.026%) SCCM
4 1 (0.026%) YUM
4 1 (0.026%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 467 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 217 (5.609%) Oracle
3 63 (1.628%) JBoss
4 60 (1.551%) HP
5 50 (1.292%) Zend
6 40 (1.034%) Sitecore
7 31 (0.801%) Facebook
8 30 (0.775%) Google
9 24 (0.620%) Sybase
10 19 (0.491%) Apple
11 16 (0.414%) VMware
12 15 (0.388%) EPiServer
13 14 (0.362%) Sony
14 13 (0.336%) Ektron
14 13 (0.336%) Alterian
14 13 (0.336%) Toshiba
15 11 (0.284%) Twitter
16 9 (0.233%) Adobe
17 8 (0.207%) SAP
17 8 (0.207%) Sun
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