The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 23 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 51 39 48
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Permanent jobs citing BDD 3 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 0.917% 1.938% 1.993%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.382% 2.370% 2.586%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 6
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
217 211 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 66.36% 81.78% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 199 187 218
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
Suffolk

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 12 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Azure
2 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
2 11 (91.67%) C#
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 11 (91.67%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) SOA
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) Java EE
4 1 (8.333%) GWT
4 1 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) JSF
4 1 (8.333%) Supply Chain Management

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
1 11 (91.67%) HTML
1 11 (91.67%) .NET
1 11 (91.67%) CSS
1 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.333%) Java EE
2 1 (8.333%) GWT
2 1 (8.333%) Spring
2 1 (8.333%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Azure
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Agile .NET Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Agile C# Developer
2 11 (91.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Senior Developer
2 11 (91.67%) .NET Developer
2 11 (91.67%) C# Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Java Programmer
3 1 (8.333%) Programmer
3 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 12 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (91.67%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) SOA
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) Java
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle