The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD 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
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 23 36 29
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 31 8 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 9.480% 3.101% 8.306%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 3.791% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31 8 25
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,000 £42,500
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%
TDD
Suffolk

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Ipswich TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 38 (71.70%) Web Services
2 32 (60.38%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (58.49%) Java
4 29 (54.72%) JavaScript
5 27 (50.94%) Spring
6 26 (49.06%) J2EE
7 24 (45.28%) Ajax
7 24 (45.28%) jQuery
8 22 (41.51%) Degree
8 22 (41.51%) .NET
8 22 (41.51%) C#
8 22 (41.51%) SOAP
9 21 (39.62%) XML
10 20 (37.74%) Windows
10 20 (37.74%) Linux
10 20 (37.74%) REST
11 19 (35.85%) Computer Science
11 19 (35.85%) UML
11 19 (35.85%) JBoss
11 19 (35.85%) Tomcat
12 17 (32.08%) Finance
12 17 (32.08%) SOA
12 17 (32.08%) JSON
13 14 (26.42%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (22.64%) .NET Framework
14 12 (22.64%) BDD
14 12 (22.64%) Pair Programming
14 12 (22.64%) HTML
15 11 (20.75%) ASP.NET
15 11 (20.75%) CSS

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 38 (71.70%) Web Services
2 27 (50.94%) Spring
3 26 (49.06%) J2EE
4 24 (45.28%) Ajax
4 24 (45.28%) jQuery
5 22 (41.51%) .NET
5 22 (41.51%) SOAP
6 21 (39.62%) XML
7 20 (37.74%) REST
8 17 (32.08%) JSON
9 12 (22.64%) .NET Framework
9 12 (22.64%) HTML
10 11 (20.75%) ASP.NET
10 11 (20.75%) CSS
11 10 (18.87%) WCF
11 10 (18.87%) Hibernate
12 8 (15.09%) JSF
13 6 (11.32%) GWT
14 2 (3.774%) XSLT
14 2 (3.774%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 19 (35.85%) Tomcat
2 11 (20.75%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) Big Data
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.887%) MySQL
4 1 (1.887%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.887%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.774%) Maven
2 2 (3.774%) Subversion
2 2 (3.774%) Ant
3 1 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (32.08%) Finance
2 5 (9.434%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (98.11%) Developer
2 28 (52.83%) Software Developer
2 28 (52.83%) Java Developer
3 22 (41.51%) .NET Developer
4 18 (33.96%) Senior Developer
5 17 (32.08%) Java Software Developer
6 11 (20.75%) Senior .NET Developer
6 11 (20.75%) C# Developer
6 11 (20.75%) Senior C# Developer
6 11 (20.75%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (20.75%) Agile .NET Developer
6 11 (20.75%) Agile C# Developer
7 10 (18.87%) Lead Developer
8 9 (16.98%) Lead Software Developer
8 9 (16.98%) Lead .NET Developer
8 9 (16.98%) .NET Software Developer
9 8 (15.09%) Graduate
10 7 (13.21%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 7 (13.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (11.32%) Graduate Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Computer Science
2 9 (16.98%) Speech Recognition
2 9 (16.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.74%) Windows
1 20 (37.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (35.85%) UML
3 17 (32.08%) SOA
4 14 (26.42%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (22.64%) BDD
5 12 (22.64%) Pair Programming
6 11 (20.75%) OO
7 9 (16.98%) Automated Testing
7 9 (16.98%) Analytics
8 7 (13.21%) Rapid Prototyping
9 4 (7.547%) Software Engineering
10 1 (1.887%) MVC
10 1 (1.887%) Scrum
10 1 (1.887%) Supply Chain Management
10 1 (1.887%) Web Development
10 1 (1.887%) Web Application Development
10 1 (1.887%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Java
2 29 (54.72%) JavaScript
3 22 (41.51%) C#
4 1 (1.887%) C++
4 1 (1.887%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) Degree
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) JBoss
2 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.887%) Oracle
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