The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 71 56 75
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +19
Permanent jobs citing BDD 19 14 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.781% 1.869% 2.850%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.523% 2.518% 3.869%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 32
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
753 556 827
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 70.57% 74.23% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 646 503 738
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
South East

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent BDD Salary Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dartford - 8 £40,000 -
Tunbridge Wells -3 3 £40,000 -5.88%
Whitstable - 3 £35,000 -
BDD
South East

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 27 (96.43%) TDD
2 20 (71.43%) MCTS
2 20 (71.43%) MVC
2 20 (71.43%) .NET
2 20 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (71.43%) C#
2 20 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 20 (71.43%) MCP
2 20 (71.43%) MCAD
2 20 (71.43%) MCSD
2 20 (71.43%) WCF
2 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
2 20 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
2 20 (71.43%) Web Application Development
2 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 18 (64.29%) SQL Server 2012
4 17 (60.71%) Rhino Mocks
4 17 (60.71%) Kanban
4 17 (60.71%) NHibernate
4 17 (60.71%) NUnit
4 17 (60.71%) Scrum
5 15 (53.57%) Music Industry
5 15 (53.57%) Moq
6 8 (28.57%) Java
7 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (25.00%) OO
7 7 (25.00%) MySQL
7 7 (25.00%) Hibernate
7 7 (25.00%) Agile Software Development

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 20 (71.43%) .NET
1 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET
1 20 (71.43%) WCF
1 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
1 20 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
1 20 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 17 (60.71%) NHibernate
3 7 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (25.00%) JPA
4 2 (7.143%) LINQ
4 2 (7.143%) HTML5
4 2 (7.143%) Castle Windsor
4 2 (7.143%) Lucene
5 1 (3.571%) JMS
5 1 (3.571%) Spring
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 18 (64.29%) SQL Server 2012
3 7 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Rhino Mocks
1 17 (60.71%) NUnit
2 15 (53.57%) Moq
3 2 (7.143%) Selenium
3 2 (7.143%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (53.57%) Music Industry
2 1 (3.571%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 20 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 7 (25.00%) Scala Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (3.571%) Derivative
2 1 (3.571%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.571%) Equities
2 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) TDD
2 20 (71.43%) MVC
2 20 (71.43%) Web Application Development
3 17 (60.71%) Kanban
3 17 (60.71%) Scrum
4 7 (25.00%) OO
4 7 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (25.00%) Web Development
5 3 (10.71%) CQRS
5 3 (10.71%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (7.143%) Scrum-ban
7 1 (3.571%) Migration
7 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.571%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) Scala
4 2 (7.143%) VB
4 2 (7.143%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) MCTS
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (71.43%) MCP
1 20 (71.43%) MCAD
1 20 (71.43%) MCSD
Vendors
1 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
West Malling, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
West Malling, Kent
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013