The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 22 34 53
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +19
Permanent jobs citing TDD 42 30 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 8.678% 5.291% 0.800%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.10% 7.792% 1.215%
Number of salaries quoted 41 30 3
Average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
347 385 247
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 71.69% 67.90% 65.87%
Number of salaries quoted 307 353 207
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lancashire TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Lancaster - 18 £40,000 -
Preston +3 11 £35,000 -2.77%
Blackburn +7 9 £25,000 -17.35%
Lytham St Annes - 2 £35,000 -
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 57 (67.86%) .NET
2 55 (65.48%) MVC
3 54 (64.29%) C#
4 53 (63.10%) ASP.NET
5 50 (59.52%) SQL Server
6 48 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 46 (54.76%) WCF
8 33 (39.29%) Web Application Development
9 32 (38.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 32 (38.10%) MCTS
9 32 (38.10%) MCP
9 32 (38.10%) MCAD
9 32 (38.10%) MCSD
9 32 (38.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (35.71%) SQL Server 2012
11 25 (29.76%) Ninject
11 25 (29.76%) Dependency Injection
11 25 (29.76%) Mobile App
12 22 (26.19%) SQL
13 21 (25.00%) HTML
13 21 (25.00%) Scrum
13 21 (25.00%) Kanban
14 19 (22.62%) Java
15 18 (21.43%) Games
15 18 (21.43%) Finance
15 18 (21.43%) Domain-Driven Design
15 18 (21.43%) Node.js
15 18 (21.43%) KnockoutJS
16 17 (20.24%) NUnit
17 16 (19.05%) Continuous Integration

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 57 (67.86%) .NET
2 53 (63.10%) ASP.NET
3 48 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 46 (54.76%) WCF
5 32 (38.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 25 (29.76%) Ninject
7 21 (25.00%) HTML
8 18 (21.43%) KnockoutJS
8 18 (21.43%) Node.js
9 14 (16.67%) Castle Windsor
9 14 (16.67%) CSS
10 13 (15.48%) J2EE
10 13 (15.48%) Web Services
10 13 (15.48%) WinForms
11 12 (14.29%) LINQ
11 12 (14.29%) jQuery
12 10 (11.90%) Ajax
13 8 (9.524%) .NET Framework
14 7 (8.333%) NHibernate
14 7 (8.333%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.952%) SharePoint
1 5 (5.952%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (3.571%) ESB
3 1 (1.190%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.952%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Internet
2 1 (1.190%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (59.52%) SQL Server
2 30 (35.71%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (5.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.952%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (3.571%) MySQL
5 2 (2.381%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (20.24%) NUnit
2 14 (16.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 12 (14.29%) JUnit
4 10 (11.90%) MSTest
5 9 (10.71%) Selenium
6 7 (8.333%) Ant
6 7 (8.333%) Maven
6 7 (8.333%) Moq
6 7 (8.333%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.952%) Visual Studio
7 5 (5.952%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.381%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.381%) Jasmine
General
1 18 (21.43%) Finance
1 18 (21.43%) Games
2 10 (11.90%) Automotive
3 9 (10.71%) Music
4 8 (9.524%) Marketing
5 7 (8.333%) Advertising
5 7 (8.333%) Retail
6 2 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (85.71%) Developer
2 36 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Senior Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Analyst
4 8 (9.524%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.333%) Software Developer
6 5 (5.952%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.952%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.952%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (5.952%) Lead Developer
6 5 (5.952%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.952%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (5.952%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (4.762%) Agile Business Analyst
7 4 (4.762%) Technical Developer
7 4 (4.762%) Java Analyst Programmer
7 4 (4.762%) Java Programmer
7 4 (4.762%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.762%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
7 4 (4.762%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Mobile App
2 10 (11.90%) iPhone
3 7 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
4 5 (5.952%) Digital Media
4 5 (5.952%) Open Source
5 3 (3.571%) SaaS
6 2 (2.381%) Social Network
7 1 (1.190%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.190%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.48%) Android
2 8 (9.524%) Windows
3 4 (4.762%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.381%) Linux
5 1 (1.190%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (65.48%) MVC
2 33 (39.29%) Web Application Development
3 25 (29.76%) Dependency Injection
4 21 (25.00%) Kanban
4 21 (25.00%) Scrum
5 18 (21.43%) Domain-Driven Design
6 16 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (15.48%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 10 (11.90%) OO
10 7 (8.333%) Logistics
10 7 (8.333%) MVVM
10 7 (8.333%) BDD
10 7 (8.333%) Scrum-ban
11 6 (7.143%) E-Commerce
12 5 (5.952%) SEO
12 5 (5.952%) Workflow
12 5 (5.952%) Business Analysis
12 5 (5.952%) Web Analytics
12 5 (5.952%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (64.29%) C#
2 22 (26.19%) SQL
3 19 (22.62%) Java
4 16 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.29%) VB.NET
6 11 (13.10%) VB
7 9 (10.71%) Python
8 7 (8.333%) VB6
8 7 (8.333%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.762%) Groovy
10 3 (3.571%) C
11 2 (2.381%) PHP
11 2 (2.381%) ActionScript 3.0
11 2 (2.381%) Objective-C
11 2 (2.381%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 32 (38.10%) MCP
1 32 (38.10%) MCAD
1 32 (38.10%) MCSD
1 32 (38.10%) Microsoft Certification
1 32 (38.10%) MCTS
2 1 (1.190%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.190%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (5.952%) Endeca
4 3 (3.571%) Oracle
5 2 (2.381%) Adobe
5 2 (2.381%) Facebook
6 1 (1.190%) Apple
6 1 (1.190%) IBM
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