The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 73 61 54
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 77 84 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 2.978% 3.911% 3.834%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.741% 4.924% 5.372%
Number of salaries quoted 63 77 62
Average salary £45,000 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.42% +16.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,100 £30,000 £27,550
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2058 1706 1303
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 79.58% 79.42% 71.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1610 1417 1107
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
West Yorkshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leeds TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 131 (67.18%) Agile Software Development
2 82 (42.05%) OO
3 75 (38.46%) Scrum
4 69 (35.38%) .NET
5 64 (32.82%) C#
6 56 (28.72%) Java
7 55 (28.21%) Unit Testing
8 54 (27.69%) QA
8 54 (27.69%) Project Management
9 53 (27.18%) Pair Programming
10 48 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
11 43 (22.05%) Spring
12 42 (21.54%) SQL
13 39 (20.00%) JavaScript
14 38 (19.49%) Web Services
15 36 (18.46%) BDD
16 35 (17.95%) ASP.NET
17 33 (16.92%) XML
17 33 (16.92%) Oracle
17 33 (16.92%) Degree
18 32 (16.41%) CSS
18 32 (16.41%) MVC
19 30 (15.38%) Subversion
20 29 (14.87%) Maven
20 29 (14.87%) Tomcat
21 28 (14.36%) .NET Framework
22 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
22 27 (13.85%) Kanban
22 27 (13.85%) DSDM
22 27 (13.85%) NHS

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 69 (35.38%) .NET
2 43 (22.05%) Spring
3 38 (19.49%) Web Services
4 35 (17.95%) ASP.NET
5 33 (16.92%) XML
6 32 (16.41%) CSS
7 28 (14.36%) .NET Framework
8 25 (12.82%) HTML
8 25 (12.82%) Spring Integration
9 23 (11.79%) Apache Flex
9 23 (11.79%) BlazeDS
10 22 (11.28%) Ajax
11 19 (9.744%) Hibernate
11 19 (9.744%) NHibernate
12 17 (8.718%) jQuery
13 16 (8.205%) ASP.NET MVC
14 14 (7.179%) J2EE
15 10 (5.128%) SOAP
16 9 (4.615%) CAML
17 7 (3.590%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 29 (14.87%) Tomcat
2 26 (13.33%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.179%) SharePoint
4 9 (4.615%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (4.615%) Apache
5 5 (2.564%) Magento
5 5 (2.564%) nginx
5 5 (2.564%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.564%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.564%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (2.564%) Drupal
5 5 (2.564%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (2.564%) Route 53
5 5 (2.564%) CloudFront
6 2 (1.026%) CMS
6 2 (1.026%) GlassFish
7 1 (0.513%) IIS
7 1 (0.513%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 9 (4.615%) InfoPath
2 7 (3.590%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.026%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.513%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.513%) Niku Workbench
4 1 (0.513%) MS Project
4 1 (0.513%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.513%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.513%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.564%) Internet
1 5 (2.564%) HTTP
2 1 (0.513%) DVB
2 1 (0.513%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.154%) RDBMS
2 12 (6.154%) MySQL
3 5 (2.564%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.051%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.538%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.513%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.513%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Subversion
2 29 (14.87%) Maven
3 23 (11.79%) Hudson
4 19 (9.744%) Visual Studio
5 10 (5.128%) Selenium
6 8 (4.103%) JUnit
7 5 (2.564%) NUnit
7 5 (2.564%) Git (software)
8 4 (2.051%) MSTest
8 4 (2.051%) Moq
9 2 (1.026%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.026%) Rhino Mocks
9 2 (1.026%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.026%) JBehave
10 1 (0.513%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.513%) MSI
General
1 12 (6.154%) Finance
2 4 (2.051%) Retail
3 2 (1.026%) Manufacturing
3 2 (1.026%) Marketing
4 1 (0.513%) Advertising
4 1 (0.513%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.513%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 105 (53.85%) Developer
2 45 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.33%) ScrumMaster
4 23 (11.79%) .NET Developer
5 22 (11.28%) Senior Developer
6 19 (9.744%) Agile Coach
7 12 (6.154%) C# Developer
7 12 (6.154%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (5.641%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (5.128%) Applications Developer
10 9 (4.615%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 9 (4.615%) ASP.NET Developer
10 9 (4.615%) Team Leader
10 9 (4.615%) SharePoint Developer
11 8 (4.103%) Architect
11 8 (4.103%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.590%) C# Application Developer
12 7 (3.590%) .NET Applications Developer
12 7 (3.590%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.077%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.85%) NHS
2 22 (11.28%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.615%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.051%) Handset
4 4 (2.051%) iPhone
4 4 (2.051%) iPad
5 3 (1.538%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (1.538%) Open Source
6 2 (1.026%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.513%) STB
7 1 (0.513%) DTV
7 1 (0.513%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.513%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.718%) UNIX
2 10 (5.128%) Linux
3 6 (3.077%) Windows
4 5 (2.564%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.051%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.026%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.026%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.513%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.513%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.513%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.18%) Agile Software Development
2 82 (42.05%) OO
3 75 (38.46%) Scrum
4 55 (28.21%) Unit Testing
5 54 (27.69%) Project Management
6 53 (27.18%) Pair Programming
7 48 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (18.46%) BDD
9 32 (16.41%) MVC
10 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
10 27 (13.85%) Kanban
10 27 (13.85%) DSDM
10 27 (13.85%) Agile Project Management
11 20 (10.26%) B2C
12 18 (9.231%) User Stories
13 15 (7.692%) Business Analysis
14 11 (5.641%) PRINCE2
15 9 (4.615%) Workflow
16 8 (4.103%) Automated Testing
17 7 (3.590%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.82%) C#
2 56 (28.72%) Java
3 42 (21.54%) SQL
4 39 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.692%) PHP
6 11 (5.641%) VB.NET
7 8 (4.103%) VB
8 6 (3.077%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.051%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.051%) PHP5
10 3 (1.538%) Ruby
10 3 (1.538%) VB6
10 3 (1.538%) XAML
10 3 (1.538%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.538%) Python
11 2 (1.026%) Perl
12 1 (0.513%) Scala
12 1 (0.513%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.513%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.513%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (16.92%) Degree
2 7 (3.590%) ISEB
3 4 (2.051%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (1.538%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.538%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.538%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.026%) MCP
5 2 (1.026%) MCAD
5 2 (1.026%) MCSD
5 2 (1.026%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.026%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (27.69%) QA
2 1 (0.513%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.513%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.026%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (16.92%) Oracle
2 11 (5.641%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.564%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.564%) Percona
4 2 (1.026%) JBoss
4 2 (1.026%) Perforce
4 2 (1.026%) Google
5 1 (0.513%) Telerik
5 1 (0.513%) Niku
5 1 (0.513%) BEA
5 1 (0.513%) Sage
5 1 (0.513%) VMware
5 1 (0.513%) IBM
5 1 (0.513%) Red Gate
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