The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 18 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 45 67 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Permanent jobs citing BDD 7 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 1.720% 0.789% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.041% 1.028% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 0
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
343 389 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 84.28% 76.73% 70.73%
Number of salaries quoted 307 342 191
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £28,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
Merseyside

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 20 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (75.00%) MCTS
2 15 (75.00%) MVC
2 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 15 (75.00%) .NET
2 15 (75.00%) C#
2 15 (75.00%) MCP
2 15 (75.00%) MCAD
2 15 (75.00%) MCSD
2 15 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (75.00%) WCF
2 15 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 15 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
2 15 (75.00%) CQRS
2 15 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 15 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 12 (60.00%) Internet
3 12 (60.00%) OO
3 12 (60.00%) VB
3 12 (60.00%) VB.NET
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) J2EE
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 5 (25.00%) EJB
4 5 (25.00%) Swing
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (25.00%) HND

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (75.00%) .NET
1 15 (75.00%) WCF
1 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 15 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
1 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 5 (25.00%) jQuery
2 5 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
2 5 (25.00%) J2EE
2 5 (25.00%) EJB
2 5 (25.00%) Swing
2 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (75.00%) MVC
2 15 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 15 (75.00%) CQRS
2 15 (75.00%) Web Application Development
3 12 (60.00%) OO
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C#
2 12 (60.00%) VB
2 12 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 5 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) MCP
1 15 (75.00%) MCAD
1 15 (75.00%) MCSD
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (75.00%) MCTS
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) HND
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle