The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 27 46 35
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -11
Permanent jobs citing TDD 26 29 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 7.046% 5.765% 5.231%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.333% 7.513% 7.763%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 16
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £50,000 £41,250
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
312 386 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 84.55% 76.74% 67.38%
Number of salaries quoted 269 332 173
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
Merseyside

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 36 (62.07%) OO
2 33 (56.90%) SQL Server
3 27 (46.55%) C#
4 26 (44.83%) .NET
5 22 (37.93%) ASP.NET
6 21 (36.21%) Scrum
6 21 (36.21%) BDD
7 18 (31.03%) MVC
8 17 (29.31%) PHP
9 16 (27.59%) WCF
9 16 (27.59%) ASP.NET MVC
10 15 (25.86%) Web Application Development
10 15 (25.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 15 (25.86%) MCTS
10 15 (25.86%) Java
10 15 (25.86%) MCP
10 15 (25.86%) MCAD
10 15 (25.86%) MCSD
10 15 (25.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (24.14%) MySQL
11 14 (24.14%) jQuery
11 14 (24.14%) Unit Testing
11 14 (24.14%) Razor View Engine
12 13 (22.41%) Domain-Driven Design
12 13 (22.41%) LAMP
13 12 (20.69%) Oracle
13 12 (20.69%) VB
13 12 (20.69%) VB.NET
13 12 (20.69%) SQL Server 2012
13 12 (20.69%) CQRS

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 26 (44.83%) .NET
2 22 (37.93%) ASP.NET
3 16 (27.59%) WCF
3 16 (27.59%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (25.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 14 (24.14%) jQuery
5 14 (24.14%) Razor View Engine
6 13 (22.41%) LAMP
7 11 (18.97%) J2EE
8 10 (17.24%) Spring
9 9 (15.52%) EJB 3.0
9 9 (15.52%) EJB
9 9 (15.52%) Swing
9 9 (15.52%) Hibernate
10 8 (13.79%) .NET Framework
11 7 (12.07%) CSS
12 6 (10.34%) HTML
13 5 (8.621%) Web Services
14 4 (6.897%) WPF
14 4 (6.897%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.34%) Apache
2 1 (1.724%) Orchard CMS
2 1 (1.724%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.724%) CMS
2 1 (1.724%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Internet
2 1 (1.724%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (56.90%) SQL Server
2 14 (24.14%) MySQL
3 12 (20.69%) SQL Server 2012
4 9 (15.52%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (10.34%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (6.897%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (5.172%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.172%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.724%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) JIRA
2 4 (6.897%) Subversion
3 3 (5.172%) Moq
3 3 (5.172%) NUnit
3 3 (5.172%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.448%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.448%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.448%) MSTest
5 1 (1.724%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.724%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.724%) CruiseControl
5 1 (1.724%) Maven
5 1 (1.724%) JUnit
General
1 9 (15.52%) Retail
2 4 (6.897%) Finance
3 2 (3.448%) Law
4 1 (1.724%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 53 (91.38%) Developer
2 21 (36.21%) .NET Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Developer
4 12 (20.69%) PHP Developer
5 11 (18.97%) Java Developer
5 11 (18.97%) Software Developer
6 10 (17.24%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 9 (15.52%) Java Software Developer
7 9 (15.52%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Web Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (8.621%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (8.621%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (8.621%) Senior Java Software Developer
10 4 (6.897%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 3 (5.172%) Front-End Developer
11 3 (5.172%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (5.172%) Software Manager
11 3 (5.172%) Java Swing Developer
11 3 (5.172%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.172%) RIA
2 2 (3.448%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.448%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (3.448%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.724%) Open Source
3 1 (1.724%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) UNIX
2 7 (12.07%) Linux
3 5 (8.621%) Windows
4 2 (3.448%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.724%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (62.07%) OO
2 21 (36.21%) Scrum
2 21 (36.21%) BDD
3 18 (31.03%) MVC
4 15 (25.86%) Web Application Development
5 14 (24.14%) Unit Testing
6 13 (22.41%) Domain-Driven Design
7 12 (20.69%) CQRS
8 11 (18.97%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (17.24%) OOP
10 9 (15.52%) Use Case
10 9 (15.52%) E-Commerce
11 7 (12.07%) Web Development
12 5 (8.621%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (8.621%) Release Management
13 3 (5.172%) Dependency Injection
13 3 (5.172%) Resource Management
13 3 (5.172%) Test Scripting
13 3 (5.172%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (5.172%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) C#
2 17 (29.31%) PHP
3 15 (25.86%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) VB
4 12 (20.69%) VB.NET
5 8 (13.79%) PHP5
6 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (10.34%) C++
8 5 (8.621%) SQL
9 2 (3.448%) Ruby
10 1 (1.724%) Python
10 1 (1.724%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) MCTS
1 15 (25.86%) MCP
1 15 (25.86%) MCAD
1 15 (25.86%) MCSD
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (18.97%) Degree
3 9 (15.52%) HND
4 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.621%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Oracle
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.897%) Zend
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