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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 23 27 23
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 380 298 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 9.037% 7.930% 7.177%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.65% 10.67% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 320 288 277
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,050 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3262 2792 2734
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 77.57% 74.29% 68.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2797 2449 2474
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Stockport +5 23 £32,500 +3.17% 3
Bolton -2 22 £40,000 +14.28% 3
Salford +6 13 £40,000 +14.28%
Wigan +14 12 £27,500 -15.38%
Altrincham +7 7 £34,000 -24.44% 2
Cheadle - 4 £32,500 -
Sale - 1 £33,500 -
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 600 (77.92%) .NET
2 591 (76.75%) C#
3 498 (64.68%) ASP.NET
4 463 (60.13%) MVC
5 428 (55.58%) SQL Server
6 315 (40.91%) JavaScript
7 295 (38.31%) ASP.NET MVC
8 294 (38.18%) WCF
9 292 (37.92%) Scrum
10 274 (35.58%) SQL
11 228 (29.61%) Agile Software Development
12 216 (28.05%) CSS
13 177 (22.99%) HTML
13 177 (22.99%) LINQ
14 151 (19.61%) Web Services
15 148 (19.22%) OO
16 143 (18.57%) NHibernate
17 141 (18.31%) E-Commerce
18 140 (18.18%) Web Application Development
19 132 (17.14%) Razor View Engine
20 130 (16.88%) Java
21 129 (16.75%) MCP
21 129 (16.75%) MCAD
21 129 (16.75%) MCSD
21 129 (16.75%) Microsoft Certification
21 129 (16.75%) MCTS
22 128 (16.62%) .NET Framework
23 126 (16.36%) NUnit
24 125 (16.23%) Kanban
25 122 (15.84%) Degree

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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
1 600 (77.92%) .NET
2 498 (64.68%) ASP.NET
3 295 (38.31%) ASP.NET MVC
4 294 (38.18%) WCF
5 216 (28.05%) CSS
6 177 (22.99%) HTML
6 177 (22.99%) LINQ
7 151 (19.61%) Web Services
8 143 (18.57%) NHibernate
9 132 (17.14%) Razor View Engine
10 128 (16.62%) .NET Framework
11 122 (15.84%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 110 (14.29%) Ajax
13 98 (12.73%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 98 (12.73%) WPF
14 90 (11.69%) jQuery
15 85 (11.04%) Castle Windsor
16 83 (10.78%) Ruby on Rails
17 74 (9.610%) HTML5
18 59 (7.662%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 52 (6.753%) Windows Azure
2 33 (4.286%) CMS
3 28 (3.636%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.429%) nginx
5 10 (1.299%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.649%) WordPress
7 4 (0.519%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.390%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.390%) Drupal
8 3 (0.390%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.260%) Magento
9 2 (0.260%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.260%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.130%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.130%) IIS
10 1 (0.130%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 42 (5.455%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.260%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.130%) Tridion
1 1 (0.130%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.039%) Internet
2 5 (0.649%) Wireless
2 5 (0.649%) Intranet
2 5 (0.649%) Broadband
2 5 (0.649%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (55.58%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.753%) SQL Server 2008
3 50 (6.494%) MySQL
4 49 (6.364%) SQL Server 2005
5 44 (5.714%) SQL Server 2012
6 21 (2.727%) RDBMS
7 17 (2.208%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (2.078%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.429%) Riak
10 10 (1.299%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.039%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.779%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.649%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.519%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.519%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.519%) BusinessObjects XI
14 4 (0.519%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
14 4 (0.519%) DTS
15 3 (0.390%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 3 (0.390%) GIS
Development Applications
1 126 (16.36%) NUnit
2 98 (12.73%) Rhino Mocks
3 76 (9.870%) Git (software)
4 65 (8.442%) Moq
5 56 (7.273%) Subversion
6 28 (3.636%) MSTest
7 17 (2.208%) Selenium
8 14 (1.818%) RSpec
9 11 (1.429%) Visual Studio
9 11 (1.429%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (1.169%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.169%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.039%) Maven
12 7 (0.909%) CruiseControl
12 7 (0.909%) Capistrano
13 5 (0.649%) JUnit
14 4 (0.519%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.519%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.390%) Oracle Forms
15 3 (0.390%) Mercurial
General
1 52 (6.753%) Finance
2 40 (5.195%) Games
3 39 (5.065%) Marketing
4 27 (3.506%) Back Office
5 26 (3.377%) Retail
6 9 (1.169%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.039%) Telecoms
8 5 (0.649%) Advertising
9 3 (0.390%) Electronics
9 3 (0.390%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.130%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 661 (85.84%) Developer
2 271 (35.19%) .NET Developer
3 146 (18.96%) C# Developer
4 131 (17.01%) Senior Developer
5 109 (14.16%) C# .NET Developer
6 71 (9.221%) Software Developer
7 70 (9.091%) Web Developer
8 62 (8.052%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 53 (6.883%) ASP.NET Developer
9 53 (6.883%) Software Engineer
10 51 (6.623%) Agile C# Developer
11 40 (5.195%) Java Developer
12 36 (4.675%) Analyst
13 33 (4.286%) .NET Web Developer
14 31 (4.026%) Programmer
15 30 (3.896%) Senior C# Developer
16 29 (3.766%) C# Web Developer
17 24 (3.117%) Ruby on Rails Developer
18 20 (2.597%) Java/J2EE Developer
18 20 (2.597%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.26%) Computer Science
2 44 (5.714%) N-Tier
3 30 (3.896%) New Media
4 29 (3.766%) Client/Server
5 27 (3.506%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (3.377%) Social Network
7 25 (3.247%) Inversion of Control
8 22 (2.857%) Open Source
9 14 (1.818%) Blackberry
10 11 (1.429%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.299%) Mathematics
12 9 (1.169%) Social Media
13 8 (1.039%) Informatics
14 7 (0.909%) W3C
14 7 (0.909%) SCADA
15 6 (0.779%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.649%) Tandem
17 4 (0.519%) iPad
17 4 (0.519%) BBC
18 3 (0.390%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 81 (10.52%) Windows
2 36 (4.675%) Linux
3 30 (3.896%) Apple iOS
4 26 (3.377%) Android
5 25 (3.247%) UNIX
6 10 (1.299%) Windows Phone
7 5 (0.649%) Windows Mobile
7 5 (0.649%) Windows CE
8 3 (0.390%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.260%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.260%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (60.13%) MVC
2 292 (37.92%) Scrum
3 228 (29.61%) Agile Software Development
4 148 (19.22%) OO
5 141 (18.31%) E-Commerce
6 140 (18.18%) Web Application Development
7 125 (16.23%) Kanban
8 111 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
9 106 (13.77%) BDD
10 95 (12.34%) Web Development
11 83 (10.78%) OOP
12 79 (10.26%) Unit Testing
13 75 (9.740%) UML
14 71 (9.221%) Pair Programming
15 65 (8.442%) Dependency Injection
16 46 (5.974%) B2C
17 45 (5.844%) Domain-Driven Design
18 37 (4.805%) Enterprise Architecture
19 35 (4.545%) PRINCE2
20 34 (4.416%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 591 (76.75%) C#
2 315 (40.91%) JavaScript
3 274 (35.58%) SQL
4 130 (16.88%) Java
5 119 (15.45%) T-SQL
6 118 (15.32%) Ruby
7 101 (13.12%) VB.NET
8 51 (6.623%) VB
9 41 (5.325%) PHP
10 28 (3.636%) C++
11 13 (1.688%) Python
11 13 (1.688%) C
12 5 (0.649%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.519%) XPath
13 4 (0.519%) ActionScript
13 4 (0.519%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.390%) Perl
15 2 (0.260%) ActionScript 3.0
15 2 (0.260%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.260%) Scala
Qualifications
1 129 (16.75%) MCP
1 129 (16.75%) MCAD
1 129 (16.75%) MCSD
1 129 (16.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 129 (16.75%) MCTS
2 122 (15.84%) Degree
3 18 (2.338%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.948%) PhD
5 9 (1.169%) ISEB
6 4 (0.519%) SCJA
6 4 (0.519%) SCJP
7 3 (0.390%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.260%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.519%) QA
2 3 (0.390%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.130%) HL7
Systems Management
1 11 (1.429%) Vagrant
2 2 (0.260%) Puppet
Vendors
1 107 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.883%) Oracle
3 19 (2.468%) Telerik
4 16 (2.078%) Apple
5 7 (0.909%) Facebook
6 5 (0.649%) Google
6 5 (0.649%) Rackspace
7 4 (0.519%) Business Objects
8 3 (0.390%) ESRI
9 2 (0.260%) Zend
9 2 (0.260%) Fujitsu
10 1 (0.130%) OpenTV
10 1 (0.130%) Endeca
10 1 (0.130%) Sitecore
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Altrincham, North West
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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